ROMEO GARCIA

Associate Professor

Writing & Rhetoric Studies

  • Associate Professor
    Writing & Rhetoric Studies

BIO

Romeo García (PhD, Composition and Cultural Rhetoric, Syracuse University) is Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric Studies and affiliate of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Utah. His research appears in College Composition and Communication, Rhetoric Review, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Across the Disciplines, and Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture. García is author of There is No Making it Out (Utah State University Press) and co-editor of Rhetorics Elsewhere and Otherwise (with Damián Baca, winner of the 2020 Conference on College Composition & Communication Outstanding Book Award, Edited Collection, Studies in Writing and Rhetoric), Unsettling Archival Research (with Gesa Kirsch, Caitlin Burns Allen, and Walker P. Smith, honorable mention 2024 Conference on College Composition and Communication Outstanding Book Award, Edited Collection, Southern Illinois University Press), Pluriversal Literacies (with Ellen Cushman and Damián Baca, University of Pittsburgh Press), and Community Listening (with Jenn Fishman and Lauren Rosenberg, winner of the 2025 Conference on Community Writing Outstanding Book Award, Edited Collection, WAC Clearinghouse).

INSTITUTIONAL APPOINTMENTS

  • Associate Professor
    Writing & Rhetoric Studies1 Jul 2025 - present

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Assistant Professor
    University of Utah, Writing & Rhetoric Studies, USAJul 2017 - Jun 2025

DEGREES

  • PhD, Composition and Cultural Rhetoric
    Syracuse University
  • MA, English
    Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
  • BA, English
    Texas A&M University-College Station