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.
Selected Publications:
"Beyond the Mythic Mistral" Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies (Spring-Fall 2016)
https://clas.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/shared/docs/tertiary/BRLAS...
Courses:
Comparative Literature
CL R1A Reading and Composition. Literature and Revolution (Fall 2017)
CL R1A Reading and Composition. Wherever You Go There You Are: Travel Writing/Writing Travel (Spring 2019) https://whereveryougothereyouare.home.blog/
CL R1B Reading and Composition. The World Is Your Oyster: Writing about Food and Eating (Fall 2019, Fall 2020)
Spanish
Spanish 1. (Fall 2018)
Spanish 2. (Spring 2022)
Food Studies, U.S., Latin American literatures of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
