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TEXAS STATE VITA

I. ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

NAME: Geneva Marie Gano TITLE: Assistant Professor

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Ph.D 2007 University of California, Los Angeles English

Dissertation: “Continent’s End: Literary Regionalism in the Modern West”

MA 2003 University of California, Los Angeles English

BA 1995 Stanford University English

UNIVERSITY EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor, Department of English Texas State University Sept. 2015-present

Assistant Professor, Literature Antioch College July 2011- July 2015

Visiting Assistant Professor, American Studies and Latino Studies Indiana University Aug 2009-May 2011

Lecturer, English UCLA Sept 2008-June 2009

Postdoctoral Fellow, Bill Lane Center for the American West Stanford University Sept 2007- June 2008

II. TEACHING

TEACHING HONORS AND AWARDS

English Department Outstanding Teaching Award, 2003

COURSES TAUGHT

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Texas State University:

Women Writers and/as Others (English 3388: Woman and Literature, Fall 2015). An upper- division survey of a variety of writings by women in English since the rise of Humanism. Metropolis and Modernity (English 3336: American Literature from 1930 to the Present: From Modern to Contemporary Forms, Fall, 2015). An upper-division survey of a variety of writings focusing on the experience of the city from a multi-ethnic perspective.

Antioch College:

Major Authors: Willa Cather and Virginia Woolf (Literature 310: Major Authors, Spring 2015). An upper-division seminar focusing on the works of two major women writers in the U.S. and England in the early twentieth century. The Literary Legacy of Slavery (Literature 110: Literature and History, Winter 2012, Summer 2013, Winter 2014, Winter 2015). An introductory-level, interdisciplinary course examining the historical and literary impact of slavery from 1865 to the present. The Scottsboro Boys: Race, Sex, Gender, and Justice in the Segregated South (Literature 321: Literature and Ethnicity, Spring 2015). An upper-division, interdisciplinary seminar considering the historical contexts for and literary responses to the Scottsboro Trials. The Personal is Political: The Autobiographical Voice and Women’s Liberation (Literature 320: Gender in Literature, Winter 2014). An upper-division, interdisciplinary seminar focusing on the autobiographical mode within the context of Women’s Liberation. Geographies of American Modernism (Literature 331: Literary Movements and Moments, after 1850, Spring 2014). An upper-division course examining the correlation between geographical place and historical time in the early twentieth-century literary imagination. Introduction to the American Literary Tradition (Literature 210: Introduction to the Literary Tradition in English, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015). A broad survey of American literature from its origins to the present and introduction to the major. Introduction to the Drama (Literature 240: Introduction to the Drama, Fall 2012, Summer 2014). A lower-division course exposing students to a variety of dramatic forms with an experiential emphasis. Nature Writing and the Scientific Method: The Almanac (Literature 120: Literature and Science, Fall 2011, Summer 2012, Summer 2014). An experientially- based, introductory-level course considering the long tradition of nature writing. Global Seminar: Education (GS 160: Global Seminar: Education, Summer 2013). A team- taught, interdisciplinary, general education course focusing on global approaches to the energy crisis with an experiential focus. Global Seminar: Energy (GS 130: Global Seminar: Energy, Summer 2012). A team-taught, interdisciplinary, general education course focusing on global approaches to education with an experiential focus.

Indiana University:

Latina/o Genders and Sexualities in U.S. Literature and Film (L601: Colloquium in Latino

Studies (Graduate Course), Spring, 2011). Theoretical approaches to gender and sexuality within U.S. Latino studies, focusing on contemporary literature and film. Race, Place, and Nation (A350: Topics in Interdisciplinary American Studies, Spring 2011). An upper-division course examining the regional imaginary in relation to race in early twentieth-century American literature. The Mexican Revolution and the Creation of Modern Chicano Identity (LS 398: Seminar in Latino Studies, Spring 2010). An upper-division seminar focusing on the literary and cultural impact of the Mexican Revolution on the expression of modern Chicano identity. Borderlands Narratives (AMST A200/LATS L200: Comparative American Identities, Spring 2010, Spring 2011). A lower-division course comparing Mexican and U.S. American literary and filmic narratives of the borderlands region. What is America? (AMST A100: Introduction to American Studies Fall 2009, Fall 2010). An introductory overview of citizenship, nationality, and the social contract in the Americas. Community and Self in Chicana/o Art and Literature (LATS 200: American Borderlands, Fall 2009). A lower-division course introducing students to major works and genres in Chicana/o art and literature.

