Sensory studies arises at the conjuncture (and within) the fields of anthropology • sociology • history • archeology • geography • communications • religion • philosophy • literature • art history • museology • film • mixed media • performance • phenomenology • disability • aesthetics • architecture • urbanism • design

Sensory Studies can also be divided along sensory lines into, for example, visual culture, auditory culture (or sound studies), smell culture, taste culture and the culture of touch, not to mention the sixth sense (however it might be defined)

Research profile >> Lisa Heldke

Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota, USA

Philosophy/Food Studies – Taste – Cultural Food Colonialism – Cosmopolitanism and Localism

 

Lisa Heldke is the author of Exotic Appetites: Ruminations of a Food Adventurer (Routledge), and the co-editor of two anthologies in the philosophy of food: Cooking, Eating, Thinking: Transformative Philosophies of Food, co-edited with Deane Curtin (Indiana) and The Atkins Diet and Philosophy, coedited with Kerri Mommer and Cindy Pineo (Open Court). She is the coeditor of Food, Culture and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research.

Heldke holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Northwestern University. She is currently Professor of Philosophy, Sponberg Chair in Ethics, and member of the Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies Program at Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter Minnesota.

Her work is rooted in the American pragmatist tradition, and is deeply informed by the thought of John Dewey and Jane Addams. Her current research explores the cosmopolitan/local dichotomy, as it is manifested in contemporary food systems debates. Her most recent essay on this topic is “Down Home Global Cooking: Why Cosmopolitanism versus Localism is a False Dichotomy, and How Our Food Can Show Us the Way to a Third Option,” forthcoming in The Philosophy of Food, edited by David Kaplan. She is also engaged in qualitative research to study the ways in which food serves the mission and educational goals of the liberal arts college; is food the quintessential liberal arts topic?

E-mail: heldke@gustavus.edu