Profile
Julieta Flores Jurado is a researcher in the field of Society and Culture at UNAM's Center for North American Studies (CISAN). The title of her current project is Radical Commensality: Food Cultures, Gastropolitics, and Social Justice in the United States in the 21st Century.
She holds a PhD in Literature from UNAM, and has a Master’s degree in Comparative Literature and a Bachelor’s degree in Modern Languages and Literatures from the same institution.
Julieta was a Postdoctoral Fellow at CISAN (2022-2024), where her research focused on the political shift in U.S. Food Media and Journalism post-2020, as well as the representation of chefs and professional kitchens that critique systemic abuses of power and harmful masculinities within this field. She has also served as a lecturer at UNAM's School of Philosophy and Literature since 2014 and is a member of Mexico’s National System of Researchers (Level I).
Position:
Research Associate “C”, Article 51, in the area of Society and Culture.
Research Areas
- Food and Society, Food Cultures of North America
Recent Publications
“De artista a villano: el cine gastronómico estadounidense, sátira, esnobismo y crítica al abuso de poder en la película El menú”. Culinaria: revista virtual especializada en gastronomía, no. 28, 2024, pp. 4-34. http://web.uaemex.mx/Culinaria/pdf_culinaria_veintiocho/plato_fuerte_01_28.pdf.
“A Fork in the Road? Rethinking Culinary Genius, Power Dynamics, and the Impact of Social Movements on U.S. Food Media and Popular Culture” Norteamérica: Revista Académica del CISAN-UNAM, vol. 19, no. 2, 2024. https://doi.org/10.22201/cisan.24487228e.2024.2.674.
“A time when bubbles burst: addressing representation, diversity, and inequality in writings about restaurants in the United States, post-2020”. Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, vol. 24, no. 2, 2024, pp. 6-15. https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2024.24.2.6
“‘Vivir de un modo más agradable en un mundo cada vez más lleno de sorpresas desagradables’: la relectura de How to Cook a Wolf de M. F. K. Fisher durante el confinamiento de 2020”. Perífrasis. Revista de Literatura, Teoría y Crítica, vol. 14, no. 29, 2023, pp. 82-99. https://doi.org/10.25025/perifrasis202314.29.05