Brokeback: Rereading the Western (E 115A: American Popular Literature, 2008). An upper- division course tracing multicultural approaches to the popular genre of the Western. American Literature, 1912-1945 (E 172A, Fall 2008, Spring 2009). An upper-division historical survey of American literature. Race, Place, And Nation in Modern American Literature (E 182C: Topics in 20th- and 21st- Century American Literature, Spring 2009). An upper-division course examining the regional imaginary in relation to race in early twentieth-century American literature. Old Mexico and the New West: Modernism, Revolution, and American Imperialism (E 98T: Lower Division Seminar in English, Winter 2005). A lower-division seminar focusing on representations of the Southwest borderlands and the Mexican Revolution. The Personal is Political: Women’s Autobiographical Writings from the 60’s (GE60: Seminar, Spring 2005). A lower-division, general education seminar on the literature of the sixties, focusing on women’s writing from the period. Critical Reading and Writing (English 4W, Spring 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2004). An introduction to literary analysis, with close reading and carefully-written exposition of selections from a variety of literary genres.

Stanford University:

Brokeback: Queering Western Literature (E 187G: Special Topics in American Literature, Fall 2007). An upper-division literature seminar exploring “others” in the modern U.S. West.

The Modern West: Modernism, Revolution, Indigenismo (E 188G: Special Topics in American Literature, Spring 2008). An upper-division literature seminar focusing on representations of the Southwest borderlands and the Mexican Revolution. COURSES PREPARED

All courses listed above were prepared and designed by me.

CURRICULUM DEVELOPED

All curricula in Literature at Antioch College designed and developed by me (2011-15).

DIRECTED STUDENT LEARNING

Antioch College:

Supervisor and Chair of Senior Capstone Project in the Humanities, Kaleigh Harris, “Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetics,” June 2015

Supervisor and Chair of Senior Capstone Project in the Humanities, Marianthe Bickett, “Writing and Performing in Community,” June 2015

III. SCHOLARLY

BOOK CHAPTERS

“California Modernism in the Early Twentieth Century” in A History of California Literature, ed. Blake Allmendinger (Cambridge University Press, 2015)

Charles C. Eldredge and Geneva M. Gano, The Legend of Rex Slinkard (Stanford, Cal.: Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, 2011)

“Reckoning with the Spirits of Place: Violence on the Home Front in Robinson Jeffers’ Tamar,” in Phantom Pasts, Indigenous Presence: Native Ghosts in North American Culture and History, ed. Coll Peter Thrush and Colleen Boyd (University of Nebraska Press, 2011)

“Outland Over There: Cather’s Cosmopolitan West,” in Cather, Violence, and the Arts, eds. Joseph Urgo and Merrill Skaggs (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007)

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

“Campobello’s Cartuchos and Cisneros’ Molotovs: Transborder Revolutionary Feminist Narratives,” Journal of Transnational American Studies (Spring 2015).

“Nationalist Ideologies and New Deal Regionalism in The Day of the Locust,” Modern Fiction Studies 55.1 (Spring 2009): 42-67

“Outland Over There: Cather’s Cosmopolitan West,” Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Newsletter and Review 49:2 (Fall 2005): 27-28

“At the Frontier of Precision and Persuasion: John C. Frémont’s 1842, 1843 Report and Map,” American Transcendental Quarterly 18:3 (Fall 2004): 131-54

BOOK REVIEWS

Review of Postwestern Cultures: Literature, Theory, Space, Ed. Susan Kollin for Journal of the West 47.2 (Spring 2008): 86

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Encyclopedia Articles:

