Across Time, Space, and Matter: A Panel Discussion on Food in the Hispanic World

H. Rosi Song is a professor of Hispanic studies at Durham University and author of Lost in Transition: Constructing Memory in Contemporary Spain (Liverpool UP, 2016). Her most recent book, co-written with Anna Riera, is A Taste of Barcelona. The History of Catalan Cooking and Eating (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019).

Rebecca Earle is a professor of history at Warwick University. Her most recent book, Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato (Cambridge University Press, 2020), traced the global history of the potato from the Andes to everywhere.

Melissa Fuster is an associate professor in the School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Author of Caribeños at the Table: How Migration, Health, and Race Intersect in New York City (University of North Carolina Press, 2021), her research examines cultural contextual factors influencing food practices, with a current focus on food environments.

Lara Anderson is an associate professor in the Spanish and Latin American Studies program at the University of Melbourne. Her main research area is Spanish food culture, and her recent monograph, Control and Resistance: Food Discourse in Franco Spain (University of Toronto Press, 2020), looked at food discourse as a site of control and resistance.

Jordana Mendelson is director of NYU’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center and an associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. She is author of Documenting Spain: Artists, Exhibition Culture and the Modern Nation 1929–1939 (Penn State University Press, 2005) and Magazines and War 1936–1939 (MNCARS, 2007).