About

Travis recently completed his doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania Department of English and is currently a postdoctoral teaching fellow at The University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature, the history and theory of the novel, the history of medicine, disability studies, body studies, and gender and sexuality studies. He is currently working on a book project drawn from his dissertation, Prophylactic Fictions: Immunity and Biosecurity, which traces the British literary and cultural history of immunity and vaccination in relation to conceptions of national health and the rise of the security state. His academic writing has been published in Journal of Homosexuality, Romantic Circles, English Language Notes, and Digital Defoe. His creative writing has appeared in The Deaf Poets Society, Wordgathering, Assaracus, Rogue Agent, Up the Staircase Quarterly, and QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology (Handtype Press, 2015).