Humberto Garcia
University of California, Merced
5200 North Lake Road
Merced, CA 90034

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DEGREES EARNED

Ph.D. in English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, May 2007.

Certification in Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory, University of California at Irvine  
     Humanities Research Institute, 2007.

Certification in Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,   
     Urbana, IL, May 2006.        

M.A. in English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, December 2003.

B.A. in English and philosophy, with Honors in both, Florida International University, Miami, 
     FL, April 2001.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Professor and Vincent Hillyer Chair of Literature, University of California, Merced, 2022-present. 

Associate Professor of Literature, University of California, Merced, 2015-2022. 

Associate Professor of English, Vanderbilt University, 2014-15.

Assistant Professor of English, Vanderbilt University, 2007-2014.

Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois, 2002-07.

HONORS AND AWARDS

Honors College Undergraduate Scholarship, 1998-2001, complete paid tuition.

Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement in English, April 2001.

Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement in Philosophy, April 2001.
BOOKS 

England Re-Oriented: How Central and South Asian Travelers Imagined the West, 1750-1857 (Cambridge University Press, 2020), 354 pages.

Islam and the English Enlightenment, 1670-1840 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012), 346 pages.

RESEARCH ARTICLES 

“An Enslaved Black Seaman in Victorian London? Abolitionism, Missionary Care, and the 
     Trials of John Bardoe.” Cultural and Social History 22.4 (2025): 467–83.

“Hearing Celtic Minstrelsy in Persian: Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, Kasiprasad Ghosh, and 
     Audiation in Anglo-Indian Persianate Poetry.” Comparative Literature 77. 2 (2025):145-
     65.

“The Strangers’ Home for Asiatics, Africans and South Sea Islanders: Inaugurating a Hospitable 
     World Order in Mid-Victorian Britain.” Global Nineteenth-Century Studies 1.1 (2022): 81-90.

“The Unsightly Spectacle of ‘Poor Houseless Wanderers’: De Quincey’s Confessions, the 
     Malaysian Sailor, and Vagrancy.” European Romantic Review 33.4 (2022): 535-554.

“Queering Fashion in Hajji Baba: James Morier, Mirza Abul Hassan Khan, and the Crisis of 
     Imperial Masculinity.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 34.1 (2021): 1-31.

“Western Europe in the Ottoman World: Media, Mediation, and Intermediaries.” Huntington 
     Library Quarterly. 83.1 (2020): 199-207.

“Re-Orienting the Bluestockings: Chivalric Romance, Manliness, and Empire in Joseph Emin’s 
     Letters.”  Huntington Library Quarterly. 81.2 (2018): 227-255.

“A Stranger’s Love for Ireland: Indo-Irish Xenophilia in The Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan 
     (1810, 1814).”  Common Knowledge. 23.2 (2017): 232-253.

“Coleridge, India, and the Spectral Banyan Tree.”  Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. 
     57.4 (2017): 701-24.

“The Transports of Lascar Specters: Dispossessed Indian Sailors in Women’s Romantic Poetry.”  
     The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation. v. 55.2-3 (2014): 255-272.

“Blake, Swedenborg, and Muhammad: The Prophet Tradition, Revisited.”  Journal of Religion 
     and Literature. 44.2 (2013): 34-65.

“A Hungarian Revolution in Restoration England: Henry Stubbe, Radical Islam, and the Rye 
     House Plot.”  The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation.  51.1-2 (2010): 1-25.

“The Hermetic Tradition of Arabic Islam and the Colonial Politics of Landor’s Gebir.”  Studies 
     in Romanticism. 46.4 (2007): 433-459.

“In the Name of the ‘Incestuous Mother’: Islam and Excremental Protestantism in De Quincey’s 
     Infidel Book.”  The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies. 7.2 (2007): 57-87. 

BOOK CHAPTERS

“Refashioning Masculinity in Regency England: Female Fashions Inspired by the Persian Envoy 
     Mirza Abul Hassan Khan and His Circassian Wife.” Unsettling Sexuality: Queer Horizons in 
     the Long Eighteenth Century. Ed. Jeremy Chow and Shelby Johnson (University of Delaware 
     Press, 2024), 55-76. 
 
