Artist-in-Residence
L. Sasha Gora
L. Sasha Gora is a cultural historian and writer working at the intersection between food studies, the environmental humanities, and contemporary art. In 2020 she earned a PhD from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the Rachel Carson Center, for which she received the 2021 Bavarian American Academy Dissertation Award. From the politics of serving wild game in restaurants to figurative painting and feminism, and from cookbooks by artists to her (strong) feelings about potato chips, her writing has been published by Gather, VICE, Gastronomica, BBC Travel, Eaten, C Magazine, Arts of the Working Class, and others. Based on her doctoral research about Indigenous restaurants in the lands now called Canada, her first book—Culinary Claims—is forthcoming from the University of Toronto Press.
Since 2023 she has been the project director of “Off the Menu: Appetites, Culture, and Environment” at the University of Augsburg—a research group dedicated to the culinary environmental humanities funded by the Elite Network of Bavaria. “Off the Menu” studies the intimate relationship between eating and ecology, especially all things fishy, watery, and (often) salty. Before joining Augsburg, she held fellowships at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and KWI Essen, and was a Politics of Food resident at Delfina Foundation.
Gora is the recipient of the Labrador Current Foodways residency.