Anna Sandoval

Anna Sandoval is Professor Emerita and former Chair of the Department of Chicano and Latino Studies at California State University, Long Beach where she was a faculty member for 23 years. She completed her education at the University of California with a B.A. degree in English from UC Santa Barbara and Ph.D. in American Literature from UC Santa Cruz. Early in her career, she spent a year studying and researching in Mexico City at La Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City.  In 2004, she was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to teach at the University of Malaga in Southern Spain.  Her research and teaching interests include Chicanx and Latinx Literature, Ethnic Studies, Feminist and Gender Studies, Ethnic American Literature, Visual Literacy and Cultural Studies.  Her 2009 volume, Toward a Latina Feminism of the Americas: Repression and Resistance in Chicana and Mexicana Literature, was honored with the distinction of being published in the University of Texas Press Chicana Matters Series. Her work has also appeared in Decolonial Voices: Chicana/o Cultural Studies in the 21st  Century, Chicana Literary and Artistic Expression: Culture and Society in Dialogue, and Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. Throughout her career at CSULB, Dr. Sandoval was active in promoting the Arts within the greater Long Beach community.  She continues to co-organize the Helena Maria Viramontes Annual Lecture in Latinx Literature which was established in 2015. In 2025, she returned to the classroom and is currently teaching in the Department of Critical Race, Gender and Sexuality Studies at California Polytechnic University, Humboldt.  The courses she teaches include Chicana/Latinx Lives, U.S. and Mexico Border, Courageous Cuentos Production, Campus and Community Dialogue on Race and Community Activism.