Department of English

 

Karen Libby is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Florida. Her fields of study include American literature and culture, visual rhetoric and multimodality, and popular culture. Karen’s research project explores mid-to-late-20th-century alternative, community, and self-publishing tactics. The project traces how different media forms during this era responded to publishing barriers to develop women’s and queer community identities. Karen’s teaching experience includes general education and upper-division literature, composition, and professional communication courses. Karen has also developed and taught public workshops with the local organizations including We Rock Gainesville, the Sequential Artist’s Workshop, and the UF Harn Museum of Art.