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Dr Melissa Calaresu

  • College positions:
    Deputy Senior Tutor (Postgraduates)
    Neil McKendrick Lecturer in History
    Director of Studies in History
    Director of Studies in History and Modern Languages
    Postgraduate Tutor
  • University positions:
    Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of History
    Co-Convenor of the Early Modern Worlds Workshop and Seminar
    Co-Convenor the Eighteenth Century Seminar
  • Subjects: History History and Modern Languages History and Politics

On sabbatical 2023-24

Degrees

BA (Hons.) in History (Huron College, University of Western Ontario, Canada), M.A. in History (Queen’s University, Canada), PhD in History (Cantab), Commonwealth Scholar, 1990-1994

Research interests

Early modern cultural history of Europe, with a special emphasis on Naples and southern Italy, and the Grand Tour. Urban and food history.

Publications include 

  • Exploring Cultural History: Essays in Honour of Peter Burke (2010)
  • New Approaches to Naples c.1500–c.1800: The Power of Place (2013)
  • Catalogue for the Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition, (2015)
  • Food Hawkers: Selling in the Streets from Antiquity to the Present Day (2016)
  • Catalogue for the Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition, (2019)

 

Recent public engagement

  • ‘The many sides of the pineapple’, in ‘Eating the past’, History Workshop Online, 20 February 2023:
  • , The Forum, BBC World Service, 19 June 2022, available as a podcast.
  • Darwin College Series lecture on , Darwin College, Cambridge, 25 February 2022, available .
  • , interview for Thoughtlines Podcast series, CRASSH, 21 January 2021.

Teaching interests

Early modern and modern European history (1500-1850), history of collecting, history of material culture, and history of food.