Curriculum

Caroline Nyvang, PhD, is a senior researcher at the Royal Danish Library. She holds an MA in History and a PhD on Danish printed cookbooks. Her research explores how we put food, traditions, and community into words, and the social, cultural, and media-historical processes underlying these narratives. She has shown how cookbooks and recipe collections over time have functioned as media for ideals of food, identity, and practice, from early modern manuscript culture to today’s digital landscape.

Caroline Nyvang’s work is situated at the intersection of food history, book and media history, and digital cultural heritage. She investigates how traditional practices and ideas—including food culture, community, and social norms—are both shaped by and reshaped through encounters with new media, including the digital transformation of society.

Lectures and outreach topics Caroline can offer:

• Cultural history through cookbooks: How cookbooks as a genre reflect and shape social ideals of food, gender, class, and nation.

• The role of tradition in modern society: How older practices persist and are transformed in digital and media-driven contexts.

• Mediatisation and digital cultural heritage: The significance of digital archives, memory technologies, and web culture for understanding past and present.

• Historical sources in public debate: Methods for using historical texts and archives in contemporary societal and media discussions.

• Research and public engagement: How historical perspectives can contribute to current debates on culture, identity, and community.

You can contact Caroline at cany [at] kb.dk.