Kate M. Nash

Bio

Kate M. Nash is a Lecturer of Rhetoric at Boston University. She is at work on a book manuscript provisionally titled Consuming War: Modernism and the Rhetoric of Austerity, which explores how British women writers engaged with state-sponsored changes in food culture during the First and Second World Wars.

Contributions

Fixing the Interwar Meal: Positive Eugenics and Jewish Assimilation in Betty Miller’s Farewell Leicester Square

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Betty Miller opens her 1946 “Notes for an Unwritten Autobiography” provocatively, branding herself a “Fifth Columnist” who had at one time worked to undermine her country from within. Rather than any clandestine operation that she participated in as an adult, however, Miller’s stint as a “Fifth Columnist” occurred when she was just a child. While a young girl in a nursery in Ireland, Miller increasingly became captivated by the image of the German Kaiser Wilhelm II. Although Miller understood...

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