Kathryn Hempstead

Thesis Title: The Sociability of Recipes: Expertise, Aspiration, and Attribution in Seventeenth Century English Recipes Explored in Part Through Digital Quantitative Methods

Supervisors: Professor Adam Smyth, Professor Abigail Williams  

Research Interests: History of the book, digital humanities applications in historical inquiry, material cultures of food, food history, history of knowledge, history of medicine, authorship, embodied practice, gender

Conference Papers:

'Authorship and Agency: Finding Nuance in Early Modern Gender Studies through Printed Instructional Books', University of Sydney History Postgraduate and Honours Conference, November 2022, Sydney, Australia.

'Gesturing Towards the Aspirational Community', Co-Creating Knowledge: Recipe Books and Community Formation in Early Modern England Workshop, November 2025, University of Tübingen, Germany.

Forthcoming:

'"What's in a name?": Attributing Authorship in English Recipe Books 1600-1642', ‘Verse with wings of skill': Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature, April 2026, University of Sheffield, UK.