The Joys and Challenges of Engaging with Fashion History Globally

Saturday, January 7, 2023: 3:30 PM
Room 404 (Philadelphia Marriott Downtown)
Alison Matthews David, Ryerson University
The Joys and Challenges of Engaging with Fashion History Globally

While my educational journey began with a highly Eurocentric training in art history and my research focuses on Europe and America, I now teach courses with a global scope. My research and the subjects I teach in my fashion history courses provide material for my presentation. My doctoral research focused on the history of dress and textiles, and I have taught and published in fashion studies for two decades in the UK and in Canada. Over that time, the resources available to learn about, teach, and visualize fashion history globally continue to expand. I am excited to discuss the joys and challenges of engaging with fashion history more globally and the open-access journal Fashion Studies that I co-founded and co-edit with my colleague Dean Ben Barry at Parsons. It has become a venue for the scholarly and practice-based research of masters and doctoral students, welcoming the work of an exciting new generation of emerging scholarly and creative voices in our field.

Short session abstract for the meeting app (up to 50 words):

This roundtable will be a forum to discuss the joys and challenges of engaging with global fashion history and discuss how the open access journal Fashion Studies that I co-founded and co-edit fosters exciting dialogues and new approaches to teaching in the field.

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