HASTAC Commons | Travis M. Foster | Activity https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/travisfoster/activity/ Activity feed for Travis M. Foster. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:42:26 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 f4d90c868d6f2083384af32c3228fba5 Travis M. Foster's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1930227/ Mon, 06 Oct 2025 14:30:36 +0000 0 44d89ce1bfe1f9c2c11a0eec82aac916 Travis M. Foster created the group Science Fiction and the Posthuman: A Six-Week Unit https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1692184/ Thu, 18 Jun 2020 16:32:45 +0000 0 d1aa2734f3c86747fe10633ebf9d94b4 Travis M. Foster deposited Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States, Introduction in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1676326/ Sat, 25 Jan 2020 16:38:06 +0000 Introduction to Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (Oxford UP, 2019).

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Full citation: Travis M. Foster, Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019).

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Full citation: Travis M. Foster, Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019).

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Full citation: Travis M. Foster, Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019).

]]> 0 63f8caea04f83697b6099fe73cfbcd34 Travis M. Foster deposited Campus Novels and the Nation of Peers in the group LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1659054/ Tue, 30 Jul 2019 16:48:09 +0000 This article covers an entire generation of American popular novels published between the Civil War and World War I: campus fictions, focusing all but exclusively on homosocial scenes of undergraduate merriment. Centering on the camaraderie of fraternal sociality, campus novels model friendship as a democratic ideal for dispensing with conflict,…[Read more]

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]]> 0 fd9109a317637982d8e3d692434e04d1 Travis M. Foster deposited Campus Novels and the Nation of Peers in the group LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1659049/ Tue, 30 Jul 2019 16:33:32 +0000 This article covers an entire generation of American popular novels published between the Civil War and World War I: campus fictions, focusing all but exclusively on homosocial scenes of undergraduate merriment. Centering on the camaraderie of fraternal sociality, campus novels model friendship as a democratic ideal for dispensing with conflict,…[Read more]

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]]> 0 d69d8a534693b9117de35fc437d07935 Travis M. Foster deposited Jewett's Natural History of Sexuality in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1658844/ Sat, 27 Jul 2019 16:33:54 +0000 In this article I ask what happens if we consider Jewett, who spent most of her adult life at the epicenter of New England intellectual culture, as a pivotal figure in the Western history of theorizing sexuality, and her 1884 novel, A Country Doctor, as a significant document in the history of theorizing sexual and gender deviation, perfectly…[Read more]

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]]> 0 caac2a856282b2ed7acad1501133ff3a Travis M. Foster deposited Jewett's Natural History of Sexuality https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1658757/ Fri, 26 Jul 2019 16:12:01 +0000 In this article I ask what happens if we consider Jewett, who spent most of her adult life at the epicenter of New England intellectual culture, as a pivotal figure in the Western history of theorizing sexuality, and her 1884 novel, A Country Doctor, as a significant document in the history of theorizing sexual and gender deviation, perfectly…[Read more]

]]> 0 250cd3b591eb43c240b013de9f40eff1 Travis M. Foster deposited Spring 2013 Graduate Seminar: Sex Before Sexology in the group TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1657661/ Mon, 15 Jul 2019 16:44:32 +0000 This class asks what sex looked and felt like before the instantiation of modern identity categories such as homosexuality or heterosexuality—before, that is, our desires became an index to our souls. To this end, we’ll examine texts by nineteenth-century American writers that represent the experiences and expressions of what we now call sex…[Read more]

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]]> 0 568a68460bba724937f0713ed1c0c672 Travis M. Foster deposited Spring 2019 Graduate Seminar Syllabus: Literature of the American Civil Wars in the group TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1657654/ Mon, 15 Jul 2019 16:28:16 +0000 The plural, wars, of this course’s title signals two competing traditions in Civil War memory and periodization:

* the Civil War as a distinct and defining event, from 1861 to 1865, that splits American history (and most English departments’ surveys of American literature) into two distinct halves; and

* the Civil War as an ongoing fea…[Read more]

]]> 0 b351cb9bc3c557b0b1321383975f9e64 Travis M. Foster deposited Spring 2019 Graduate Seminar Syllabus: Literature of the American Civil Wars in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1657653/ Mon, 15 Jul 2019 16:25:21 +0000 The plural, wars, of this course’s title signals two competing traditions in Civil War memory and periodization:

* the Civil War as a distinct and defining event, from 1861 to 1865, that splits American history (and most English departments’ surveys of American literature) into two distinct halves; and

* the Civil War as an ongoing fea…[Read more]

