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 and educator from Texas. As an Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies at Southwestern University, she teaches interdisciplinary courses that contribute to English, Race and Ethnicity Studies, and Latin American and Border Studies. She holds a PhD in English with graduate certificates in Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies and Women and Gender Studies from TCU.
Dr. Solomon’s scholarship centers on the lives and literature of queer, lesbian, and feminist Chicana/x/Latina/x writers who resist and reimagine intersectional oppressions. As an educator, her work draws upon women of color feminisms, decolonial and abolitionist feminist theories, and queer of color critique as a compass for building a socially just world.
You can read her published and forthcoming 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, the Handbook of Tejano History, and more.