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Dr. Charles Travis

Visiting Research Fellow (History)

 ctravis@tcd.ie

 


Biography

Dr. Charles Travis was conferred a PhD in Geography from Trinity College Dublin in 2006. He is currently a Research Fellow with Trinity Center for Environmental Humanities in the School of Histories and Humanities and Assistant Professor of Geography & GIS at the University of Texas, Arlington. He was awarded an MA in Geography & Planning (University of Toledo, 1999), an MA in Mass Communication (Bowling Green State University, 1991) and a BA in Psychology (University of Toledo, 1989). He was the recipient of a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Digital Humanities (TCD, 2008-2010) a Broad Curriculum Scholarship (TCD, 2005-2006) and an MA Tuitionship in Geography (Toledo, 1997-1998).

Research Projects

 NRT-HDR: Changing towards Overarching Convergence in Training, Apprenticeship and Workforce Development through Data-enabled Field Research in Native American Soils
 Twilight of the Cowboy God
 Covid-19 Working Group for Public Health and Social Sciences
 STEAM (STEM+Arts)
 Faculty Fellowship on Sustainability in the Curriculum

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Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details Date From Date To
Association of American Geographers 1997 Present
American Conference of Irish Studies 2012 Present
Charles Travis, Environment as a Weapon: Histories, Geographies, Literatures, Switzerland, Springer Nature, 2023, 685pp, Book, APPROVED
Translating Topographies: The salience of Brian Friel's linguistic approach to landscape and toponymy regarding Ireland in, editor(s)Gerry O'Reilly , Place Naming, Identities and Geography: Critical Perspectives in a Globalizing and Standardizing World , Switzerland, Springer, 2023, pp30 , [Charles Travis ], Book Chapter, ACCEPTED
Environmental Hazards as Weapons: Histories, Geographies, Representations in, editor(s)Orlando De Pietro and Francesco De Pascale , Disaster Resilience and Human Settlements: Emerging Perspectives in the Anthropocene, Switzerland, Springer Nature, 2023, pp30 , [Charles Travis], Book Chapter, ACCEPTED
Charles Travis, Deborah Dixon, Luke Bergmann, Robert Legg, Arlene Crampsie, Routledge Handbook of the Digital Environmental Humanities, 1st, London, Routledge, 2022, 586pp, Book, IN_PRESS  URL
New Machines in the Garden: The Digital Environmental Humanities in, editor(s)Charles Travis, Deborah Dixon, Luke Bergmann, Robert Legg, Arlene Crampsie, , Routledge Handbook of the Digital Environmental Humanities, London, Routledge, 2022, pp25 , [Charles Travis], Book Chapter, IN_PRESS  URL
Cowboys, Cod, Climate and Conflict: Navigations in the Digital Environmental Humanities in, editor(s)Charles Travis, Deborah Dixon, Luke Bergmann, Robert Legg, Arlene Crampsie , Routledge Handbook of the Digital Environmental Humanities, , London, Routledge, 2022, pp30 , [Charles Travis, Poul Holm, Francis Ludlow, Conor Kostick, Rhonda McGovern, John Nicholls], Book Chapter, IN_PRESS  URL
Representational Issues in Deep Mapping: Peeling the "poetic and positivistic" from the Western Geosophical Onion in, editor(s)David Bodenhamer, John Corrigan, and Trevor Harris, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press , Making Deep Maps: Foundations, Approaches, and Methods, London, Routledge Press, 2022, pp65 - 77, [Charles Travis], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
The COVID-19 Testimonies Map: Representing Italian 'Pandemic Space' perceptions with Neogeography Technologies in, editor(s)Charles Travis, Deborah Dixon, Luke Bergmann, Robert Legg, Arlene Crampsie, , Routledge Handbook of the Digital Environmental Humanities. , London, Routledge, 2022, pp20 , [Charles Travis, Francesco De Pascale], Book Chapter, IN_PRESS  URL
Charles Travis, Maritime History Navigations in the Digital Environmental Humanities, Oceans Past IX Conference., University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA , June 21-25 2022, edited by Ben Fitzhugh and Ruth Thurstan , 2022, pp20 , Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Charles Travis and Vittorio Valentino (Eds.), Narratives in the Anthropocene Era , Italy, Geographies of the Anthropocene, IL Silencio Edizione , 2021, 1 - 320pp, Book, PUBLISHED  URL
  

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Charles Travis, 'Twilight of the Cowboy God: Larry McMurtry's Literary Geography', 2021, -, Notes: [https://blog.uta.edu/travisc/research/larry-mcmurtrys-literary-geography/], Digital research resource production, PUBLISHED
Charles Travis, Digital Humanities and GIS, First Year Seminar , University of Texas, Arlington, 1 October, 2019, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas Arlington, 1 - 8pp, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED

  

Awards and Honours

Award Date
Master's Level Student Paper Award: Literature, Identity and Sense of Place in 1930s 'Free-State' Ireland, Association of American Geographers, Cultural Geography Specialty Group 2002

Research Interests

Description Of Research Interests

The digital and environmental humanities, the development of Humanities Geographical Information Systems (GIS) methodologies and applications, and the literary, historical, cultural and environmental geographies of early twentieth century Ireland.