Travis Foster
@travisfoster.bsky.social
nineteenth century american literature, queer feminism, book project on trans feminine childhood, he/him sorta
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September will mark the 200th anniversary of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s birth. To help commemorate and celebrate, the current issue of Legacy features a forum on Harper’s life and work. This week, I’ll share each of the six essays; for now, here’s the intro: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
May 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
September will mark the 200th anniversary of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s birth. To help commemorate and celebrate, the current issue of Legacy features a forum on Harper’s life and work. This week, I’ll share each of the six essays; for now, here’s the intro: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
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Just a reminder I've created a queer and trans studies feed to collate discussions, publications, news and academic jobs relevant to our field. Please like and pin it for easy access, use the 🌈🎓 emojis together to post to it, and share it with your colleagues!
April 23, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Just a reminder I've created a queer and trans studies feed to collate discussions, publications, news and academic jobs relevant to our field. Please like and pin it for easy access, use the 🌈🎓 emojis together to post to it, and share it with your colleagues!
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Don't forget the deadline to apply is approaching!
APPLY TO PRESENT>> forms.office.com/e/wCQ7W9CyaD
Applications close on 28th April 2025
#AcademicSky 🌈🎓
#Conference #OpenCall #Symposium #Opportunity
#Queer #LGBTQIA2S+ #LGBT #Trans #TransLivesMatter #Trans+ #TVCE
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Applications close on 28th April 2025
#AcademicSky 🌈🎓
#Conference #OpenCall #Symposium #Opportunity
#Queer #LGBTQIA2S+ #LGBT #Trans #TransLivesMatter #Trans+ #TVCE
April 23, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Don't forget the deadline to apply is approaching!
APPLY TO PRESENT>> forms.office.com/e/wCQ7W9CyaD
Applications close on 28th April 2025
#AcademicSky 🌈🎓
#Conference #OpenCall #Symposium #Opportunity
#Queer #LGBTQIA2S+ #LGBT #Trans #TransLivesMatter #Trans+ #TVCE
APPLY TO PRESENT>> forms.office.com/e/wCQ7W9CyaD
Applications close on 28th April 2025
#AcademicSky 🌈🎓
#Conference #OpenCall #Symposium #Opportunity
#Queer #LGBTQIA2S+ #LGBT #Trans #TransLivesMatter #Trans+ #TVCE
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Today is the day! Take a look at the CFP for the 2026 Biennial Conference of The Society of 19th-Century Americanists: UNDERGROUND
www.c19society.org/2026-confere...
The Conference website will go up at the end of April / early May, and submissions will be due Sept 5th.
www.c19society.org/2026-confere...
The Conference website will go up at the end of April / early May, and submissions will be due Sept 5th.
2026 Conference CFP | C19 Society
www.c19society.org
February 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Today is the day! Take a look at the CFP for the 2026 Biennial Conference of The Society of 19th-Century Americanists: UNDERGROUND
www.c19society.org/2026-confere...
The Conference website will go up at the end of April / early May, and submissions will be due Sept 5th.
www.c19society.org/2026-confere...
The Conference website will go up at the end of April / early May, and submissions will be due Sept 5th.
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My piece on Trump's executive orders targeting trans people is out now at N+1.
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Full-Throated Explicit Dehumanization | Paisley Currah
Perhaps because, unlike the Green New Deal, they actually exist, transgender people have been especially easy to single out and harm. Signed on the day of his inauguration, Trump’s executive order “De...
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February 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
My piece on Trump's executive orders targeting trans people is out now at N+1.
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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Call for papers! Legacy-backed panel (SSAWW 2025): "Trans Studies & the Tomboy". Send Travis your propositions!
January 21, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Call for papers! Legacy-backed panel (SSAWW 2025): "Trans Studies & the Tomboy". Send Travis your propositions!
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The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey has monitored the wellbeing of America’s high school students since 1991.
Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens.
As of this morning, it’s gone.
Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens.
As of this morning, it’s gone.
January 31, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey has monitored the wellbeing of America’s high school students since 1991.
Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens.
As of this morning, it’s gone.
Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens.
As of this morning, it’s gone.
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CFP: 2025 SSAWW Conference
“Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures: 25 Years of SSAWW”
November 6-9, 2025 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Marriott Old City. Proposals for panels, roundtables, & individual papers due February 28th, 2025. studyamericanwomenwriters.org/events/2025-...
“Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures: 25 Years of SSAWW”
November 6-9, 2025 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Marriott Old City. Proposals for panels, roundtables, & individual papers due February 28th, 2025. studyamericanwomenwriters.org/events/2025-...
