Digestive Modernisms Spring 2023 Research Seminar 1

About the event

Join us for the first research seminar organised by the new modernist research network Digestive Modernisms, an informal interdisciplinary network based in Edinburgh, bringing together researchers, artists, and writers interested in the gastronomics of modern literature and life.

Digestive Modernisms are interested in  food, diet, and gut health in modernist literature, art, culture, and philosophy, taking an approach that is informed by the medical humanities, food studies, animal studies, the environmental humanities, and posthumanism, among other critical contexts.

For this seminar, we'll have two discussions:

  1. Genevieve Smart (Birkbeck, University of London) – ‘The Passage to Gender Indeterminacy: F. T. Marinetti’s Guts’
  2. Peter Adkins (University of Edinburgh) – ‘Of Steaks and Suffragettes: The Vegetarian Politics of Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day’

Genevieve Smart's staff profile [external site]

Peter Adkin's staff profile

Digestive Modernisms blog

How to attend

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