about:
Kristen Galvin teaches courses in visual culture, gender and sexuality, digital culture and theory, and modern and contemporary art at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Concentrating on post-1960s visual culture in the United States and Great Britain, her research focuses on television, popular music, queer theory, performance, and nightlife, with publications in the Journal of Popular Music Studies, Critical Studies in Men’s Fashion, and Leonardo Electronic Almanac. She received her PhD in Visual Studies from the University of California, Irvine where she completed her dissertation, “The Art of Parties: Downtown New York Cultural Scenes, 1978–1983.” Her current writing projects examine the cultural heyday of Downtown New York; cultural nostalgia and the decline of youth subcultures in the 21st century; and the new landscape of popular music-themed programming on television.
(Image above is from Pornoscope, Galvin, 2008, single-channel color video projection with sound, 7 min.)