Romeo García portrait
  • Assistant Professor, Writing and Rhetoric Studies

Creative Research

  • Advisor/Mentor to Venceremos Newspaper Other, in progress 08/07/2017.

Presentations

  • Invited Speaker, “Unsettling the Settled to Imagine Futures Otherwise.” San Diego State University. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 11/14/2022.
  • Invited Speaker, “Re/Searching: Relational Frameworks, Inquiries, and Im/Possibilities.” The University of Texas at El Paso. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/17/2022.
  • Invited Speaker, “The Question of Democracy.” Reframing the Conversation: Practicing Academic Freedom & Free Speech. Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. University of Utah. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 09/12/2022.
  • Invited Speaker, “Unsettling the Archives.” Undergraduate Research Education Series. University of Utah. Presentation, Presented, 06/14/2022.
  • “Changing the Times, Terms, and Traditions of the Rhetorical Archive.” Rhetoric Society of American Conference. Baltimore, 2022. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 05/17/2022.
  • “Haunted/ing Literacies and the Role of Unsettling Archival Research.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Online. 2022. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 03/15/2022.
  • “Perspectives on Coalition Building.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Online. 2022. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 03/15/2022.
  • “Community Writing Mentorship Workshop.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Online. 2022. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 03/15/2022.
  • “Unsettling Archival Research.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Online. 2022. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 03/15/2022.
  • Seminar Leader, “Decolonizing Rhetorics and Literacies.” Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute. Syracuse University. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/07/2021.
  • Invited Speaker, “Un-Making Gringo-Centers.” Fordham University. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 05/17/2021.
  • Invited Speaker & Workshop Leader, “A Decolonial Option?” Texas A&M University-San Antonio. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 05/03/2021.
  • Invited Classroom Speaker, “Decoloniality.” Montclair State University. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 04/12/2021.
  • Invited Speaker & Workshop Leader, “Decolonial Options for the Writing Center.” Montgomery College. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 03/15/2021.
  • Invited Speaker & Workshop Leader, “Decolonial Options for the Writing Center.” Northeastern University. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 02/08/2021.
  • “Counterstories from the Writing Center” . Conference Paper, Refereed, Accepted, 05/21/2020.
  • “Rhetorical Theories of the Latinx American Archive” . Conference Paper, Refereed, Accepted, 05/21/2020.
  • “Rhetorics Elsewhere and Otherwise.” . Conference Paper, Refereed, Accepted, 05/21/2020.
  • “Rhetorics of Presence” . Conference Paper, Refereed, Accepted, 05/21/2020.
  • Livable Futures for Rhetorics Elsewhere and Otherwise. Conference Paper, Refereed, Accepted, 04/07/2020.
  • “Community Writing Mentorship Workshop.” . Conference Paper, Refereed, Accepted, 04/07/2020.
  • “Traversing Modernizing Propers". Conference Paper, Refereed, Accepted, 04/07/2020.
  • Mid-Atlantic Writing Center Association. Invited Talk/Keynote, Other, 03/23/2020.
  • “Decoloniality and Democracy.” University of Arizona. Invited Talk/Keynote, Accepted, 03/23/2020.
  • South Central Writing Center Association. Invited Talk/Keynote, Other, 03/16/2020.
  • "Encountering Resistance". Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 11/18/2019.
  • “Rhetorics Elsewhere and Otherwise." University of Louisville. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/14/2019.
  • “Rhetorics Elsewhere and Otherwise." Northeastern University. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 09/09/2019.
  • “Rhetoric, Publics, and Placemaking in the Everyday Life". Other, Presented, 07/08/2019.
  • “Beyond Oppositional Consciousness Politics and Pre-Commitments to Resistance". Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 03/18/2019.
  • State and Local Settler Colonialism, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, 2018. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 11/19/2018.
  • Reflecting on the (Im)/Possibilities of Cultural Rhetorics Research and Work. Cultural Rhetorics Conference, East Lansing, 2018. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 11/16/2018.
  • Encountering Resistance. National Conference of Teachers of English, Houston, 2018. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 11/15/2018.
  • Corrido-ing State Violence, Texas A&M University-Commerce, 2018. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 11/05/2018.
  • Critiquing and Responding to the Flow and Circulation of Writing Center Ideology. NCPTW, South Padre Island, 2018. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 11/02/2018.
  • Cultural Rhetorics and Cultural Rhetorics Practices. Rocky Mountain Rhetoric Symposium (RSA Regional), Salt Lake City, UT 2018. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 10/19/2018.
  • Collaborative Co-Presences, Watson Conference, Louisville, 2018. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 10/15/2018.
  • Doing Writing Center Research, IWCA, Indianapolis, 2018. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/14/2018.
  • Exploring Issues in Social Justice and Activism, Conference on College Composition and Communication, 2018. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 03/14/2018.
  • The Human Work We Do in the Writing Center: Capacious Listening and Mindfulness, Social Justice-for-all Initiatives, and (Im)possibilities, IWCA-CCCC Collaborative, 2018 . Invited Talk/Keynote, Accepted, 03/12/2018.
  • “The Problem with Metaphors.” International Writing Center Association Conference, Chicago, 2017. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 11/10/2017.
  • Invited Talk, "Un-Making Gringo-Centers". Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 09/11/2017.
  • “Dissonance in the Region.” The Watson Conference, Louisville, 2016. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 10/10/2016.
  • “The Beginning Somewhere Project.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Houston, 2016. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 04/11/2016.
  • “Histories and Lived Experiences of Dairy Workers of Central New York.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Tampa, 2015. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 03/09/2015.
  • “Decolonizing Violence(s) and/of Rhetoric(s) Across Geopolitical Borders.” Rhetoric Society of America, San Antonio, 2014. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 05/22/2014.

