Corinne Goria, MFA, JD

Teaching Professor, English

Corinne Goria has taught International Law and Human Rights in the Political Science at the University of San Diego, and in 2026 she joined the English Department at University of San Diego, bringing her multidisciplinary expertise to the Writing Program. 

Corinne Goria received her BA in International Conflict and Development from UC Berkeley, and her law degree from UC Law San Francisco, while concurrently completing her M.A. in English and M.F.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University.  She practiced immigration law for a decade, and combined her human rights law expertise with her creative writing background to create Invisible Hands: Voices from the Global Economy, a collection of oral histories highlighting labor and human rights struggles in the global economy.  
 
Invisible Hands: Voices from the Global Economy was selected as part of The Best American Nonrequired Reading of 2015, and has been featured in Mother Jones, The Huffington Post, Yes Magazine, and Truthout. Lauded as "powerful and revealing testimony to the injustices of manual labor, infused with inspiration for global change" (Kirkus Reviews), Invisible Hands has been taught at colleges and universities across the country, including UC Santa Cruz, University of Washington, Haverford College and Cornell Law School. 

Corinne Goria is also an Assistant Editor of Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives (McSweeney's 2008), a collection of oral histories from undocumented immigrants in the United States, edited by Peter Orner and featured in NPR. 
 
She is the author of FromthenonFire.com, a digital piece exploring family stories from Lebanon. FromthenonFire.com was the subject of the Associated Writers’ and Publishers’ (AWP) Conference lecture,“Emerging Digital Genres: A Relational Investigation'', and dissertations from students at Enssib in France and Oxford University.  Goria has also been a contributor to Electric Literature, Poetry International: Poets without Borders, and contributor to The Silent History, a site-specific novel written and designed for digital interaction, featured in Wired, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.

Office Hours

• FYW 150