Travis Landry joined Kenyon College in 2008 after earning a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (with degree certification in Theory and Criticism) at the University of Washington. His interdisciplinary work explores the reciprocity between literature and science, and he has a forthcoming book entitled Subversive Seduction: Darwin, Sexual Selection, and the Spanish Novel (University of Washington Press, 2013.) Related research interests include gender studies, realism, world literature, and literary history. His latest project centers on the legacy of Islam in Spanish literature since the Enlightenment. In 1997, he received a B.A. with Honors in Comparative Literature from Brown University and, in the four years following, taught Spanish at a secondary school in Houston, Texas. He is trained in multiple national traditions and periods, as well as second-language acquisition, and teaches both literature and languages courses.

Education

Ph.D. University of Washington
B.A. Brown University

Selected Publications

Books

The Legacy of Islam in Spanish Literature since the Enlightenment [Manuscript in Preparation]

Subversive Seduction: Darwin, Sexual Selection, and the Spanish Novel. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012. [Forthcoming, in collaboration with the Modern Language Initiative and published in the UWP McLellan Endowed Series]

Book Chapters

"Darwin, Sexual Selection, and the Spanish Novel in the Late Nineteenth Century." Interdisciplinary Essays on Darwinism in Hispanic Literature and Film: The Intersection of Science and the Humanities. Ed. Jerry Hoeg and Kevin Larsen. New York: Mellen, 2009. 77-99.

Articles

"Exchange in and beyond the Cartas marruecas of José Cadalso." Modern Language Notes 127 (March 2012): 248-264.

"The Moral Sense of Suitors and Selectors in Jacinto Octavio Picón." Ometeca 12 (2008): 137-151.

Reviews

Rev. of Marginal Subjects: Gender and Deviance in Fin-de-Siècle Spain, Akiko Tsuchiya. Bulletin of Spanish Studies. [Forthcoming]

Rev. of Alejandro Sawa: luces de bohemia, Amelina Correa Ramón. Hispania 94.2 (2011): 367-68.

"La verdad de la ensayística de Gregorio Marañón." Rev. of Y no con el lenguaje preciso de la ciencia, Dagmar Vandebosch. Confluencia 25.2 (Spring 2010): 182-84.

"The Taming of The Literary Animal." Rev. of The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative, ed. Jonathan Gottschall and David Sloan Wilson. Evolutionary Psychology 4 (2006): 49-56. 16 April 2006.

Courses Taught

SPAN 111Y-112 (AU-SP 2011-12): Intensive Introductory Spanish

SPAN 213Y-214 (AU-SP 2008-09 / SP 2010): Conversation and Composition

SPAN 321 (AU 2010): Advanced Grammar, Conversation, and Composition

SPAN 322 (SP 2010): Advanced Grammar, Conversation, and Composition

SPAN 324 (AU 2008, AU 2010): Introduction to Spanish Literature

SPAN 347 (SP 2009, AU 2011): The Nineteenth-Century Spanish Novel

SPAN 391 (SP 2010): Spanish Romanticism

SPAN 392 (SP 2012): The Legacy of Islam in Spanish Literature

INDS 333 (AU 2010): Reading World Literature