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In the book El Salvador at a Crossroads, Corrigan tells the stories of not only his experiences, but also the lives of people affected by the country’s long civil war and its aftermath.
El Salvador’s war lasted almost 13 years, and as many as 90,000 people died or were missing and presumed dead as a result.
Corrigan, a professor emeritus at Sacred Heart University, first traveled to El Salvador in 1992 after the war ended. A writing and communications instructor at the time, Corrigan also traveled to El Salvador in 1993 and 1996.
“When we went down, we were told that our charge was to listen to the people and to be open to what they had to say,” Corrigan said in a press release.
“But these were people traumatized by the war, and they were terrified of talking. They could not tell their stories, because if they did, they would disappear; they would be killed.”
Corrigan taught at Sacred Heart University for 33 years before retiring in 2000. He runs a writing workshop at the Merton Family Center in Bridgeport and does other community outreach work.
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