2025 SSAWW Conference
CFP: 2025 SSAWW Conference
“Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures: 25 Years of SSAWW”
November 6-9, 2025 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Marriott Old
studyamericanwomenwriters.org
November 23, 2024 at 8:25 PM
CFP: 2025 SSAWW Conference
“Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures: 25 Years of SSAWW”
November 6-9, 2025 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Marriott Old City. Proposals for panels, roundtables, & individual papers due February 28th, 2025. studyamericanwomenwriters.org/events/2025-...
“Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures: 25 Years of SSAWW”
November 6-9, 2025 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Marriott Old City. Proposals for panels, roundtables, & individual papers due February 28th, 2025. studyamericanwomenwriters.org/events/2025-...
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I am looking forward to receiving your proposals! 🚶♀️🚶🏿♀️🚶🏼♀️
CFP: New Perspectives on Walking Women in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
http://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-145364
Hamburg, 28.03.2025-29.03.2025, JProf. Dr. Sandra Dinter, Bewerbungsschluss: 07.10.2024
http://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-145364
Hamburg, 28.03.2025-29.03.2025, JProf. Dr. Sandra Dinter, Bewerbungsschluss: 07.10.2024
New Perspectives on Walking Women in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
www.hsozkult.de
July 20, 2024 at 6:13 AM
I am looking forward to receiving your proposals! 🚶♀️🚶🏿♀️🚶🏼♀️
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June 12, 2024 at 3:09 PM
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Congratulations too to Madeline Zehnder, the second Rising Scholar Prize honorable mention.
Zehnder won for "William J. Wilson's Object Lesson: Reading Childhood in 'The Afric-American Picture Gallery," a paper included in the seminar titled Race and Age: Black Childhood in the Nineteenth Century.
Zehnder won for "William J. Wilson's Object Lesson: Reading Childhood in 'The Afric-American Picture Gallery," a paper included in the seminar titled Race and Age: Black Childhood in the Nineteenth Century.
June 10, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Congratulations too to Madeline Zehnder, the second Rising Scholar Prize honorable mention.
Zehnder won for "William J. Wilson's Object Lesson: Reading Childhood in 'The Afric-American Picture Gallery," a paper included in the seminar titled Race and Age: Black Childhood in the Nineteenth Century.
Zehnder won for "William J. Wilson's Object Lesson: Reading Childhood in 'The Afric-American Picture Gallery," a paper included in the seminar titled Race and Age: Black Childhood in the Nineteenth Century.
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Congratulations too to Annie Persons, the first of two Rising Scholar Prize honorable mentions.
Persons won for "Hawthorne and the (Ongoing) Age of Coal," a paper delivered as part of the panel titled Rocky Pasts and Uncertain Futures: Earth Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Persons won for "Hawthorne and the (Ongoing) Age of Coal," a paper delivered as part of the panel titled Rocky Pasts and Uncertain Futures: Earth Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature.
June 10, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Congratulations too to Annie Persons, the first of two Rising Scholar Prize honorable mentions.
Persons won for "Hawthorne and the (Ongoing) Age of Coal," a paper delivered as part of the panel titled Rocky Pasts and Uncertain Futures: Earth Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Persons won for "Hawthorne and the (Ongoing) Age of Coal," a paper delivered as part of the panel titled Rocky Pasts and Uncertain Futures: Earth Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature.
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Congratulations to Eagan Dean, winner of this year's Rising Scholar Prize for a paper delivered at the conference in Pasadena!!!
Eagan won for "Magnetism and the Strange Child: Spiritualist Prehistories of Transness in Cecil Dreeme," a paper delivered as part of the Trans Childhoods panel.
Eagan won for "Magnetism and the Strange Child: Spiritualist Prehistories of Transness in Cecil Dreeme," a paper delivered as part of the Trans Childhoods panel.
June 10, 2024 at 4:28 PM
Congratulations to Eagan Dean, winner of this year's Rising Scholar Prize for a paper delivered at the conference in Pasadena!!!
Eagan won for "Magnetism and the Strange Child: Spiritualist Prehistories of Transness in Cecil Dreeme," a paper delivered as part of the Trans Childhoods panel.
Eagan won for "Magnetism and the Strange Child: Spiritualist Prehistories of Transness in Cecil Dreeme," a paper delivered as part of the Trans Childhoods panel.
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🔔 Please share widely! A call for contributions for an edited collection _Reading the Queer Eighteenth Century_ which will be published by De Gruyter in early 2026. Submit a proposal or pass on to interested scholars! #Skystorians #18C #Queer #Disability #Ecocriticism #trans #transnational
April 25, 2024 at 9:14 AM
🔔 Please share widely! A call for contributions for an edited collection _Reading the Queer Eighteenth Century_ which will be published by De Gruyter in early 2026. Submit a proposal or pass on to interested scholars! #Skystorians #18C #Queer #Disability #Ecocriticism #trans #transnational
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Happy mail day to me! Been waiting for this one
April 15, 2024 at 10:45 PM
Happy mail day to me! Been waiting for this one
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New issue of History of the Present on Reproductive Racial Capitalism, co-edited by Jennifer Morgan and Alys Eve Weinbaum - will be available online soon!
