Notable Achievements

Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies Meagan Solomon and psychology major and feminist studies minor Karla Vazquez ’26 attended the 2026 National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) Conference in San Antonio. They attended many illuminating sessions that bridged Chicanx studies, feminism, and anti-imperialist praxis, including workshops on Chicanx-Palestine solidarity and Chicana feminist zine-making.

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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 and educator whose work is guided by her lived experiences as a Chicana Jewish lesbian. She is an Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies at Southwestern University, where her courses focus on Latina lesbian literature, women of color feminisms, and queer memory work. She holds a PhD in English with graduate certificates in Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies and Women and Gender Studies from TCU.

Her research is published in WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, 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 currently at work developing an edited collection entitled Somos Lesbianas: Critical Reflections on Latina/e Lesbian Legacies and Futures, the first scholarly collection to focus on Latina/e lesbians in over twenty years.

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 everyday lives, memories, and legacies of Latina/e lesbians.

  • Biography

    Dr. Meagan Solomon is a feminist scholar and educator whose work is guided by her lived experiences as a Chicana Jewish lesbian. She is an Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies at Southwestern University, where her courses focus on Latina lesbian literature, women of color feminisms, and queer memory work. She holds a PhD in English with graduate certificates in Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies and Women and Gender Studies from TCU.

    Her research is published in WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, 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 currently at work developing an edited collection entitled Somos Lesbianas: Critical Reflections on Latina/e Lesbian Legacies and Futures, the first scholarly collection to focus on Latina/e lesbians in over twenty years.

    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 everyday lives, memories, and legacies of Latina/e lesbians.

  • Publications

    Peer-Reviewed Publications

    Solomon, Meagan. “Tejano Drag Kings: Reclaiming Space, Place, and Culture through Performance.” WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, vol. 53, no. 3 & 4, 2025, pp. 115-134. doi: 10.1353/wsq.2025.a972624.

    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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