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by Emily Contois

My research explores food, the body, health, and identities in contemporary U.S. media and popular culture. I'm Assistant Professor of Media Studies at The University of Tulsa, author of Diners, Dudes & Diets: How Gender & Power Collide in Food Media & Culture, and co-editor of Food Instagram: Identity, Influence & Negotiation.

July 3, 2016
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November 9, 2020

Behind the Scenes: How I Wrote My First Academic Book

This is the story of how I wrote my first book—Diners, Dudes & Diets: How Gender & Power Collide...

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August 1, 2019

Food Media Syllabus

Through historic cookbooks, Instagram, and 30+ virtual guests, "Food Media" critically considers our global food system through media.

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June 11, 2017

Listening to the Voices in Historic Cookbooks

Drawing from hundreds of cookbooks from 1390s-1920s, the Reading Historic Cookbooks seminar taught participants to listen to the voices...

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February 8, 2017

60 Food Studies Books, Not Just for Black History Month

Food studies books addressing African and African American foodways represent a rich, important, and growing area of food studies...

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Thoughts on Public Scholarship

July 31, 2018

Why I’m Still Blogging After 6 Years & Being Trolled

I blog as an academic for a number of reasons, but this year I had some new reflecting to...

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July 11, 2017

Celebrating 5 Years Blogging & Why Other Academics Should Too

The blog is turning five! Here's five more reasons why I blog, and why other academics should too.

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April 12, 2016

Social Media Lessons for Aspiring Public Intellectuals

I attended several fascinating panels at the 2016 OAH Annual Meeting here in Providence this past weekend (check out #OAH2016 on Twitter), and also...

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August 6, 2014

Cheers & Tears: 5 More Reasons for Academics to Blog

This summer marks my second year of blogging, so I thought I’d celebrate by adding to the five lessons I...

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Delighted to have an essay I wrote with @zeniakish in @villa.albertine’s States magazine! It’s a gorgeous print publication full of creative ideas, this first issue focused on food culture. Our opinion essay draws from our work in Food Instagram (@illinoispress) to ponder if social media will replace our cookbooks. (We don’t think so!) Heartfelt thanks to @fparasecoli for recommending me to contribute!
Some Pup & PJs cuteness from last night, now with Squishmallows for more things to cuddle and help students destress! #utulsafir
I’ve lived a lot of places and experienced many types of snow. Poor Raven is not a fan of what Oklahoma is serving up today: freezing sleet that pings against the window panes. This is her scared seal face. 🥺
The ice and snow tried to derail our Faculty in Residence dinner, but thanks to TU Catering, @m.asonnorton, and @kellie.maries, we pulled it off! Such a joy to have these wonderful students and alumna in our home this evening! #utulsafir
It’s a cold start to what will hopefully be a good week. We’ve got office hours (with some cuddly surprises during Wednesday’s Pup & PJs!) and great events on Thursday. If you’re the first in your family to go to college, definitely join us for a casual meet, eat, and greet that afternoon, and everyone, mark your calendars for a great @okcenterforhumanities talk that evening! Hope to see you!
Afternoon tea break to fuel my abstract writing. Thinking I want to explore the role of masculinity in the advertising of both meat and plant-based meat alongside gasoline trucks and electric trucks…

Thoughts On Teaching

January 19, 2023

Top 10 Things My Women’s & Gender Studies Students Learned

These are the ideas and concepts that resonated most with my Intro to Women's & Gender Studies students.

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May 1, 2022

Teaching Reflection: Unessays, Again!

Check out the unessay projects my students did in Advertising History, Culture & Critique.

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December 17, 2021

What We Learned in Critical Media Studies of Health & Medicine

My students learned a lot in our course on deconstructing health and reimagining health media and communication.

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December 15, 2021

My Media & Pop Culture Students’ Top 9 Learnings

These are the top concepts and ideas Media & Pop Culture students learned this semester; what they'll take with...

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January 17, 2021

14 Things the Jane Fonda Workout Taught Me for Online Pandemic Teaching

Go at your own pace. Show real sweat. Count it down. Here's what I've learned from Jane Fonda's workouts...

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December 18, 2020

Tracking Our Media Diets in Intro to Media Studies

This semester, students merged theory and practice in a deeply self-reflexive way through Media Diet Journals, which they then...

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December 11, 2020

Top 10 Things We Learned in Food Media, Pandemic Edition

I taught Food Media online during a pandemic, but we still learned (and ate) a lot.

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May 11, 2020

Teaching Online: How to Be More Creative & Engaging

Six tips for how to teach in creative and engaging ways online.

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September 20, 2019

For My Students: My First 10 “Bad” Instagram Posts

My students' Instagram lives made me reflect on mine, my first posts, and who I want to be on...

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May 10, 2019

Teaching the Unruly Unessay

My students and I tested out unessays this semester, an assignment I now highly recommend.

