Earlier this year Dr Ruth Cruickshank's latest book, exploring literary and theoretical responses to food and drink, was published with Liverpool University Press.
The monograph, Leftovers: Eating, Drinking and Re-thinking with Case Studies from Post-war French Fiction, reveals how food and drink and representations of them carry a whole range of unthought-of meanings – psychological, ideological and historical – and explores how these can raise questions about power, identity and the values we incorporate as we eat and drink.
Dr Cruickshank explores such questions with first-year Liberal Arts students as part of their Cultural Encounters core course, and in CLC, Translation Studies and French classes when representations of food and drink frequently crop up.
