Tara Phillips

PhD Candidate
Languages: 
Spanish, with reading ability in Portuguese and French
Periods: 
Late nineteenth and early twentieth century
Academic Area: 
Food studies, U.S., Latin American literatures

Research Areas

Food Studies, U.S., Latin American literatures of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Biography

Tara joined the department of Comparative Literature in 2015. She holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. She studies U.S. and Latin American literatures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century from a food studies perspective. She is interested in the relationship between the history of food production, race, empire, and aesthetics.

Courses taught include Reading and Composition in Comparative Literature and Spanish 1 and 2 in the Spanish and Portuguese Department.