Publications & Presentations

Articles

//Forthcoming: book review of ‘Highland Style: Fashioning Highland Dress, c. 1745 – 1845’, to be published in a future issue of Dress: The Journal of The Costume Society of America.

//Forthcoming: ‘Tartan Through the Stones: Scottish Dress and the Costuming in Outlander‘ as part of a volume from the University of Glasgow and its Outlander Conference, published by Luath Press.

//’Lee Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse Exhibition Review’ Dress Journal, Volume 49, Issue 1

//’From Waverley to Outlander: How Scottish dress became everyone’s dress’ Fashion, Style & Popular Culture, Volume 5, Number 3

//’Sir Walter Scott and the Tartan Craze’ Knitting Traditions Fall 2017

// ‘Fashion Before Godey’s Lady Book: How Fashions Traveled Through Jane Austen’s World’ Jane Austen Knits 2015

// ‘Romance for Romantics’ Jane Austen Knits 2015

// ‘A Shawl as Precious as Gems’ Jane Austen Knits 2014

// ‘The Exotic Turban: International Fashion and Domestic Liberty’ Jane Austen Knits 2014

Research & Encyclopaediae

// Research assistant examining artist-designer collaboraions for Art + Fashion: Collaborations & Connections Between Icons by E.P. Cutler (2015)

// Clothing and Fashion: American Fashion from Head to Toe, Volume 3 (1900 – 1949) – contributed 17 entries, over 20,000 words (2015)

Conference Papers

//June 2025. Where have all the ‘damn’ rebel b*tches’ gone? The absence, slander, or anglicization of Scottish women in popular culture since 1745 Costume Society of America National Symposium 2025, Loyola Marymount University.

//June 2024. ‘[T]he clothes that wear us’: Costuming in Orlando – book, film, and stage – and what they tell us about ourselves’ International Virginia Woolf Conference 2024, California State University, Fresno.

// July 2023. ‘Tipping the Plaid: Challenging the Binary Tartan Narrative through Post-Culloden Portraiture’ Outlander Conference, University of Glasgow, Scotland.

// November 2014. From the Fields to the Runways: Issey Miyake and the True Japanese Avant Garde’ 2014 Costume Society of America – Western Region Symposium, Portland, OR.

// May 2013. ‘Showgirls and Cooch Dancers: Selling Sexual Fantasies in the Circuses and Boardwalks of the 1920s and 30s’ 2013 Costume Society of America National Symposium, Las Vegas, NV

//March 2012. ‘Meisen Kimono in the Clark Museum of Japanese Art Collection’ 2012 Costume Society of America Western Region – Regional Symposium, William S. Hart Ranch, Santa Clarita, CA.

// December 2011. ‘Conspicuous Intellectualism: The Banyan’ Lou Taylor Conference, University of Brighton, UK.

Online Publications

// The Real Deal on Tartan, Kilts, and Outlander Costumes Frock Flicks (2015)