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
Featured grants
- 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.

Featured scholarly/creative works
- 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.
Featured awards
- Award / Honor Recipient: Awards for Faculty, National Endowment for the Humanities. June 2023 - Present

Featured service activities
- Member
San Marcos Public LIbrary Board
- Volunteer
Hays County Food Bank
- Member
Faculty Senate Performing Arts Commitee
- Member
Center for Diversity and Gender Studies
- Member
What's NEXT: Charting Your Path
- Member
Faculty Search Committee: Early American Literature and Culture