Professor

Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Director of Graduate Studies

Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Curriculum Vitae

Education

PhD, University of Texas at Austin, 2008

MA, University of Texas at Austin, 2004

BS, University of New Mexico, 2000

Biography

Anna M. Nogar is Professor of Hispanic Southwest Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

Dr. Nogar’s research centers on Nuevomexicano writing and culture; colonial Mexican literature; Mexican American cultural studies; digital humanities; and community engaged projects, including bilingual oral history and regionally focused children’s books.

Dr. Nogar authored Quill and Cross in the Borderlands: Sor María de Ágreda and the Lady in Blue, 1628- the Present (University of Notre Dame 2018, 2025), awarded the 2020 International Latino Book Award, as well as the prizewinning bilingual young reader’s book Sisters in Blue/Hermanas de azul (University of New Mexico 2017), which interprets Sor María de Ágreda’s travels for a youth audience.

Dr. Nogar’s recent research focuses on 19th- and 20th-century New Mexican cultural production and includes El feliz ingenio neomexicano: Felipe M. Chacón and Poesía y Prosa (University of New Mexico (2021, 2023). Her work on Mexico centers on the colonial period and the literature the US/Mexico border, such as Colonial Itineraries of Contemporary Mexico: Literary and Cultural Inquiries (University of Arizona 2014). She co-edited a triptych of volumes on Mexican literature: A History of Mexican Literature,A History of Mexican Poetry, and A History of the Mexican Novel (Cambridge 2016, 2024, 2027).

Her work in digital and public humanities includes the grant-funded Aurora Lucero Digital Timeline and a community-centered oral history project that cultivates IRB-certified undergraduate and graduate humanities researchers who engage with local narrators to record life histories of nuevomexicano Baby Boomers.

Dr. Nogar is the recipient of major grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Mellon Foundation. She has served in a variety of leadership roles, including Associate Dean for Humanities and Interdisciplinary Units in the College of Arts and Sciences (UNM); Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) Humanities Leaders Fellow; and National Center for Faculty Diversity and Development (NCFDD) faculty coach.

Dr. Nogar has published in a variety of journals including Confluencia, Honors in Practice, Journal of the Southwest, Latin American Literature Today, Renaissance Quarterly, Revista de estudios hispánicos, Chasqui, Church History, Early American Literature, New Mexico Historical Review, and Bulletin of Spanish Studies. Her essays have appeared in edited volumes including Violencias y fronteras entre México y Estados Unidos; Los oficios del nómada: Fabio Morábito ante la crítica; The Worlds of Junípero Serra; and Asaltos a la historia: Reimaginando la ficción histórica en Hispanoamérica.

Research Interests

• Nuevomexicano Writing and Culture
• Colonial Mexican literature and cultural studies: women, marginalized authors, communities of reading, religious writing
• Mexican American literature and cultural studies
• Digital Humanities
• Public Humanities
• Community-Based Research
• Bilingual Oral History
• Regional Focused, Bilingual Children's Literature children's books