Melisa Garcia

Melisa Garcia is a Full-Time Assistant Professor at the University of San Francisco. A poet and interdisciplinary scholar, she specializes in linguistic justice, decolonial spaces, and the rhetoric of Central American diasporic communities. Her work integrates autoethnographic methods and multimodal pedagogies to amplify BIPOC narratives.

• PhD in English - Rhetoric & Writing, University of New Mexico (2022)
• MFA in Creative Writing - Poetry, University of New Mexico (2016)
• BA in Creative Writing & Spanish Literature and Language, UC Riverside (2012)

Dr. Garcia's research focuses on decolonial imaginaries, constellation identities, and the damaging rhetoric impacting Central American diasporas in the U.S. She has published on autoethnographic frameworks for first-generation diasporic experiences.