Dr. Anca Garcia
Assistant Professor, English
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Biography
Dr. Anca Garcia has extensive teaching experience both in the United States and abroad. She has 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’s degree in Romanian and English as a second language, a master’s degree in Romanian and a master’s 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 – English – University of South Florida
- Master's – English – Valdosta State University
- Master's – Romanian – Transylvania University, Romania
- Bachelor's – Romanian and English as a second language – 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- 2020 The Irving Deer Memorial Scholarship for theoretically oriented scholarship, published or unpublished, University of South Florida.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.
Professional Affiliations
- Early Career Board of Reviewers for the Journal of Writing Analytics
- Reviewer on the editorial board of the Journal of the Georgia Philological Association
- 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)