Dr Anna Corrigan

Dr Anna Corrigan earned her BA in Comparative Literature from Cornell University, graduating summa cum laude in 2014. Her interest in the cultural history of the Southern Cone developed during periods of research and residence in Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and Santiago between 2008 and 2013. After completing her undergraduate studies, she pursued an Erasmus Mundus Crossways in Cultural Narratives Master's degree, funded by the European Commission's Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency. During this programme, she studied at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, the University of St. Andrews, and the Universidade Nova da Lisboa, completing a thesis on humour and the 'Sueños' photomontages created by Grete Stern in Buenos Aires from 1948 to 1952.

Between 2016 and 2019, Dr Corrigan worked as a freelance editor and indexer for publications by Oxford University Press, Columbia University Press, Routledge, and Intellect. She began her PhD in 2019 at the University of Cambridge as a Gates Cambridge scholar. During her doctoral studies, she taught courses at the Centre of Latin American Studies, the Spanish Department, and the History of Art. Her research focuses on art criticism, theory, modernity, and the intersection of politics and visual culture in the recent histories of Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. Additionally, her teaching and research interests include Latin American conceptual art, twentieth-century literature and poetry, queer and feminist cultural histories, and translation.

Research Interests

• Art and politics
• Memory studies
• Networks
• Performance
• Assemblage

Qualifications

• PhD, University of Cambridge (2024)
• MA, University of St. Andrews (2016)
• BA, Cornell University (2014)

Selected Publications

Photographic Assembly in Post-Dictatorial Argentina and Uruguay. Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, vol. 31, no. 2, 2022, 201-221.

with Carlos Fonseca, A Precipitate of Collective Dreams: Piglia, Stern and Jacoby on a New Art of the Media. Revista Hispánica Moderna, 77.2, 2024, 180-199.

Constructing Recognition, Mobilizing Sentiment: Lucila Quieto's Filiación. Global Sentimentality, ed. Heike Paul. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2025 (forthcoming).

with Avani Vieira Tandon and Lauryn Anderson, Activist/Aesthetics. Refractions: A Journal of Postcolonial Cultural Criticism, no. 2, 2024.

@CollageChile y el testimonio en red. Collage Chile: Manifiestos, October 2022.

The Naked Eyeball: Notes on Emerson’s Nature. Natural in Verso, eds. José Duarte and Margarida Vale de Gato, Lisbon: Mariposa Azual, 2015 (reissue forthcoming 2025).