Travis Chi Wing Lau

Travis Chi Wing Lau (he/him) is an assistant professor of English at Kenyon College. His research and teaching focus on 18th- and 19th-century British literature and culture, health humanities, and disability studies. Alongside his academic scholarship, Lau frequently writes for venues of public scholarship, such as Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal, Public Books, Lapham’s Quarterly, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. His poetry has been published in Wordgathering, Glass, South Carolina Review, Foglifter, and Hypertext, as well as in three chapbooks: The Bone Setter (Damaged Goods Press, 2019), Paring (Finishing Line Press, 2020), and Vagaries (Left Field Books, 2022).