Lindsay Garcia also performs the role of American Studies scholar.

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Current academic position: 2019-2020 Provost Dissertation Fellow and Equality Lab Fellow at the College of William and Mary.


Dissertation title: "Pest-humanism: Race, Nation, and Sexuality in Human-Nonhuman Entanglements" (expected completion May 2020) 


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: 
   Paper presentation, Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, UC Davis, CA, "(dis)identifications with the Pest: Border-crossings in the Era of Trump," June 2019

   Paper presentation, American Studies Association, Honolulu, HI, "Towards an Anti-Racist Materialism: Detangling Multispecies Histories of Enslavement and Insect Control," November 2019

   Roundtable Chair, National Women's Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, "Intersectionality and Assemblage: Locating the Nonhuman in Feminist Praxis," November 2019

   Paper presentation, National Woman's Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, "The Embodied Cockroach: joy, humor, and catharsis in Latina performance art," November 2019


Publications:
"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.


W&M page: here. 


Full CV: here.