“At Peace with Strangers: Feeling Disoriented in the London Panorama of Constantinople, 1801-
     1802.” Romanticism and Consciousness Revisited. Ed. Richard Sha and Noel Faflak 
     (Edinburgh UP, 2022), 339-362.

“Daniel Defoe and the Geopolitics of Islamic Toleration.” Imagining Religious Toleration, 1600-
     1800. Ed. Alison Conway and David Alvarez (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019), 
     153-192.

“‘To strike out a New Path’: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Mary Astell, and the Politics of the      
     Imperial Harem.”  Under the Veil: Spirituality and Feminism in Post-Reformation Britain and 
     Europe.  Ed. Katherine M. Quinsey (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2012), 113-144.

“Turning Turk, Turning Heretic: Joseph Pitts of Exeter and the Early Enlightenment, 1670-
     1740.” Britain and the Muslim World: Historical Perspectives.  Ed. Gerald MacLean  
     (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2011), 85-101. 

BOOK REVIEWS

Rev. of Romantic Egypt: Abyssal Ground of British Romanticism, by Elizabeth A. Fay. The 
     Coleridge Bulletin v. 61 (Summer 2023): 93-98.

Rev. of Intelligent Souls? Feminist Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century English Literature, by 
     Samara Anne Cahill. Eighteenth-Century Fiction v. 34, issue 1 (Fall 2022): 627-630.

Rev. of The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment, by Alexander 
     Bevilacqua.  American Historical Review, v. 124.5 (2019): 1949-1950.

Rev. of Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of the Novel, by Srinivas Aravamudan.  
     Comparative Literature. v. 66.2 (2014): 250-252. 

Rev. of Staging Islam in England: Drama and Culture, 1640-1685, by Matthew Birchwood.  
     Seventeenth-Century News. 67.3-4 (2009): 145-148. 

“Debunking William Hazlitt’s Liberal Myth: Public Print Culture in the Long Counter- 
     revolution,” Rev. of Writing Against Revolution: Literary Conservatism in Britain, 1790-
     1832, by Kevin Gilmartin.  The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 48 (2007):   
     http://ecti.english.illinois.edu/reviews/48/garcia-gilmartin.html
 
BOOK PROJECTS

Specters of the Black Indo-Atlantic: Asian Sailors in English Romantic Literature, Culture, and Art, 1780-1900 (in progress)

Abul Hassan Khan's journal in English translation (Critical Edition, in progress)

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ENTRIES

Bibliographical entry on Walter Savage Landor in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism 
     series. (Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale, 2014).

Annotation of “Eastern Pastoral: ‘Female Fears’ and ‘Savage Foes’ in Montagu’s 
     ‘Constantinople,’” by Nicolle Jordan.  Modern Philology 107.3 (2010): 400-420.  Annotated 
     Bibliography of English Studies. (New York: Routledge, 2011).

Annotation of “An English Gentleman’s Encounter with Islamic Architecture: Henry 
     Swinburne’s ‘Travels through Spain’ (1779),” by Kathryn Moore Heleniak.  British Journal 
     For Eighteenth-Century Studies 28.2 (2005): 181-200.  Annotated Bibliography of English  
     Studies. (New York: Routledge, 2011).

Annotation of “Hospitable Harems? A European Woman and Oriental Spaces in the 
     Enlightenment,” by Judith Still.  Paragraph 32.1 (2009): 87-104.  Annotated Bibliography of  
     English Studies. (New York: Routledge, 2011).

Annotation of “‘I Burn with a Desire of Seeing Siraz’: A New Letter from Sir William Jones to 
     Harford Jones,” by Michael J. Franklin.  The Review of English Studies 56. 227 (2005): 749-
     757.  Annotated Bibliography of English Studies. (New York: Routledge, 2011).

Annotation of “Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Slavery in the Ottoman (and the British) 
     Empire,” by Adam R. Beach.  Philological Quarterly 85. 3-4 (2006): 293-314.  Annotated 
     Bibliography of English Studies. (New York: Routledge, 2011).

Annotation of “‘No eye has seen, or ear heard’: Arabic Sources for Quaker Subjectivity in Unca 
     Eliza Winkfield's 'The Female American',” by Matthew Reilly.  Eighteenth-Century Studies 
     44.2 (2011): 261-283.  (New York: Routledge, 2011).

