Length- 39 minutes, 36 seconds
Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Trysh Travis, author of The Language of the Heart: A Cultural History of the Recovery Movement from Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey published by the University of North Carolina Press.
Trysh Travis received her BA from New York University in 1987, designing her own major in Media Studies and American Culture. She taught high school English in New York City for three years before earning an MA in English from the Breadloaf School at Middlebury College and a PhD in American Studies from Yale University.
Trysh Travis is assistant professor of women's studies at the University of Florida. Professor Travis is a literary historian of the 20th-century U.S., studying the gendered history of the book with a focus on reading communities and the publishing industry. Her book, The Language of the Heart: A Cultural History of the Recovery Movement from Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey, will be published by the University of North Carolina Press in fall 2009. Her writings on radical feminist publishing, contemporary spirituality, and popular culture have appeared in journals like Book History, American Quarterly, and Men and Masculinities as well as in publications like The Chronicle of Higher Education and Bitch magazine. Visit her website.
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