Anna M. Nogar

Anna M. Nogar is Professor of Hispanic Southwest Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of New Mexico. She researches colonial Mexican literature and its readers, and engages in Mexican American cultural and literary studies, focusing on New Mexico. Her most recent book is a prizewinning edition and translation of 19th century New Mexican poetry, El feliz ingenio neomexicano: The Life and Writing of Felipe M. Chacón (2021). Nogar is the author of Quill and Cross in the Borderlands: Sor María de Ágreda, 1628- the Present (2018), and editor of A History of Mexican Literature (2016) and Colonial Itineraries of Contemporary Mexico: Literary and Cultural Inquiries (2014). She authored with Enrique Lamadrid the prizewinning historical bilingual young readers book Sisters in Blue/Hermanas de azul (2017).