Annotation of “Phebe Gibbes, Edmund Burke and the Trials of Empire,” by Nicole Reynolds.  
     Eighteenth Century Fiction 20 (2007): 151-176.  Annotated Bibliography  of English Studies.  
     (New York: Routledge, 2011).

Annotation of “Rewritten and Reused: Imaging the Nabob through ‘Upstart Iconography’,” by 
     Christina Smylitopoulos.  Eighteenth-Century Life 32.2 (2008): 39-59.  Annotated 
     Bibliography of English Studies.  (New York: Routledge, 2011).

Annotation of “Sustaining Identity in I'tesamuddin's 'The Wonders of Vilayet',” by Norbert 
     Schürer.  The Eighteenth Century 52.2 (2011): 137-155.  Annotated Bibliography of English 
     Studies. (New York: Routledge, 2011).

Annotation of “Vindicating the Prophet: Universal Monarchy and Henry Stubbe’s Biography of 
     Mohammed,” by Matthew Birchwood.  Prose Studies 29.1 (2007): 59-72.  Annotated 
     Bibliography of English Studies.  (New York: Routledge, 2011).

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Podcast Interview for Islam and the Idea of America, titled “Islam and the English 
     Enlightenment: The Missing Link” (2025)
     https://islamandtheideaofamerica.substack.com/p/islam-and-the-english-     enlightenment?r=3hoe4b&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true

Interview in Al Jazeera Documentary on Indo-Persian traveler Abu Talib Khan (2024):
     https://youtu.be/_Tg0xPW07Gg?feature=shared

Podcast interview on using blog technology to facilitate student learning, upload in Vanderbilt 
     University’s online forum, Leading Lines (2018): 
      https://soundcloud.com/leadinglines/episode-022-humberto-garcia

“Black Colonial Hybridity in Claude McKay’s the ‘Outcast.’”  The Modern American Poetry 
     Website.  (Urbana, IL: 2003): 
     http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/mckay/outcast.htm

RESEARCH GRANTS

UCM grant by the Division of Equity, Justice, and Inclusive Excellence, for visiting speaker 
     Javier Zamora, March 2023, $3,500.

National Endowment of the Humanities Summer Stipend Fellowship, June through August 2021, 
     $6,000.

UC President's Faculty Research Fellowship, 2020-2021, $30,000.

Book Subvention Grant, UCM Center for the Humanities, Fall 2019, $2803.

Merced Seminar in the Humanities, UCM Center for the Humanities, Spring 2018, $4000.

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, August 2015 through May 2016, $42,000. 

Research Scholar Grant, Vanderbilt University, Office of the Associate Provost for Research and 
     Graduate Education, July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015, $6,000.

Poindexter Grant, Vanderbilt University, June through August 2013, $4,000.

National Endowment of the Humanities Summer Stipend Fellowship, June through August 2012, 
     $6,000.

Huntington Library Mayers Fellowship, 2011-2012, $2,500.

Junior Faculty Teaching Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, 2011-2012, $500.

Research Scholar Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, July 2010 through June 2011, $27,567. 

Clark Library/Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies Short-Term Fellowship, 
     July through August 2010, $2,500.

Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society, March 2010 through March 2011, 
     $6,000.

Research Scholar Grant, Vanderbilt University, Office of the Associate Provost for Research and 
     Graduate Education, July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009, $5,000.

Diversifying Higher Education Faculty in Illinois Fellowship, 2005-2007, $16,000 stipend per 
     academic year.

University Fellowship, University of Illinois, fall 2005, 2006-7, $5,000 stipend per semester.

Travelling Jam-Pot, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Spring 2007, $300.

Conference Travel Grant, University of Illinois, English Department, Fall 2005, $300.

Conference Travel Grant, University of Illinois, Unit of Criticism and Interpretive Theory, Fall 
     2005, $250.

Illinois Consortium for Educational Opportunity Program, 2004-2005, $16,000 stipend per 
     academic year.

Conference Travel Grant, University of Illinois, English Department, Fall 2004, $300.

Conference Travel Grant, University of Illinois, Unit of Criticism and Interpretive Theory, Fall 
     2004, $250.

William E. Winter Fellowship, University of Illinois, 2002-2003, $7,000 stipend per academic 
     year.

