Professor of Spanish
Director, Interdisciplinary Humanities
- PhD and MA, Duke University, Romance Studies
- Graduate Certificates in Women’s Studies and European Studies
- BA, Emory University, Spanish, summa cum laude, and International Studies
Rebecca Ingram, PhD, joined the faculty in 2009. She teaches courses in modern and contemporary Iberian cultural studies and literature, in addition to Spanish language at all levels. An expert in Food Studies and feminist theory, she is also affiliated faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies.
Scholarly Work
Professor Ingram’s research involves food cultural studies in relation to Spain. She is the author of Women’s Work: How Culinary Cultures Shaped Modern Spain (Vanderbilt, 2022). She is also co-editor of two volumes: Digestible Governance: Gastrocracy and Spanish Foodways (Vanderbilt UP, 2024) with Eugenia Afinoguénova and Lara Anderson, and Food Studies en español: Investigación actual en gastronomía y comunicación (Fragua, 2024) with Yanet Acosta. In 2020, the Bulletin of Spanish Studies published the special issue she and Anderson edited titled “Transhispanic Food Cultural Studies,” the first extended study of food as a cultural text within the broader fields of Iberian and Latin American Cultural Studies.
Recent articles have appeared in MVM: Cuadernos de Estudios Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, RAE-IC, Revista de la Asociación Española de Investigación de la Comunicación, and Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, among others. She has also published book chapters in these edited collections: Approaches to Teaching the Works of Emilia Pardo Bazán, 2018 (edited by Versteeg and Walter); Multiple Modernities: Carmen de Burgos, Author and Activist, 2017 (edited by Louis and Sharp); and the Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Spain: Ideas, Practices, Imaginings, forthcoming (edited by Delgado and Ledesma). She also serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies.
An invited speaker at numerous universities in the U.S. and in Spain, Ingram also presents regularly at national and international conferences. Her new book projects focus on racialized Spaniards, women’s labor, and Spain’s 21st century foodscapes and Food Studies methodologies in the Spanish classroom.
News
Cucala, Sara. "Libros de gastronomía y pensamiento culinario para estimular sobremesas." El País, February 21, 2025, https://elpais.com/gastronomia/2025-02-22/libros-de-gastronomia-y-pensamiento-culinario-para-estimular-sobremesas.html
Areas of Interest
Professor Ingram’s teaching interests include Gender and Sexuality in Spain, Food and Politics in Spain, and the Spanish Civil War, in addition to courses on Cultural Analysis in Spanish and the Cultural History of Spain. She also teaches all levels of Spanish language.