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Shelley Garcia
- Assistant Professor of English
- Ph.D., University of California, Riverside (expected 2012)
- M.A., University of California, Riverside
- B.A., Vanguard University
CV Document (PDF)
Awards and Honors
- Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship Recipient, 2010-2011
- Kristine M. Scarano Memorial Endowed Scholarship—University of California, Riverside. Spring 2009
- Provost’s Award—Vanguard University, Costa Mesa, Fall 2001-Spring 2005
- President’s Honor Award - Highest GPA in Senior Class—Vanguard University, Costa Mesa 2005
- Academic Honor Award Highest GPA in Division of Literature and Modern Languages—Vanguard University, Costa Mesa 2005
- Academic Honor Award Division of Social Sciences—Vanguard University, Costa Mesa 2005
- Outstanding Literary Scholarship Division of Literature and Modern Languages—Vanguard University, Costa Mesa 2005
- Outstanding Graduating Women’s Studies Minor—Vanguard University, Costa Mesa 2005
Publications
- “Cross-Genre Work: A Critical Methodology of Chicana Discourse.” Panel: Latina/o Literature and Culture.” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference, Chaminade University, Honolulu, Hawaii 2010.
- “Trauma: Understanding Oppression through the Personal Narrative.” Guest Lecture. English 20 B. University of California, Riverside, 2009.
- “Emma Pérez’s Sitios y Lenguas: Post-Trauma Spaces of Healing and Activism” Panel: Critical Theory Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference, Pomona College, Pomona, 2008.
- “‘Coming Up for Air in a Language All My Own’: Language, Loss, and Resistance in the Poetry of Mitsuye Yamada” Panel: Melancholia and the 20th Century American Poet (dis)junctions Conference, University of California, Riverside, 2007.
- “Creating/Reclaiming Sitios y Lenguas: The Work of Emma Pèrez” Workshop: Chicana/o Literary and Cultural Studies, University of California, Riverside, 2006.
- “Re(de)constructing La Malinche: Chicana Responses” Workshop: Surviving Columbus—Transnational Representations of the Other, University of California, Riverside, 2006.
- “Shades of Grey: Exploring Race and Color-blind Perspectives in Grey’s Anatomy” Workshop: Constructing and Disrupting Blackness/Americaness in Cultural Studies, University of California, Riverside, 2006