Anna M. Nogar is Associate Professor of Hispanic Southwest Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of New Mexico.  She researches colonial Mexican literature and communities of reading, and Mexican American cultural and literary studies, focusing on New Mexico.  She is the author or editor of several books, including Quill and Cross in the Borderlands: Sor María de Ágreda, 1628- the Present (2018), A History of Mexican Literature (2016), Colonial Itineraries of Contemporary Mexico: Literary and Cultural Inquiries (2014), Complete Spanish for Americans (2008). She also co-authored with Enrique Lamadrid the prizewinning bilingual young reader’s book Sisters in Blue/Hermanas de azul (2017).