Professor Emma Spary

Dr Emma Spary is Professor in the History of Modern European Knowledge at the Faculty of History. As a Fellow at Corpus since 2010, she has directed studies in History for several years. Her research interests centre upon European history in the ‘long eighteenth century’, especially France. Since her first book on the main natural history institution in Paris, founded during the First French Republic, she has published two others on the history of food and diet in eighteenth-century France, the first on Enlightenment café culture and the second on early industrial foods, including the only mashed potato factory in Republican France! She is currently working on a new book on drug-taking in the reign of Louis XIV. She teaches both European history and the history of science and medicine, supervising on Part I, Papers 16 and 17 and Part II, Papers 11 and 14.