Robert Appelbaum

Robert Appelbaum

Robert Appelbaum (born 2 February, 1952) is an award-winning literary critic specialising in early modern writing, food studies, and terrorism studies. He teaches in the Department of English and Creative Writing http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/english/] at Lancaster University http://www.lancs.ac.uk/, where, since 2006, he has served as Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Studies.

Biography

Born in Brooklyn, New York to a working class family, he spent much of his life moving about. Cleveland, Ohio, Chicago, Illinois, Paris, France, San Francisco, California, Cincinnati, Ohio, San Diego, California, Birmingham, Alabama, and Middletown, Connecticut are among the places he lived before settling in Lancaster, England. He has worked as a steel mill laborer, a director of a language school, an art dealer, and a limousine driver as well as teacher, writer, and editor. Early in his career he published a small amount of experimental fiction, but he has since established himself as an expert on the literature of the Renaissance.

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.

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=206065http://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-13: 9780521810821

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-13: 978-0-8122-3853-2

Robert Appelbaum, "Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic InterjectionsLiterature, Culture, and Food Among the Early Moderns," University of Chicago Press, 2006. ISBN-13: 9780226021263


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