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Four Panels on "Prehistories of Taste" at RSA Dublin

My colleague David Goldstein (York University) and I are excited to have organised four linked panels for the Renaissance Society of America conference in Dublin (March 2022). Have a look below.


Renaissance Prehistories of Taste I: Taste as Community

Chair: Miriam Jacobsen (University of Georgia, USA)


What was Taste?

David Goldstein (York University, Canada)


What was Judgment?

Kevin Curran (Université de Lausanne, Switzerland)


‘Sans Taste’: As You Like It, the Law of the Forest, and Things of Pleasure

Carolyn Sale (University of Alberta, Canada)



Renaissance Prehistories of Taste II: Taste as Instruction

Chair: Elizabeth Pentland (York University, Canada)


Harvest in Season and Season to Taste

Marissa Nicosia (Penn State University at Abington, USA)


Table Talk: The Humanist Self-Help Book

Hannah Smith-Drelich (Stanford University, USA)


The Visual in Early Modern Receipt Books

Amy Tigner (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)



Renaissance Prehistories of Taste III: Taste as Distinction

Chair: Peter Parolin (University of Wyoming, USA)


In Bad Taste: French Cannibal Fantasies in Massinger and Fletcher's The Sea Voyage (1622)

Elizabeth Pentland (York University, Canada)


“Tasting Shadows: Chasing the Umbrana’s Head in Beaumont and Fletcher’s The Woman Hater”

Rob Wakeman (Mount Saint Mary’s College, USA)


The Taste of Shakespeare, or What Happened to the Poems?

Stephen Orgel (Stanford University, USA)



Renaissance Prehistories of Taste IV: Taste as Encounter

Chair: Amy Tigner (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)


Danger and Delight: Taste, Familiarity, and Dietary Decisions in Colonial Virginia

Rachel Wincombe (University of Manchester, UK)


From Observer to Taste-Maker: 16th and 17th Century English Travelers in Italy

Peter Parolin (University of Wyoming, USA)


Taste in Place: Teaching Renaissance History in Current Italy Foodscapes

Molly Taylor-Poleskey (Middle Tennessee State University, USA)



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AWARDS & HONORS
RESEARCH (EXTERNAL ONLY)

Swiss National Science Foundation, Four-Year Collaborative Research Grant for “Theater and Judgment in Early Modern England,” 2021-25

 

Distinguished International Visiting Fellow, Australian Research Council’s Center for the History of Emotions, 2017

 

Short-Term Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library, 2011

 

Pforzheimer Fellowship in Renaissance Studies at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, 2009      

 

Bibliographical Society of America Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library, 2007        

 

FQRSC Collaborative Research Grant for the McGill Shakespeare and Performance Research Team, 2007-10

 

Francis Bacon Foundation Fellowship at the Huntington Library, 2006

 

Short-Term Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library, 2005

 

Richard H. Tomlinson Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 2005-07, McGill University

 

Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences Scholarship, 2001-05

 

TEACHING

Kesterson Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching, 2012


Professor of the Year Award, 2012

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