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Dr. Charles Travis
Visiting Research Fellow, History

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 Associate 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).

Publications and Further Research Outputs

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Maps and Epistemologies in, editor(s)John Corrigan and Andrew Gardner , Oxford Handbook of the Spatial Humanities, Oxford, 2024, [Charles Travis] Book Chapter, 2024

Powerful Geography through Historical Geography: A Case Study of Social Studies Teacher Preparation in, editor(s)Michael Solem, Richard G. Boehm and Joann Zadrozny , Powerful Geography: International Perspectives and Applications, Switzerland, Springer, 2024, [Charles Travis, Andrew Milson] Book Chapter, 2024

Charles Travis, Environment as a Weapon: Geographies, Histories, Literature, Switzerland, Springer Nature, 2024, 230pp Book, 2024

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, 2023

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, 2023

Charles Travis, Blood Meridian's Chronotopic Gates: Reading Cormac McCarthy through the Lens of a Literary-Historical GIS, 1st, London, Routledge, 2023 Book, 2023

Charles Travis, Translating Topographies: Brian Friel's approach to language, landscape, and toponymy in Ireland, American Association of Geographers, Denver, Colorado, March 2023, edited by Derek Alderman and Seth Kannarr , 2023 Conference Paper, 2023

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, 2022 TARA - Full Text URL DOI

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, 2022 DOI URL

Charles Travis, Mapping the Chain-Smasher: John G. Neihardt's A Cycle of the West (1919-1941), At the Heart of the Continent: Native Americans and Newcomers in the Upper Mississippi Region, Society for History of Discoveries, St. Louis Missouri, 29 September 2022, 2022 Conference Paper, 2022

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, 2022 URL

Charles Travis, How Nations Remember: A Narrative Approach, Review of How Nations Remember: A Narrative Approach, by James V. Wertsch , Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2022 Review, 2022

Charles Travis, The U.S. Census, 1850-1900 and F.J. Turner's Rhetorical Cartography of the Frontier West , Association of American Geographers, Virtual, 26 February 2022, 2022 Conference Paper, 2022

Charles Travis, Deborah Dixon, Luke Bergmann, Robert Legg, Arlene Crampsie, Routledge Handbook of the Digital Environmental Humanities, 1st, London, Routledge, 2022, 586pp Book, 2022 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, 2022 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, 2022 URL

Charles Travis and Vittorio Valentino (Eds.), Narratives in the Anthropocene Era , Italy, Geographies of the Anthropocene, IL Silencio Edizione , 2021, 1 - 320pp Book, 2021 URL

Charles Travis, Book Review, People, Place, and Attachment in Local Bars: An Ethnographic Study in West Baton Rouge, Louisiana. John W. McEwen. London, U.K.: Lexington Books/ Rowan & Littlefield, 2019, AAG Review of Books, 2021, p16 - 19 Review Article, 2021 URL

Charles Travis, Book Review: Guadalupe Mountains National Park: An Environmental History of the Southwest Borderlands, By Jeffrey P. Shepherd, Nevada State Historical Quarterly, 2021 Review Article, 2021

Charles Travis, The Morphology of Prometheus, Literary Geography and the Geo-ethical Project, Geosciences, 11, (8), 2021, p1 - 14 Journal Article, 2021 URL

Imaging the Apocalypse with Hanna Arendt: Apocrypha and Revelations in a Brave New World, 'Frankenstein' to the Cloud-Atlas' in, editor(s)Earl Harper and Douglas Sprecht , Imagining the Apocalypse in the Anthropocene: Politics at The End of Things., Routledge, 2021, pp93 - 108, [Charles Travis] Book Chapter, 2021 URL DOI

Travis, Charles; Ludlow, Francis; Matthews, Al; Lougheed, Kevin; Rankin, Kieran; Allaire, Bernard; Legg, Robert; Hayes, Patrick; Nicholls, John; Towns, Lydia; Holm, Poul, Inventing the Grand Banks: A Deep Chart. Humanities GIS, Cartesian, and Literary Perceptions of the North-West Atlantic Fishery ca 1500-1800, Geo: Geography and Environment, 7, (1), 2020, pe00085 Journal Article, 2020 DOI TARA - Full Text

Introduction: Historical Geography, GIScience and Textual Analysis in, editor(s)Charles Travis, Francis Ludlow, Ferenc Gyuris , Historical Geography, GIScience and Text: Mapping Landscapes of Time and Place, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2020, [Charles Travis] Book Chapter, 2020 DOI

