Dr. Anca Garcia
Assistant Professor, English
School of Liberal Arts
| English
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About
Biography
Dr. Anca Garcia has extensive teaching experience both in the United States and abroad. Before joining GGC in 2024, she taught Romanian literature, English as a second language, composition, professional and technical communication, and literature courses at Sapientia University of Transylvania, Valdosta State University and University of South Florida.
Garcia has a bachelor鈥檚 degree in Romanian and English as a second language, a master鈥檚 degree in Romanian and a master鈥檚 degree in English, a graduate certificate in professional and technical communication, and a Ph.D. in Old and Middle English literature. She is interested in trauma theory, disability studies, AI in composition, and the rhetoric of health and medicine.
Education
- Doctorate 鈥 English 鈥 University of South Florida
- Master's 鈥 English 鈥 Valdosta State University
- Master's 鈥 Romanian 鈥 Transylvania University, Romania
- Bachelor's 鈥 Romanian and English as a second language 鈥 Transylvania University, Romania
Distinctions
- 2021 Irving H. Rubin and Molly M. Rubin Scholarship for outstanding graduate student, University of South Florida.
- 2020 John and Dorothy Iorio Scholarship for outstanding academic record and leadership, University of South Florida.
- 2020 The Irving Deer Memorial Scholarship for theoretically oriented scholarship, published or unpublished, University of South Florida.
- 2016 The Blazer Book Award at Valdosta State University for faculty and staff academic and community service.
Publications
Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications
- 2025 鈥 Garcia, Anca. 鈥淭he Secret Life of My Interviewee: Bringing the Communities into the Classroom and Facilitating Transfer Through Job Narratives.鈥 Journal of the Georgia Philological Association, vol. 12, 2023-2024, pp. 30-45.
- 2020 鈥 Garcia, Anca. 鈥淎 Glimpse into the Symbolic Order: Trauma and Metafiction in Ian McEwan鈥檚 Novel Atonement.鈥 Journal of the Georgia Philological Association, vol. 9, 2019-2020, pp. 32-48.
- 2019 鈥 Garcia, Anca. 鈥淏eowulf and the Idealization of the Comitatus.鈥 Journal of the Georgia Philological Association, vol. 8, 2018-2019, pp. 12-35.
- 2018 鈥 Garcia, Anca. 鈥淚smail Kadare and the Unraveling of the Communist Curtain.鈥 Journal of the Georgia Philological Association, vol. 7, 2017-2018, pp. 45-61.
- 2013 鈥 Andriescu Garcia, Anca. 鈥淚nventing the Enemy. When Propaganda Becomes History.鈥 Philologica. Scientific Journal of Sapientia University, Volume 5, No. 1. Miercurea-Ciuc, pp. 59-67, 2013.
Recent Conferences
- 2026 鈥 鈥淎I and Writing.鈥 Poster presentation. Presented together with Mandy Sepulveda, Jason Palmer, and Daniel Butler at the Teaching and Learning Day (Center for Teaching Excellence), 05 May 2026, 91原创.
- 鈥淎I-Generated Genre Modeling in Support English Composition: 鈥楧eclarations鈥 of Textual Patterns.鈥 Presented together with Mandy Sepulveda and Daniel Butler at the College English Association Conference (CEA/SALA), 26-28 March 2026, Charlotte NC.
- 鈥淓nhancing Student Comprehension with AI: AI-Generated Genre Modeling in Support English Composition Classes.鈥 Presented with David Sepulveda at the Twelfth International Writing Analytics Conference, University of South Florida, 19-20 February 2026, St. Petersburg FL.
- 2025 鈥 鈥淩ewriting History One Step at a Time: The Politics of Misinformation in the 2024 Romanian Elections.鈥 Presented at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA 97) Conference, 6-8 November 2025, Atlanta, GA.
- 鈥淭rauma and the Black Death: The Father鈥檚 Dissociative Experience in the Middle English poem Pearl.鈥 Presented at the Georgia Philological Association (GPA) 20th Conference, 16-17 May 2025, Middle Georgia State University, Macon, GA, online.
- 鈥溾楩or vch gresse mot grow of graynez dede鈥: Working Through Trauma in the Middle English Poem Pearl.鈥 Presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICSM 60), Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, 8-10 May 2025, online.
- 鈥淎I in the Support English Classroom.鈥 Presented at the Eleventh International Writing Analytics Conference, University of South Florida, 7-8 March 2025, Tampa FL.
- 2024 鈥 鈥淢aking Sense of Trauma in the Aftermath of the Black Death: The Bereaved Father and the Image of Christ in the Middle English Poem Pearl.鈥 Presented at the Leeds International Medieval Congress (IMC 2024), University of Leeds, UK, 1-4 July 2024.
- 鈥淢onstrous Genealogies: Transgenerational Trauma in Beowulf.鈥 Presented
at the International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICSM 59), Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, 9-11 May 2024, online. - 鈥淭he Secret Life of My Interviewee: Bringing the Community into the Classroom and Facilitating Transfer Through Job Narratives.鈥 Presented at College English Association 53rd Annual Conference (CEA), 21-23 March 2024, Atlanta GA.
- 2022 鈥 鈥淭ranslating Trauma Means Becoming a Witness: Secondary Trauma in the Legend of Good Women.鈥 Presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICSM 57), Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, 9-14 May 2022, online.
- 2021 鈥 鈥淪hattered Social and Literary Networks and Their Role in the Deconstruction of Trauma Accounts in Literature in Quichotte by Salman Rushdie.鈥 Presented at South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA 93) Conference, 4-6 November 2021, online.
- 鈥淭he Dreamer鈥檚 Trajectory: Between Trauma and Sublime Experience in The Dream of the Rood.鈥 Presented at the International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England (ISSEME) 2021 Conference, 17-22 June 2021, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
Professional Affiliations
- Co-editor in chief of the Journal of the Georgia Philological Association
- Early Career Board of Reviewers for the Journal of Writing Analytics
- International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England (ISSEME)
- Medieval Academy of America
- College English Association (CEA)
- South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA)
- Georgia Philological Association (GPA)