Associate Dean
Areas of Responsibility
- Cognizant Associate Dean for
- Department of Classics
- Department of English
- Department of History
- Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
- Department of Philosophy
- Department of Religion
- Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies
- Center for Children’s Literature and Culture
- Center for Film and Media Studies
- Center for Greek Studies
- Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere
- Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies
- Center for Modern German Studies
- Center for the Study of Hindu Traditions (CHiTra)
- France-Florida Research Institute
- Institute for the Psychological Study of the Arts
- Program in Creative Writing
- Samuel Proctor Oral History Program
- University Writing Program
- William and Grace Dial Center for Speech and Communication Studies
- Humanities Initiatives
- UF QUEST
- Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Awards
Brief Biography
Trysh Travis, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies, is a cultural and literary historian whose work looks at the gendered history of medicine and popular therapeutic cultures. While working as a high school teacher, she earned an MA from the Bread Loaf School of English, followed by a PhD in American Studies from Yale University. She is the author of The Language of the Heart: Twelve-Step Recovery from Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey (UNC Press, 2009) and co-editor (with Timothy Aubry) of Rethinking Therapeutic Culture (Chicago, 2016). Her work has been supported by the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and appeared in venues such as PMLA, American Quarterly, Contemporary Drug Problems, and Raritan: A Quarterly Review. With UF colleague Joseph Spillane, she is the co-founder of the translational humanities project Points: The Joint Blog of the Alcohol & Drugs History Society and the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy, where she currently serves as Managing Editor Emerita.