Dr. L. Sasha Gora
Phone: | +49 821 598 - 4778 |
Email: | sasha.gora@uni-auni-a.de () |
Room: | 9015 (BCM) |
Address: | Alter Postweg 101 (Büro Center Messe), 86159 Augsburg |
Curriculum Vitae
- Since 05/2023: “Off the Menu: Appetites, Culture, and Environment” Project Director & Principal Investigator, the University of Augsburg, Germany
- 2022–2023: International Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Essen, Germany
- 2022: Politics of Food Resident, Delfina Foundation, London, England
- 2021–2022: Lecturer and Editorial Director, Rachel Carson Center, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
- 2020–2021: Environmental Humanities Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Humanities and Social Change, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
- 2020: Doctor of Philosophy, Amerika-Institut, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany (summa cum laude)
- 2019: Visiting Scholar, University of California Berkeley, United States
- 2016–2020: Lecturer, Amerika-Institut, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
- 2012: Master of Science, International Museum Studies, the University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- 2010: Bachelor of Arts, Joint Honours in Art History and International Development Studies, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
International Lectures and Keynotes
Keynote „Making Fish: Recipes and the Construction of Culinary Geography”
During the NO-CITY Summer School “Toward a Food Atlas” at the Università Iuav di Venezia, Sasha L. Gora did the keynote presentation “Making Fish: Recipes and the Construction of Culinary Geography”.
Curated by Marta de Marchi, “Toward a Food Atlas” deals with the food system in the lagoon of Venice in order to identify one possible model for a food atlas in this specific territorial context. The summer school is taking place in cooperation with the European interuniversity network NO-CITY, which researches the socio-ecological impacts of urbanisation. Sasha L. Gora’s keynote raises the questions: How can a recipe also be a map? How does a recipe connect plants and animals by its list of ingredients and instructions and therefore maps the geography of the kitchen that it represents? She explains how recipes represent the peculiarities of a place but also construct, question or negate them.
Publications
2025 |
Gora L. Sasha.
'The bitter taste of extinction': writing the environmental crisis through food.
In: Calvi Pablo, editor. The literary journalist as a naturalist. London: Palgrave Macmillan; 2025. p. 91-109.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56634-9_6
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2024 |
Gora L. Sasha.
The last course.
Berlin Review 2024;(6 (Oct 2024)).
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Gora L. Sasha.
Time and microbes, tides and bodies: on fermentation as artistic practice and culinary cruising.
Food, Culture & Society 2024;1-18.
https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2024.2429903
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2023 |
Gora L. Sasha.
A window, a mountain, a scape [Editorial].
Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation 2023;10(3):1-2.
https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i3.676
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Acosta Raúl, Adedeji Joseph Adeniran, Barua Maan, Gandy Matthew, Gora L. Sasha, Schlichting Kara Murphy.
Thinking with urban natures.
Global Environment 2023;16(2):177-121.
https://doi.org/10.3197/ge.2023.160202
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2022 |
Gora L. Sasha.
'Sad ol' mush': the poetics and politics of porridge in residential schools in Canada.
Childhood in the Past 2022;15(2):86-95.
https://doi.org/10.1080/17585716.2022.2095173
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Gora L. Sasha.
Baccalà in Venice, cod in the world.
In: Baldacci Cristina, Bassi Shaul, De Capitani Lucio, Omodeo Pietro Daniel, editors. Venice and the Anthropocene: an ecocritical guide. Venice: wetlands; 2022. p. 91-94.
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Gora L. Sasha.
Life, death, and dinner among the molluscs: human appetites and sustainable aquaculture.
In: Kevany Kathleen May, Prosperi Paolo, editors. Routledge handbook of sustainable diets. London: Routledge; 2022. p. 119-128.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003174417-13
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Gora L. Sasha.
Today's special: reading menus as cultural texts.
In: Szanto David, Di Battista Amanda, Knezevic Irena, editors. Food studies: matter, meaning, movement. Ottawa, ON: Food Studies Press; 2022. p. 115-126.
https://doi.org/10.22215/fsmmm/gs19
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2021 |
Gora L. Sasha.
Buddies, lovers, and detours: America and its road movies.
Review of International American Studies 2021;14(2):103-119.
https://doi.org/10.31261/rias.11809
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Gora L. Sasha.
On ice: life and lunch at Mercato di Rialto.
Lagoonscapes: The Venice Journal of Environmental Humanities 2021;1(1):79-100.
https://doi.org/10.30687/lgsp//2021/01/007
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2020 |
Gora L. Sasha.
Brotzeit: dispatch from Munich.
Gastronomica 2020;20(3):92-93.
https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2020.20.3.92
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Gora L. Sasha.
From meat to metaphor: beavers and conflicting imaginations of the edible.
In: Boyd Shelley, Barenscott Dorothy, editors. Canadian culinary imaginations. Montreal, QC: McGill-Queen's University Press; 2020. p. 93-114.
https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2nwq9gw.9
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Gora L. Sasha.
Muckamuck: restaurants, labour, and the power of representation.
McWilliams Mark, editor. Food and power: proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2019 London: Prospect Books; 2020.
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2017 |
Gora L. Sasha.
Beaver as offal: the presence and absence of beaver in Canadian cuisine.
McWilliams Mark, editor. Offal: rejected and reclaimed food: proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2016 London: Prospect Books; 2017. 200-210.
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Gora L. Sasha.
Eating the north: an analysis of the cookbook "NOMA: time & place in Nordic cuisine".
Graduate Journal of Food Studies 2017;4(2).
https://doi.org/10.21428/92775833.6c60dbc4
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2016 |
Gora L. Sasha.
Breaking bread: the clashing cults of sourdough and gluten-free.
In: Cargill Kima, editor. Food cults: how fads, dogma, and doctrine influence diet. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield; 2016. p. 173-186.
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