Publications

  • Gesa Kirsch, Romeo García, Dakota Smith & Caitlin Burns (2023). Unsettling Archival Research: Engaging Critical, Communal, and Digital Archives. Southern Illinois University Press. Published, 02/10/2023.
  • Romeo García & Gesa Kirsch (2022). “Deep Rhetoricity as Methodological Grounds for Unsettling Archival Studies.” . College Composition and Communication. Published, 12/30/2022.
  • Romeo García (2022). “Unsettling Church(-)Settler Ideas, Images, and Ends.” . Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture. Published, 12/05/2022.
  • Romeo García (2022). “Decolonizing the Rhetoric of Church-Settlers.” . Across the Disciplines. Published, 11/08/2022.
  • Romeo García (2022). “On Doing, Unsettling, and Hope: A Written Interview With Romeo García.”. CCDigital Press. Published, 10/10/2022.
  • Anna Sicari & Romeo García (2022). “Have We Arrived? Revisiting and Rethinking Responsibility in Writing Center Work: The Need for Transformative Listening and Mindfulness of Difference". Praxis: A Writing Center Journal. Published, 09/13/2022.
  • Sonia Arellano, Jose Cortez & Romeo García (2022). “Shadow Work: Witnessing Latinx Crossings in Rhetoric and Composition.” . Composition Studies. Published, 06/06/2022.
  • Romeo García & Douglas Kern (2022). We Do/Don’t Have that Problem Here. Utah State University Press. Published, 04/15/2022.
  • Romeo Garcia, Wonderful Faison & Anna Trevino. (2022). White Benevolence: Why that Supa-Save-a-Savage Rhetoric Ain’t Getting It. Utah State University Press. Published, 04/15/2022.
  • Romeo García (2021). “‘Unsupervised Learning’: Reflections on a First Foray into Data-Driven Argument.” . University of Pittsburgh Press. Published, 12/06/2021.
  • Ellen Cushman, Damian Baca & Romeo Garcia (2021). “Delinking: Towards Pluriversal Rhetorics.”. College English. Published, 11/08/2021.
  • Romeo Garcia, Damian Baca & Ellen Cushman (2021). Literacies of/from the Pluriversal: Tools for Perseverance and Livable Futures. University of Pittsburgh Press. Accepted, 11/08/2021.
  • Kirsch, Gesa, Romeo García, Dakota Smith & Caitlin Wilks (2021). “Unsettling Archival Research Across the Disciplines: Engaging Critical, Communal, and Digital Archives.”. Across the Disciplines. Published, 10/11/2021.
  • Romeo García (2021). “Is Being Brown Bad?”. Studies in Writing and Rhetoric. Accepted, 10/04/2021.
  • Elise Homan & Romeo García (2021). “Working through an Impasse: Settler Colonialism and Decoloniality.” . Peter Lang. Accepted, 10/04/2021.
  • Romeo García (2021). “On the Discourse of Memory and Remembering.” . Studies in Writing and Rhetoric. Accepted, 10/04/2021.
  • Romeo Garcia (2021). Making It Out: Stories-so-Far and the Possibilities of New Stories. Utah State University Press. Accepted, 09/13/2021.
  • Romeo García & Yndalecio Hinojosa (2020). "Encounters with Friction: Engaging Resistance through Strategic Neutrality". Utah State University Press. Published, 11/06/2020.
  • Romeo García (2020). “Unmaking Gringo-Centers” . Routledge. Published, 10/08/2020.