Mapping the Irish Rath (Ringfort): Landscape Settlement Patterns in the Early Medieval Period in, editor(s)Charles Travis, Francis Ludlow, Ferenc Gyuris , Historical Geography, GIScience and Textual Analysis: Landscapes of Time and Place, New York, Springer International Publising, 2020, [Robert Legg, Francis Ludlow, Charles Travis] Book Chapter, 2020 DOI

Charles Travis, Francis Ludlow, Ferenc Gyuris, Historical Geography, GIScience and Textual Analysis: Landscapes of Time and Place, New York, Springer International Publising, 2020, 1 - 272pp Book, 2020 DOI URL

Charles Travis, Historical and Imagined GIS Borderlandscapes of the American West: Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove Tetralogy and L.A. Noirscapes,, International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, 14, (1-2), 2020, p134 - 153 Journal Article, 2020 DOI

A brother Orangeman the world over: Migration and the Geography of the Orange Order in the United States in, editor(s)Charles Travis, Francis Ludlow, Ferenc Gyuris , Historical Geography, GIScience and Text: Mapping Landscapes of Time and Place, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2020, [Cory Well, Charles Travis] Book Chapter, 2020 DOI

Charles Travis, Review of Near Abroad: Putin, the West and the Contest Over Ukraine and the Caucasus Gerard Toal. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2017, by Gerard Toal , Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2020 Review, 2020 DOI TARA - Full Text

Charles Travis, 'Inventing the Grand Banks: A Deep Chart Digital Timeline Map', NorFish, Trinity Centre for Environmental Humanities, 2020, - 15 Digital research resource production, 2020 URL

Ghost Cathedral of the Blackland Prairie: Waxahachie, Texas, Places in the Heart and the Superconducting Super Collider in, editor(s)Charles Travis, Francis Ludlow, Ferenc Gyuris , Historical Geography, GIScience and Text: Mapping Landscapes of Time and Place, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2020, [Charles Travis, Javier Reyes] Book Chapter, 2020 DOI

Digital GeoHumanities in, editor(s)Audrey Kobayashi , International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2e, Elsevier, 2020, [Charles Travis ] Book Chapter, 2020 DOI

Charles Travis, Review of Ian Kinane (2016) Theorising literary islands: The island trope in contemporary Robinsonade narratives,, by Ian Kinane (2016) Theorising literary islands: The island trope in contemporary Robinsonade narratives, , Geographical Research, 2020 Review, 2020 DOI

Charles Travis, 'GIS Cartography Map Figures, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 for Historical and Imagined GIS Borderlandscapes of the American West: Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove Tetralogy and L.A. Noirscapes,', International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, Edinburgh, Scotland, Edinburgh University Press, 2020, 134 - 153 Map, GIS map, 2020 TARA - Full Text DOI

Charles Travis, Review of Ecocriticism and Geocriticism: Overlapping Territories in Environmental and Spatial Literary Studies, by Robert T. Tally Jr., Christine M. Battista , Literary Geographies, 5, (1-2), 2019, p108-110 Review, 2019 URL

Preface, The STEAM Revolution in, editor(s)Charles Travis, Armida de la Garza , The STEAM Revolution Transdisciplinary Approaches to Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Humanities and Mathematics, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2019, pp10 , [Charles Travis, Armida de la Garza] Book Chapter, 2019 DOI URL

Charles Travis, Armida de la Garza, The STEAM Revolution: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Humanities and Mathematics,, Springer, 2019, 266pp Book, 2019 DOI URL

Charles Travis, GIScience & Geo-Data, Symposium on Data Driven Discovery, University of Texas, Arlington, 8 May, 2019, pp1 - 10 Oral Presentation, 2019 URL

Charles Travis, Coloring Inside the Lines and Outside the Box: Digital Humanities , 20th Annual International Graduate Student Conference on Transatlantic History, University of Texas, Arlington, 2019, Transatlantic Graduate Student Association, 1 - 8pp Invited Talk, 2019 URL

Historical Geography and the Geosciences, Swirzerland, Springer, [Member of Editorial Board], 2019 Editorial Board, 2019 URL

Humanities GIS Selfie & Anti-Selfie Bricolage, Urban Affect and Public Mental Hygiene: The 'SmartCities' of James Joyce and Charles Bukowski in, editor(s)Amanda du Preez , Voices from the South: Digital Arts and Humanities, Durbanville, Capetown, South Africa, AOSIS, 2019, pp31 - 61, [Charles Travis] Book Chapter, 2019 URL

Geography and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for the Historian in, editor(s)Kim Breuer, Scott Palmer , Introduction to Historical Research (HIST 3300) , Open Educational Resources, UT Arlington Library, 2019, [Charles Travis, Andy Milson] Book Chapter, 2019