“Narrative Poetry,” “Archibald MacLeish,” and “Genevieve Taggard,” The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry, ed. Jeffrey H. Gray, James McCorkel, and Mary Balkun (Greenwood Press, 2006), 1111-14, 997-99, 1565-67

WORKS NOT IN PRINT

Books in Progress:

“U.S. Modernism at Continent’s End: Carmel, Provincetown, Taos”

Book Chapter:

“Pueblo Cosmopolitanism: Constructing Modernist Community through Tribal Ceremonial Dance,” Modernist Communities, eds. Caroline Pollentier, Vincent Bucher, and Sarah Wilson (accepted, collection under review at Johns Hopkins University Press)

Encyclopedia Article:

“Willa Cather,” Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, ed. Stephen Ross (Routledge) (accepted, forthcoming 2017).

PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS

“The Indian as Proletariat: The Mexican Revolution and the U.S. Modernist Imaginary,” Modernist Studies Association Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, November 2015

“Pueblo Communism and Indigenous Cosmopolitanism,” Société d'Etudes Modernistes, Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris, France, April 2014

“Jeffers and the Monterey Bay ‘Tourist Bubble,” Robinson Jeffers Association Annual Conference, Carmel, California, February 2014

“Engaging the ‘Beloved Community’ from Provincetown to Broadway,” American Literature Association Annual Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, May 2013

“Scottsboro via Carmel-by-the-Sea: Robinson Jeffers and Langston Hughes,” Robinson Jeffers Association Annual Conference, Asilomar, California, May 2012

“Regionalism and the ‘Spatial Turn’ in Literary and Cultural Studies,” C19: The Society Of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Conference, Berkeley, California, April 2012

“Decorations, Furnishings, and Lumber: Cather’s House of Fiction Reconsidered,” Willa Cather International Seminar, Northampton, Mass., June 2011

“Modernism on the Rez: Lynn Riggs’ Cherokee Night,” Modernist Studies Association Conference, Victoria, B.C., Canada, November 2010

“Cartuchos and Molotovs: The Formal Legacy of the Mexican Revolution,” Tepoztlán Institute for Transnational History of the Americas, Tepoztlán, Mexico, July 2010

“The colour of the mantle”: Sacramental Narrative and Modernist Form in Death Comes for the Archbishop,” Willa Cather International Seminar, Chicago, June, 2009

“Dancing Against America: Native Cosmopolitanism in Taos and Santa Fe,” Modernist Studies Association Panel, Modern Language Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, December 2008

“Race, Sex, and Queer Aesthetics in Nathanael West’s Los Angeles,” Los Angeles Queer Studies Conference, Los Angeles, October 2008

“Territory Folks: Sovereign Blood in Lynn Riggs’ Green Grow the Lilacs and Cherokee Night,” American Literature Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, May 2008

“Violence on the Home Front in Jeffers’ Tamar,” Robinson Jeffers Association Annual Conference, Honolulu, February 2007

“To know where I am”: Stasis and Freedom in Lawrence’s Southwest,” Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference, Tulsa, October, 2006

“‘That great cosmopolitan country’: Willa Cather’s Borderlands,” Western Literature Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles, October 2005

“Rowlandson on ‘Tryal’: Sedgwick’s Redress,” Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society 2003 Symposium, Stockbridge, Mass., June 2003

“Reconstructing Coalitions, Post-Bellum: Chesnutt’s Appeal,” American Literature Association Conference, Boston, May 2003

INVITED TALKS, LECTURES, AND PRESENTATIONS

“Nature Writing and Environmental Thought,” Glen Helen Ecology Institute, Yellow Springs, Ohio, Sept 2014

“D.H. Lawrence and Native Cosmopolitanism in Taos and Santa Fe,” Antioch College Reunion, Yellow Springs, Ohio, June 2013

“New Latin@ Cinema: Rashaad Ernesto Green’s Gun Hill Road (2011),” Latino Film Festival and Conference, Bloomington, Indiana, April 2012

“Narratives of Obligation: Testimonio’s American Others,” Indiana University Citizenship Conference, Bloomington, Indiana, September 2010

