Anna María Nogar writes about Adelina “Nina” Otero-Warren, an activist who fought for women’s voting rights during the 20th century. She was also the first Latina to run for Congress and the first Latina superintendent of the Santa Fe public schools.
Anna María Nogar
Dr. Anna María Nogar is a professor of Hispanic Southwest Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of New Mexico. Her research and teaching focus on colonial Mexico, New Mexican literary and cultural studies, and Mexican American literature. Nogar's published books include the prize-winning texts, "Quill and Cross in the Borderlands: Sor María de Ágreda and the Lady in Blue, 1628 to the Present" (University of Notre Dame 2018), "A History of Mexican Literature" (Cambridge University Press, 2016), and "Sisters in Blue/Hermanas de azul" (University of New Mexico, 2017), as well as Colonial Itineraries of Contemporary Mexico (University of Arizona Press, 2014) and the forthcoming, "A History of Mexican Poetry" and "A History of the Mexican Novel" (both Cambridge UP). In 2021, she published "El feliz ingenio neomexicano: Felipe M. Chacón and Poesía y prosa," an examination of the work of 19th-century bilingual nuevomexicano poet Felipe Maximiliano Chacón, with the University of New Mexico Press.