Megan Corbin
- Associate Professor of Languages
- B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- MCorbin@wcupa.edu
- Mitchell Hall 131
- 610-738-0440
- Spring 2021 Office Hours:
Mondays 1-4pm; Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:30-12:30 pmPlease email Dr. Corbin to establish the meeting and receive the Zoom link
Research Interests
- Contemporary Latin American Literature and Culture
- Southern Cone Narrative and Cultural Production
- Testimonio
- Human Rights
- Memory Studies
- Trauma Theory
- Object-Oriented Philosophy
- Material Culture Studies
- Spectral Theory
- Women's Writing
- Feminist Theory
Recent Publications/Activities
Publications
- Corbin, Megan. “¿Cómo se describe una generación?” Generación Hijes: memoria, posdictadura y posconflicto en América Latina. Eds. Carolina Añón Suárez y Ana Forcinito. Hispanic Issues On Line 30 (2023): 240-251.
- Corbin, Megan. “Everything but the Smell: The Ethics of the “Connective Turn” in Argentinian Memory Activism.” The Memorial Museum in the Digital Age. Ed. Victoria Walden, Sussex: REFRAME, 2022.
- Corbin, Megan and Daniela Johannes. “Activating Affect Aura: Clothing as Witness.” Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities. Special Issue: Witnessing After the Human, 2022.
- Megan Corbin. Haunted Objects: Spectral Testimony in the Southern Cone Post-dictatorship. North Carolina: Editorial A Contracorriente, 2021.
- Megan Corbin and Karín Davidovich. “Vestigios del pasado: Los sitios de memoria en el Cono Sur.” Eds. Megan Corbin and Karín Davidovich. Hispanic Issues On Line 22 (2019): 1-36
- Megan Corbin and Karín Davidovich, Eds. Vestigios del pasado: Los sitios de memoria y sus representaciones políticas y artísticas. Hispanic Issues On Line Volume 22, 2019. https://cla.umn.edu/hispanic-issues/online/vestigios-del-pasado-los-sitios-de-la-memoria-y-sus-representaciones-pol-ticas-y-art-sticas
- María C. Albin, Megan Corbin, and Raúl Marrero-Fente. “Gertrudis the Great: First Abolitionist and Feminist in the Americas and Spain.” Gender and the Politics of Literature: Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda. Eds. María C. Albin, Megan Corbin, and Raúl Marrero-Fente. Hispanic Issues On Line 18 (2017): 1-66.
- María C. Albin, Megan Corbin, and Raúl Marrero-Fente. “A Transnational Figure: Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda and the American Press.” Gender and the Politics of Literature: Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda. Eds. María C. Albin, Megan Corbin, and Raúl Marrero-Fente. Hispanic Issues On Line 18 (2017): 67-133.
- Editor: María C. Albin, Megan Corbin and Raúl Marrero-Fente, Eds. Gender and the Politics of Literature: Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda. Hispanic Issues On Line Volume 18
- “Testimonio y materialidad: El encuentro con el espacio y el lugar.” Kamchatka. Revista de análisis cultural. Special Issue: Exilios cruzados. Representaciones, identidades y memorias en los exilios europeos y latinoamericanos del siglo XX y XXI. Ed. Paula Simón Porolli, December 2016. 323-344.
- "The Museum of Memory: Spectral Presences and Metaphoric Re-memberings" Specters: Ghostly Hauntings and the Talking Dead in Contemporary Latin American and Iberian Narratives. Eds. Amanda Peterson and Alberto Rivas, forthcoming.
- "Controlling Contagion: The Threat of the Madman from Outer Space. Writing Monsters: Essays on Iberian and Latin American Cultures. Eds. Adriana Gordillo and Nicholas Spadaccini. Hispanic Issues On Line 15 (Spring 2014): 200–20. Web.
Conferences
- Discussant for the panel “Unveiling Human Rights in Latin America II: Alternative Perspectives and Approaches,” Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies, Online Hosted by the College of New Jersey, March 19-20, 2021.
- “Re-contextualizing “Nunca Más”: Recycled Symbolism in Recent Argentine Protest Movements” Latin American Studies Association (LASA). Boston, MA. May 2019.
- “El pasado en el presente: Los vestigios de la memoria en las ruinas materiales.” III Simposio de la Sección de Estudios del Cono Sur (LASA). Buenos Aires, Argentina. July, 2019.
- “Historias Clandestinas: Testimony from the 1.5 Generation in a Graphic Novel.” Northeast Modern Languages Association (NEMLA). Washington, D.C. March 2019 Round Table Presentation
- “Villa: ¿Cómo diseñar un sitio de memoria para todos?” (with Karin Davidovich) Northeast Modern Languages Association (NEMLA). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. April 2018. Panel Presentation
- “The Dictatorships of the Southern Cone: Representing Political Imprisonment and Disappearance with Objects” on the panel Human Rights in Latin America Panel and Exhibition. Latino Communities Conference, West Chester University, September 28, 2017.
Awards
- 2017 Research and Creative Activities (RACA) Grant, West Chester University
- 2016 Honors College Outstanding Faculty, West Chester University
- 2012-2013 Doctoral Dissertation Fellow, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
Research Activities
- Managing Editor, Hispanic Issues and Hispanic Issues On Line
- Editor-in-Chief, College Literature
- Secretary/Treasurer, Southern Cone Studies Section, Latin American Studies Association, 2023-2025