Research interests: the historical representation of food in literature; constructs of domesticity; feminist revisionism; observational literature; gynaecological fiction.
Thesis title: Consuming Social Change in Mid-Century Fiction.
Supervisor: Professor Marina Mackay.
My thesis looks at the climate surrounding food consumption during Britain's austerity period, and considers the extent to which women writers, specifically connected to food by a longstanding cultural association with domesticity, used this climate in order to mediate on social change.
Publications:
Natalia Orenstein, 'Chewing Over Consumer Culture in 19th and 20th Century Novels', The Scattered Pelican (Fall Issue, 2022, pp. 23 - 38).
I have a chapter forthcoming on representations of food in Sydney Taylor's All-of-a-Kind-Family series.
