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Dr. Geneva Marie Gano

  • Professor - English

Biography and education


Dr. Geneva M. Gano grew up on a farm in Central Washington State. She attended Stanford University (B.A. English, 1995), served in AmeriCorps, and has worked in both public and private schools teaching in the humanities and in ESL. She attended graduate school at UCLA (Ph.D. English, 2007), where she received a Ph.D. minor in Women's Studies. In 2007-2008, she was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University. She has also taught at Indiana University and Antioch College in American Studies, Latino Studies, and Literature.

Teaching Interests

Research Interests

  • Gano, Geneva Marie. Awards for Faculty at Hispanic-Serving Institutions, National Endowment for the Humanities, Federal, $60000. (Submitted: August 2022, Funded: September 2023 - September 2024). Grant.
  • Gano, Geneva Marie. NEH Institute for Higher Education Faculty, National Endowment for the Humanities, Federal, $2500. Grant.
  • Gano, G. M. (2022). “Modernist Activities and Native Acts in and around Northern New Mexico.” In The Routledge Handbook to North American Indigenous Modernisms (pp. 29–43). Routledge.
  • Gano, G. M. (2020). “Robinson Jeffers, Camille T. Dungy, and the Poetry of Ecological Witness.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isaa088
  • Gano, G. M. (2020). The Little Art Colony and U.S. Modernism: Carmel, Provincetown, Taos. Edinburgh,  Scotland/ New York, NY, U.K./ U.S: Edinburgh University Press.
  • Gano, G. M. (2025, December). Review of Rachel Cusk, Second Place. Jeffers Studies.
  • Gano, G. M. (n.d.). “Mexican Muralism and the Collective Novel: Monumentality and Multiplicity in John Dos Passos’s U.S.A. and Diego Rivera’s SEP Murals.” In The Politics of Intermedial Modernisms. Routledge.
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  • Award / Honor Recipient: Awards for Faculty, National Endowment for the Humanities. June 2023 - June 2024
  1. Member

    D.H. Lawrence Society of North America Advisory Board

  2. Member

    Faculty Review Committee

  3. Editorial Review Board Member

    Jeffers Studies

  4. Member

    Faculty Mentoring Committee

  5. Member

    San Marcos Public LIbrary Board

  6. Volunteer

    Hays County Food Bank

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