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December 11, 2018

Teaching with Infographics

My students translated 1500-word essays into infographics. I share details for instructors interested to try a similar assignment.

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December 10, 2018

On Teaching “Persuasive Influences in America” for the First Time

I reflect on what my students and I read, wrote, and learned in a course on persuasion in the...

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November 9, 2018

A Student Interview on Media Studies + Food Studies

I chatted with a first year TU student about researching and teaching in media studies and food studies.

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April 18, 2018

Presenting My Students’ Final Project: Defining American Food

I'm pleased to share the restaurant reviews and interviews my Brown students wrote, working to define American food.

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Conference & Event Write-ups

ASFS 2019 at University of Alaska Anchorage + a Call to ActionA 2019 ASFS conference debrief, plus why the Alaska governor's 41% cut to the...July 8, 2019

Reflecting on the Southern Foodways Alliance & Bentonville, ArkansasThe SFA Summer Field Trip explored the food culture of Bentonville, Arkansas, a booming...June 18, 2019

What Jonathan Gold Taught ASFS Food ScholarsA roundup of tweets from a writing workshop Jonathan Gold taught at the 2017...July 22, 2018

Pondering & Archiving #foodstudies18: AFHVS/ASFS Conference at UW-MadisonRead on for a debrief of the 2018 meeting of ASFS with AFHVS at...June 18, 2018

Ruminating on Capitalism and the SensesThe Capitalism and the Senses workshop considered how the market has historically manipulated sight,...June 30, 2017

Reflecting on #OXYFOOD17, a Dream Food Studies Conference#OXYFOOD17 was a truly great food studies conference full of groundbreaking scholarship, fellowship, and...June 22, 2017

Sports, Gender & Society…and Food?Addressing sport, identities, health, media, access, and justice, this conference provided good thinking for...April 8, 2017

Addressing Labor Across the Food System at the Just Food? ForumThis event delivered a complex, layered, and expansive view of the challenges facing workers...April 4, 2017

Food Waste, Recovery & Insecurity: The Role of RI Colleges and UniversitiesThis panel addressed the challenges and opportunities for colleges and universities to intervene in...April 3, 2017

7 Things Food Studies Can Learn from Food DesignFood studies could learn a lot from a similarly burgeoning and interdisciplinary field: food...February 21, 2017

Association for the Study of Food and Society 2016: A DebriefFood studies presentations, roundtables, workshops, kitchen labs, field trips, tastings, exhibits, posters, dine arounds...June 27, 2016

The Dietary Innovation & Disease Conference: A DebriefLast week, I presented at a history of nutrition conference that took place on...June 17, 2016

Food Writing

Beyond Local: Taste the Spirit of Montana at Lilac in Billings

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Update: Like too many treasured local restaurants, Lilac was forced to close during the Covid-19 pandemic. I leave this story up as a tribute to a special restaurant, its chef and owner Jeremy Engebretson, its staff, and the food scene of my hometown.  Montana is called “the last best place,” a long-cherished refrain that applies now more than ever to its increasingly innovative restaurants....

April 14, 2016
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Food Media

December 11, 2020

Top 10 Things We Learned in Food Media, Pandemic Edition

I taught Food Media online during a pandemic, but we still learned (and ate) a lot.

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December 14, 2019

Our Food Media Top 10

On our last day of #foodxmedia, we created a top 10 listicle to summarize what resonated most with my...

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August 1, 2019

Food Media Syllabus

Through historic cookbooks, Instagram, and 30+ virtual guests, "Food Media" critically considers our global food system through media.

by Emily Contois
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July 10, 2019

Thinking Through Food and Media

A panel synopsis on the intersection of food studies & media studies that explores key texts, concepts, challenges &...

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Resources

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What Is Food Studies?

In my editor's note in the fifth issue of the Graduate Journal of Food Studies I considered how to define food studies, particularly during our current political climate.

March 2, 2017
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Publishing in Food Studies Journals: An Index

Food studies is an ever-expanding field with an increasing number of discipline specific and related peer-reviewed journals. As you seek out the right “home” for your food studies scholarship, consider this list...

June 14, 2016
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How to Write a Statement of Purpose

When I applied to PhD programs, I didn’t really find the advice I was seeking for how to write a statement of purpose, so I wrote this post in the...

October 1, 2013
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4 Steps to Find the Right PhD Program for You, Food Studies or Otherwise

So, you’ve decided to pursue a PhD. You’ve heard the advice, “If there’s anything else you want to do, seriously, do that instead” and pondered it thoroughly. You’ve searched...

September 16, 2013
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Graduate Food Studies Programs: A List

I began keeping this list of graduate food studies program after a fascinating roundtable discussion titled, “Masters Programs in Food Studies, Food Systems, and Food Policy,” at the 2013...

June 24, 2013
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