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Robert Appelbaum is an award-winning literary
critic specializing in early modern writing, food studies, and
terrorism studies. He teaches in the Department of English and
Creative Writing at Lancaster University where, since 2006, he
has served as Senior Lecturer in Renaissance
Studies. 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.
In 2007 he received the Roland H. Bainton Prize for
Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic
Interjection: Literature, Culture, and Food Among the Early
Moderns. In that same year he was awarded a Leverhulme
Research Fellowship for a study entitled Terrorism Before
the Letter: Literatures of Political Violence in Britain and
France, 1559-1642. That book is now in press, and Appelbaum is currently working on a book for Reaktion, Restaurants for the Rest of Us. |
