Travis Alexander is an assistant professor at Old Dominion University. His writing focuses most broadly on biopolitics and the health humanities, and has appeared or is forthcoming in a range of scholarly journals, including American Literature, Criticism, Discourse, Public Culture, and elsewhere.
Travis Alexander
Articles
Pynchon’s Abundance
Travis Alexander revisits Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel “Vineland,” arguing that it contains a prescient analysis of today’s liberal-leftist divide.
Avenging Angels
Travis Alexander considers what Billy Wilder’s “Double Indemnity” can teach us about Luigi Mangione and the insurance crisis.
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