Jennifer Travis

I am a professor of English at St. John’s University in New York City, where I specialize in U.S. Literature and Culture, Women’s Literature, Cross-disciplinary Approaches to Literary Study, Digital Pedagogy, and Digital Humanities.

I am the author and editor of five books: Danger and Vulnerability in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Crash and Burn; Wounded Hearts: Masculinity, Law, and Literature in American Culture; and the co-editor of Gender in American Literature and Culture (with Jean M. Lutes); Teaching with Digital Humanities: Tools and Methods for Nineteenth-Century American Literature (with Jessica DeSpain), and Boys Don’t Cry: Rethinking Masculinity and Emotion in the U.S (with Milette Shamir). I have published articles in such journals as American Literary History, Modern Fiction Studies, Studies in American Naturalism, Arizona Quarterly, Legacy, and Women’s Studies. Currently, I am writing a memoir about my father, a Wall Street executive, who was also a compulsive gambler.