Megan Corbin
                                    
                                    
                                       
                                       - 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
                                 
                                 
                                    
                                    - 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.
 
                                    
                                 
                                 
                                    
                                    
                                       
                                       - "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.
 
                                       
                                     
                                 
                                  
                                  
                              
                              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
 
                                 
                              
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