Charles Travis, Poul Holm, Kevin Lougheed, Francis Ludlow, Deep Charting the Grand Banks, Assembling Benthic Power Session, Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., April 2019, 2019, pp1 - 15 Oral Presentation, 2019 URL

Spatial Humanities GIS: The City as a Literary, Historical and Cultural STEAM Lifeworld Laboratory in, editor(s)Charles Travis and Armida de la Garza , The STEAM Revolution: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Humanities and Mathematics, Springer, 2019, pp13 - 33, [Charles Travis ] Book Chapter, 2019 DOI URL

Charles Travis, Inventing the Grand Banks: A Deep Chart, South-West Division of the Association of American Geographers Meeting, Fort-Worth, TX, USA, October 2019, 2019, pp1 - 8 Oral Presentation, 2019 URL

Poul Holm; Francis Ludlow Cordula Scherer Charles Travis Bernard Allaire Cristina Brito Patrick W. Hayes Al Matthews Kieran J. Rankin Richard J. Breen Robert Legg Kevin Lougheed John Nicholls, The North Atlantic Fish Revolution, c. AD 1500, Quaternary Research, 2019, p1-15 Journal Article, 2019 DOI TARA - Full Text URL

Charles Travis, Literature, Sense of Place and Rootlessness Beyond the 98th Meridian or Mapping Don Quixote in the American West, Dept. of Geography & Anthropology Seminar Series, Louisiana State University, 4 October, 2019, 1 - 30pp Invited Talk, 2019

Charles Travis, Teaching the Geography of Slavery and Abolition with Geospatial Technologies, 54th Annual Webb Lectures, Teacher Workshop, University of Texas, Arlington, 30 March, 2019, 1 - 15pp Invited Talk, 2019 URL

Charles Travis, Historical Geography & the Geosciences: Starting a Conversation , Association of American Geographers, Washington, D.C., 6 April, 2019, pp1 - 8 Oral Presentation, 2019 URL

STEAM Approaches to Climate Change, Extreme Weather and Social-Political Conflict in, editor(s)Armida de la Garza Charles Travis , The STEAM Revolution: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Humanities and Mathematics, New York, Springer, 2019, pp33 - 65, [Francis Ludlow, Charles Travis] Book Chapter, 2019 DOI URL

Charles Travis, '. . . A mountain hid under water': Deep Charting, GIS and Cartesian Perceptions of North-West Atlantic Fisheries ca 1556-ca 1786, 2018 Webb Lectures Series: "The Digital Medieval: New Directions in Medieval History and the Digital Humanities.", University of Texas, Arlington, 4-5 April, 2018, Dr. Kathyrn Beebe, Department of History, 1 - 36pp Invited Talk, 2018 URL TARA - Full Text URL

Charles Travis, Deep Mappings: Carl Sauer, GIS and literary perceptions of the American West , Southwest Division of the Association of American Geographers Conference, Baton Rouge, LA, USA, 5 October, 2018, 1 - 15pp Invited Talk, 2018 URL

Charles Travis, Literary GIS Narrative Networks: Mapping Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove (1985), and Charles Bukowski and Walter Mosley's Los Angeles, Association of American Conference of Geographers , New Orleans, LA, USA, April 2018, 2018, pp1 - 15 Oral Presentation, 2018 URL

Charles Travis, Inventing the Grand Banks, Oceans Past VII Conference, Bremerhaven, Germany, 22-26 October 2018, 2018, pp1 - 15 Oral Presentation, 2018 URL

Geographies of the Anthropocene, Il Sileno Edizioni Associazione Scientifico - Culturale , [eds.], 2018 Editorial Board, 2018 URL

Charles Travis, Beyond the 98th Meridian: Deep Mapping the America West, Keynote, Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Pretoria, South Africa, May, 2018, 1 - 36pp Invited Talk, 2018 URL

Charles Travis, The Digital Anthropocene, Resilience: The Journal of Environmental Humanities, 5, (2), 2018, p172 - 188 Journal Article, 2018 DOI URL

Charles Travis, 'Digital Literary Atlas of Ireland, 1922-1949', 2nd, Trinity Centre for Environmental Humanities, 2017, - 1-20 Digital research resource production, 2017 URL

Charles Travis & Poul Holm, Lessons for the Anthropocene from the Recent Past: Tobacco Use, HIV/AIDS, and Social Transformation , Global and Planetary Change, 2017, p1-28 Journal Article, 2017 DOI

Charles Travis, Robert Legg, R. Regis, J. Lambert, M. Liesch, Geoarchaeological modeling of late Paleoindian site locations in the northwestern great lakes, PaleoAmerica, 3, (2), 2017, p150 - 160 Journal Article, 2017 URL DOI

Emanuela Reale, Dragana Avramov, Claire Donovan, Ramon Flecha, Poul Holm, Kubra Kanhial, Charles Larkin, Benedetto Lepori, Judith Mosoni-Fried, Esther Oliver, Emilia Primeri, Lidia Puigvert, Andrea Scharnhorst, Andràs Schubert, Marta Soler, Sàndor Soòs, Teresa Sordé, Charles Travis and René Van Horik, A review of literature on evaluating the scientific, social, and political impact of social sciences and humanities research, Research Evaluation, 2017, p1-24 Journal Article, 2017 DOI

Global and Planetary Change, 156, (2017), 1 - 176p, Poul Holm, Charles Travis, [eds.] Journal, 2017 DOI

Charles Travis, Hannah Smyth, 'Tell the Story of Irish Public History', Learn ArcGIS, Redlands, California, Esri Press, 2017, - 10 Digital research resource production, 2017 URL

Charles Travis, GeoHumanities, GIScience and Smart City Lifeworld approaches to Geography and the New Human Condition,, Global and Planetary Change, 156, 2017, p147 - 154 Journal Article, 2017 URL DOI

Poul Holm, Charles Travis, The New Human Condition and Climate Change: Humanities and Social Science Perceptions of Threat, 156, 2017, p112-114 Journal Article, 2017 DOI

Digital Practices of the Moral Imagination, Cross-Community Theatre and the Creative Transformation of Conflict in Northern Ireland in, editor(s)Alexander von Lunen and Charles Travis , Digital Arts and Humanities: Neogeography, Social Media and Big Data Integrations and Applications, Springer, 2016, pp95 - 118, [Sue Foy, Charles Travis] Book Chapter, 2016 URL DOI

Charles Travis, Alexander von Lunen, Digital Arts and Humanities: Neogeography, Social Media and Big Data Integrations and Applications, Springer, 2016, XIV - 204pp Book, 2016 URL DOI

The Digital Environmental Humanities-What Is It and Why Do We Need It? The NorFish Project and SmartCity Lifeworlds in, editor(s)Alexander von Lunen, Charles Travis , Digital Arts and Humanities: Epistemologies, Considerations and Reflections, Springer, 2016, pp187 - 204, [Charles Travis, Poul Holm] Book Chapter, 2016 URL DOI

Bloomsday's Big Data: GIS, Social Media and Literature in, editor(s)David Cooper, Christopher Donaldson, Patricia Murrieta-Flores , Literary Mapping in the Digital Age, Taylor & Francis, 2016, pp102 - 122, [Charles Travis] Book Chapter, 2016 DOI

Joycean Chronotopography: Homer, Dante, Ulysses in, editor(s)Robert Tally , The Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space, Routledge, 2016, pp323 - 336, [Charles Travis] Book Chapter, 2016 DOI URL

Preface,The Digital Arts and Humanities in, editor(s)Charles Travis, Alexander von Lunen , The Digital Arts and Humanities: Neogeography, Social Media and Big Data Integrations and Applications, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2016, ppV - IX, [Charles Travis, Alexander von Lunen] Book Chapter, 2016 URL DOI

Charles Travis, 'Figure 3.6 Speculative ballybetagh boundaries of Ireland.', Abstract Machine: Humanities GIS, United States, Esri Press, 2015, - 1 Map, GIS map, 2015 TARA - Full Text URL

Charles Travis, 'Figure 3.10 Top landowners in 1670.', Abstract Machine: Humanities GIS, United States, Esri Press, 2015, 39 - 39 Map, GIS map, 2015 URL TARA - Full Text

Charles Travis, 'Figure 3.9 Top landowners in 1641.', Abstract Machine: Humanities GIS, United States, Esri Press, 2015, - 38 Map, GIS map, 2015 URL TARA - Full Text

Poul Holm, Joni Adamson, Hsinya Huang, Lars Kirdan, Sally Kitch, Iain McCalman, James Ogude, Marisa Ronan, Dominic Scott, Kirill Ole Thompson, Charles Travis, and Kirsten Wehner, Humanities for the Environment - a Manifesto for Research and Action, Humanities, 4, (4), 2015, p977 - 992 Journal Article, 2015 URL DOI TARA - Full Text

Charles Travis, Visual Geo-Literary and Historical Analysis, Tweetflickrtubing, and James Joyce's Ulysses (1922) , Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 105, (5), 2015, p927 - 950 Journal Article, 2015 DOI TARA - Full Text