“Revolutionary Forms: Sandra Cisneros and Nellie Campobello,” Invited Lecture, Americanist Research Colloquium, Indiana University, March 2010

“Retribution and Transcendence: Jeffers’ Native American Ghosts,” Invited Lecture, Tor House Foundation Annual Fall Festival, Carmel, Calif., October 2007

FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, HONORS

2014 James Woodress Research Fellowship University of Nebraska

2013 Faculty Fund Award Antioch College

2012 College Arts and Humanities Institute Fund Recipient Indiana University

2011 Multidisciplinary Ventures and Seminars Fund Recipient Indiana University

2007-08 Postdoctoral Fellow, Lane Center for the American West Stanford University

2006-07 Chancellor’s Fellowship UCLA

2005-06 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow Huntington Library

2005-06 Dissertation Fellowship Harry Ransom HRC University of Texas

2005-06 Evan Frankel Fellowship in the Humanities UCLA

2005 English Department Research Travel Award UCLA

2005-06 Collegium of University Teaching Fellows Award UCLA

2004-05 Center for Primary Research and Training Fellowship UCLA

2003 Research Fellowship Autry Institute for the Study of the West

2001 Graduate Division Summer Research Mentorship Award UCLA

IV. SERVICE

INSTITUTIONAL

Texas State University:

2015-present Member Sophomore Literature Committee

2015-present Member English Major/Minor Committee

Antioch College:

2014-15 Chair Search Committee: Professor of Literature and History

2014-15 Member Search Committee: Professor of 3-D/Installation Art

2014-15 Member Search Committee: Vice President for Human Resources

2014 Chair Search Committee: Summer Creative Writing Fellow

2013-14 Chair Search Committee: Professor of World Literature

2013-14 Member Search Committee: Professor of World History

2013-14 Chair Search Committee: Professor of Performance

2014 Co-Chair Tenure and Review Revision Committee

2013-14 Member Student Financial Aid Task Force

2013 Chair Search Committee: Summer Creative Writing Fellow

2013 Coordinator Global Seminar Program

2013 Member Senior Leadership Team

2013 Member Community Council

2012-13 Chair Search Committee: Professor of Performance

2011-12 Chair Search Committee: Professor of Biomedical Sciences

2011-12 Member Search Committee: Professor of Media Art

2011-14 Member Library Committee

2011-12 Member Accreditation Committee

2011-14 Member Curriculum Committee

2011 Member Search Committee: Director of Olive Kettering Library

2011-12, 2014-15 Member Faculty Council Policy Review Committee

2011-15 Member Diversity Group

Indiana University:

2012 Member Organizing Committee for IU Cinema Latino Film Conference

PROFESSIONAL

Committees and Memberships:

2014-present Co-Chair Organizing Committee for Robinson Jeffers Association Annual Conference

2015-present President Robinson Jeffers Association

2002- present Member Modern Language Association

2005-present Member Modernist Studies Association

2013-15 Member Great Lakes College Association Working Group on Women and Gender Studies

2012-13 Chair Miami Valley Feminist Reading Group

2011-14 Member Great Lakes College Association Academic Council

Panels Organized and/or Chaired:

November 2015 Panel Organizer and Chair, “The Mexican Revolution and U.S. Modernism,” Modernist Studies Association Conference, Boston, Massachusetts

February 2015 Workshop Organizer and Chair, “Emerging Scholars Workshop,” Robinson Jeffers Association Annual Conference, Carmel, California

February 2015 Chair, “Jeffers’ Interlocutors,” Robinson Jeffers Association Annual Conference, Carmel, California

September 2010 Panel Organizer, “The Problem with Citizenship,” Indiana University Citizenship Conference, Bloomington, Indiana

May 2008 Panel Organizer, “Native American Places: Varieties of Modern Regionalism in the Early Twentieth Century,” American Literature Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, California

Peer-Review of Journal Articles

Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies

LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory

Jeffers Studies

Papers in Language and Literature

Literature Compass

Updated 12/2015