Nathalie M. Cooke

Books

with Shelley Boyd, Canadian Literary Fare (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023)

Margaret Atwood: A Critical Companion (Greenwood Press, 2004)

Margaret Atwood: A Biography (ECW Press 1998)

Edited Volumes

with Fiona Lucas, Catharine Parr Traill’s The Female Emigrant’s Guide, Cooking with a Canadian Classic. (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017)

with Kathryn Harvey, The Family Treasury: A Collection of Household and Medicinal Receipts, 1741-1848 (Rocks Mills Press, 2015) 

with Norm Ravvin, "Mordecai Richler," Canadian Literature 204. (August 2011) 

What’s to Eat? Entrées in Canadian Food History (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009)

Founding editor of Cuizine: the Journal of Canadian Food Cultures, an online, born-digital, peer-reviewed and indexed journal published by the McGill Library. Érudit, Montreal: 2008- 

with Suzanne Morton, re-editions of Phyllis Brett Young’s novels The Torontonians (1960) and Psyche (1959) (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007-2008) 

with Donna Bennett and Russell Brown. An Anthology of Canadian Literature in English, Revised and Abridged (Oxford University Press, 1990)

Articles and Book Chapters

(selected papers available on SSRN | selected papers on Canadian Literary Fare)

 “’There Are as Many Sorts of Mango as of Apples’: The Gwillim Archive and the Emergence of Anglo-Indian Cuisine.” Women, Environment, and Networks of Empire: Elizabeth Gwillim and Mary Symonds in Madras. Eds. Anna Winterbottom, Victoria Dickenson, Ben Cartwright and Lauren Williams (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023): 231-247.  

with Anna Dysert, and Merika Ramundo, “Edible Enigmas: Food Riddles and Enigmatical Bills of Fare?” in Collections Thinking: Within and Without Libraries, Archives and Museums. Eds. Jason Camlot, Martha Langford & Linda Morra. (Routledge, 2023): 75-90.   

“Reflecting on Home and Away – Over a Canadian Meal.” in A Taste of Home: Les saveurs de chez soi. Eds. Ylenia De Luca and Oriana Palusci (Guernica World Editions, 2022): 1-40.  

with Nora Shaalan, “Database Dishes.” in The Teaching with Archives & Special Collections Cookbook. Ed. by Julie M. Porterfield. (Association of College & Research Libraries, 2021)

with Leehu Sigler, “Riddling Menus: A History,” Petits Propos Culinaires 120 (Prospect Books, 2021): 13-45. 

“Vanns Spices: Blending Food, Women’s Friendship and Business in 1980s Baltimore.” Food and Foodways: Explorations in the History and Culture of Human Nourishment. 28.4 (2020): 297-319.

“Montreal in the Culinary Imagination” in Canadian Culinary Imaginations, Eds. Shelley Boyd and Dorothy Barenscott. (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020): 117-145.  

with Shelley Boyd and Alexia Moyer, “A Literary History of the Mandarin Orange in Canada.” Gastronomica, vol. 20 , no. 1, (Spring 2020): 83-89.

With Jennifer Garland, “Reflection: Lived and Idealized Self and Other in Women’s Journals,” in  Women and the Periodical Press in China's Long Twentieth Century: A Space of Their Own? , Eds. Michel Hockx, Joan Judge and Barbara Mittler (Cambridge University Press, 2018): 215-217. 

“Writing the Chinese Restaurateur into the Canadian Literary Landscape.” Studies in Canadian Literature. 42.2 (2018): 5-25.

with Alexia Moyer, “Measuring Out Life in Coffee Spoons: Canadian Literary Breakfasts.” CuiZine: The Journal of Canadian Food Cultures. 8.1 (2017). Released 12 June 2018.

“Stories of Rice Lake -- Stewards, Settlers and Storytellers,” Food and Landscape, Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2017. Editor, Mark McWilliams (Prospect Books, 2018): 99-109. 

"Lessons from Generations Past: Timely and Timeless Communication Strategies of Some Canadian Cooks of Note," Food and Communication, Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2015. Ed. Mark McWilliams. (Prospect Books, 2016): 131-142. 

"Canadian Food Radio: Conjuring Nourishment for Canadians Out of Thin Air." How Canadians Communicate. Ed, Charlene Elliott (University of Athabasca Press, 2016): 107-128. 

"Canadian Cookbooks: Changing Ideas about Cooking and Contamination, 1854–1898," Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 32.2 (October 2015): 297-318.

“Spreading Controversy: The Story of Margarine in Quebec.” Edible Histories: A Canadian Food History Anthology, Ed. Marlene Epp, Valerie Korinek, Franca Iacovetta (2012): 249-268. 

"Lorna Crozier," in Canadian Writers and Their Works, Vol 11., Ed. David, Lecker & Quigley (1995): 77-159. 

Reviews and Public Scholarship

Public Scholarship 

with Jacquelyn Sundberg, “How encrypted Victorian newspaper personal ads shaped fiction like Sherlock and Enola Holmes,” The Conversation, 1 May 2023.

Study Guides 

“An Introduction to the Illustrated Menu Collection.” (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022)

with Shelley Boyd, “What is ‘Restaurant Literature’? Depictions of Chinese Restaurants in Canadian Literature,” a CanLit Guide (a pedagogical initiative of the journal Canadian Literature), 2017. See here. 

Curated Exhibitions and General Audience Outputs 

with Ronny Litvack-Katzman, Jacquelyn Sundberg, Octavian Sopt, News and Novel Sensations: Victorian Novels and Newspaper Agony Ads. McLennan Library. 11 January – 31 March, 2023.  

with Kristen Howard, Leehu Sigler, Octavian Sopt, Jacquelyn Sundberg, Food for Thought: Riddles and Riddling Ways. McLennan Library. 1 February -1 July, 2022.  

with Irina Mihalache and Elizabeth Ridolfo, Mixed Messages: Making and Shaping Culinary Culture in Canada. Fisher Library, University of Toronto. 24 May 2018- September 2018. Catalogue: Mixed Messages: Making and Shaping Culinary Culture in Canada (Coach House Press, 2018).