Robert A. Davidson

Bob Davidson, Director of the Northrop Frye Centre and Associate Professor of Spanish and Catalan, specializes in Modern Peninsular Literature and Culture with an emphasis on urban studies and cultural theories of food and hospitality. Prof. Davidson is the author of Jazz Age Barcelona (U of Toronto Press, 2009; shortlisted for the Canada Prize in the Humanities) and The Hotel: Occupied Space (U of Toronto Press, 2018). Current projects include a monograph on terroir and Catalonia (The Taste of a Nation), which brings together research conducted over the past decade.
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