Schuyler Gardner
Research Assistant
she/her
Schuyler Gardner
Contact
Stokes Hall South 330-F
Email: gardnes@bc.edu
Education
- M.A., Interdisciplinary Studies, New York University
- Dual B.A., History, Trinity College Dublin and Columbia University
Research Interests
Early Modern Europe
British and Irish History
Food History
Interdisciplinary Studies
Advisor
Department
Biography
Schuyler’s research focuses on depictions of foreign cultivation and consumption in Early Modern Britain to understand food’s use in the act of “othering.” She is specifically interested in exploring how England’s portrayal of its colonial territories’ “grotesque” food relations, with a particular focus on Ireland, was used to create racial outsiders in need of colonial control and cultural assimilation. Her work incorporates interdisciplinary mediums, particularly folklore, art, and theater, with the hopes of gauging the expanse of British Imperial reach.
Schuyler completed her undergraduate studies in the Dual B.A. program between Trinity College Dublin and Columbia University, where she attended each school for two years and received two B.A.s, each in History. Following her undergraduate studies, she completed her M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies at New York University.