Daimys Garcia

Daimys Ester García is a writer, artist and educator from Miami. She earned her PhD in Comparative Literature at SUNY Binghamton and is currently an Assistant Professor in English at the College of Wooster. Her work is at the intersections of Latinx literatures & studies, Native literatures & studies, women of color feminisms, and decolonial praxis with a focus on coalitional politic; her current book manuscript, Cries Across Time: Cuban-American Women Writers Searching for Connection, examines six novels by Cuban-American women writers written from 1991 to 2021 through decolonial and women of color feminist perspectives. She explores how Cuban-American women writers portray a longing for community in the United States post-1959 migration by demonstrating a shift in the literature from a focus on issues of exile, longing, and nostalgia to a politics of liberation through community and coalition with other histories of resistance in the United States. She argues that Cuban-American women writers resist traditional narratives of the exiled migrant by using literature to imagine themselves as women of color in coalition with other minoritized groups. Her essays have been published in Convivial Thinking and her poetry has been published in The Maynard and Chicana/Latina Studies.

Degrees

• B.A., Florida International University, 2011
• M.A., The Graduate Center at CUNY, 2016
• Ph.D., SUNY Binghamton, 2023