Humanities Fellowship, University of Illinois, 2002-2003, $5,000 stipend per academic year.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

“Decolonizing Reverse Ethnographies: Persianate Travelers in Georgian Britain.” Paper 
     presented for a roundtable discussion at the Modern Language Association Convention, 2025,  
     New Orleans, United States.

“An Enslaved Black Seaman in Victorian London? Abolitionism, Lascar Missions, and the Trials 
     of John Bardoe.” Paper presented for an international workshop titled Mariners: Religion, 
     Race and Empire in British Ports, 2024, Bristol, United Kingdom.

“Decolonizing Reverse Ethnographies: Persianate Travelers in Georgian Britain.” Paper 
     presented for a roundtable discussion at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century 
     Studies, 2024, Toronto, Canada.

“Sir William Jones’s A Grammar of the Persian Language and the (Homo)erotic Poetics of the 
     Untranslatable.” Paper presented for a seminar at the American Comparative Literature 
     Association, 2024, Montreal, Canada.

“Strangers without a Home, Children without Families: Asian Seamen in Dickensian London.” 
     Presentation for the Department of English, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 2023, 
     Champaign, Illinois. 

“The Persianate Bengal Renaissance:  Persianizing Indian Nationalism in Henry Vivian Louis 
     Derozio’s and Kasiprasad Ghosh’s Romantic Poetry.” Paper presented for a seminar at the 
     American Comparative Literature Association, 2023, Chicago, Illinois.

Respondent for the panel “Representing the Black Atlantic,” The Global/Oceanic Nineteenth 
     Century: Symposium and Workshop, 2022, Los Angeles, California.

“At Peace with Strangers: Feeling Disoriented in the London Panorama of Constantinople, 1801-
     1802.” Paper presented for a roundtable discussion at the British Association of Romantic 
     Studies/North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, 2022, Ormskirk, England.

“Performing Imperial Masculinity in the Persian East India Company.” Paper presented for a 
     roundtable discussion at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2022, 
     Baltimore, Maryland.

“The Promises and Perils of English Translation.” Paper presented virtually for roundtable 
     discussion on “Romanticism and World Literature” at the Modern Language Association 
     Convention, 2022, Washington, D.C. 

"Performing the Indo-Muslim Self: Mirza Sheikh I'tesamuddin in the Late Eighteenth-Century 
     London Theater.” Paper presented for the Early Modern Center Fall Colloquium, University   
     of California, Santa Barbara, 2018, Santa Barbara, California.

“Abu Taleb Khan’s ‘Vindication of the Liberties of the Asiatic Women’: An Indo-Persian
       Response to 1790s British Feminism.”  Paper present for the Global Enlightenment  
      Conference, Princeton University, 2017, Princeton, New Jersey. 

“Daniel Defoe and the Geopolitics of Islamic Toleration.”  Paper presented for the Imagining  
     Religious Toleration Conference, Western Ontario University, 2017, London, Canada.

“Performing the Indo-Muslim Self: Mirza Sheikh I’tesamuddin in Late-Eighteenth-   
     Century Theatrical England.”  Paper presented for the Center for Religious Studies,    
     Central European University, 2016, Budapest, Hungary.

Respondent to Natasha Eaton’s presentation on her book Mimesis across Empires: Artworks and 
     Networks in India, 1765-1860.  Paper presented for Vanderbilt History Seminar, Vanderbilt 
     University, 2015, Nashville, Tennessee.

“Holy Entrails and Schismatic Bodies: William Blake’s Islamic Corpus.”  Paper presented for 
     the Symposium on William Blake, Vanderbilt University, 2014, Nashville, Tennessee.

“Romantic Poets Dreaming with the Orient.” Paper presented at the North American Society for 
     the Study of Romanticism, 2014, Washington, DC.
 
“Islamic Republicanism in the Transatlantic World.” Paper presented for “The Transatlantic 
     Enlightenment” group in the Humanities Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2014, 
     Knoxville, Tennessee.

Respondent to Srinivas Aravamudan’s presentation, “Are You an Anachronism? Postcolonial 
     Life in an Imperial World.” Paper presented for the 18th/19th-Century Colloquium, Robert 
     Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University, 2012, Nashville, Tennessee.

“‘To strike out a New Path:” Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Mary Astell, and the Politics of 
     Feminist Islam.”  Paper to be presented at the Southern California Eighteenth Century Group 
     (convened by Felicity Nussbaum), 2010, Los Angeles, California.

