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 feminist scholar, educator, and writer whose work is guided by her lived experiences as a Chicana Jewish lesbian. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies at Southwestern University, where her courses contribute to English, Latin American and Border Studies, and Race and Ethnicity Studies. She is also the Founding Director of Malflora Collective, a community project dedicated to preserving the lives and legacies of Latina/e lesbians. 

Her research centers on queer intimacy, feminist resistance, and decolonial worldmaking in Latina/e feminist and lesbian literature. 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.

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 edited by Norma E. Cantú, and more. 

  • Biography

    Dr. Meagan Solomon is a feminist scholar, educator, and writer whose work is guided by her lived experiences as a Chicana Jewish lesbian. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies at Southwestern University, where her courses contribute to English, Latin American and Border Studies, and Race and Ethnicity Studies. She is also the Founding Director of Malflora Collective, a community project dedicated to preserving the lives and legacies of Latina/e lesbians. 

    Her research centers on queer intimacy, feminist resistance, and decolonial worldmaking in Latina/e feminist and lesbian literature. 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.

    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 edited by Norma E. Cantú, and more. 

  • 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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