Margaret Galvan, Assistant Professor in the Department of English, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was awarded a Stanford Humanities Center External Faculty Fellowship for academic year 2021-22. This distinguished residential fellowship supports scholars working in the humanities and interpretive social sciences to pursue their research while participating in the interdisciplinary residential community of the Stanford Humanities Center. Prof. Galvan is the first Stanford Humanities Center External Faculty Fellow from UF in the 40 years of the program’s history and she was one of 9 selected out of 300 applications!
Prof. 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. During her fellowship year, she’ll be doing a lot of archival research in university and grassroots archives in the Bay Area, a noted hub for countercultural comics production and LGBTQ activism. Her research and teaching at UF uses archival research and digital tools to examine feminisms and queer theory through comics and other visual media.
Galvan was a UF Global Fellow in 2019 where she studied how international networks of cartoonists fundraised support for HIV/AIDS activism in the late 1980s through their comics. “The support of the Global Fellows program, and everything that I learned through the experience, was an essential foundation for obtaining this fellowship.” said Galvan.
Through the Global Fellows Program, UF faculty can kick-start their international research program. A seed grant of $5,000 provides faculty an opportunity to lay the groundwork for conducting international research. Faculty can use these funds to cover expenses to travel to collect field data, to meet with international scholars, to access resources not available at UF, and to support any activity that advances research abroad. To learn more, visit the Global Fellows website.
