Margaret Galvan’s Comics in Movement will examine how LGBTQ cartoonists formed community through comics in the 1980s and ’90s, documenting their lives, subcultures, and desires and turning comics into a form of advocacy in the face of their imperiled civil liberties.

Margaret Galvan is assistant professor of Visual Rhetoric in the Department of English at the University of Florida. Her research examines how visual culture operates within feminist and queer social movements. She is the author of In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s (University of Minnesota Press, 2023). Her writing has appeared in publications including American Literature, Archive Journal, Australian Feminist Studies, ImageTexT, iNKS, Journal of Lesbian Studies, and WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly.