Publications Papers Presented Honors and Awards Courses Teaching Interests Education Contact
Michael Nieto Garcia
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Publications
Books
Narratives of the Ethnic Self in American Literature (Book manuscript in progress.)
Translation of Djenar
Maesa Ayu's
They
Say I'm a Monkey. With "Introduction" by Michael
Nieto Garcia. Jakarta: Metafor Publishing, 2005. (They
Say I'm a Monkey was shortlisted for Indonesia's prestigious
Khatulistiwa
Literary Award in 2003 [The
Jakarta Post article]. A film adaptation [Indonesian trailer] by
the same title debuted in 2007: They Say I'm a Monkey film.)
Articles
"Jorge Luis Borges's 'The Lottery of Babylon' as Allegory for the Criminal Justice System." In Prisons and Punishment: Reconsidering Global Penality. Eds. Mechthild Nagel and Seth N. Asumah. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2007. 125-135.
"Indonesian
Publishing:
New Freedoms, Old Worries, and Unfinished Democratic Reform." Social
Analysis: The International Journal of Social and Cultural
Practice 50.1
(Spring 2006): 184-91.
(Also
in
Identifying
with Freedom: Indonesia after Soeharto. Ed. Tony Day.
Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis Ser. 9. New
York:
Berghahn
Books, 2007. 58-69.)
"Generation 98." Inside Indonesia 85 (January-March 2006): 28.*
"More than Just Sex: Three Women Authors Take the Indonesian Literary World by Storm." Inside Indonesia 80 (October-December 2004): 26-27.*
"The Indonesian Free Book Press." Indonesia. Ithaca: Cornell Southeast Asia Program Publications, No. 78 (October 2004): 121-145. View Article
"Social Space, Language, and Consciousness in Helena Maria Viramontes's Under the Feet of Jesus." Humaniora: Jurnal Fakultas Ilmu Budaya.Yogyakarta: Universitas Gadjah Mada, vol. 16, No. 1 (February 2004): 67-77.
"Ethnic, Feminist, Universal?: Helena Maria Viramontes's Under the Feet of Jesus." Phenomena: Journal of Language and Literature. Yogyakarta: Universitas Sanata Dharma, vol. 7, No. 3 (Feb. 2004): 125-134.
*[Both Inside Indonesia articles are available online by clicking on "Recent editions" in the upper left hand corner of Inside Indonesia's homepage. Then select the issue number and find the article in the table of contents.]
Papers Presented
"The
Existential Ethnic Self of Richard Wright's Black Boy." 100 Years of Richard Wright conference. University of Utah, 2-5 April, 2009.
"Marxist Literary
Criticism and Melville's 'Benito Cereno'" Contemporary
Perspectives on
English Studies conference, Graduate Program of English Language
Studies, Universitas Sanata Dharma, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 18
October,
2003.
"American
Individualism: an historical and intellectual
history." International Seminar of Culture, Language, and
Literature.
Department of Literature, UNDIP (Universitas Diponegoro),
Semarang,
Central Java, Indonesia), 6-7 October 2003.
"Twelfth Night:
Identity in Disguise." The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, 30 June
2002.
"Jorge Luis
Borges's 'The Lottery of Babylon' as Allegory for
the Criminal Justice System." Thinking About Prisons: Theory and
Practice, conference at the State University of New York (SUNY)
at
Cortland, 26 October, 2001.
"Language and
Cultural Identity in Brian Friel's
Translations." Postcolonial Literature panel, Central New York
conference on Language and Literature, State University of New
York (SUNY)
at Cortland, 27 September, 2001.
"The Shakespeare
Cross-dresser
and Madrid Actress Dilemma: 1587-1613." Representations of Women
in the
Middle Ages and Renaissance conference. University of Nebraska,
Lincoln,
NE, 15 April, 1999.
Honors
and Awards
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Arts and Humanities, Hamilton
College, 2008-2010
Fulbright Fellowship, Universitas Gadjah Mada, (Faculty of
Cultural Studies), Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 2003-2004
Provost's Fellowship, Cornell, 2002-2003
Sage Fellowship, Cornell, 2000-2001
Wilbur Gaffney Critical and Research Essays Expository Writing
Award, University of Nebraska, 1999
Regent’s Scholarship, University of Nebraska, 1995-1996
Courses
Taught
The Sacred and Profane in American Literature (Clarkson Seminar), Clarkson University, Fall 2010 (Syllabus)
American Literature I, Clarkson University, Fall 2010 (Syllabus)
American Autobiography (Senior Seminar), Hamilton College, Spring 2010
American Literature of the Nineteenth Century, Hamilton College, Spring 2010
Ethnic Autobiography, Hamilton College, Spring 2009 (Syllabus)
Latino Literature, Hamilton College, Fall 2008 (Syllabus)
Major American Writers, TCU, Spring 2008
(Syllabus)
Literature and Civilizations II, (Honors), TCU, Spring 2008 (Syllabus)
Ethnic Literature: American Me, (Writing from Sources), TCU,
Fall 2007 (Syllabus)
Western World Literature I, TCU, Fall 2007 (Syllabus)
Literature and Civilizations I, (Honors), TCU, Fall 2007 (Syllabus)
Melville, Hemingway, Wright and Other 'Manly' Male Authors,
Cornell,
Spring 2007.
Literary Nonfiction, (American Literature and Culture), Cornell,
Spring
2006.
Shakespeare, Cornell, Spring 2002
Shakespeare, Cornell, Fall 2001 (Syllabus)
Teaching and Research
Interests
Focus: Twentieth-Century American Literature, Ethnic Literature, and
Latino Literature.
With
additional interests in: Literature and Philosophy, Prison Literature,
Literary Nonfiction, Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Literary
Science Fiction, Cognitive Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory,
Indonesian Literature, and Translation Studies.
Education
Ph.D. Cornell University, American Literature, 2007
M.A. Cornell University, English Literature, 2003
B.A. University of Nebraska, Spanish Literature, 1999
Exchange Scholar, Universidad de Complutense, Madrid, Spain,
1997-1998
Contact Information
Michael Garcia
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Box 5750
Clarkson University
Potsdam, NY 13699
Office: (315) 268-3992
Fax: (315) 268-3893
Email: mgarcia@clarkson.edu