Charles Travis, 'Figure 3.11 Top Profitable Acres in 1641.', Abstract Machine: Humanities GIS, United States, Esri Press, 2015, - 40 Map, GIS map, 2015 URL

Charles Travis, 'Figure 4.1 Patrick Kavanagh's lifepaths, Inniskeen Parish, 1920-39.', Abstract Machine: Humanities GIS, United States, Esri Press, 2015, 51 - 51 Map, GIS map, 2015 URL

Charles Travis, 'Figure 3.2 ArcScene, Irish Rebellion 1641 to 1642.', Abstract Machine: Humanities GIS, United States, Esri Press, 2015, - 1 Map, GIS map, 2015 TARA - Full Text

Charles Travis, 'Figure 3.8 Top landowners, 1641 (A) and 1670 (B).', Abstract Machine: Humanities GIS, United States, Esri Press, 2015, 37 - 37 Map, GIS map, 2015 TARA - Full Text URL

Charles Travis, Paralleling Joyce's Cables: ACIS 2015's Digital Studies, Discourses, and Ecosystems (Tweeting by the Pool), Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies, 2015, p5 - 7 Journal Article, 2015 TARA - Full Text URL

Charles Travis, 'Figure 3.12 Top Profitable Acres in 1670', Abstract Machine: Humanities GIS, United States, Esri Press, 2015, 41 - 41 Map, GIS map, 2015 URL

Charles Travis, ABSTRACT MACHINE: HUMANITIES GIS, Redlands, ESRI, 2015, XI - 136pp Book, 2015 URL

Charles Travis, Acts of Perception: Samuel Beckett, time, space and the Digital Literary Atlas of Ireland, 1922-1949, International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, 9, (2), 2015, p219 - 241 Journal Article, 2015 URL DOI

Like the end of a beautiful world: eco-critical perceptions of landscape in the works of Francis Ledwidge and Lord Dunsany in, editor(s)Francis Ludlow, Arlene Crampsie, William Nolan , Meath and Society: Interdisciplinary Essays on the History of an Irish County, Dublin, Geography Publications, 2015, pp739 - 761, [Charles Travis] Book Chapter, 2015 URL TARA - Full Text

Charles Travis, 'Figure 3.3 Oliver Cromwell's seventeenth-century conquest of Ireland', Abstract Machine: Humanities GIS, United States, Esri Press, 2015, - 1 Map, GIS map, 2015 TARA - Full Text

Charles Travis, 'Figure 3.4 ArcScene topography of Cromwell's campaign in 1649-50.', Abstract Machine: Humanities GIS, United States, Esri Press, 2015, 30 - 30 Map, GIS map, 2015 URL TARA - Full Text

Charles Travis, Review of GO: On the Geographies of Gunnar Olsson, by Christian Abrahamsson, Martin Gren , Historical Geography, 42, 2014, p386-388 Review, 2014 URL TARA - Full Text

Literary Geographies, Open Journal Systems, [eds.], 2014 Editorial Board, 2014 URL

Charles Travis, Transcending the Cube: Translating GIScience Time and Space Perspectives in a Humanities GIS, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 28, (5), 2014, p1149 - 1164 Journal Article, 2014 DOI

Charles Travis, From the Ruins of Time and Space: The Psychogeographical GIS of Dublin in Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two Birds (1939) , CITY, 17, (2), 2013, p209 - 233 Journal Article, 2013 DOI

Travis, Charles, Flirting with Space: Journeys and Creativity, Social & Cultural Geography, 14, (2), 2013, p236-237 Journal Article, 2013 TARA - Full Text DOI

Travis, Charles, World views: metageographies of modernist fiction, Journal of Cultural Geography, 30, (3), 2013, p380-382 Journal Article, 2013 DOI

'History and GIS: Epistemologies, Considerations and Reflections' in, editor(s)Alexander von Lünen, Charles Travis , History and GIS: Epistemologies, Considerations and Reflections, Springer, 2012, pp179 - 200, [Charles Travis] Book Chapter, 2012 DOI

Writing Visual Histories: An Interview with David J. Staley in, editor(s)Alexander von Lunen , History and GIS: Epistemologies, Considerations and Reflections, Springer, 2012, pp145 - 152, [Charles Travis, David Staley] Book Chapter, 2012 DOI

Charles Travis, 'Map 1 .Top 20 titled landholders in 1641', Making Ireland English: The Irish Aristocracy in the seventeenth century, USA, Yale University Press, 2012, - 1 Map, GIS map, 2012

