Daimys Garcia

Daimys Garcia serves as Assistant Professor of English at the College of Wooster, where she teaches courses spanning Latinx literatures, feminist theory, and contemporary American literature. Her academic home is within the Department of English in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Her educational background includes a PhD in Comparative Literature from SUNY Binghamton (2023), an MA from The Graduate Center at CUNY (2016), and a BA from Florida International University (2011).

Garcia's research operates at critical interdisciplinary intersections, focusing on Latinx and Native American literary studies through decolonial and women of color feminist frameworks. Her current book manuscript, Cries Across Time: Cuban-American Women Writers Searching for Connection, analyzes six novels published between 1991-2021 to document a significant shift in Cuban-American women's literature from narratives of exile and nostalgia toward coalition-building with other minoritized groups in the United States. She examines how these writers employ literary strategies to position themselves within women of color communities and imagine liberation through connection with other histories of resistance.

• Latine/x Literatures and Studies
• Native American Literatures and Studies
• Women of Color Feminisms
• Decolonial Perspectives
• Queer of Color Critique
• Futurity

Garcia has published essays in Convivial Thinking and poetry in The Maynard and Chicana/Latina Studies. Her teaching portfolio includes specialized courses such as Latinx Literatures and Film, Octavia Butler, First Year Seminar: Listening in Detail, Queer Literatures, Literary Theory & Research Methods, The Art of the Essay, 20th & 21st Century American Literature: Migrations, and Black Women Writers.