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Pop-up: Diana Garvin

Sat, Nov 5, 2022 from 11:45 am - 12:05 pm PDT

General Admission Pass required for entry

Diana Garvin pops-up in the Portland Art Museum galleries with her book, Feeding Facism: The Politics of Women’s Food Work.

Garvin is paired with the artwork Le Petit Pâtissier (The Little Pastry Cook) by Chaim Soutine; found in the Modern and Contemporary Art area, on the 1st floor of the Portland Art Museum. Please reference the Portland Art Museum Map or the Portland Book Festival print program to find this location.


Feeding Fascism explores how women negotiated the politics of Italy’s Fascist regime in their daily lives and how they fed their families through agricultural and industrial labour.

The book looks at women’s experiences of Fascism by examining the material world in which they lived in relation to their thoughts, feelings, and actions.


Portland Book Festival General Admission Passes are required for entry into all events. Passes are $15 in advance and $25 day of Festival. Youth 17 & under, or with a valid high school ID get in FREE. All full-priced General Admission Passes include a $5 book fair voucher and entry into Portland Art Museum. Passes admit attendees to the Festival; individual events are first-come, first-served. More info here.

Diana Garvin

Diana Garvin is Assistant Professor of Italian with a focus on Mediterranean Studies at the University of Oregon. In her teaching, she uses food to explain Italian history in the world. Lectures explore topics like the birth of Neapolitan pizza, Futurist food, and the G-8 pesto debate. Diana conducted her postdoctoral research at the American Academy in Rome. She received her PhD from Cornell University, and her AB from Harvard University. Her research has been supported by Fulbright, Getty Library, Oxford University, Wolfsonian-FIU, Julia Child Foundation, CLIR Mellon, FLAS, AAUW, NWSA, AFS, APS, and other fellowships. As a culinary historian, Diana writes and comments on the politics of food for publications like The Washington Post, Punch, and Saveur, and speaks on podcasts like Los Angeles Review of Books’ “55 Voices for Democracy” and Heritage Radio Network’s “A Taste of the Past.”  Her book Feeding Fascism: The Politics of Women’s Food Work was a Civil Eats Summer 2022 Reading list selection, and a Modern Language Association award-winner.  She has also published a travel guide, Let’s Go: Spain and Portugal. Diana’s favorite Italian proverb is “O mangi questa minestra o salti dalla finestra,” “Eat this soup or jump out the window.”
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