Professor García Lozada received his doctorate degree from University of Maryland, College Park, where he specialized in Latin American literature after 1810, with concentrations in Modernism, Caribbean literature, cultural history, and poetry and poetics. His scholarly interests include a range of connections between literature and cultural identity in Latin American texts from the beginning of the nineteenth century up to date. Currently his work in progress entitled "The Critical vision of Europe through Latin American Literature" examines the formation of culture on the periphery of Europe.  He has been teaching a variety of courses, including Spanish language and grammar, Honors Core, surveys on Latin American literature, Latin American essayists and poets, short stories, and the short novel. He has published articles and reviews in prestigious journals on Latin American Literature including: Quimera, Anthropos, Casa de las Americas, Aleph, and Mapocho, among others.