“Radical Islam and Tory Feminism in Delarivier Manley’s Almyna; or, the Arabian Vow 
     (1707).” Paper presented for England’s Theatrical Orients, 1660-1800 colloquium, Robert 
     Penn Warren Center the Humanities, Vanderbilt University, 2010, Nashville, Tennessee. 
 
“The ‘Worlding’ of Religions and Postcolonial Studies,” roundtable panellist for the 18th/19th-
     Century Colloquium, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University, 
     2010, Nashville, Tennessee.
 
“Turning Turk in Eighteenth-century England: Joseph Pitts’s Barbary Conversion Narrative and 
     the tradition of Protestant Islam.” Paper presented at Britain and the Muslim World: 
     Historical Perspectives, 2009, Exeter, UK.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“An Enslaved Black Seaman in Victorian London? Abolitionism, missionary care, and the trials   
     of John Bardoe.” Paper presented at the North American Conference on British Studies, 2025,   
     Montreal, Canada.  

“An Enslaved Black Seaman in Victorian London? Abolitionism’s Unfreedom and the Trials of 
     John Bardoe.” Paper presented at the Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies, 2025,   
     Birmingham, United Kingdom.  

“Bardic Nationalism in Persian: Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, Kasiprasad Ghosh, and the 
     Persianate Bengal Renaissance.” Paper presented at the Society for Global Nineteenth-
     Century Studies, 2025, Kuwait City, Kuwait.

“Bardic Nationalism in Persian: Henry Louise Vivian Derozio, Kasiprasad Ghosh, and India’s 
     Persianate Future.” Paper presented at the Western Society for Eighteenth-Century 
     Studies, 2024, San Francisco, California.

“Refashioning Masculinity in Regency England: Queer Fashions Inspired by the Persian Envoy   
     Mirza Abul Hassan Khan.” Paper presented at the Western Society for Eighteenth-Century 
     Studies, 2023, Northridge, California.

“The Unsightly Spectacle of “Poor Houseless Wanderers”: De Quincey’s Confessions, the Malay                                     
     Sailor, and Vagrancy.” Paper presented for a roundtable discussion at the British Association 
     of Romantic Studies/North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, 2022, Ormskirk, 
     England.

“At Peace with Strangers: Feeling Disoriented in the London Panorama of Constantinople, 1801-
     1802.” Paper presented at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2022, 
     Baltimore, Maryland.

“Dreaming with Fairyland: Virtual Magic in Yusuf Khan Kambalposh’s Travels to Victorian 
     Britain.” Paper presented virtually at the North American Victorian Studies Association, 
     2022, Vancouver, Canada.

“Geopolitics of Islamic Toleration in Defoe’s A Continuation of Letters Written by a Turkish  
     Spy.” Paper presented virtually at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 
     2021, Toronto, Canada.

Presenter for “2020 Presidential Session: Concepts in Race and Pedagogy for Eighteenth-
     Century Studies: A Workshop.” Co-facilitated workshop virtually at the American Society for 
     Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, 2021, Toronto, Canada. 

Presenter for “Anti-Racist Pedagogy and Non-Contemporary Sources.” Center for Eighteenth-
     Century Studies, Indiana University, 2021, Bloomington, Indiana.

“Queering Fashion in Hajji Baba: Mirza Abul Hassan Khan, James Morier, and the Anglo-
     Persian Dandy.” Paper presented at Persianisms: Cultural Encounters in the Anglophone 
     World,” a virtual colloquium at the University of York, 2020, York, England. 

“An Armenian Romance: Contesting Manliness in Joseph Emin’s Letters to Elite Englishwomen, 
     1750-1800.”  Paper presented at Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, 2019, Merced, 
     California.

“Loving Strangers in 1790s Ireland: Indo-Irish Xenophilia in The Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb    
     Khan.” Paper presented at Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2019, Tempe, 
     Arizona.

“The Romance of a Bluestocking Immigrant: Contesting Manliness in Joseph Emin’s   
     Autobiographical Letters.”  Paper presented at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century 
     Studies, 2018, Orlando, Florida.

“An Indo-Persian at the London Theater: Gender, Class, and Performance in Abu Taleb Khan’s   
     Cosmopolitan Poetry.”  Paper presented for the Canadian Society for Eighteenth Century   
     Studies Conference, 2017, Toronto, Canada.

