Presentations

Public Presentations

“Food and Christianity in Medieval Western Europe,” Sunday Adult Education Classes, Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago, IL, Forthcoming 5 May 2024.

“Harvest Feast,” University of Notre Dame Medieval Institute 75th Anniversary, Notre Dame, IN, 20 November 2021.

“Caffeine in Early Modern Europe,” Lunch Break Lecture, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL, 28 October 2020.

“Medieval and Renaissance Cookbooks,” Lunch Break Lecture, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL, 2 October 2019.

“Awakening a Continent: A History of Coffee and Chocolate in Europe,” The Center for Life and Learning Midday Lecture Series, Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago, IL, 14 May 2019.

“Chocolate: A Healthy Habit in Early Modern Europe,” Food of the Gods: Perspectives on Chocolate, Newberry Library, 7 June 2018.

“Cookbooks in England from 1300–1700,” Culinary Historians of Chicago, 28 April 2018.

“Cinnamon Birds and Pepper Snakes: Myths and Realities of the Medieval Spice Trade,” Associates Night, Newberry Library, 13 March 2018.

“The Art of the Table: Dining in the Middle Ages,” The Met Cloisters, New York, NY, 21 May 2016.

Invited Academic Presentations

“Culinary Performances: Pedagogy and Public Engagement Through Early Modern Food Experiences,” Attending to Women, 1100-1800: Performance, Newberry Library, 1 October 2022.

“Making and Teaching: Designing Historic Recipe Demonstrations for a Virtual Audience,” Reading Early Modern Recipes in a Digital Age, Queen Mary University of London, 3 September 2022.

“Tasting and Knowing: The Kitchen as a Space for Historical Inquiry,” Popular Culture and Deep Past, The Ohio State University, 12 February 2022.

“Creating Cookbooks: Networks of Recipe Readers and Writers in England, 1300–1700,” Food History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London, UK, 18 February 2021.

“The Production and Use of Cookbooks in Late Medieval and Early Modern England,” An Early Modern Food History Workshop, Newberry Library, 6 April 2018.

“Independent Scholarship in the Humanities,” Humanities Without Walls Summer Seminar, Newberry Library, 2 August 2017.

“The Role of Reconstruction in the Study of Medieval Cookery Manuscripts,” Making and Knowing Reconstruction Workshop, Chemical Heritage Foundation and Columbia University, Philadelphia, PA, 10 October 2015.

“Teaching an Old Text New Tricks: Reevaluating Cookery Production and Use in Late Medieval France and England,” Ohio Medieval Colloquium, Columbus, OH, 28 June 2014.

“From Cooking to Text and Back Again: Translating between Action and Text in Late Medieval French and English Cookbooks,” Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Symposium “The Middle Ages in Translation,” Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 19 July 2013.

Academic Conference Presentations

“Breaking Bread in the Classroom: Food Pedagogies and Early Modern Culture,” Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, IL 21–23 March 2024.

“Reading the Whole Book: Cookbooks in Late Medieval English Professional Manuscripts,” Bibliography Among the Disciplines, Philadelphia, PA, 14 October, 2017.

“Social Aspirations and the New Audience for Cookeries in Late Medieval England,” Food in History: The 82nd Anglo-American Conference of Historians, London, UK, 13 July 2013.

“Professionalization, Aspiration, and the New Audience for Cookeries in Late Medieval England,” International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, 4 July 2013.

“Cookeries As Technical Literature in Late Medieval England and France,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 9 May 2013.

“‘I am Taster: commending each dish to thy Palate’: Taste and Other Senses in Early Modern English Cookeries,” Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Rochester, NY, 15 March 2012.

“From Simnel to Horsebread: The Regulation of Bread for the Rich and Poor in Late Medieval England,” International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, 12 July 2011.

“Who Cooked With Books?: Examining Issues of Literacy through Cookery Books of Late Medieval France and England,” Expanding Literacy Studies Conference, Columbus, OH, 4 April 2009.

“Intersections of Late Medieval English and French Medical and Cookery Texts,” Mid-America Medieval Association, Kansas City, MO, 28 February 2009.