Jessica Martell is an assistant professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Appalachian State University. Her work has appeared in Modernist Cultures, Journal of Modern Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies as well as six scholarly collections. As an executive board member of Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture, a woman-led non-profit, she co-organized Appalachian State University’s 2017 High Country Food Summit and advises the High Country Food Hub. Martell is an executive board member of Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture, a woman-led non-profit helping to build an equitable and sustainable food system in North Carolina’s High Country.