Cultures of Femininity in Modern Fashion

Contributors

239 Contributors christina bates is the curator for Ontario History at the Canadian Museum of Civilization.She curated the 2005–06 major exhibition,“A Caring Profession: Centuries of Nursing in Canada” and is co-editor of On All Frontiers: Four Centuries of Canadian Nursing (2005). Her special interest is the history of dress and culture. justine de young teaches art history, theory, and prose writing as part of the faculty of the Harvard College Writing Program. Her research interests revolve around the intersection of modernism and fashion in eighteenth and nineteenth-century art,literature,and visual culture.She received her PhD in art history from Northwestern University. rita felski is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English at the University of Virginia and editor of New Literary History. She is the author of Beyond Feminist Aesthetics (1989), The Gender of Modernity (1995), DoingTime: FeministTheory and Postmodern Culture (2000), Literature after Feminism (2003), and Uses of Literature (2008), and editor of RethinkingTragedy (2008). lori harrison-kahan currently teaches in the English Department at Boston College and has previously taught at Connecticut College,Harvard University , and the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary (2011). Her essays have appeared in Cinema Journal, Legacy, MELUS, Modern Fiction Studies, Modern Language Studies,Tulsa Studies inWomen’s Literature, and in the anthology StylingTexts: Dress and Fashion in Literature. celia marshik isAssociate Professor of English and affiliate faculty with Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at SUNY Stony Brook. Her book British Modernism and Censorship was published by Cambridge in 2006. Her current project,“Wearing Modernity,” focuses on four types of garments that illuminate fashion’s cultural codes in the 1920s and 1930s.An article from this project is forthcoming in Modernism/modernity. ilya parkins is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. She holds a PhD in Social and PoliticalThought fromYork University.Her essays on fashion,feminist theory, and modernity have appeared in Time and Society, Women’s Studies, Australian Feminist Studies,Transformations,and Tessera.Her current research examines 240 Contributors the status of women and time in the life writing of three early twentieth-century French fashion designers. jasmine rault is an Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at McMaster University . Her research is on early twentieth-century visual culture, interior design, architecture, sexuality, and gender. Recent essays can be found in Fashion and Interior Design:Embodied Practices (2009) and Archives ofAmericanArt Journal (2009). She is the author of Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity (2011). ellen bayuk rosenman is a Provost’s Distinguished Service Professor in the English Department and a faculty affiliate of the Gender and Women’s Studies Department at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of Unauthorized Pleasures:Accounts of Victorian Erotic Experience and co-editor with Professor Claudia Klaver of Other Mothers: Beyond the Maternal Ideal. She is at work on a book manuscript about penny dreadful and the social imaginaries of the Victorian working classes. She is also the editor of the Victorians Institute Journal. elizabeth m. sheehan is an Assistant Professor of English and Women’s Studies affiliate at Ithaca College. Her teaching and research interests include transatlantic modernism, gender, and visual and material culture, and she has recently published an essay on avant-garde dress design of the Bloomsbury Group. She is completing a book manuscript on fashion and Anglo-American literary modernism. kara tennant completed her doctoral research at Cardiff University in 2010. Her thesis, entitled “‘Graceful Expression and Useful Purpose’: Mid-Victorian Fashionable Femininity,” examines fashionable representations of women in the mid-Victorian period.While undertaking this work, she taught in the undergraduate program at Cardiff University for four years.She has contributed regularly to conferences in the UK,the US,and Canada.She is co-editor of a collection of essays entitled Signs, Symbols, and Words (2007), available online through Cardiff University’s Humanities Research Institute.Her research interests include the cultural history of fashion from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century,Victorian travel writing, and the ladies’ periodical. kimberly wahl is an Assistant Professor in the School of Fashion at Ryerson University. She holds a PhD in Art History from Queen’s University in Kingston , Ontario, Canada, where her dissertation focused on dress reform in the context of British visual culture and Aestheticism.Her current research examines...