Melissa Montanari

Melissa Montanari (she/her) is a writer and PhD candidate in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. She is currently completing her dissertation, which is funded by SSHRC (Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada) and which aims to bring food and literary studies into critical discourse.

In the Fall of 2021 Melissa taught a second year undergraduate course on Food in Media and Popular Culture. Inspired by students in her course she started a monthly newsletter called "foodstuff," which wades through the cultural, political, environmental and emotional entanglements that food elicits.