“Loving Strangers in 1790s Ireland: Indo-Irish Xenophilia in The Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb   
    Khan.” Paper presented at North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, 2017, 
    Ottawa, Canada.   

“Coleridge, India, and the Spectral Banyan Tree.” Paper presented at North American Society for 
     the Study of Romanticism, 2016, Berkeley, California.

“Performing the Indo-Muslim Self: Mirza Sheikh I’tesamuddin in Late-Eighteenth-Century 
     Theatrical England.”  Paper presented for the Conference on South Asia, University of 
     Wisconsin-Madison, 2015, Madison, Wisconsin. 

“Performing Dispossession: The Indo-Islamic Vernacular Past in Henry Vivian Louis Derozio’s 
     “The Ruins of Rajmahal.”  Paper presented at the International Conference on Romanticism, 
     2015, Park City, Utah. 

“Oriental Specters of the Atlantic: Thomas De Quincey and the Malaysian Sailor.”  Paper  
     presented at American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2015, Los Angeles, CA.

“To Strike Out a New Path”: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Mary Astell, and Muslim Veiling 
     Practices.”  Paper presented at the Modern Language Association, 2014, Chicago, Illinois.

“The Transports of ‘Lascar Slaves’: Dispossessed Indian Sailors in Romantic Women’s Poetry.”  
     Paper presented at the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, 2013, 
     Boston, Massachusetts.

“The Transports of ‘Lascar Slaves’: Dispossessed Indian Sailors in Romantic Women’s Poetry.”  
     Paper presented at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2013, 
     Cleveland, Ohio.

“Holy Entrails and Schismatic Bodies: Esoteric Embodiments of Islam in William Blake’s   
     Art and Poetry.”  Paper presented at the Northeast Modern Language Association, 2012, 
     Rochester, New York.

“The Unfeminine Politics of the Turkish Harem in Hannah Cowley’s A Day in Turkey.”  Paper   
     presented at the Modern Language Association, 2012, Seattle, Washington.

“Turning Turk in Eighteenth-Century England: Islamic Orientalism and Joseph Pitts’s 
     Conversion Narrative.” Paper presented at 8th International Conference on New 
     Directions in the Humanities, 2010, Los Angeles, California.

“The Good Old Cause of ‘A True Protestant Mahometan:’ Henry Stubbe, Radical Islam, and the 
     Rye House Plot.” Paper presented at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 
     2010, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

“The Good Old Cause of ‘A True Protestant Mahometan:’ Henry Stubbe, Radical Islam, and the 
     Rye House Plot.” Paper presented at the Modern Language Association, 2009, Philadelphia, 
     Pennsylvania.

“Tory Feminism in the Turkish Harem: Delarivier Manley’s Almyna; or, the Arabian Vow 
     (1707).” Paper presented at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2009, 
     Richmond, Virginia. 

“Deistic Islam in Delarivier Manley’s Almyna; or, the Arabian Vow (1707): Tory Feminism in 
     the Wake of Ottoman Decline.” Paper presented at the Modern Language Association, 
     2008, San Francisco, California.

“The Flight and Return of Mohammed”: Coleridge’s Mahomet and the Legacy of Islamic-
     Unitarian Republicanism.” Paper presented at the North American Society for the Study of 
     Romanticism, 2008, Bologna, Italy.

“Turning Turk, Turning Heretic: Joseph Pitts’s “Mahometan” Pilgrimage and the Deistic 
     Appropriation of the Barbary Captivity Narrative.” Paper presented at the American Society 
     for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2008, Portland, Oregon.

“Islam, Radical Protestantism, and Female English Identity in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s 
     Turkish Embassy Letters.” Paper presented at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century 
     Studies, 2007, Atlanta, Georgia.

“In the Name of the ‘Incestuous Mother’: Islam and Excremental Psychoanalysis in De 
     Quincey’s Confessions.”  Paper presented at the North American Society for the Study of 
     Romanticism.  2006, Lafayette, Indiana.

“The Unfeminine Politics of the Turkish Harem in Hannah Cowley’s A Day in Turkey.” Paper 
     presented at the Group of Early Modern Cultural Studies, Annual Conference, 2005, San 
     Antonio, Texas. 

