Andrea Adolph

Andrea Adolph is an Associate Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Pennsylvania State University, serving as Director of Academic Affairs. Her research focuses on women’s fiction and culture in twentieth-century Britain, particularly exploring themes of food as a literary trope to examine female embodiment and sexuality. She authored Food and Femininity in Twentieth-Century British Women’s Fiction and is currently working on a second book analyzing British women’s fiction during WWII. This work investigates how wartime governmental discourses on household management and sexual health intersected with women’s evolving public roles. Her research incorporates archival studies of WWII-era food rationing policies and state campaigns targeting women’s sexual health, revealing tensions between nationalistic narratives and women’s lived experiences.