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Trysh Travis,

Undergraduate Coordinator

Personal Website

E-mail:ttravis@wst.ufl.edu

Key Research Areas

20th-century American literary and cultural history;
history of the book; media and cultural studies.

Biography

Trysh Travis received her BA from New York University in 1987, designing her own major in Media Studies and American Culture. She taught high school English in New York City for three years before earning an MA in English from the Breadloaf School of English at Middlebury College and a PhD in American Studies from Yale University. She taught English and American Studies at Trinity College, Hartford and at Southern Methodist University in Dallas before coming to UF in 2004.

Professor Travis is a literary historian of the 20th-century U.S., studying the gendered history of the book, with a focus on reading communities and the publishing industry. With funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, she is currently completing a book on contemporary reading and self-help culture. Her articles have appeared in journals like Book History, American Literary History, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Undergraduation Coordinator Information

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