“Radical Protestantism and the Colonial Politics of Arabic Islam in Landor’s Gebir.” Paper 
     presented at the Group of Early Modern Cultural Studies, Annual Conference, 2004, Orlando, 
     Florida.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZING

Co-organizer for the UC-wide academic symposium, “Persianate Entanglements,” 2025, Merced, 
     California.

Chair for “Textual Adaptation Across Cultures,” a panel for the Society for Global Nineteenth-
     Century Studies, 2025, Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Chair for “Novel Futures,” a panel for the Western Society for Eighteenth-Century 
     Studies, 2024, San Francisco, California.

Chair for “Race, Slavery, Nation,” a panel for the Western Society for Eighteenth-Century 
     Studies, 2023, Northridge, California.

Invited Chair for “Writing across Nations and Empires,” a panel for the North American 
     Victorian Studies Association, 2011, Nashville, Tennessee.

Organizer and Chair for “Transnational Encounters with Islam in English Literature,” a special 
     session panel for the Modern Language Association, 2011, Los Angeles, California.

Invited Chair and Respondent for “Travelers’ Perspectives,” a panel for Britain and the Muslim 
     World: Historical Perspectives, 2009, Exeter, UK.

Organizer and Chair for “William Blake and the Enlightenment Legacy,” a panel for American 
     Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2008, Portland, Oregon.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

University of California, Merced, 2016-

IH 211: Theories and Histories of Dispossession (Fall 2024)

IH 299 26, Independent Studies, Spring 2021.

English 110 (cross-listed with CRES 151): British Romanticism and India, Spring 2020.

IH 299 26, Independent Studies, Spring 2020.

IH 299 53, Independent Studies, Fall 2020.

English 57: Introduction to Poetry, Fall 2019, Fall 2021, Spring 2024, and Fall 2025.

IH 295 31, Independent Studies, Fall 2019.

English 190 (Senior seminar): William Blake and Enlightenment Media, Spring 2018, Fall 
                                                  2019, Spring 2024, and Fall 2025.

IH 299 28, Independent Studies, Fall 2018.

English 010: Foundations of English Literary Studies, Fall 2018, Spring 2023, and Fall 2024.

IH 295 28, Independent Studies, Fall 2018.

Interdisciplinary Humanities 210 (Graduate Seminar): Early Modern Travel Narratives beyond 
                                                      East and West, Fall 2018.

English 193H: Honors Thesis, Fall 2017, 2019, and 2024.

English 194H: Honors Thesis, Spring 2018, 2020, and 2025

English 107: The Age of Enlightenment” in the Long Eighteenth Century, Fall 2017.

English 067: Environmental Ethics in Beast Fables, Fall 2017, Spring 2022, and Fall 2023.
 
English 102: English Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century (1660-1837) Gone Global,    
                     Spring 2017 and 2019. 

English 109: Transnational Encounters with Islam in Eighteenth and Nineteenth- 
                      Century British Literature, Fall 2016 and Spring 2022.

Vanderbilt University, 2007-2014

English 290a: Honors Colloquium, Fall 2014.

English 115F: Environmental Ethics in Beast Fables, Spring 2014.

English  214: British Romanticism and India, Spring 2014.

English 208b: Representative British Writers, 1660-1900, Spring 2013.

English 252b: Restoration and Eighteenth Century: “The Age of Enlightenment” in the Long 
                        Eighteenth Century, Fall 2008, Spring 2010, Fall 2012.

English 254:   The Romantic Period: Romanticism and Apocalypse, Spring 2009, Fall 2012.

English 275: William Blake and Enlightenment Media, Spring 2012, Fall 2013.

English 355: Re-Orienting British Romanticism, graduate seminar, Fall 2011.

English 117: Introduction to Literary Criticism, Spring 2010, Spring 2012, Spring 2013.

English 350: Graduate Student Independent Study, Spring 2010, Fall 2012.

English 288: Special Topics: Transnational Encounters with Islam in Eighteenth and Nineteenth- 
                      Century British Literature, Fall 2009, 2011, and 2013.

English 214:   Literature & Intellectual History: Race, Religion, and Empire in the Wide 
                        Eighteenth Century, Spring 2009.

English 116:   Introduction to Poetry, four sections, Spring & Fall 2008, Fall 2009 & 2014.