April 10, 2024 at 4:44 PM
New issue of History of the Present on Reproductive Racial Capitalism, co-edited by Jennifer Morgan and Alys Eve Weinbaum - will be available online soon!
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congrats to Dionte Harris, winner of the GLQ/MLA's "Crompton-Noll Prize for Best LGBTQ Studies Article" for "The Smear: Vibrational Flesh and the Calculus of Black Queer Becoming in Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight" — read it here, free for three months: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
April 2, 2024 at 7:06 PM
congrats to Dionte Harris, winner of the GLQ/MLA's "Crompton-Noll Prize for Best LGBTQ Studies Article" for "The Smear: Vibrational Flesh and the Calculus of Black Queer Becoming in Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight" — read it here, free for three months: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
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My new essay is now out from American Literature!
“Beyond Railroads and Internment”? Japanese American Wartime Incarceration Literature and the Foundations of Asian American Literary Studies @dukepress.bsky.social
read.dukeupress.edu/american-lit...
“Beyond Railroads and Internment”? Japanese American Wartime Incarceration Literature and the Foundations of Asian American Literary Studies @dukepress.bsky.social
read.dukeupress.edu/american-lit...
April 2, 2024 at 2:13 AM
My new essay is now out from American Literature!
“Beyond Railroads and Internment”? Japanese American Wartime Incarceration Literature and the Foundations of Asian American Literary Studies @dukepress.bsky.social
read.dukeupress.edu/american-lit...
“Beyond Railroads and Internment”? Japanese American Wartime Incarceration Literature and the Foundations of Asian American Literary Studies @dukepress.bsky.social
read.dukeupress.edu/american-lit...
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Situation Critical is now published! Many, many thanks to
@lizault.bsky.social for all of the terrific editorial work and support. Get it from Duke and use the discount code E24CVTCH for 30% off
www.dukeupress.edu/situation-cr...
@lizault.bsky.social for all of the terrific editorial work and support. Get it from Duke and use the discount code E24CVTCH for 30% off
www.dukeupress.edu/situation-cr...
March 29, 2024 at 10:18 PM
Situation Critical is now published! Many, many thanks to
@lizault.bsky.social for all of the terrific editorial work and support. Get it from Duke and use the discount code E24CVTCH for 30% off
www.dukeupress.edu/situation-cr...
@lizault.bsky.social for all of the terrific editorial work and support. Get it from Duke and use the discount code E24CVTCH for 30% off
www.dukeupress.edu/situation-cr...
Syllabus question: short stories, poems, shortish novels, and/or essays about addiction and recovery? Any period.
(Most of the course’s students will be in recovery.)
Thank you!
(Most of the course’s students will be in recovery.)
Thank you!
March 23, 2024 at 9:36 PM
Syllabus question: short stories, poems, shortish novels, and/or essays about addiction and recovery? Any period.
(Most of the course’s students will be in recovery.)
Thank you!
(Most of the course’s students will be in recovery.)
Thank you!
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The contributors to "Feminism against Cisness," edited by Emma Heaney, showcase the future of feminist historical, theoretical, and political thought freed from the conceptual strictures of cisness. Read the introduction for free now!
www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMa...
www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMa...
February 29, 2024 at 6:11 PM
The contributors to "Feminism against Cisness," edited by Emma Heaney, showcase the future of feminist historical, theoretical, and political thought freed from the conceptual strictures of cisness. Read the introduction for free now!
www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMa...
www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMa...
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CFP! We couldn't have an MLA conference in New Orleans without a Kate Chopin panel now, could we? Of course not. Send me abstracts! (E-address provided in the call.)
Call for Papers: Kate Chopin's Louisiana (2025 MLA Annual Convention)
mla.confex.com
February 28, 2024 at 7:53 PM
CFP! We couldn't have an MLA conference in New Orleans without a Kate Chopin panel now, could we? Of course not. Send me abstracts! (E-address provided in the call.)
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I'm thrilled to be getting together with Mel Chen for a conversation in the Intellectual Publics series next week! Tuesday, March 5 at 6:30 PM ET. Register at gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/webinar/regi....
February 27, 2024 at 7:59 PM
I'm thrilled to be getting together with Mel Chen for a conversation in the Intellectual Publics series next week! Tuesday, March 5 at 6:30 PM ET. Register at gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/webinar/regi....
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FWIW when I'm out of my current contracts I will be refusing further work for Routledge as well because of this (same issues) www.routledge.com/Sex-and-Gend...
February 26, 2024 at 10:50 AM
FWIW when I'm out of my current contracts I will be refusing further work for Routledge as well because of this (same issues) www.routledge.com/Sex-and-Gend...