Dr Angelica Michelis is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of English at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her current research interest and publications focus on the meaning of food and how the process of eating can be understood as a complex exchange between the self and what is considered as its other, with the effect that any concept of identity is directly intertwined with the way we regulate our orifices.

Angelica has published a range of articles discussing, for example, the relationship between food and culture, eating and poetry, cooking and crime. She is currently working on a monograph entitled Eating Theory: The Theory of Eating for Manchester University Press. When she is not writing about food she is cooking it, reading about it and eating it!