Megan Corbin
- Associate Professor of Languages
- B.A., M.A., Ph.D., 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
- 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. https://cla.umn.edu/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/_hiol_22_intro_corbin_y_davidovich.pdf
- 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.
- "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.
Conferences
- “El ser de los objetos: Hacía una poética del objeto material en Un hombre numerado
(Marcelo Estefanell) y Conversaciones con la alpargata (Mauricio Rosencof).” II Simposio de la Sección de Estudios del Cono Sur (LASA), Montevideo, Uruguay. July, 2017.
- “Tool-Being: Toward a Poetics of the Object in Post-dictatorship Narratives.” The Department of Languages and Cultures Research Colloquium. West Chester University, April 21, 2017.
- “Crossing the Body’s Borders: Poetics of DNA and the Translation of Forensic Memory”
Knowledge Crossing Borders. West Chester, Pennsylvania. May 31-June 3, 2016.
- “Corporal Memory: The Madres de Plaza de Mayo and the Poetics of Forensic Truth.”
Languages and Cultures Department Research Day. West Chester, Pennsylvania. April 2016.
- “Translating the Witness Within: DNA and the Recovery of Forensic Memory in Post-dictatorship
Argentina.” Translating Memory and Remembrance Across the Disciplines. SUNY, New Paltz. March 2016.
- “Filling the Narrative Void: Representing Disappearance in Southern Cone Latin America.”
West Chester University Research Day. West Chester, Pennsylvania. March 2016.
- “Object Memories: On the Place of the Material in Memory Studies.” Hispanic Issues Symposium: Renewing the Gaze: Socio-Historical Approaches to Hispanic
Issues. Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 2015.
- “Ghostly Vivencias: Reappearance and Personal Belongings in Cautiva.” Mid Atlantic Latin American Studies Association (MALAS). Millersville, Pennsylvania, October 2015.
- “Residual Memories: (Re)constructing Urban Ruins in Their Dogs Came With Them by Helena
María Viramontes.” Latino Communities Conference. West Chester, Pennsylvania. September 2015.
- "'Todo menos el olor': The Ethics of the 'Connective Turn' in Memory Activism." Actores, Demandas, Intersecciones, I Simposio de la Sección de Estudios del Cono Sur
(LASA). Santiago, Chile. August 2015.
- "If These Walls Could Speak: Testimonial Desire and the Encounter with Space and Place."
Primer Congreso Internacional de Literatura y Derechos Humanos. Gargnano, Italy. June 2015.
- "Chacabuco: A Cinematic Palimpsest of Memory." Latin American Studies Association. San Juan, Puerto Rico. May 2015.
- “Experience at the Center: Testimonial Acts in Southern Cone Spaces of Memory.” Languages and Cultures Department Research Day. West Chester, Pennsylvania. April 2015.
- “New Directions, New Questions: Memory Activism in the Argentine Post-Dictatorship”
West Chester University Research Day. West Chester, Pennsylvania. March 2015.
- "The Material Ally in Survival: Uruguayan Prison Narratives and the New Noticing of
Things." Mid – America Conference on Hispanic Literature (MACHL). Madison, Wisconsin, October 2014.
- "(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.
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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
- Associate Editor, Hispanic Issues and Hispanic Issues On Line
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