Maria Corrigan

Dr. Maria Corrigan's scholarship lies at the intersections of Film History, Soviet Visual Cultures, Feminist Media Histories, Comedy History, and Global and Transnational Studies. She is the author of Monuments Askew: An Elliptical History of the Factory of the Eccentric Actor (Rutgers UP, 2025), and is currently writing her second book Next of Kin: The Cultural Work of the Widow, which explores the hidden family labor that preserves and circulates our film and media histories. 

Recently, she has contributed chapters to Media Travels: Toward an Atlas of Global Media (Amherst College Press, 2025) and Stretching the Archives: Toward a Global Women's Film Heritage (Archive Books, 2025).

Beyond this, her work has been published in Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, Television and New Media, and the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.

At Emerson, she teaches courses in Media Studies and Comedy. She is also the co-director of Emerson's Global Pathway program to London (From Shakespeare to Stand-up)