Contact Information
338 English Building
608 S. Wright St.
Urbana, IL 61801
608 S. Wright St.
Urbana, IL 61801
Office Hours
By appointment
Research Interests
- Latina/o/x and Chicana/o/x Literature, Film, and Culture
- 20th and 21st Century African American Literature, Film, and Culture
- Black and Brown Prison, Gang, and Migration Narratives
- Border Studies
- 19th, 20th, and 21st Century American Literature
- Race, Racism, and White Supremacy
- Postcolonial Theory
- Queer of Color Critique
- Women of Color Feminisms
Courses Taught
- ENGL 245: The Short Story
- ENGL 104: Intro to Film
- ENGL 116: Intro to American Literature
- ENGL 109: Intro to Fiction
- RHET 105: Writing and Research
*Please email me to request my teaching portfolio.
Highlighted Publications
JOURNAL ARTICLES
- García , Frank. "Recovering the Chicano Social Problem Film: Racial Consciousness, Rita Moreno, and the Historiography of The Ring (1952)." Black Camera: An International Film Journal, vol. 11, no. 1, 2019, pp. 89-122.
- García, Frank . "Entre Maricones y Locos: Disidentifications, Counterpublics, and Dino Dinco's Homeboy ." MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, vol. 44, no. 1, 2019, pp. 132-159.
- García , Frank . "Inside the NBA: Black Dandyism and the Racial Regime." Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association (special issue on art and activism), vol. 51, no. 2., 2018, pp. 103-136.
- García, Frank. "American Cinema's Return to the Borderlands: Migrant Criminalization, Critical Identity Politics, and Nativism in the Trumpian Era." Journal of American Culture, vol. 47, no. 3, 2018, pp. 279-296.
BOOK REVIEWS
- When I Walk Through That Door, I Am by Jimmy Santiago Baca. Chiricú: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures. (Forthcoming Fall 2019).
- Mexico on Main Street: Transnational Film Culture in Los Angeles Before World War II by Colin Gunckel. Film & History, vol. 47, no. 2, 2017, pp. 66-68.
- Continental Shifts: Migration, Representation, and the Struggle for Justice in Latin(o) America by John D. Riofrio. Latino Studies, vol. 14, no. 3, 2016, pp. 423-425