Rate My Professor Humberto Garcia

Garcia specializes in British Romanticism and eighteenth-century literature, emphasizing Romantic Orientalism, postcolonial criticism, and global/transnational studies. His scholarship examines intercultural exchanges between East and West, particularly the influence of Islamic ideas, histories, and cultures on English Enlightenment discourses and British authors' redefinition of liberty through engagement with the Muslim world. Major publications include Islam and the English Enlightenment, 1670–1840 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012), a corrective to Edward Said’s Orientalism highlighting influences on authors like Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Edmund Burke, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Mary Shelley; and England Re-Oriented: How Central and South Asian Travelers Imagined the West, 1750–1857 (Cambridge University Press, 2020), which explores provincializing Britishness via Eurasian cosmopolitanism. His work received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in 2015–16. Garcia has published articles in Studies in Romanticism, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Studies in English Literature, Common Knowledge (2017), and Huntington Library Quarterly (2018), and presented at national and international conferences, impacting understandings of British imperial and literary history. He teaches courses on eighteenth-century literature, Islam and literature, environmental ethics in literature, Introduction to Literary Studies, and Introduction to Poetry.