Preface in, editor(s)Charles Travis, Alexander von Lunen , History and GIS Epistemologies, Considerations and Reflections, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2012, ppV - IX, [Charles Travis, Alexander von Lunen] Book Chapter, 2012 DOI

Charles Travis, 'Map 3. Titled landholding in County Dublin in 1641', Making Ireland English: The Irish Aristocracy in the seventeenth century, United States, Yale University Press, 2012, - 1 Map, GIS map, 2012

Charles Travis, 'Map 4. Munster Landholding ', Making Ireland English: The Irish Aristocracy in the seventeenth century, United States, Yale University Press, 2012, - 1 Map, GIS map, 2012

Charles Travis, 'Map 2. Top 20 titled landholders in c. 1670', Making Ireland English: The Irish Aristocracy in the seventeenth century, United States, Yale University Press, 2012, - 1 Map, GIS map, 2012

Travis, Charles, Rethinking the Power of Maps, International Planning Studies, 17, (2), 2012, p210-213 Journal Article, 2012 DOI

Travis, Charles, Geopolitics and empire: the legacy of halford mackinder. kearns, gerry, Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 94, (2), 2012, p195-197 Journal Article, 2012 DOI

Charles Travis, Alexander von Lünen, History and GIS: Epistemologies, Considerations and Reflections, Springer, 2012, XIV - 242pp Book, 2012 DOI

Charles Travis, 'Map 5. Butler landholding in Counties Tipperary and Kilkenny, 1641', Making Ireland English: The Irish Aristocracy in the seventeenth century, United States, Yale University Press, 2012, - 1 Map, GIS map, 2012

Charles Travis, William Faulkner and the Southern Landscape, Review of William Faulkner and the Southern Landscape, by Charles S. Aiken , Journal of Cultural Geography, 28, (1), 2011, p225-232 Review, 2011 DOI

Charles Travis, Review of Environmentalism in Popular Culture: Gender, Race, Sexuality and the Politics of the Natural, by Noël Sturgeon , Human Geography: A New Radical Journal, 4, (3), 2011, p4 Review, 2011 TARA - Full Text URL

Charles Travis, Abstract Machine - Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for literary and cultural studies: 'Mapping Kavanagh', International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, 4, 2011, p17-37 Journal Article, 2011 TARA - Full Text

Charles Travis, Review Essay: Heidegger and the Question of National Socialism: Disclosure and Gestalt' Bernhard Radloff, Historical Geography, 38, 2010, p150 - 154 Review Article, 2010 TARA - Full Text URL

Charles Travis, Review of Emotional Geographies, by Joyce Davidson, Liz Bondi, Mick Smith , European Spatial Research and Policy , 17, (1), 2010, p3 Review, 2010 TARA - Full Text URL

Charles Travis, A Relay of Joy: An Artist and a Geographer Reflect Upon Cybernetic Assemblies and an Embodied Media Geography of Spätkapitalismus, Aether: The Journal of Media Geography , 6, 2010, p66 - 87 Journal Article, 2010 URL TARA - Full Text

Charles Travis, Review of Cataclysms: A History of the Twentieth Century from Europe's Edge, by Dan Diner , Historical Geography, 37, 2009, p209-212 Review, 2009 URL TARA - Full Text

Charles Travis, The 'Historical Poetics' of Kate O'Brien's Limerick: A Critical Literary Geography of Saorstát Éireann and the 1937 Bunreacht na hÉireann Plebiscite, Irish Geography, 42, (3), 2009, p323 - 341 Journal Article, 2009 DOI

Charles Travis, Literary Landscapes of Ireland: Geographies of Irish Stories, 1929-1946, Mellen Press (2009), 1st, Lewiston: NY, Mellen, 2009, 272pp Book, 2009 URL

Charles Travis, Review of The Vertigo of Late Modernity, Jock Young , Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 90, (3), 2008, p311-312 Review, 2008 URL DOI TARA - Full Text

Charles Travis, Rotting Townlands: Peadar O'Donnell, and the Politics of Representation in Saorstát na hÉireann (Irish Free State) 1929-1933, Historical Geography, 36, 2008, p203 - 224 Journal Article, 2008 URL TARA - Full Text

Travis, Charles, Postcolonial Dublin: Imperial Legacies and the Built Environment - By Andrew Kincaid, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 32, (3), 2008, p756-757 Journal Article, 2008 DOI

Charles Travis, Beyond the Cartesian Pale: Travels with Beckett, 1929-1946, Historical Geography, 36, 2008, p72 - 93 Journal Article, 2008 URL

Charles Travis, Review of American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization, by Neil Smith , Historical Geography, 35, 2007, p272-274 Review, 2007 URL

