Call For Papers

[Lisa DeTora]

Call for Papers

Foodsumptions: Fun, Games, and the Politics of What We Eat

In It Must Have Been Something I Ate, Jeffrey Steingarten notes that
writing about food should always be fun. But is it? In millennia of
writing, food has been taken as a topic in religious, health,
political, professional, and popular texts. This writing can be
instructive, educational, entertaining, polemical, antagonistic,
technical, or reflective. The current popularity of the Food Network,
cooking programs and contests, like The Next Food Network Star,
indicate that writing, thinking, and speaking about food currently
occupy an important place in the public imagination.

The editors seek scholarly submissions of 8-10,000 words, inclusive of
footnotes and bibliographic material, discussing some aspect of food
writing. Proposals (500-1000 words) and full papers will be
considered. Initial submissions by August 30 are requested, with final
papers to be delivered by November 30 (Chicago Style, 14th edition,
footnotes). Please include a brief CV.

We are especially interested in having one or two essays on food and
health or medical humanities topics such as diets, nutrition,
Hippocrates and the tradition of food as medicine, or food and
bioethics.

Risa P. Gorelick, Ph.D.
Associate Professor/Director of First Year Writing
Ramapo College of New Jersey
School of American and International Studies
505 Ramapo Valley Road
Mahwah, NJ 07430-1680
rgor...@ramapo.edu

Lisa DeTora
Department of English
Asst Director of the College Writing Program
Lafayette College
Easton PA 18042
det...@lafayette.edu