Geneva M. Gano: Faculty
Visiting Assistant Professor, American Studies and Latino Studies
Office: Ballantine Hall 517
Phone: (812) 855-7707
E-mail: gmgano 
indiana.edu
Education
Ph.D. English, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 2007
M.A. English with certificate of specialization in Women's Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 2003
Research Interest
19th- and 20th-century American literature and culture; Mexican and Chicana/o literature and film; the races, places, and spaces of literary form; regionalism, nationalism, cosmopolitanism; Modernism; literature and the arts; writing and rhetoric; GLBTQ and women’s studies.
Courses Recently Taught
- “Place, Race, and Nation in Modern American Literature”
- “American Literature, 1912-1945”
- “The Western”
- "Brokeback: Queering Western Literature”
- “The Modern West: Modernism, Revolution, and Indigenismo”
- “‘Old Mexico’ and the New West: Modernism, Revolution, and American Imperialism”
- “The Personal is Political: Women’s Autobiographical Writings from the 1960s”
Publication Highlights
Book Manuscript
“Un-American Places: Geography, Race, and Nationalism in Modern U.S. Literature”
Essays
"Nationalist Ideologies and New Deal Regionalism in The Day of the Locust,” Modern Fiction Studies 55.1 (Spring 2009): 42-67
“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, forthcoming 2009)
“Rex Slinkard: Modernist Icon” in The Legend of Rex Slinkard (exhibition catalogue), (Stanford University Press, forthcoming 2010).
“Outland Over There: Cather’s Cosmopolitan West,” in Cather, Violence, and the Arts, ed. Joseph Urgo and Merrill McGuire Skaggs (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007)
“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
Reviews and Encyclopedia Entries
Review of “Postwestern Cultures: Literature, Theory, Space, Ed. Susan Kollin” for Journal of the West 47.2 (Spring 2008): 86
“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
Honors and Awards
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Bill Lane Center for the Study of the North American West, Stanford University, 2007-2008
- UCLA Chancellor’s Fellowship, 2006-2007
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow, Huntington Library, 2005-2006
- Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Dissertation Fellowship, 2005-2006
- Evan Frankel Fellowship in the Humanities, UCLA, 2005-2006
- UCLA English Department Research Travel Award, 2005
- Collegium of University Teaching Fellows Award, UCLA, 2005-2006
- Center for Primary Research and Training Fellowship, 2004-2005
- UCLA English Department Outstanding Teaching Award, 2003
- Autry Institute for the Study of the American West Research Fellowship, 2003
- UCLA Graduate Division Summer Research Mentorship Award, 2001
- Faculty Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2004-2005