Charles Travis, Of Archaism and Ruin, Middle States Geographer , 40, 2007, p78 - 87 Journal Article, 2007 URL TARA - Full Text

Charles Travis, A Mystical Geography of Place: Lady Gregory's Coole (1931), Milieu, Journal of the NUI Maynooth Geography Society, 2007, p48 - 51 Journal Article, 2007 TARA - Full Text URL

Charles Travis, Review of Meeting-places of Transformation: Urban Identity, Spatial Representations and Local Politics in St Petersburg, Russia' Thomas Borén, by Thomas Borén , European Spatial Research and Policy , 13, (2), 2006, p204-205 Review, 2006 TARA - Full Text URL

Charles Travis, Review of Geographies of Modernism: Literatures, Cultures, Spaces, by Peter Brooker and Andrew Thacker , Social and Cultural Geography, 2, 2005, p331-338 Review, 2005 DOI

Charles Travis, Finnegans wake: Mapping a national consciousness, Atlas, 10, 2005, p83 - 92 Journal Article, 2005 URL TARA - Full Text

'Beyond the Cartesian Imagination' in, editor(s)Liam Harte, Yvonne Whelan and Patrick Crotty , Ireland: Space, Text, Time , Dublin, Liffey Press, 2005, pp10 , [Charles Travis] Book Chapter, 2005 TARA - Full Text

Charles Travis, 'Censorship and Dung,' 1930s Ireland: The Psychological Landscape, Baile, the journal of the University College Dublin Geography Society, 2004, 2004, p11 - 15 Journal Article, 2004 URL TARA - Full Text

Charles Travis, Mapping the Cartesian Asylum, Chimera, University College Cork Department of Geography Journal, 2004, p6 Journal Article, 2004

Charles Travis, Broad Curriculum Junior Freshman Seminar Tutor's Guide , Department of Geography Trinity College Dublin, 2002, 65pp Book, 2002

Charles Travis, Heart of Darkness Redux, Journal of Postgraduate Research, 2002, p1 - 18 Journal Article, 2002 TARA - Full Text

Charles Travis, Broad Curriculum Senior Freshman Tutorial Resource Folder, Department of Geography Trinity College Dublin, 2002, 65pp Book, 2002

Charles Travis, The Fifth Province: Seamus Heaney and the Reinterpretation of the Cultural Morphology of Border County Ireland , The California Geographer, 41, 2001, p15 - 32 Journal Article, 2001 URL

Charles Travis, Through the Cyclops's Eye: Seamus Heaney, Brian Friel & the Fifth Province of Ireland, Exquisite Corpse, 7, 2000, p6 Journal Article, 2000 URL

Charles Travis, Re-Territorializing Turner: The U.S. Census 1850-1900, and a Rhetorical Cartography of the American Frontier, Historical Geography Journal Article,

Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications

Charles Travis, The Digital Literary Atlas of Ireland, 1922-1948, Literary Dublin in the Digital Archive Symposium, Royal Irish Academy, 13 October 2022, 2022 Conference Paper, 2022

Charles Travis, A Critical History of Texas, Book Review: Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, The Struggle for Texas -cinematic prose, 1826, 2022, - Miscellaneous, 2022

Charles Travis, Big Tex: The Literary, Historical, Cultural & Natural Geographies of the Lone Star State., 2022 Virginia Garrett Lectures A Joint Meeting with International Map Collectors Society and Texas Map Society , University of Texas, Arlington, 6 October 2022, edited by Ben Huseman , 2022 Conference Paper, 2022

Charles Travis, 'Twilight of the Cowboy God: Larry McMurtry's Literary Geography', 2021, - Digital research resource production, 2021 URL

Charles Travis, Grid-Space Myths: The U.S. Census, 1850-1900, 52 Annual Conference of Irish Geographers, TCD-Virtual, 19 May 2021, 2021 Conference Paper, 2021

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, 2019

Research Expertise

Description

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.

