Anke Klitzing

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About Anke Klitzing

I lecture on food and culture, literature and media (Gastronomy and Food Studies) at the Technological University Dublin. My research combines food studies, literature and Irish studies and focuses on developing the gastrocritical approach to literature, film and imaginative texts – the theory and methodology of understanding the nexus of food and writing. I hold a Postgraduate Certificate in University Learning and Teaching from TU Dublin, an MA in Food Culture and Communication (Promozione e Gestione del Patromonio Enogastronomico e Turistico) from the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Italy and a BA (Hons) in English Literature and Sociology from UCD (Ireland). My professional experience in Ireland, Italy, and Germany includes restaurant and bar management as well as journalism, communications, and PR in the agro-culinary and NGO sectors. Besides academic publications, mostly on food in Irish literature, I have written on food, literature and society for Irish, German and Italian publications. I serve as submissions editor of the Dublin Gastronomy Symposium and on the organising committee of the Food and Drink as… conference series; as editor of the Journal of Franco-Irish Studies, editor-in-chief of the literary food writing journal Stirring Words and as production editor of the European Journal of Food, Drink, and Society. I am a member of the Association for Franco-Irish Studies (AFIS) and board member of the TU Dublin Centre for Irish Studies. Currently I serve as chair of Softball Leinster and on the board of Softball Ireland. In my spare time, I play slowpitch softball with the Hippetys softball club and practice Aikido in the Aikido Dojo Rathmines.