Carrie Helms Tippen, assistant professor of English at Chatham University, will deliver a lecture, “The Urgency of Pleasure: Theorizing a Rhetoric of Pleasure in Contemporary Cookbooks,” on Friday, Feb. 7, from 3:15-4:15 p.m. in the Guilford Parlor. The event is sponsored by the Department of English.
Tippen’s 2018 book, Inventing Authenticity: How Cookbook Writers Redefine Southern Identity, examines the rhetorical strategies that writers use to prove the authenticity of their recipes in the narrative headnotes of contemporary cookbooks. Her academic work has been published in Gastronomica, Food and Foodways, Southern Quarterly, and Food, Culture, and Society. She is a host of the podcast New Books in Food.