Agreed, I love how academics from so many different fields can relate to that feeling of just wanting to go deeper and deeper into a tiny niche! I always love hearing what other peoples' specialties are, yours sounds fascinating and so productive, too. Good luck with the defense! Can't wait until I can say I'm only 18 days away from that milestone (even though I'm also afraid of it haha 😅)

If you're interested in those kinds of things, you might enjoy the book Tasting Difference by Gitanjali Shahani - I recommend this book all the time, I think it's fascinating! All about early modern cross-cultural contact through food, and the metaphorical and literal ways that colonizing subjects consumed colonized subjects. Shakespeare, recipes, contemporary art, cannibalism... it gets into so many topics in a really interesting way.

I’ve wanted to watch The Green Knight! I’ve never actually read the source material (a bit too early for my research) but I see it referenced often in regards to hospitality and the story seems like a very interesting place to see some of these ideas of dangerous intimacy under hospitality playing out…

Doesn't per se fall in love but is more tempted with Lust. The entire journey is a test on whether or not he is a worthy man

i just read sir gawain and the green knight for a medieval literature class and that section is sooo fascinating. in the poem its structured with these simultaneous alternating scenes of lord bertilak hunting & the lady bertilak attempting to seduce gawain and it's so weird and tense, you don't really know what to make of it. was kind of disappointed by the fact that the film didn't follow the same structure for that section because reading it i found it really cinematic !

That's such a cool topic to be writing about! Have you ever read anything by Elspeth Probyn? I really like her book "Carnal Appetites; FoodSexIdentities," it has some really fascinating discussion of food, sexuality, queer identities, and even cannibalism... not sure if it would have anything to do with your thesis, but if you're into these kinds of topics you might find it interesting!

something that interests me about hospitality is not only that it can be about strangers, anxiety, nationhood, borders etc but also in terms of reproduction & pregnancy - gestation itself is maybe a form of hospitality? the only kind of hospitality that can happen within a body? anyway idk if you've ever read anything about that idea but iif you have i would love to know !!

@@actual-spinster Wow, I've never actually thought about pregnancy as a form of hospitality! But I have thought about the body as a site of hospitality, it's a really interesting but kind of uncomfortable thing... some writings describe the body as being a house within which the soul lives or which has doors that can be opened or closed to contamination, and then some of the plays I read talk about a woman's body as a house and sex as a form of hospitality. That last one is where things get a bit weird, because sometimes in plays you'll see an assumption made based on that, that a woman inviting you into her home, is a sexual invitation that extends to her body... There's also some opportunity for weird and uncomfortable body hospitality ideas when it comes to cannibalism, which is something I talk about a little bit in my dissertation! The borders of the body / the mouth as a threshold over which the guest passes... though in this case the guest is, ya know, turned into food... ...I think it might say something about me that I considered hospitality within a body in regards to cannibalism, before I ever thought about it in regards to pregnancy 😅 That's a really cool idea though!

@@GlutenbergBible that's all rly interesting if sort of upsetting at points haha. i dont remember if u talked about it in the video but i imagine titus andronicus is a big play in terms of ur research!

@@actual-spinster I don't think I did mention it, but YES! I spend a lot of time talking about Titus. I honestly hate that play haha but it has some really useful bits for my research!