Rate My Professor Sarah García

Sarah García is the Visiting Professor of Creative Writing in the Chicana/o Studies Department and Latinx Lab at California State University, Fullerton, holding this appointment for the 2023-2025 academic years. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing with an emphasis in Fiction and a cognate in Media Studies from Texas State University, earned in 2015. In her teaching at CSUF, she offers courses that blend literature and innovative methods, such as ENGL 306 'Ethnofiction Through Contemporary Narratives,' which merges creative storytelling with digital humanities, and 'Creative Writing through Public Art' during Spring 2024. Her work centers on creative writing in the context of Literature, with a focus on Chicana literature, multimedia literary arts, and community-engaged projects.

An award-winning Chicana author and founder of LibroMobile Arts Cooperative, García has authored the books Las Niñas (2008) and SanTana’s Fairy Tales (2017). The latter is part of an oral history multimedia exhibition awarded by the Andy Warhol Foundation and adopted as an Ethnic Studies text in Santa Ana Unified School District. She co-edited the anthologies pariahs: writing from outside the margins (2016) and Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology (2021). As a 2020 USLDH-Mellon Grantee with the University of Houston US Latino Digital Humanities Center, her research specializations include digital humanities initiatives such as Mapping Santa Ana, Modesta Ávila archives, digital humanities for and by the community, and the Womxn of Color at the Frontlines in OC project. This project traces narratives and herstories of women of color through digital tools including virtual timelines, storymaps, digital profiles, and augmented reality, addressing cultural and gender erasure, displacement, criminalization, and their contributions to regional legacies and U.S. history via ethnographic research and digital storytelling.