Ruth Garcia’s Profile
Eighteenth-Century British Literature, with a focus on the novel Women's Writing Historical/Cultural Studies of Servants and Service Motherhood Studies
Ruth G. Garcia is an Associate Professor of English at New York City College of Technology of the City University of New York. She earned her Ph.D. in English from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her scholarship focuses on the representation of servants and service in eighteenth-century novels, especially those written by women. Her work has been published in Her Own Worst Enemy: The Eternal Internal Gender Wars of Our Sisters, The Encyclopedia of British Literature 1660-1789, The Literary Encyclopedia, and The Journal of Mother Studies. Dr. Garcia is also a co-editor of Lead, Follow, or Move Out of the Way: Global Perspectives in Literature and Film (4th edition).
My Courses
This is a course in effective essay writing and basic research techniques, including use of the library. College-level readings are assigned as the basis for classroom discussion and for essay writing.
ENG 1101 Core Books Model Course
This is a clonable Model Course for ENG 1101 using the Core Books at CUNY and First Year Writing curricula. “Books Everywhere–Books Background” avatar shared with a public domain license.
ENG 1121 Core Books Model Course
This is a clonable Model Course for ENG 1121 using the Core Books at CUNY and First Year Writing curricula. “Red Opened Books Illustration” avatar by leonildo pires.
This is a course in effective essay writing and basic research techniques, including use of the library. College-level readings are assigned as the basis for classroom discussion and for essay writing.
This is a course in effective essay writing and basic research techniques including use of the library. Demanding readings are assigned for classroom discussion and as a basis for essay writing. Image Credit: “A New Beginning” by J J via Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/tattoodjay/4068194038/
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Literature Curriculum Committee of the Department of English
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