Natalia Orenstein
DPhil Candidate
St Edmund Hall
Research interests: the historical representation of food in literature; constructs of domesticity; feminist revisionism; observational literature.
Thesis title: Dining With Death: Commensality and the Politics of Consumption Between the World Wars.
Supervisor: Professor Marina Mackay.
My thesis scrutinises the societal mise en place that commensality performs in upper-class spheres. I am interested in the discursive function of dinner parties in twentieth-century British literature, with particular attention paid toward the transitional period between the World Wars.
Publications:
Natalia Orenstein, 'Chewing Over Consumer Culture in 19th and 20th Century Novels', The Scattered Pelican (Fall Issue, 2022, pp. 23 - 38).
