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Travis Alexander

Postdoctoral Fellow, Medical Humanities, Rice University

Travis Alexander is a postdoctoral fellow in the Medical Humanities Program at Rice University in Houston, Texas.

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essayPleasure and pain

Apocalypse, please

The COVID-19 pandemic, like other catastrophes before it, got some of us hooked on phobic energy and terror. Why?

Travis Alexander