English 273:   Islam in English Literature, from the Crusades to the War on Terror, Fall 2007.

University of Illinois, 2002-07

English 106:    Special Topic: Islam in English Literature, from the Crusades to the War 
                         on Terror, Spring 2007.

English 255:    Survey of American Literature, beginnings to 1870, Spring 2006, 2004.

English 207:    Introduction to Romantic Literature and Culture, Spring 2005.

Rhetoric 108:  Advanced Introductory Composition, Fall 2004.

English 210:    Survey of English Literature from 1798 to the Present, Fall 2004, 2003.

English 101:    Introduction to Poetry, 2003-2004.

Rhetoric 105:   Introductory Composition, 2002-2003.

TEACHING INTERESTS

British Romanticism and Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century British Literature and Culture; British Literature from the Restoration to the present; the history of radicalism in Britain, 1660-1840; the history of early modern occultism; critical race and ethnic studies; Islam and Romantic Orientalism; gender and women’s study; critical race studies; postcolonial studies; and transnational/global/ transoceanic studies.

SERVICE

University of California, Merced:

Chair of the Department of Literature, Languages, and Cultures, July 2024 -

Associate Chair of the Department of Literature, Languages, and Cultures, 2018-2024.

Director of English Honors Program, UCM, 2017-2020, and 2022-2024.

Chair of the IH Admissions committee, 2023-2024.

Ad Hoc Chair of the IH bootcamp mentorship program, 2024-25.

Member of the SSHA Executive Committee, 2023-2024.

Member of the UCM Diversity and Equity committee, 2019-2020.

Member of the UCM General Education subcommittee, 2017-2018.

Member of the UCM SSHA Website Committee, 2017-2018.
 
Member of the Educational Policy Committee, Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Group, UCM, 2016-2020.

Member of two IH graduate student exam committees, 2020-2021.

Member of the UCHRI Advisory Committee at UC Irvine for reviewing fellowship and grant 
     applications, 2018-2020.

Co-organizer of the Center for the Humanities’ Merced Seminar in the Humanities, spring 2018.
 
Reviewer for grant application submitted to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research 
     Council of Canada (SSHRC), 2021.

Reviewer for fellowship application submitted to the National Endowment of the Humanities, 
     2025.

Peer review reader for the academic journal, English Studies, 2023.

Peer review reader for the academic journal, Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2025.

Peer review reader of an academic book manuscript for Oxford University Press, twice in 2022 and 2025.

Peer review reader for the academic journal, Intellectual History Review, 2022.

Peer review reader for the academic journal, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 2020. 

Peer review reader for the academic journal, European Romantic Review (twice), 2017.

Peer review reader for the academic journal, Limina: A Journal of Historical & Cultural Studies, 2017.

Letter of recommendation writer for English honors student (2017): Noelle Lammouchi

Letter of recommendation for sixteen undergraduate students, 2017-2019.

Letter of recommendation for four IH graduate students, 2018-2024.

Chaired four department personnel cases, 2018-2020.

A voting member of eight personnel cases, 2017-2020.

Vanderbilt University:

Director of English Honors Program, Vanderbilt University, 2014-2015.

Hiring Committee Member on the Early Modern Literature position, 2014-2015.

Co-organizer of the Public Square Visiting Speaker’s series, Vanderbilt University English Department, 2012-2014.

Co-organizer for the 18th/19th Century colloquium seminar, The Warren Penn Humanities Center, Vanderbilt University, 2012-2015.

Committee member on three graduate student Ph.D exams at Vanderbilt University 

Member of the Undergraduate Studies Committee, 2009-2014.

Member of the Graduate Studies Committee, 2014-2015.

Graduate student teaching mentor, 2012-2014. 

Member of the Undergraduate Curriculum Reform Committee, Fall 2012.

Peer review reader for the academic journal, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 2011.

Honors student thesis advisor, 2009, 2012, and 2013.

Honors student oral exam reader, 2008, 2010, and 2012.

Vanderbilt pre-major and major advisor, 2008-2015.

Bibliographer for Annotated Bibliography of English Studies, 2008-2014.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

The Group of Early Modern Cultural Studies.
The North American Society for the Study of Romanticism.
The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
The Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
The Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
The Northeast Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
The Modern Language Association.
The American Comparative Literature Association.