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Darra Goldstein

Francis Christopher Oakley Third Century Professor of Russian

At Williams since 1983
Darra.Goldstein@williams.edu
http://www.darragoldstein.com
33 Weston, x2161

[Areas of Expertise and Interest]:

  • Russian Poetry
  • Modernism
  • Russian Avant-Garde Art
  • Russian Cultural Studies
  • Culinary History

    • [Courses Taught]:  (RUSS)

  • Intermediate Russian (RUSS 103- 104)
  • Advanced Russian (RUSS 201)
  • Topics in Russian Culture: Feasting and Fasting in Russian History (RUSS 206)
  • History of Russian Art (RUSS 208)

    • [Education]:

  • A.B. Vassar College, 1973
  • Ph.D. Stanford University, 1983

    • [Other Posts]:

  • Editor in chief, Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture (published by University of California Press)
  • Food Editor, Russian Life Magazine

    • [Selected Publications]:

  • Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005 (with Sarah Coffin and Ellen Lupton). New York: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and Paris: Assouline, 2006.
  • Culinary Cultures of Europe: Identity, Diversity and Dialogue (Editor, with Kathrin Merkle). Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing, 2005.
  • The World Opened Wide: 20th-Century Russian Women Artists From the Collection of Thomas P. Whitney (Editor, with Jill Meredith). Amherst, MA: Mead Art Museum, 2001.
  • Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age, Yale University Press, 1998. Co- authored with Ellen Lupton and Deborah Rothschild.
  • Nikolai Zabolotsky: Play for Mortal Stakes, Cambridge University Press, 1993.
  • The Georgian Feast: The Vibrant Culture and Savory Food of the Republic of Georgia, HarperCollins, 1993.
  • Russian Houses, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1991.
  • Art for the Masses, Williams College Museum of Art, 1985.
  • A Taste of Russia, HarperCollins, 1983, 1993.

    • [Awards]:

  • Has received research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the International Research and Exchange Board, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, and the Mellon Foundation.
  • Julia Child Award for 1994 Best Cookbook of the Year (for The Georgian Feast).
  • Sophie Coe Subsidiary Prize in Food History, 1997.