Avery Blankenship

Avery [she/her/hers] is a current English PhD candidate at Northeastern University.  Her areas of study primarily include digital humanities, print and book history, and nineteenth-century American recipes and domestic manuals. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century American cookbooks and their relationship to domestic social power. She is particularly interested in cookbooks as material interfaces, recipes in circulation, and cookbooks as domestic symbols in literature. Avery received her MA in English from Northeastern University as well as her BA in English Literature and BS in Computer Science from Rhodes College. She also teaches for the Campus Scholars Program, an online community college program dedicated to affordability, access, and equity.