Nathalie Cooke.

About Nathalie Cooke

M. Nathalie Cooke is a Canadian literary scholar and full professor in the Department of English and Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University whose work spans Canadian literature, women's life writing, and interdisciplinary food studies. She is known for research that examines menus, cookbooks, and culinary ephemera as historical documents illuminating social values, cultural exchange, and everyday life. She is known for research that examines menus, cookbooks, and culinary ephemera as historical documents illuminating social values, cultural exchange, and everyday life. Her publications include Margaret Atwood: A Biography (1998), Canadian Literary Fare (2023), which received the Gabrielle Roy Prize for literary criticism, and Tastes and Traditions: An Illustrated Journey Through Menu History (2025). In 2025, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.