Dr. Annette Cozzi

PhD. British Literature

Tulane University, 2005

Areas of Interest:

Nineteenth-century British literature and culture; material culture; the history of the novel; theories of nationalism, literature, and identity formation; food studiesp

About Dr. Cozzi:

Annette Cozzi received her BA from Vassar College and was awarded a fellowship to Tulane University, where she completed her MA and PhD. Before attending graduate school, she lived and worked in several foreign cities, including Amsterdam, London, and Edinburgh. She has taught Writing and British Literature courses at Tulane and DePaul University, Chicago, and her research and teaching interests include nineteenth-century British literature and culture; material culture; the history of the novel; theories of nationalism, literature, and identity formation; and food studies. Her forthcoming article, "Men and Menus: Dickens and the Rise of the 'Ordinary' Gentleman," will be published in an anthology entitled Edible Ideologies; and she is currently at work on a book manuscript based on her dissertation, Eating English: Food and the Construction and Consumption of Imperial National Identity in the British Novel, which examines the relationship between food and ideology in the formation of identity.