JenniferTravis
Assistant Professor of
English
St. John's College of Arts and Sciences
Queens Campus, St. John Hall, Rm. B40-1
(718) 990-5608
travisj@stjohns.edu.
Office Hours, Spring 2006
Wednesday: 12:15 - 1:15 P.M.
Friday: 12:15 - 1:15 P.M., 3:00 - 4:00 P.M.
Education
1996 Ph.D., English and American Literature, Brandeis
University
1994 M.A., English and Women's Studies, Brandeis
University
1989 B.A., English, with General and Departmental Honors,
Vassar College
Areas of Interest
United States Literature and Culture, Law and Literature, Gender
Theory, Women's Literature, Cross-disciplinary Approaches to
Literary Study
Honors, Fellowships, and Grants
2000-1 American Association of University Women, American
Fellowship
2000 The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Research
Grant
1999 Francis Clark Wood Institute for the History of Medicine,
College of Physicians Fellowship
1999 University Faculty Summer Research Grant, Illinois State
University
1998 W.M. Keck Foundation Fellowship and Mellon Fellowship, The
Huntington Library
1998 University Research Initiative Award, Illinois State
University
1998 Distinguished College Teacher, College of Arts and
Sciences, Illinois State University
1997-8 The Newberry Library, Monticello College Foundation
Fellowship for Women (six-month tenure
1997 University Faculty Summer Research Grant, Illinois State
University
1995 Louis, Frances, and Jeffrey Sacher Grant for Summer
Research, Brandeis University
1994-5 Grant Prize for Research in Women's Studies, Brandeis
University Women's Studies Program
1994 Outstanding Essay in Women's Language and Literature,
Women's Caucus, Northeast Modern Language Association
1994-5 Mellon Fellowship, Department of English and American
Literature, Brandeis University
1994-5 University Dissertation-Year Fellowship, 1994-5, Brandeis
University
1994 Feminist Theory Colloquium Prize for Outstanding Paper in
Feminist Theory, Brandeis University
1994 Northeast Modern Language Association Summer Grant
Publications
Books
Wounded Hearts: Masculinity, Law, and Literature in American
Culture. University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
Boys Don't Cry?: Rethinking Narratives of Masculinity and
Emotion in the U.S Jennifer Travis, St. John's
University; Milette Shamir, Tel Aviv University, Editors. New York:
Columbia University Press, 2002.
Chapters
"The Law of the Heart: Emotional Injury and Its Fictions."
In Boys Don't Cry?: Rethinking Narratives of
Masculinity and Emotion in the U.S. Edited by Jennifer Travis
and Milette Shamir, Columbia University Press, 2002.
Forthcoming
Articles
"Sexual Evidence and the Scope of Injury: Willa Cather's A
Lost Lady," Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
29.1 (Winter 2000): 194-176.
"The Cost of Feeling: Emotional Injury in Henry James's The
Golden Bowl," Modern Fiction Studies 44 (4) (December
1998): 837-864.
"Pain and Recompense: The Trouble with Ethan Frome," Arizona
Quarterly 53 (3) (Fall 1997): 37-64.
"Work," Feminist Literary Theory: A Dictionary. Ed.
Beth Kowaleski-Wallace, Garland Publishing, 1996
Reviews
Book review of Kirby Farrell's, Post-traumatic Culture:
Injury and Interpretation in the Nineties. JPCS: Journal
for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society 5.1 (Spring
2000): 169-171.
"Parker's Melville," book review, The Review of Contemporary
Fiction, Dalkey Archive Press, Summer 1997
Conference Presentations
Featured Presenter, "The Soul has Bandaged Moments," New York
Americanist Seminar, New York University, Draper Center, October 6,
2001
Invited Speaker, "When Boys Do Cry." Conference: Just Feelings:
Citizenship, Justice, and The Emotions. Symposium at the Center for
21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, April
27-28, 2001.
Honoree and Speaker, "Women in the Academy," American
Association of University Women, Luncheon. Manhasset, New York,
March 22, 2001
Invited Guest Lecturer, "American Literature and Separate
Spheres," American Association of University Women, Orange, CT,
March 21, 2001.
Organizer, Chair, and Comment, "Liberationists, Keepers, and
Weepers: Men and Emotions at the Millennium," American Studies
Association Conference, October 28, 1999, Montreal, Canada.
"Aesthetics After Post-Structuralism" paper and panel discussion
with Michael Sprinker, SUNY Stonybrook) Illinois State University,
April, 1999
English Symposium Panel Presentation, "Why Literature?" Illinois
State University, November, 1998
Sigma Tau Delta (English Honor's Society) Keynote Speaker,
Illinois State, Oct. 21, 1998
Moderator, Panel: Borders of Time, Space and Culture, Border
Subjects, Oct. 8, 1998
"Economies of Feeling: Henry James and the Emergence of
Emotional Distress," Modern Language Association Conference,
Toronto, December, 1997
"Emotional Distress: Literary and Cultural Configurations of
Pain," The Newberry Library, November, 1997
Respondent, Postcolonial Feminism and Historiography, Illinois
State, Apr. 26, 1997
"Pain, Modernity, and Literary History," Gender and Modernity:
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Colloquium Series, Illinois State,
March, 1997
Respondent, Border Subjects, Illinois State, Oct. 17. 1996
"Emotional Injury and the Price of Protection in
Turn-of-the-Century-America," Modern Language Association
Conference, Chicago, December, 1995
Chair, Literary Onomastics Panel, Northeast Modern Language
Assoc. Convention, 1995
"Literary and Cultural Configurations of Pain," Third Annual
Forum of Women's Studies Scholarship (award recipient), Brandeis
University, May 1995
"Talk is Not Cheap: The Legal History of Criminal Conversation
and Willa Cather's A Lost Lady," Northeast Modern Language
Association, March, 1994
"Sexual Evidence and the Scope of Injury: Willa Cather's, A Lost
Lady," Feminist Theory Colloquium, Brandeis University, February,
1994
"The Property of Proper Names in Thomas Middleton," Northeast
Modern Language Association, March, 1993
"The Worldhood of the Word: Heidegger, Rilke, and Celan,"
Conference on Hermeneutics, Boston College, January, 1990