World Languages & International Studies
Megan DeVirgilis, Ph.D.
Office: Holmes Hall 311-A
Phone: (443) 885-1979
megan.devirgilis@morgan.edu
Ph.D. in Spanish (Temple University)
M.A. in Spanish (Temple University)
B.A. in Spanish, Minor in Anthropology (Temple University)
I am the Program Coordinator of World Languages and an Associate Professor of Spanish. I am also the Fulbright Program Director for Morgan State.
Teaching and Research Interests
My teaching interests include all levels of Spanish language, Latin American cultural production and civilizations, and translation. In my advanced Spanish translation course, students build towards a service-learning project that supports asylum seekers.
My research centers on the relationship between ideology and cultural production, with a special focus on gothic strategies in literature and film. My recent book, The Female Vampire in Hispanic Literature: A Critical Anthology of Turn of the 20th Century Gothic-Inspired Tales (University of Wales Press, 2024) was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, as was my most recent article, "Gothic Foundations: The Civilizing and Miscegenation Projects of Juan José Nieto Gil's Colombian Nation-Building Novels."
SPAN 101 Elementary Spanish I
SPAN 102 Elementary Spanish II
SPAN 203 Intermediate Spanish I
SPAN 204 Intermediate Spanish II
SPAN 420 Translating & Interpreting Spanish I
Selected Publications
Women’s Agency and the Gothic in Spain and the Americas. Co-edited with Sandra García Gutiérrez. Manchester University Press, 2026
"Gothic Foundations: The Civilizing and Miscegenation Projects of Juan José Nieto Gil's Colombian Nation-Building Novels." Latin American Literary Review 53.106 (2026): 60-70.
The Female Vampire in Hispanic Fiction: A Critical Anthology of Turn-of-the-Twentieth Century Gothic-Inspired Tales. University of Wales Press, 2024.
“Tensiones ideológicas, sociales y económicas en ‘Vampiro’: relato gótico de Emilia Pardo Bazán.” Entropía: Revista de terror en el arte español e hispanoamericano 3 (2022): 25-41. https://revista-entropia.com/
"O Father, Where Art Thou? Grief and Cannibal Culture in Somos lo que hay (2010)." Grief in Contemporary Horror Cinema: Screening Loss. Lexington Books, 2022. 107–26.
"Hearth and Home and Horror: Gothic Trappings in Early Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature." Gothic Studies 23.2 (2021): 201-216.
"Lugones and the Woman Question: Reconsidering the Status Quo and Reimagining the Femme Fatale in His Early Works." Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 96.3 (2019): 307-321.
Translation. "After the End of History: Horror Cinema in Neoliberal Spain (2002-2013)" by Víctor Pueyo. Tracing the Borders of Spanish Horror: Essays on Contemporary Spanish Horror and Television. Routledge, 2017. 141-160
"The Sublime as a Response to Terror: A Study of Empiricism and Transcendence in Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer's 'El monte de las ánimas'." Entrehojas: Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 2.1/6 (2012): 1-13.
Contact Information
Holmes Hall 311
Morgan State University
1700 E. Cold Spring Ln.
Baltimore, MD 21251
P: (443) 885-3094
Contact Information
Holmes Hall 311
Morgan State University
1700 E. Cold Spring Ln.
Baltimore, MD 21251
P: (443) 885-3094