Dr Joan Fitzpatrick

BIOGRAPHY

Dr Joan Fitzpatrick is Senior Lecturer in English at Loughborough University. Her research focuses on early modern literature and the intersection of literature and culinary studies. She published the first monograph on this intersection as seen in Shakespeare’s works, titled Shakespeare and Food (2007). She has recently published two more books on the subject, Three Sixteenth-Century Dietaries (2017) and A History of Food in Literature (2017).