SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Fiction and Creative Nonfiction

“Rubber Man,” forthcoming in Life after Death: Stories of Surviving Ex-Spouses, ed. Peggy Sapphire.

“Out of Place,” Cornfield Review, 1997.

“Frank and Helen,” West Virginia University Literary Review, 1990.

SCHOLARLY WORK

African American Foodways: Explorations of History and Culture (editor; introduction and one essay).  Champaign: U of Illinois P,  2007 (paperback 2009).

Reel Food: Essays on Food and Film (editor; introduction).  N.Y.: Routledge, 2004.

“Community Cookbooks.” Oxford Encyclopedia of American Food, ed. Andrew F. Smith.  N.Y.: Oxford UP, 2004.  Vol. 1, 312-15.

“Romanced by Cookbooks.”  Gastronomica 4(2): Spring 2004, 35-42.

The Historical Cookbook of the American Negro, reprint of 1958 edition (concept editor; introduction).  Beacon Press, 2000.

“Our Sisters’ Recipes: Exploring Community in a Community Cookbook.” Journal of Popular Culture 31(Winter 1997): 137-51.

Co-authored with Diane Silleck.  “The Colored Ladies of Delaware, Ohio” in Toni Morrison’s Beloved: a Student-Teacher Quest.”  Obsidian II 12 (Winter 1997): 156-72.

Recipes for Reading: Community Cookbooks, Stories, Histories. University of Massachusetts Press, 1997 (editor; introduction and one essay).

Epistolary Responses: The Letter in 20^th-Century American Fiction and Criticism.  University of Alabama Press, 1996 (monograph).

 “Reading Lessons.”  Quilt Culture: Essays on the Quilt as Metaphor.  Eds. Cheryl Torsney and Judy Elsley.  Univ. of Missouri Press, 1994.

 

REPRESENTATIVE PAPERS, GUEST LECTURES, AND PANEL DISCUSSIONS

“Late-Blooming Women,” Panel participant.  Thompson Senior Center, Woodstock, VT, April  2007.

“Exploring Food and Culture: Cookbooks, thin ice, movies, and cultural identity.” Ohio State University Folklore Center, April 11, 2006.

“Fusion: The Heart of Authenticity.” Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery, Oxford, England, Sept. 2, 2005. “Fusion Cooking and Authentic Foods: What Do We Mean?” Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Assoc., Pittsburgh, Pa., Nov. 1, 2002.

 “Tamale Loaf and Sombrero Beef Dip: Mexican Foods in Texas Community Cookbooks.”  5^th Congress of the Americas.  Universidad de Los Americas, Puebla, Mexico, October 2001.

“No Grits, Some Greens, and History In Between.”  Chicago Culinary Historians, June 2001.

 “Community Cookbooks—Recipes and a whole lot more.”  Kelton House, Columbus, OH, January 2000 and Wood County (OH) Historical Society,  April, 1999.    

“Recipes for Reading: How and Why.”  Houston Culinary Historians Society, Houston, TX, April 1998.

 “Recipes for Reading.”  Southern Festival of Books.  Nashville Tennessee Oct. 1997.

“More than Recipes: Our Community Cookbooks and Their Stories.”  Vogel Lecture in Public History, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio.  Oct. 1996.

“Piecing and Patching:  The Intersection of Quilts, History and Poems.”  Talk prepared for the Ohio Humanities Council Speakers Bureau and delivered in varying forms at over 30 venues in Ohio during 1995 and 1996.

“Cooking Up Communities: Ohio’s Community Cookbooks.”  Talk prepared for the Ohio Humanities Council Speakers Bureau and delivered in varying forms at approx. 6 locations in Ohio during 1996.

 

SELECTED HONORS, AWARDS AND GRANTS

OSU Alumni Teaching Excellence Award, spring 2005.

Ohio State U Office of Outreach & Engagement grant (co-authored with Dan Christie) for Project ProUd AchieveMenT to facilitate diversity training and programs at Grant Middle School and OSU-Marion for two years, spring 2004, $42,000.

Ohio State U-Marion Small Research Grant to present “Tamale Loaf and Sombrero Beef Dip: Mexican Foods in Texas Community Cookbooks” at Fifth Congress of the Americas Conference, Puebla, Mexico, Oct. 2001.  $748.

Ohio Community, Higher Education and School Partnerships grant to fund Marion area Youth Grantmaking Council with service learning component (with Jody Demo-Hodgins) for 2001-2003, summer 2001.  $50,000.

Ohio Humanities Council grant to organize Sept. 2000 “Popped Culture” program at OSU-Marion (lecture, panel discussion, reception), in coordination with OSU-Marion’s Alber Center.  $2,000.  Grant written with student intern Alexis Jones, and with input from others.

Ohio Humanities Council grant for exhibit and eight public programs at Ohio Historical Society ($11,324): “More than Recipes—Ohio’s Fund Raising Cookbooks.”  March-Sept. 1996.

Ohio State U. College of Humanities Grant-in-Aid—partial support for travel to Groningen, The Netherlands, to present paper at Conference on Letters and Literary theory, Nov. 1994.