]]> 0 7b3ebbc217eb80d218dd50689803b780 Travis M. Foster deposited Spring 2013 Graduate Seminar: Sex Before Sexology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1657611/ Sun, 14 Jul 2019 17:07:52 +0000 This class asks what sex looked and felt like before the instantiation of modern identity categories such as homosexuality or heterosexuality—before, that is, our desires became an index to our souls. To this end, we’ll examine texts by nineteenth-century American writers that represent the experiences and expressions of what we now call sex…[Read more]

]]> 0 bf8dd98ff3ce5dfbac4e7f1f22e36ad2 Travis M. Foster deposited Spring 2019 Graduate Seminar Syllabus: Literature of the American Civil Wars https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1657610/ Sun, 14 Jul 2019 16:53:52 +0000 The plural, wars, of this course’s title signals two competing traditions in Civil War memory and periodization:

* the Civil War as a distinct and defining event, from 1861 to 1865, that splits American history (and most English departments’ surveys of American literature) into two distinct halves; and

* the Civil War as an ongoing fea…[Read more]

]]> 0 54893c3bc95c6be6edc84f97db192365 Travis M. Foster edited the doc How to Read: Regionalism and the Ladies’ Home Journal https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1657609/ Sun, 14 Jul 2019 16:44:40 +0000 0 06b3a4bc5e3577a1762e68f9d2b23a45 Travis M. Foster's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1657587/ Sun, 14 Jul 2019 12:06:19 +0000 0 f53a34ad73f1da91b4dd8d763a1f1123 Travis M. Foster created the doc How to Read: Regionalism and the Ladies' Home Journal https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1657586/ Sun, 14 Jul 2019 11:42:03 +0000 0 2078388a052c438c2ef4472bf914989d Travis M. Foster's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1631767/ Tue, 12 Feb 2019 13:46:56 +0000 0 ea544c3a10b08e2a01193f20189a3758 Travis M. Foster started the topic CFP: Stonewall at 50 (guaranteed session). MLA 2020, Seattle. in the discussion TC Sexuality Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sexuality-studies/forum/topic/cfp-stonewall-at-50-guaranteed-session-mla-2020-seattle/ Wed, 23 Jan 2019 19:07:24 +0000 Stonewall at 50: A Roundtable (guaranteed session) 

Sponsored by the Sexuality Studies Forum 

Approaches might include coalitions; activism; queer and trans of color critique; pride; shame; state violence; police brutality; mythologies; New York City; urbanism; gentrification; history; genealogies; nightlife; periodization; gay liberation; v…[Read more]

]]> 0 8dda0b8658f144adac52804a791e0c6e Travis M. Foster's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1622747/ Fri, 02 Nov 2018 10:03:45 +0000 0 b65f8fc94468c7e891f7e80c52fd0905 Travis M. Foster's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1611724/ Mon, 25 Jun 2018 18:25:30 +0000 0 4df6bb344e23b3b117fb6c1321dc5781 Travis M. Foster created the doc Matthiessen's Public Privates: Homosexual Expression and the Aesthetics of Sexual Inversion https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1608805/ Mon, 21 May 2018 14:21:19 +0000 0 38f3678b5c1dc8db46e5aa5fc0328992 Travis M. Foster created the doc Ascendent Obtuseness and Aesthetic Perception in The House of Mirth https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1608804/ Mon, 21 May 2018 14:19:42 +0000 0 9f7166816d49ee938948304c173d4857 Travis M. Foster created the doc Grotesque Sympathy: Lydia Maria Child, White Reform, and the Embodiment of Urban Space https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1608803/ Mon, 21 May 2018 14:16:35 +0000 0 97ae18010dc03e9d32d16e8e5ed9b212 Travis M. Foster created the doc Campus Novels and the Nation of Peers https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1608800/ Mon, 21 May 2018 14:13:23 +0000 0 b147b3486c95f2b40ed8a19e2c76eed5 Travis M. Foster created the doc Nineteenth-Century Queer Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1608796/ Mon, 21 May 2018 14:11:29 +0000 0 46bda8734d5c1ab03d90249068e0bc0e Travis M. Foster's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1608792/ Mon, 21 May 2018 14:03:00 +0000 0 eb172e01d2e565888af9eaa4b59ff68d Travis M. Foster created the doc Jewett's Natural History of Sexuality https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1608790/ Mon, 21 May 2018 14:00:30 +0000 0 cda13e6c12d6c6a479270fc66e62ddcd Travis M. Foster changed their profile picture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1173/ Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:17:01 +0000 0