Projects

  • Title
    • Whaling to the `Season-on-the-Line": Deep Charting Herman Melville"s Moby Dick (1851)
  • Summary
    • The historiographical significance of my project is to reframe the early oceanic dimensions and impact of whaling expeditions, oil, viscera and skeletal extractions, culture and commerce on the American maritime and global imagination during the expansion of the United States and emergence of the nation as a hemispheric and world power. My study is a humanities focused response to the United Nation"s Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021"2030 initiative which declares mapping technologies will be at the core of a "true revolution in ocean science." I hope to visit the G. W. Blunt White Library at Mystic Seaport, where to study and source data from whale and weather logbooks, maritime charts and atlases, diaries, ship and company registers related to American whaling expeditions from the colonial period to 1900. This will help me to chart how whaling an oil extractions, production, commerce and capitalization intersected with the United States" westward expansion, the Civil War and the growth of the U.S. Navy, its oceanographic knowledge and global reach. Similarly, the collections of the Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum hold logbooks, account books, diaries, printed ephemera, photo-albums, and photographs related to oceanic cultures and collections of maritime and natural history literature, which intersect with the growth of American hemispheric trade between 1800 and 1900. As my project links cartographic representation with environmental history and geospatial data, I am interested in exploring maritime map and atlas collections of the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library.
  • Funding Agency
    • Massachusetts Historical Society
  • Date From
    • 2025
  • Title
    • Twilight of the Cowboy God
  • Summary
    • Texas Portal to Texas History, Digital Fellowship
  • Funding Agency
    • University of North Texas, Texas Portal to Texas History
  • Date From
    • 1.6.2020
  • Date To
    • 9.1.2020
  • Title
    • Covid-19 Working Group for Public Health and Social Sciences
  • Funding Agency
    • National Science Foundation-CONVERGE, University of Colorado, at Boulder
  • Date From
    • 16.4.2020
  • Date To
    • 9.1.2021
  • Title
    • STEAM (STEM+Arts)
  • Summary
    • Irish Research Council Interdisciplinary Research
  • Funding Agency
    • Irish Research Council
  • Date From
    • 2015
  • Date To
    • 2018
  • Title
    • Faculty Fellowship on Sustainability in the Curriculum
  • Funding Agency
    • UTA Institute for Sustainability and Global Impact
  • Date From
    • 2017
  • Date To
    • 2018
  • Title
    • "From Cure to Care: Advancing Human Well-being through Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences" Humanities GIS: Deep Mapping Health, the Human Condition and Climate Change in the American Southwest and Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Summary
    • University of Texas, Arlington COLA Research Grant
  • Funding Agency
    •  University of Texas, Arlington COLA Research Grant
  • Date From
    • 1 January 2017
  • Date To
    • 1 January 2018
  • Title
    • NorFish (Environmental History of the North Atlantic, 1400-1700)
  • Summary
    • Lead Geographical Information Science Researcher on European Research Council Funded Project led by Professor Paul Holm
  • Funding Agency
    • European Research Council
  • Date From
    • 1 Sept 2015
  • Date To
    • Present
  • Title
    • European Observatory of the New Human Condition
  • Summary
    • The Observatory seeks new insights into the human condition as it relates to global climate change, to explore its root problems and possible solutions. The Observatory will bring together academics, senior executives and other stakeholders in our forum workshops for dialogue and action on global climate change issues. The research undertaken in our three forum workshops will take us beyond rational choice theory and behavioral decision theory towards a broader understanding of:Perceptions of resources, technology, and risk in an age of scarcity and abundance; Conceptualizations of time and differential discounting of future outcomes. Strategies for arriving at "rational" decisions, and:Pro-social behavior in common-property resource dilemmas.
  • Funding Agency
    • Andrew W. Mellon
  • Date From
    • 1 January 2013
  • Title
    • The Environmental Humanities and its Digital Applications
  • Summary
    • This project integrates climate change studies, digital environmental humanities geographical information systems, environmental history, social media technology models and analyses to explore human-environmental interactions as they relate to sustainability initiatives, smart city planning, transport and public health, disaster preparedness, and social and environmental justice.
  • Funding Agency
    • Irish Research Council
  • Date From
    • 1 March 2015
  • Date To
    • 31 November 2015
  • Title
    • IMPACT-EV
  • Summary
    • Exploring social impacts of European social science and humanities research.
  • Date From
    • 1 January 2014
  • Title
    • Digital Literary Atlas of Ireland, 1922-1949 [https://www.tcd.ie/longroomhub/digital-atlas/]
  • Summary
    • Employing GIS, Web 2.0 open source software and php / JavaScript coding applications to create interactive web platform charting the lives and works of early twentieth century Irish writers, utilizing digitized historical maps and literature selections from Trinity College Library collections
  • Date From
    • 2008
  • Date To
    • 2010
  • Title
    •  Faculty Fellowship on Sustainability in the Curriculum
  • Funding Agency
    • UTA Institute for Sustainability and Global Impact
  • Date From
    • 2017
  • Date To
    • 2018

Recognition

Awards and Honours

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

Memberships

Association of American Geographers 1997 – Present

American Conference of Irish Studies 2012 – Present

American Historical Association 2016 – Present

TCEH profile