Dr Melissa Calaresu
- College positions:
Deputy Senior Tutor (Postgraduates)
Neil McKendrick Lecturer in History
Director of Studies in History
Director of Studies in History and Modern Languages
Graduate Tutor
- University positions:
Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of History
Co-Convenor of the Early Modern Worlds Workshop and Seminar
Co-Convenor the Eighteenth Century Seminar
- Subject:
Degrees
BA (Hons.) in History (Huron College, University of Western Ontario, Canada), M.A. in History (Queen’s University, Canada), PhD in History (Cantab), Commonwealth Scholar, 1990-1994
Research interests
Early modern cultural history of Europe, with a special emphasis on Naples and southern Italy, and the Grand Tour. Urban and food history.
Publications include:
- Exploring Cultural History: Essays in Honour of Peter Burke (2010)
- New Approaches to Naples c.1500–c.1800: The Power of Place (2013)
- Catalogue for the Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition, Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to Enlightenment (2015)
- Food Hawkers: Selling in the Streets from Antiquity to the Present Day (2016)
- Catalogue for the Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition, Feast & Fast: The art of food in Europe, 1450-1800 (2019)
Teaching interests
Early modern and modern European history (1500-1850), history of collecting, history of material culture, and history of food.