Victoria Yeoman Editor

David B. Goldstein serves as Professor of English and Creative Writing at York University in Toronto. His first monograph, Eating and Ethics in Shakespeare’s England, shared the Shakespeare’s Globe Book Award in 2013. A former restaurant critic and food magazine editor, he has also published three co-edited essay collections on topics related to Shakespeare, food, and early modern hospitality; two books of poetry; and a range of essays on literature, food studies, Emmanuel Levinas, ecology, and contemporary poetics. For four years he co-directed the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Mellon-funded research collaboration, Before “Farm to Table”: Early Modern Foodways and Cultures.

Victoria Yeoman is Professor of English and Liberal Studies at Seneca Polytechnic in Toronto, Canada. She has published on early modern foodways, drama, religion, identity, material culture, and pedagogy in the journals Renaissance Studies, Discourse and Writing, and West 86th: The Journal of Decorative Art, Design History, and Material Culture, and in the edited collections Shakespeare and the Stuff of Life (2016), and The Renaissance World (2024). Before arriving at Seneca, she held the Rhinehart Postdoctoral Fellowship in British History at Appalachian State University and was a residential fellow (2019-20) at The Linda Hall Library.