About Daniela Gutierrez Flores

Daniela Gutiérrez Flores is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish Literature and Culture at the Univeristy of California, Davis. She is interested in Food Studies, early modern history and literature, Latin American studies, and the history of material culture.

Daniela Gutiérrez Flores is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish Literature and Culture at the Univeristy of California, Davis. She is interested in Food Studies, early modern history and literature, Latin American studies, and the history of material culture.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Daniela:

Noémie Ndiaye, "Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

December 21, 2022

Scripts of Blackness

Noémie Ndiaye

Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022) shows how the early modern mass media of th…

Erin Alice Cowling, "Chocolate: How a New World Commodity Conquered Spanish Literature" (U Toronto Press, 2021)

November 21, 2022

Chocolate

Erin Alice Cowling

In terms of its popularity, as well as its production, chocolate was among the first foods to travel from the New World to Spain. Chocolate: How a New…

Mabel Moraña, "Philosophy and Criticism in Latin America: From Mariátegui to Sloterdijk" (Cambria Press, 2020)

January 4, 2022

Philosophy and Criticism in Latin America

Mabel Moraña

Mabel Moraña's book Philosophy and Criticism in Latin America: From Mariátegui to Sloterdijk (Cambria Press, 2020) explores the complex relationships …

Rebecca Earle, "Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

October 11, 2021

Feeding the People

Rebecca Earle

Potatoes are the world's fourth most important food crop, yet they were unknown to most of humanity before 1500. Rebecca Earle, Feeding the People: Th…

Lindsay Gardner, "Why We Cook: Women on Food, Identity, and Connection" (Workman, 2021)

May 7, 2021

Why We Cook

Lindsay Gardner

Why We Cook: Women on Food, Identity, and Connection (Workman, 2021) includes essays, recipes, interviews and profiles of more than 100 women in the …

William B. Taylor, "Fugitive Freedom: The Improbable Lives of Two Impostors in Late Colonial Mexico" (U California Press, 2021)

April 19, 2021

Fugitive Freedom

William B. Taylor

Though poverty and vagrancy as social phenomena greatly preoccupied authorities of Colonial Mexico, the social and individual lives of vagabonds and s…