Travis Foster

@travisfoster.bsky.social

nineteenth century american literature, queer feminism, book project on trans feminine childhood, he/him sorta

Very excited::: THIS WEDNESDAY, Oct 28, at 6pm at the at the Mahindra Center at Harvard (Am lit seminar): Lara Langer Cohen: "Mourning, Organizing: The Work of Grief in Five Black Women's Friendship Albums.” With Charline Jao responding. 133 Barker, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge.

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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.

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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-...

2025 SSAWW Conference

CFP: 2025 SSAWW Conference “Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures: 25 Years of SSAWW” November 6-9, 2025 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Marriott Old

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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.

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.

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.