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About Elizabeth McQueen
Elizabeth McQueen is an Assistant Professor in the College of Fine Arts at Florida State University. She writes about taste and performance, from contemporary performance art to wine fairs to sensory science labs with an attention on microbes and microplastics as key actors. Her research is informed by performance studies, food studies, feminist science and technology studies, and sensory studies, coalescing around strands of new materialism. Her writing can be found in Gastronomica, Global Performance Studies, and Theatre Journal, and forthcoming in LEONARDO and American Historical Review. She is co-editing Sensory Dramaturgy, an edited collection on the senses in performance with Sean Metzger and Devon Baur. Her upcoming book project, provisionally titled Tastes of Performance, proposes terroir as a lingering analytic for the anxieties and aesthetics of contemporary consumption. She hosts the food studies podcast, Esculent.
McQueen served as the 2024-25 Postdoctoral Fellow for the Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar at University of California, Davis, “Thinking Food at the Intersections: Justice and Critical Food Studies.” With initial support from the Mellon fellowship, she produced 40+ episodes of the food studies podcast Esculent, with 6,000+ downloads, featuring leading chefs, artists, and scholars who engage with constructions of food, including Chef Martin Yan, food and agriculture scholar Professor Julie Guthman, and sensory science founder Professor Hildegarde Heymann. The podcast has appeared on multiple syllabi nationally and with support from University of California Humanities Research Initiative and Florida State University’s Native American and Indigenous Studies Center.
She received her Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance Studies from University of California, Los Angeles, and a B.A. in Comparative History of Ideas and Theatre Design from University of Washington.
NBN Episodes hosted by Elizabeth:
November 15, 2026
Shakespeare and the Senses
A study of how audiences of Shakespeare’s time understood the sensual world of his plays.Could something as seemingly natural as a smell, taste, sight…