Lindsay Garcia is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work engages with visual studies, social/racial justice, queer praxis, and the environmental humanities.

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Current academic position: Assistant Dean of the College for Junior/Senior Studies and Recovery/Substance-Free Student Initiatives, Brown University, Providence, RI


Manuscript In-Process: "Pest Identities: Race, Sexuality, and Animality in American Visual Rhetoric" 


Research interests: social & environmental justice, animal studies, American & contemporary art history, digital humanities


Theoretical interests: feminist theory, critical race theory, queer theory, posthumanism, new materialism


Upcoming public engagements: 
Southeastern Women's Studies Association, University of South Florida, March 11-14, 2021
Paper: "Banana as Art, Banana as Phallus, Banana as Violence"

Animal Futures: Animal Rights in Academic and Activism Conference, Viljandi, Estonia, May 8-9, 2021
Paper: "The Queer Animality of the Banana"

American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 7-10, 2021
Paper: "The Rats of Baltimore: Materiality, Rhetoric, and Structural Violence in Human-non/Human Relations"
Panel Organized: "Architectures of Exclusion, Spaces of Racial & Queer Resistance"


Publications:
"Feminist Tools for Avoiding Apocalypse in the Anthropocene," Women's Studies, Special Issue: Futures of Feminist Science Studies (2019): 346-349.

"No Pestilence at the Border." Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association 6.2 (2017). Not a Trump Special Issue.

"American Cockroaches, Racism, and the Ecology of the Slave Ship." Environment & Society Portal. Arcadia Summer 2017, no. 29. Rachel Carson Center for Environmental Society.

"Review of After Art by David Joselit (Princeton)." Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association 6.1 (2017).

"The Autonomous Limbs of Paul Mpagi Sepuya," catalogue entry for the exhibition Fragmented Gaze, TSA Los Angeles, 2016.

"The Cockroach Disco: re-joying the most-hated pest." DH@WM: Digital Humanities at William & Mary. May 10, 2016.

Humanities CV below.