Nadeau Named Fellowship Recipient for Humanities Research Program
Dec. 15, 2022
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. 鈥� Byron S. Tucci Professor of Hispanic Studies Carolyn Nadeau has been named one of two fellows at the Institute for Research in the Humanities (IRH) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, allowing her to begin a new project.
The Birut茅 Ciplijauskait茅 Fellowship is a year-long residency awarded to scholars at any stage of their career conducting research and writing on Spanish literary and cultural studies of the Iberian Peninsula. Currently, Nadeau is in residence at the University of Wisconsin during a full-year sabbatical from IWU.
鈥淭hese kinds of opportunities for faculty in the humanities are so rare, so when I learned I was awarded this fellowship I was over the moon,鈥� said Nadeau. 鈥淚t not only allows me the privilege of a full-year sabbatical but also to be part of a community of scholars with whom I exchange ideas at weekly seminars.
Nadeau鈥檚 latest book-length project, 鈥淎rtistic Visions of the Transatlantic Exchange鈥� will explore how poets, playwrights, painters and storytellers 鈥渞epresented New World foodstuffs and used the power of their poetic voice to create food fantasies.鈥�
Nadeau said the concept of food fantasies encapsulates the mystique associated with the food encountered in the New World.
鈥淲hen I began, I was particularly drawn to the power of the poetic voice to create food fantasies so I began examining representations of New World foodstuffs, like the tomato, potato, pepper and chocolate to name a few, and looking at the artists鈥� influence in the acceptance or rejection of these products as foundational to Spanish dishes,鈥� said Nadeau. 鈥淏ut, what I鈥檓 also finding is that often the 鈥榝antasy鈥� is simply about normalizing the food and blending it into daily practices.鈥�
She has authored two monographs: Food Matters: Alonso Quijano鈥檚 Diet and the Discourse of Early Modern Food in Spain (U Toronto Press, 2016) and Women of the Prologue: Imitation, Myth, and Magic in Don Quixote (Bucknell University Press, 2002) and two critical editions, Arte de cocina, pasteler铆a, vizcocher铆a y conserver铆a [The art of cooking, pie making, pastry making and preserving] (1611) by Francisco Mart铆nez Monti帽o (U Toronto Press, 2023) and (1626) by Francisco de Quevedo (Cervantes and Co, 2007).
She has also written about mythological female figures in comedy, the role of the wife and mother in sixteenth-century advice manuals, and the treatment of medical advice in women鈥檚 domestic manuals and men鈥檚 academic treatises.
Nadeau has published numerous articles in journals including Bulletin of Hispanic Studies , Revista canadiense de estudios hisp谩nicos , La Perinola , and Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America , with volume chapters published in Canada, England, Spain and Serbia.
By MJ Soria 鈥�25