Audience
The Zeta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at St. Mary's College of Maryland is delighted to welcome Dr. Wendy Wall, Avalon Professor of the Humanities, Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence, and Professor of English at Northwestern University, to St. Mary's College of Maryland as part of the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars Program.
Started in 1956, the Visiting Scholars program sends distinguished speakers to chapters across the country to meet with faculty and students and to address the school. The purpose of the program is to contribute to the intellectual life of the campus by making possible an exchange of ideas between distinguished visiting scholars and the resident faculty and students. During their time on campus, Visiting Scholars speak to classes and clubs, share meals with faculty, staff, and students, and give a public lecture.
Dr. Wall, the Zeta Chapter's eighth Visiting Scholar since the Chapter was inducted in 1998, will present:
"Doing Science in the Early Modern Kitchen: Women, Recipes, and Knowledge Making"
Thursday, October 20 at 7:30 p.m.
Daugherty-Palmer Commons (DPC)
Professor Wendy Wall researches topics as wide-ranging as early modern poetry, recipes, literature and science, women’s writing, digital humanities, gender, authorship, print culture, and theater. Her prize-winning books and projects include Recipes for Thought: Knowledge and Taste in the Early Modern English Kitchen; The Imprint of Gender: Authorship and Publication in the English Renaissance; Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama; and The Pulter Project: Poet in the Making. Professor Wall enjoys engaging in public humanities partnerships with prisons, theaters, and festivals. She is currently at work on a book entitled Revolution, Resurrection, and Dissolution: Hester Pulter and a Reimagined Early Modern World.
We might be surprised to discover that England was one of the most important sites in Europe for recipe collections between 1570 and 1750, and the only country where these books were written specifically for women. What can early English recipes reveal beyond the history of puddings and pies? This talk explores ways that culinary and medicinal recipe writing reveals a rich creative, literate, and experimental culture within the early modern English home, one that allowed women to wrestle with metaphysical puzzles at the center of humanistic and scientific thought
Dr. Wall's visit is co-sponsored by: Department of English, Lecture and Fine Arts Committee, Department of History, Women, Gender & Sexuality Program