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Dr Melissa Calaresu

  • College positions:
    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

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.