Megan Corbin

Megan Corbin

  • Assistant Professor of Languages
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  • M.A., Ph.D., University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
  • B.A., University of Minnesota – Twin Cities

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

  • “Confronting History: Global South Perspectives and the Narration of Postdictatorial Urban Spaces of Memory” The Global South. Special Issue: Narrating Global South Cities, forthcoming Fall 2015.
  • “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. url: http://hispanicissues.umn.edu/assets/doc/11_Corbin.pdf
  • "Archiveras anarquistas: Corporal Testimony in the Work of Diamela Eltit." Catedral Tomada, 1:1 (2013) 1-17.
  • "Neutralizing Consent: The Maternal Look and the Returned Gaze in El infarto del alma." Lucero 22 (2012)
  • Martín Estudillo, Luis and Megan Corbin. “One Last Fight: Telling the Stories of the Anti-Francoist Guerrilla in Twenty-First Century Spain.” Armed Resistance: Cultural Representations of the Anti-Francoist Guerrilla. Ed. Antonio Gómez López-Quiñones and Carmen Moreno-Nuño. Hispanic Issues On Line (Fall 2012): 232–240. Web. url: http://hispanicissues.umn.edu/assets/doc/12_AFTERWORD_002.pdf
  • Co-author, Co-editor (with Luis Martín-Estudillo) "Exile, Intellectuals, and the Memory Wars." Hispanic Issues On Line Debates. Summer 2012 url: http://hispanicissues.umn.edu/online_main.html

Conferences

  • “(Extra)Ordinary Things: Material Objects and Mental Self-Care in Uruguayan Political Prisons.” Latin American Studies Association. Chicago, Illinois, May 2014.
  • “Jóvenes pasados, presentes y futuros: Ideología, género, y lo material de la cultura urbana en La edad de oro de José Martí.” XVIII Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas. Buenos Aires, Argentina. July 2013.
  • “Haunted Objects: Spectral Testimony in the Latin American Post-dictatorship.” Special Session: “Mapping Hauntings in Hispanic Literatures” at the American Comparative Literature Association. Toronto, Canada. April 2013.
  • “The Ship of Exile: Exposing Control Through Erotic Coding in the Poetry of Cristina Peri Rossi.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Atlanta, Georgia, November 2011.

Awards

  • 2012-2013 Doctoral Dissertation Fellow, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities

Research Activities

  • Associate Editor, Hispanic Issues and Hispanic Issues On Line

Classes Regularly Taught

  • SPA301 Advanced Grammar and Composition
  • SPA315 Spanish Readings
  • SPA320 Cultures of Spain
  • SPA330 Survey of Spanish Literature
  • SPA415 Spanish Cinema
  • ESP319 Cultures of Spain (English)
  • ESP305 Spanish Cinema (English)
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