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Margaret Galvan is an Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Student Teaching & General Education at the University of Florida’s Department of Gender, Sexualities, and Women’s Studies. Her research focuses on visual culture within feminist and queer social movements of the 1970s-1990s, particularly analyzing how marginalized groups used comics, zines, and other image-text media to theorize their identities and build communities. She is the author of *In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s* (2023), which examines the legacy of ephemeral artworks in LGBTQ+ and feminist archives.
Galvan’s work has been supported by grants and fellowships, including her 2021-2022 residency as a Distinguished Junior External Fellow at Stanford Humanities Center. Her scholarship appears in journals like *American Literature*, *Archive Journal*, and *WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly*. She serves on the Executive Committee of the International Comic Arts Forum (ICAF) and teaches courses integrating queer theory and feminist analysis with visual media.
- Key Research Themes: Archival recovery, queer comics history, feminist visual culture, grassroots activism.
- Awards: Distinguished Junior External Fellow (Stanford Humanities Center).
- Teaching: Courses on feminisms, queer theory, and digital humanities using comics/zines.
