LGBTQ comics from Galvan's own collection. (Courtesy of Margaret Galvan)
Margaret Galvan Receives Stanford Humanities Center External Faculty Fellowship
MARGARET GALVAN, Assistant Professor in the Department of English, was recently awarded a Stanford Humanities Center External Faculty Fellowship for the 2021-22 academic year. Galvan will research how American LGBTQ cartoonists in the 1980s and 1990s formed community through comics.
This distinguished residential fellowship supports scholars working in the humanities and interpretive social sciences, giving them an opportunity to pursue their research while participating in the interdisciplinary residential community of the Stanford Humanities Center. Galvan is the first Stanford Humanities Center External Faculty Fellow from UF in the 40 years of the program’s history.
“I’m super thrilled about this fellowship, especially since the Bay Area is so very key in LGBTQ activist and countercultural comics histories,” Galvan said. “There are a number of relevant archival collections housed at universities, public libraries and grassroots organizations.”
Galvan’s fellowship project, Comics in Movement, will examine how American LGBTQ cartoonists in the 1980s and 1990s formed community through comics that visually represented their sexual experiences and participation in feminist and queer activist causes. Her research and teaching at UF uses archival research and digital tools to examine feminisms and queer theory through comics and other visual media.
