PhD Candidate in English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University
Melissa Montanari (she/her) is a writer and PhD candidate in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. She is currently completing her dissertation, which is funded by SSHRC (Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada) and which aims to bring food and literary studies into critical discourse.
In the Fall of 2021 Melissa taught a second year undergraduate course on Food in Media and Popular Culture. Inspired by students in her course she started a monthly newsletter called "foodstuff," which wades through the cultural, political, environmental and emotional entanglements that food elicits.
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight