Elisa Tersigni

Elisa Tersigni is the Senior Research Associate, Collaborative Digital Research Space at University of Toronto Mississauga. She holds a PhD in English and Book History & Print Culture from the University of Toronto. She was the Digital Research Fellow for Before 'Farm to Table': Early Modern Foodways and Cultures from 2018–2011, during which time she was project manager for the development of the corpus of manuscript recipe books at the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Awards

  • Pantzer New Scholar Award, Bibliographical Society of America (2020)

Critical Editions

Exhibitions

  • Tastes of the Mediterranean, Pop-up exhibition at Folger Shakespeare Library on March 31, 2019
  • How We Eat: Food, Culture, and Identity, exhibition at Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, forthcoming 2026

Scholarly Blog Posts

Publications

  • "Review of Madeline Bassnet’s Women, Food Exchange, and Governance in Early Modern England." Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, 38.2, 2019: 448–450.

Recipe Recreations

Presentations and Invited Talks

Media