Robert Appelbaum

Robert Appelbaum (born 2 February 1952) is an academic specializing in early modern writing, food studies, and terrorism studies. He is a Professor Emeritus from the Department of English at Uppsala University, in Sweden.

Biography

He received a B.A. from the University of Chicago in Tutorial Studies in 1975, an M.A. in English Literature at San Francisco State University in 1989, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked under the supervision of Stephen Greenblatt.

His works include "Terrorism Before the Letter: Literatures of Political Violence in Britain and France, 1559–1642" and the 2011 volume, ''Dishing It Out: In Search of the Restaurant Experience' (London: Reaktion). In 2011, he left his position as a Senior Lecturer In Renaissance Studies at Lancaster University to take up a Chair as Professor of English Literature at Uppsala University.

His most recent book is at once an autobiography and a work of cultural criticism: Working the Aisles: A Life in Consumption (Winchester: Zero Books).

References

• http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/english/profiles/Robert-Appelbaum/
• http://robertappelbaum.com/
• http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=206065
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/thinkingallowed/thinkingallowed_20070110.shtml

Further reading

• Robert Appelbaum, Literature and Utopian Politics in Seventeenth-Century England, Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-521-81082-1
• Robert Appelbaum and John Wood Sweet, editors, Envisioning an English Empire: Jamestown and the Making of the North Atlantic World, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0-8122-3853-2
• Robert Appelbaum, Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections: Literature, Culture, and Food Among the Early Moderns, University of Chicago Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-226-02126-3
• Robert Appelbaum, Dishing It Out: In Search of the Restaurant Experience, Reaktion Books, 2011. ISBN 9781861898074