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About Jonatan Leer


Jonatan Leer is head food and tourism research at University College Absalon, Roskilde (Denmark). He has published widely on food culture, notably on the new Nordic cuisine, food pedagogies, meat consuption and the gendering of food practices, in journals such as Food, Culture and Society, Food and Foodways, European Journal of Cultural Studies and Feminist Review.

He has written three books in Danish and edited the book Food and Media (Routledge 2016) and contributed to Food and Age in Europe (Routledge 2019), Alternative Food Politics (Routledge 2018), Food and Popular Culture (Bloomsbury 2017) and Food, Masculinities, Home (Bloomsbury 2017).

Jonatan is visiting lecturer at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, Italy, and member
of the Danish gastronomic academy

Major research interests


Taste Cooking – Masculinity Nordic Cuisine Monocultural and Multicultural Gastronationalism

Selected publications

  • Leer, J. & Wistoft K. (2019). Taste in Education: A Critical Review. Food and Foodways, 32 (2).
  • Leer, J. (2019) New Nordic Men: Cooking, Masculinity and Nordicness in René Redzepi’s “Noma” and Claus Meyer’s “Almanak”. Food Culture and Society 1.
  • Leer, J. (2018). Monocultural and Multicultural Gastronationalism: National Narratives in European Food shows. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 6(2,) 1-18.

Contact

Dr. Jonatan Leer

PhD in French/Cultural Studies, lecturer,
Head of Food and Tourism Research

University College Absalon
Trekroner Forskerpark 4  4000 Roskilde Denmark

Email:
leerjonatan@gmail.com; jlee@pha.dk 
Phone: +45 27 29 39 80