Publications Papers Presented Honors and Awards Courses Teaching Interests Education Contact
Michael Nieto Garcia
Department
of Humanities and Social Sciences
Publications
Books
Autobiography
in Black and Brown.
Albuquerque: U of New Mexico Press, 2014.
Translations
Translation of Djenar Maesa Ayu's They
Say I'm a
Monkey [Mereka
Bilang, Saya Monyet!].
Book Chapters
"The Trans-Religious Ethics of Kingdom
of Heaven." (View
Pre-Pub) In The
Culture and Philosophy of Ridley Scott. Eds.
Adam Barkman, Ashley Barkman, Nancy Kang. Lanham,
MD: Lexington Books, 2013. 61-72. (Preview
gBook)
"Literary Nonfiction." In Teaching
U.S. Latino/a Literature. (Routledge, Forthcoming).
"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.
Articles
"Latino Liberty and
the Meaning of Security: On Prison Nations and Liberal States." JAST: Journal of American Studies of Turkey
(Fall 2014). Forthcoming.
"The
Communally Derived Ethnic Self in Richard
Rodriguez’s Hunger of Memory." a/b: Auto/Biography Studies
28.1 (Summer
2013): 64-85. (View
Pre-Pub)
"The
Inauthentic Ethnic: Richard Rodriguez’s Brown
and Resisting Essentialist
Narratives of Ethnic Identity." Prose
Studies: History, Theory, Criticism 34.2 (Aug
2012): 129-150. (View
Pre-Pub)
"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.) (Preview
gBook)
"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 María
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 María
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.
Encylopedia Essays (and editor-reviewed journals)
"Richard
Rodriguez." The Literary
Encyclopedia.
(London.).
"Helena
María Viramontes." The Literary
Encyclopedia. (London.).
"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.
Papers
Presented (brief list)
"Latino Prison
Narratives and the task of Institutional Reform: a glimpse through the
Prison
Memoirs of Joe Loya and Jimmy Santiago Baca." National Association for
Chicana
and Chicano Studies (NACCS) 41st annual
conference (9-12 April
2014), Salt Lake City, UT, 11 April 2014.
"Immigrant
Identity and the Battle to Topple Sex and Gender Dictatorships in Junot
Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao."
Modern Language Association (MLA) convention (3-6 Jan 2013), Boston,
MA, 3 Jan
2013.
"The Existential Ethnic Self of Richard Wright's Black
Boy."
100 Years of Richard Wright conference. University of Utah, 2-5 April,
2009.
"Nabokov’s Index
Puzzle: Exile and the Quest for Transcendence in Speak,
Memory." Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
convention
(15-18 Mar 2012), Rochester, NY, 15 Mar 2012.
"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.
"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 University, 2002-2003
Sage Fellowship, Cornell University, 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
Science Fiction, Clarkson University, Spring
2015
Latino Literature, Clarkson University, Spring 2014
American Literature II, Clarkson University, Spring 2014
American Short Story, Clarkson University, Spring 2011
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
Latino Literature, Hamilton College, Fall 2008
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, Fall 2001 (Syllabus)
Teaching
and Research Interests
Focus: Twentieth-Century American Literature, Ethnic
Literature, Latino Literature, and Autobiography.
With additional interests in: Literature and Philosophy, Prison
Literature, Literary Nonfiction, Nineteenth-Century American
Literature, Literary Science Fiction, Cognitive
Studies, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy
of
Language, 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
(Faculty
Page) (Clarkson
Profile)
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
8 Clarkson Av, Box 5750
Clarkson University
Potsdam, NY 13699
Office: (315) 268-3992
Fax: (315) 268-3983
Email: mgarcia@clarkson.edu