Art History

Darra Goldstein is the Willcox and Harriet Adsit Professor of Russian at
Williams College and Founding Editor of Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and
Culture, named the 2012 Publication of the Year by the James Beard Foundation.
She has published numerous books and articles on literature, culture, art, and
cuisine, and has organized several exhibitions, including Graphic Design in the
Mechanical Age and Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005, both
at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. She is also the author of four
cookbooks: A Taste of Russia (nominated for a Tastemaker Award), The Georgian
Feast (winner of the 1994 IACP Julia Child Award for Cookbook of the Year), The
Winter Vegetarian, and Baking Boot Camp at the CIA (IACP award finalist). Goldstein
has consulted for the Council of Europe as part of an international group
exploring ways in which food can be used to promote tolerance and diversity,
and under her editorship the volume Culinary Cultures of Europe: Identity,
Diversity and Dialogue was published in 2005. Goldstein has also consulted for the
Russian Tea Room and Firebird restaurants in New York and served on the
Board of Directors of the International Association of Culinary Professionals. She
is currently Food Editor of Russian Life magazine and the series editor of
California Studies in Food and Culture (University of California Press), a book series
that seeks to broaden the audience for serious scholarship in food studies.

• 19th and 20th century France
• visual culture & film
• readers & cognitive studies of how people read

Courses Taught

Literature:

Fashion and Image in Post-Romantic Paris (Designed and taught) - Winter 2011

Images of Women in French Cinema (TA) - Spring 2010

Middle Ages & Renaissance France, Writing in the Major (TA) - Winter 2008, Fall 2010, and Fall 2011

Language:

French 3 (Instructor) - Spring 2011 and Spring 2012

Intensive First-Year French, Part A (Instructor) - Summer 2010

Second-Year French, Part 1 (Instructor) - Fall 2009

First-Year French, Parts 1, 2, and 3 (Instructor) - 2008-09 Academic Year

Conference Papers

"Changing Reading Practices: The Visual Features of Mallarmé's Poetry," Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures, Mar. 2012, UNC-Chapel Hill

"Space and Subjectivity in Monet: The Poplars Series," The 35th Annual International Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Oct. 2009, Brigham-Young University.

"Self-Representation in Chagall: Inscribing History in Images," Romance Studies Colloquium, Oct. 2009, Montclair State University.

"The Carmen Myth: Adaptation Across Artistic Mediums," The 34th Annual International Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Oct. 2008, Vanderbilt University.

"The Passage of Time in Literature: Multiple Perspectives in Proust," The 39th Annual College English Association Conference, Mar. 2008, St. Louis, MO.

"Scientific Contexts for Understanding Baudelaire's Interest in Synesthesia," co-presented with Prof. Patricia Ward, 32nd Annual International Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Oct. 2006, Indiana University.

Dissertation

Rereading as Requirement: The Cognitive Demands of Mallarmé, Krysinska, and Proust