Dr. Meagan Solomon is a Chicana Jewish lesbian scholar and educator based in Austin, Texas. She holds a PhD in English and is currently an Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies at Southwestern University.
Her research explores subversive sites of queer intimacy and feminist resistance in Latina/e lesbian literature and performance. As an educator, her pedagogy draws from women of color feminisms, decolonial and abolitionist feminist theories, and queer of color critique as a compass for building a socially just world.
Her work has been published in Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social, The Journal of Lesbian Studies, Chicana Portraits: Critical Biographies of Twelve Chicana Writers edited by Norma E. Cantú, and more. She is also the Founding Director of Malflora Collective, a community project dedicated to preserving the lives and legacies of Latina/e lesbians.
Beyond her professional roles, she is a cat mom of two, a lover of art and astrology, and a zinemaker who believes in the power of co-creation and community.
Recent Publications
Solomon, Meagan. “Beyond Sexual Deviance: Elevating the Expansive Intimacies of Chicana Lesbian Life in Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About.” Journal of Lesbian Studies, vol. 27, no. 4, 2023, pp. 1-14.
Solomon, Meagan. “Ana Castillo: A Multigenre Author.” Chicana Portraits: Critical Biographies of Twelve Chicana Writers, edited by Norma E. Cantú, University of Arizona Press, 2023, pp. 245-264.
Recent Courses
This course critically examines literary expressions of Latina lesbian identity, sexuality, politics, and culture from the late twentieth century into our contemporary moment. Through close readings of fiction, essays, and poetry, students analyze how Latina lesbians navigate and resist intersectional oppressions while also situating Latina lesbian writing and cultural production within a larger women of color feminist tradition.
Latina Lesbian Literature
Inspired by the 1981 anthology This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, this interdisciplinary course focuses on the literature, politics, and activism of women of color who forward radical visions of justice. Through an exploration of women of color feminist thought across the late twentieth century into our contemporary moment, students examine how women of color critically challenge settler colonialism, white supremacy, cisheteropatriarchy, classism, ableism, and imperialism.
Radical Women of Color
This course offers an advanced examination of feminist theories and methods. Students explore how feminist theories draw from and intersect with other interdisciplinary areas of study, including race and ethnic studies, queer and trans studies, disability studies, and environmental studies. Students also examine a wide range of feminist methods, including interviews, literary criticism, film analysis, oral histories, pláticas, and more.