Notable Achievements

On International Women’s Day, Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies Meagan Solomon released the first episode of her collaborative podcast, Malflora Podcast, which is a series of pláticas (community conversations) with Latina/e lesbian activists, writers, artists, and scholars. Malflora Podcast is published by Malflora Collective, a community project dedicated to preserving the lives and legacies of Latina/e lesbians. Dr. Solomon first conceptualized Malflora Collective as a 2024 Mellon Publicly-Engaged Humanities Summer Fellow. Since then, the project has grown to include a team of nine members, including Communication Studies/Latin American and Border Studies double major Mia Santoscoy ’26, who is currently serving as Dr. Solomon’s Research Assistant. In Episode 1 of Malflora Podcast, members from Malflora Collective introduce themselves and their work memorializing Latina/e lesbian history and culture. Listen here or on all major streaming platforms.

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Meagan Solomon

Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies

Expertise

Latina Lesbian Literature, Chicana Feminist Literature, Women of Color Feminisms, Queer and Lesbian Studies, Queer of Color Critique, Decolonial Feminist Theories

Dr. Meagan Solomon is a Chicana Jewish lesbian scholar, educator, and Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies at Southwestern University. She holds a PhD in English with graduate certificates in Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies and Women and Gender Studies. 

Dr. Solomon’s areas of specialization include Latina/e feminist and lesbian literature, women of color feminisms, and intersectional queer studies. More specifically, her research investigates subversive sites of queer intimacy and feminist resistance in Latina/e lesbian literature and performance. You can read her work 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, and more.

As an educator, Dr. Solomon’s pedagogy is guided by women of color feminisms, decolonial and abolitionist feminist theories, and queer of color critique. She teaches core courses in feminist studies as well as interdisciplinary courses that focus on her areas of expertise, including Latina Lesbian Literature and Radical Women of Color.

Beyond her professional roles, she is a cat mom of two, a lover of art and astrology, and a founding member of Malflora Collective, a community project dedicated to preserving the lives and legacies of Latina/e lesbians through the publication of a magazine, podcast, and digital archive.

  • Biography

    Dr. Meagan Solomon is a Chicana Jewish lesbian scholar, educator, and Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies at Southwestern University. She holds a PhD in English with graduate certificates in Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies and Women and Gender Studies. 

    Dr. Solomon’s areas of specialization include Latina/e feminist and lesbian literature, women of color feminisms, and intersectional queer studies. More specifically, her research investigates subversive sites of queer intimacy and feminist resistance in Latina/e lesbian literature and performance. You can read her work 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, and more.

    As an educator, Dr. Solomon’s pedagogy is guided by women of color feminisms, decolonial and abolitionist feminist theories, and queer of color critique. She teaches core courses in feminist studies as well as interdisciplinary courses that focus on her areas of expertise, including Latina Lesbian Literature and Radical Women of Color.

    Beyond her professional roles, she is a cat mom of two, a lover of art and astrology, and a founding member of Malflora Collective, a community project dedicated to preserving the lives and legacies of Latina/e lesbians through the publication of a magazine, podcast, and digital archive.

  • Publications

    Peer-Reviewed 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, 2023, pp. 1-14, doi: 10.1080/10894160.2023.2231706.

    Solomon, Meagan. “Ana Castillo: A Multi-Genre Author.” Chicana Portraits: Critical Biographies of Twelve Chicana Writers, edited by Norma E. Cantú, University of Arizona Press, 2023, pp. 245-264.

    Solomon, Meagan. “Homointimate Friendship and Queer Possibility in Ana Castillo’s The Mixquiahuala Letters.” Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social, vol. 21, no. 2, 2022, pp. 30-57.

    Book Reviews and Educational Resources

     Solomon, Meagan. “Ana Castillo.” Latino Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students, edited by Christina Soto van der Plas and Lacie Rae Buckwalter Cunningham, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023, pp. 57-59.

    Solomon, Meagan. “Gasca-Valenciano, Pauline.” Handbook of Tejano History, published by the Texas State Historical Association, 2021, www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/gasca-valenciano-pauline.

    Solomon, Meagan. “Gender and Chicanidad Beyond Borders.” Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social, vol. 19, no. 2, 2020, pp. 174-177.

  • Presentations

    Conference Presentations

     Solomon, Meagan. “Somos Lesbianas: Chicana Lesbian Place-Making and Place-Taking en Comunidad.” El Mundo Zurdo Conference. 2024. San Antonio, TX.

    Solomon, Meagan. “The Pleasures and Intimacies of Jotería Spacemaking Within and Beyond the University.” The Association for Jotería Arts, Activism, and Scholarship Conference. 2024. Los Angeles, CA.

    Solomon, Meagan. “Community Knowledges and Solidarity Work as Public Scholarship and Collective Healing.” American Studies Association Conference. 2023. Montreal, QC.

    Solomon, Meagan. “Reflections on Latina Lesbian Feminism from This Bridge to the Digital Dyke Age.” Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS) Summer Institute. 2023. Davis, CA.

    Solomon, Meagan. “‘All About Love’ in Chicana Lesbian Literature.” National Women’s Studies Association Conference. 2022. Minneapolis, MN.

    Solomon, Meagan. “Queer Intimacy and Ethno-Racial Kinship in Terri de la Peña’s Margins and Latin Satins.” American Literature Association Conference. 2022. Chicago, IL.

    Solomon, Meagan. “‘May we do work that matters’: A Call for Abolitionist Scholar-Teachers.” Society for the Study of American Women Writers Triennial Conference. 2021. Virtual.

    Solomon, Meagan. “Down with the (Cis)tem: Envisioning Transfeminist Solidarity in the Twenty-First Century and Beyond.” National Women’s Studies Association Conference. 2019. San Francisco, CA.

    Solomon, Meagan. “Homoromantic Resistance: Decolonizing the Borders of Friendship in The Mixquiahuala Letters.” Society for the Study of American Women Writers Triennial Conference. 2018. Denver, CO.

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