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Margaret Galvan (she/her) serves as Associate Professor of visual rhetoric in the Department of English at the University of Florida, where she examines how visual culture operates within feminist and queer social movements of the 1970s-1990s, recovering artists and their networks through extensive archival research.
Her academic journey culminated in a PhD in English with a film studies certificate from The Graduate Center, City University of New York, where her dissertation received the prestigious Monette Prize for the Best Dissertation in Lesbian/Gay Studies.
Galvan's research spans visual rhetoric, comics studies, and archival theory with particular focus on feminist and queer visual culture. She investigates how publishing practices shape understandings of visual media within social movements, analyzing diverse materials including comics, captioned photographs, drawings, and transparencies produced by women artists. Her work bridges literary criticism, visual studies, and social movement history to recover marginalized voices in cultural production.
Her publications reveal consistent engagement with visual representation in social movements, particularly examining how women cartoonists and activists documented their experiences through innovative image-text combinations. Galvan's scholarship demonstrates how visual culture functions as both documentation and intervention within feminist and queer communities.
- Monette Prize for Best Dissertation in Lesbian/Gay Studies
- Contributed to volume winning 2019 CSS Prize for best edited collection
- Award-winning first book In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s
Galvan has secured significant research funding including fellowships from the Stanford Humanities Center and Andy Warhol Foundation supporting her second book project Comics in Movement. She actively builds a personal collection of comics in social movements for teaching and research purposes, demonstrating commitment to preserving and making accessible materials from marginalized communities. Her grant work focuses on documenting how LGBTQ cartoonists built community networks in the 1980s-1990s that continue to support creators today.
At the University of Florida, Galvan participates in the vibrant comics studies ecosystem, contributing to initiatives like the Graduate Comics Organization and ImageTexT journal. She collaborates with local institutions including the Sequential Artists Workshop and engages with Special Collections materials such as the Suzy Covey comic book collection and Sol & Penny Davidson collection, integrating archival resources into her teaching and research on visual culture.
