Frances Dolan, distinguished professor of English, Parama Roy, professor of English, and Sandra Gilbert, professor emerita of English, are contributors to Food and Literature (Cambridge University Press, June 2018). The book examines food as subject, form, landscape, polemic and aesthetic statement in literature. It is the first volume to offer an overview of literary food studies and reflect on its origins, developments and applications. 

Professor Dolan joined the UC Davis faculty as Professor of English in 2003. Before coming to Davis, she taught at Miami University, as well as the University of Chicago and Columbia University. Her research focuses on early modern English literature and history (1500-1700). While her interests are wide-ranging, she has a long-standing commitment to Shakespeare and his contemporary dramatists. In 2004-5, she served as the President of the Shakespeare Association of America. She has also edited six Shakespeare plays. In addition, she has published five books and numerous articles in journals and edited collections. You can find internal and external links to some of those publications below. An award-winning teacher, she offers courses including Shakespeare, Literature by Women, and Children's Literature. 

Professor Gilbert has worked as an Assistant Professor at California State University at Hayward, Visiting Lecturer at St. Mary's College in Moraga, California, and Associate Professor at Indiana University. She joined the UC Davis faculty as an Associate Professor in 1975. By that time, she had already published more than forty poems and essays as well as Acts of Attention, a highly respected book on D. H. Lawrence's poetry. In 1979 Professor Gilbert co-authored with Professor Susan Gubar The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination, which received much critical acclaim.

Professor Gilbert has achieved national and international recognition for her work. A scholar of preeminent distinction, she has taught as a visiting professor at Williams College and at Johns Hopkins, Stanford, and Indiana Universities, to give only a partial list. In 1985, she left Davis to take up the distinguished C. Barnwell Straut Chair of English at Princeton University, only to be brought back to Davis again in 1989.

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