Episode 246: The Uncanny Gastronomic with Zara-Louise Stubbs

Today's guest is Zara-Louise Stubbs. Zara is a researcher at the University of York, where she is reading for a PhD in Contemporary Literature. Her thesis is entitled Eating Bodies, Assembling Selves: The Uncanny Gastronomic in Contemporary Women's Literature . As that title suggests, she's interested in questions around food, the uncanny, and gender across a range of literary genres. Those are exactly the kind of topics we talk about in this episode, where we look at Zara's anthology The Uncanny Gastronomic: Strange Tales of the Edible Weird , which gathers a range of short stories and other works – some famous, some comparatively obscure – about the 'uncanny gastronomic', along with introductions to the texts from Zara. The book was published in 2023 British Library Publishing, part of their British Library Tales of the Weird series. This episode is proudly sponsored by the Animal Politics book series, from Sydney University Press

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Episode 246: The Uncanny Gastronomic with Zara-Louise Stubbs is an episode from Knowing Animals by Josh Milburn.

This episode is 28:10 long.

This episode was published on Feb 2, 2026.

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