  • Josè Cortez & Romeo García (2020). “In Preparation for Alterity: The Absolute Limit of Latinx Writing". CCC. Published, 06/01/2020.
  • Romeo García & Jose Cortez (2020). “The Trace of a Mark that Scatters". RSQ. Published, 03/13/2020.
  • Romeo García (2019). “Unmaking Gringo-Centers". Parlor Press (Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition Series). Published, 12/09/2019.
  • Romeo García (2019). “On the Cusp of Invisibility: Opportunities and Possibilities of Literacy Narratives". Fountainhead (Writing Inquiry_Second Edition). Published, 12/09/2019.
  • Romeo García, Iris Ruiz, Anita Hernandez & Maria Carvajal Regidor (2019). Viva Nuestro Caucus: The Latino/a Caucus. Parlor Press. Published, 12/02/2019.
  • Romeo García (2019). “A Settler Archive: A Site for a Decolonial Praxis Project". Constellations: A Cultural Rhetorics Publishing Space. Published, 12/02/2019.
  • Romeo García (2019). “Haunt(ed/ing) Genealogies and Literacies". Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric. Published, 10/07/2019.
  • Romeo García (2019). "The Predicament of ‘Being There’: Conflict and Emotional Labor". Routledge. Published, 09/09/2019.
  • Romeo García, Joanne Castillo, Claudia Itzel Sauz Mendoza & Christie Toth (2019). “Work” as Taking and Making Place. The Journal of College Literacy and Learning. Published, 08/05/2019.
  • Romeo García & Damían Baca (2019). Rhetorics Elsewhere and Otherwise: Contested Modernities, Decolonial Visions. NCTE/Studies in Writing and Rhetoric Series. Published, 01/07/2019.
  • Romeo García (2018). "Corrido-ing State Violence". Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics. Published, 12/14/2018.
  • Romeo García (2018). "Creating Presence from Absence and Sound from Silence". Community Literacy Journal. Published, 12/10/2018.
  • Romeo García, Kate Navickas & Adela Licona (2017). Introduction: Home and Community-Based Knowledge Making as Responsive Pedagogies. Parlor Press. Published, 11/06/2017.
  • Steve Parks, Brian Bailie, Romeo García, Adela Licona, Kate Navickas & David Blakesley (2017). The Best of the Independent Rhetoric and Composition Journals 2015. Parlor Press. Published, 11/06/2017.
  • Romeo García (2017). Book Review of Tropic Tendencies: Rhetoric, Popular Culture, and the Anglophone Caribbean. Reflections: A Journal of Public Rhetoric, Civic Writing, and Service Learning. Published, 08/07/2017.
  • Romeo García (2017). Unmaking Gringo-Centers. The Writing Center Journal. Published, 08/01/2017.
  • Romeo García (2017). On the Cusp of Invisibility. Pearson. Published, 03/13/2017.
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  • Romeo García (2016). Book Review of Refiguring Rhetorical Education: Women Teaching African American, Native American, and Chicano/a Students, 1865-1911. Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture. Published, 08/08/2016.
  • Romeo García (2016). . Book Review of Reclaiming Poch@ Pop: Examining the Rhetoric of Cultural Deficiency. Rhetoric Society Quarterly. Published, 08/08/2016.