Professor Mazzeo teaches British and comparative literature, material culture studies, and literary and cultural theory at Colby. She is the author of Plagiarism and Literary Property in the Romantic Period (University of Pennsylvania Press 2007), the New York Times best-selling biography The Widow Clicquot (Harper Collins 2008), The Secret of Chanel No. 5 (Harper Collins, 2010), and the forthcoming The Ritz at War (Harper Collins, 2012).

She writes on food and wine for the popular press and lived in the California wine country before coming to Colby.