Corrigan's interests center on the material culture of global connections. She serves as PEM's H.A. Crosby Forbes Curator of Asian Export Art and oversees the largest, most comprehensive public collection of art made in China, Japan and India for export to other cultures.

Corrigan received a BA in Art History and Medieval Renaissance Studies from Wellesley College, an MS in Historic Preservation from the University of Pennsylvania and an MA from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture. Corrigan lectures and publishes on many aspects of Asian export art and has organized eight exhibitions drawn from PEM's notable collections.