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Dr. Geneva Marie Gano

  • Professor - English
Portrait of Dr. Geneva Marie Gano

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.
  • Salzmann, K. A., & Gano, G. M. (n.d.). A House of Their Own: Student Research in the Sandra Cisneros Archive. In Students in the Archives: Archival Pedagogy in Practice.
  • 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. (2024). Her Fabulous Career: Sandra Cisneros’s Life Work. In ¡Ay Tú! Critical Essays on the Life and Work of Sandra Cisneros (pp. 1–11). University of Texas Press.
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  • Award / Honor Recipient: Awards for Faculty, National Endowment for the Humanities. June 2023 - Present
  1. Member

    San Marcos Public LIbrary Board

  2. Volunteer

    Hays County Food Bank

  3. Member

    Faculty Senate Performing Arts Commitee

  4. Member

    Center for Diversity and Gender Studies

  5. Member

    What's NEXT: Charting Your Path

  6. Member

    Faculty Search Committee: Early American Literature and Culture

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