{"id":4005,"date":"2025-08-27T11:36:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T17:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/?p=4005"},"modified":"2025-08-27T11:28:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T17:28:20","slug":"english-alumna-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/blog\/2025\/08\/27\/english-alumna-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"English Alumna Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr. <strong>Danizete Martinez<\/strong>, a UNM English Department alumna with a PhD in Literature, passed away on August 8, 2025. <br><br>Dr. Danizete held the position of tenured Associate Professor of English at the University of New Mexico-Valencia Campus and served as Chair of Communications, Humanities, Education, and Social Sciences. She went on to become full-time instructor of English at Central New Mexico Community College. She co-edited the book Teaching Writing through the Immigrant Story and authored numerous publications on Chicanx literature, leaving a lasting impact on her field. Find out more about Danizete <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.strongthorne.com\/obituaries\/dr-danizete-martinez\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A celebration of life will take place at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, August 30, 2025, at the Sheraton Albuquerque Uptown, 2600 Louisiana Blvd. N.E., Albuquerque, NM 87110.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Danizete Martinez, a UNM English Department alumna with a PhD in Literature, passed away on August 8, 2025. Dr. Danizete held the position of tenured Associate Professor of English at the University of New Mexico-Valencia Campus and served as Chair of Communications, Humanities, Education, and Social Sciences. She went on to become full-time instructor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4006,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005\/revisions\/4006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}