Interdisciplinary Studies Faculty Listing

Peter Naccarato
Professor of English, Chair of Humanities Division
email
212-517-0603

Degrees
B.A., Villanova University
Ph.D., State University of New York, College at Stony Brook

Peter Naccarato’s teaching and research interests include twentieth-century British literature, literary theory, and cultural studies. He has recently developed courses on Gay and Lesbian Literature and Literature and Human Rights. His recent scholarly work is in the area of food studies, focusing on the role of food and food practices in circulating ideologies and sustaining individual and group identities. With Katie LeBesco, he co-teaches COR 300: Edible Ideologies: The Politics of Food.

Recent Publications:

LeBesco, K. and Naccarato, P. The Perils and Pleasures of Extreme Eating: Television Food Shows and Working Class Identity. In Blue Collar Pop Culture. Ed. M. Keith Booker. California: Praeger Publishers, forthcoming.

LeBesco, K. and Naccarato, P. (Eds.) Edible Ideologies: Representing Food and Meaning. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2008.

LeBesco, K. and Naccarato, P. Julia Child, Martha Stewart, and the Rise of Culinary Capital. In Edible Ideologies: Representing Food and Meaning. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2008.

LeBesco, K. and Naccarato, P. Editor’s Introduction. In Edible Ideologies: Representing Food and Meaning. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2008.

Recent Presentations/Productions:

Chew on This: Food Studies in Communication. Seminar Facilitator and Presenter. National Communication Association Annual Conference. San Francisco, CA. November 2010.

Fixing Dinner/Fixing the Self, co-authored with Katie LeBesco. Crossing Borders III, sponsored by Marymount Manhattan College at its Bedford Hills Correctional Facility campus. March 2010.

Celebrating “Junk” Food Culture: Pleasure, Irony and Earnestness in Carnivalesque Consumption, co-authored with Katie LeBesco. National Communication Association Annual Conference. Chicago, Illinois. November 2009.

Against Food Snobbery: Resisting Culinary Capital Through the Embrace of “Junk,” co-authored with Katie LeBesco. Joint Annual Meeting of the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society and the Association for the Study of Food and Society. Penn State University. May 2009.

Television Cooking Shows: Buying Your Way to Self Improvement. The Modern Language Association Conference. San Francisco, California. December 2008.

Authenticity, Expertise and Taste: Online Restaurant Criticism and the Deployment of Culinary Capital, co-authored with Katie LeBesco. Crossing Borders II, sponsored by Marymount Manhattan College at its Bedford Hills Correctional Facility campus. October 2008.

A Family That Eats Together, Kills Together: Food as Metaphor in The Sopranos, co-authored with Katie LeBesco. The Sopranos: A Wake. Fordham University. May 2008.

Julia Child, Martha Stewart, and the Rise of Culinary Capital. 5th Conference on Food Representation in Literature, Film and Other Arts. The University of Texas at San Antonio. February 2008.

Panel Organizer and Chair, Edible Ideologies I and Edible Ideologies II. 5th Conference on Food Representation in Literature, Film and Other Arts. The University of Texas at San Antonio. February 2008.