- Dr. Anna Nogar is a professor of Hispanic Southwest Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
- Her research specializations include Mexican American cultural and literary studies; colonial Mexican literature; Nuevomexicano writing and culture; and community oral history.
- She is the author of many books including Quill and Cross in the Borderlands: Sor María de Ágreda and the Lady in Blue, 1628- the Present; Sisters in Blue/Hermanas de azul; El feliz ingenio neomexicano: Felipe M. Chacón and Poesía y prosa; A History of Mexican Literature; A History of Mexican Poetry; and Colonial Itineraries of Contemporary Mexico. Her current editorial project includes the forthcoming, A History of the Mexican Novel.
- Nogar directs with Myrriah Gómez a community-centered oral history project that cultivates undergraduate and graduate humanities researchers across UNM who engage with local narrators to record life histories of nuevomexicano Baby Boomers.
- At UNM, Nogar is a faculty associate in the Department of Chicana/Chicano Studies, the Southwest Hispanic Research Institute, and the Latin American and Iberian Institute, and served on the advisory boards of The University of New Mexico Press and the Center for Regional Studies.
- She serves in an elected capacity for the Modern Languages Association, and engages with community through public talks, book readings, podcasts, and radio interviews.
Areas of Interest
- Colonial Mexican literature and cultural studies: women, marginalized authors, communities of reading, religious writing
- Mexican American literature and cultural studies
- New Mexican literature and culture: colonial, 19th-century, contemporary
- Archival research: colonial, transatlantic and transpacific, 19th-century and contemporary archives
- Oral history methods and applications
Contact
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