Robert Appelbaum (born 2 February 1952) is an academic specializing in early modern writing,
food studies
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, and terrorism studies. He is a Professor Emeritus from the Department of English at Uppsala University, in Sweden.
Biography
He received a B.A. from the
University of Chicago
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in Tutorial Studies in 1975, an M.A. in English Literature at
San Francisco State University
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in 1989, and a Ph.D. in English from the
University of California, Berkeley
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, where he worked under the supervision of
Stephen Greenblatt
Stephen Jay Greenblatt (born November 7, 1943) is an American literary historian and author. He has served as the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University since 2000. Greenblatt is the general editor of ''The Nort ...
.
His works include "Terrorism Before the Letter: Literatures of Political Violence in Britain and France, 1559–1642" and the 2011 volume,
'Dishing It Out: In Search of the Restaurant Experience'(London: Reaktion). In 2011, he left his position as a Senior Lecturer In Renaissance Studies at
Lancaster University
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to take up a Chair as Professor of English Literature at
Uppsala University
Uppsala University (UU) () is a public university, public research university in Uppsala, Sweden. Founded in 1477, it is the List of universities in Sweden, oldest university in Sweden and the Nordic countries still in operation.
Initially fou ...
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His most recent book is at once an autobiography and a work of cultural criticism: ''Working the Aisles: A Life in Consumption'' (Winchester: Zero Books).
References
*http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/english/profiles/Robert-Appelbaum/
*http://robertappelbaum.com/
*http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=206065
*http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/thinkingallowed/thinkingallowed_20070110.shtml
Further reading
* Robert Appelbaum, ''Literature and Utopian Politics in Seventeenth-Century England,'' Cambridge University Press, 2002.
* Robert Appelbaum and John Wood Sweet, editors, ''Envisioning an English Empire: Jamestown and the Making of the North Atlantic World,'' University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.
* Robert Appelbaum, ''Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections: Literature, Culture, and Food Among the Early Moderns,'' University of Chicago Press, 2006.
* Robert Appelbaum, ''Dishing It Out: In Search of the Restaurant Experience,'' Reaktion Books, 2011.
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American literary critics
Living people
1952 births
University of Chicago alumni
San Francisco State University alumni
UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni