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My teaching and scholarship center on the study of fashion and textiles as cultural production that is created, expressed, experienced, and reconfigured through their intersections with technological and business developments and social change. I examine design processes over time.

My scholarship has several strands within the context of global fashion history and cultures as they intersect with design processes. I investigate the nexus of Asian and Western design, primarily between 1885 and 1935, with emphasis on Indonesia. I also study Bronze Age Aegean dress using experimental archaeological techniques to recreate dress objects.

I am a member of The Research Collective for Decoloniality and Fashion (RCDF+), and my scholarship incorporates decolonial theoretical perspectives to investigate historical design processes.

BOOKS:

The Fashion Reader
by Linda Welters and Abby Lillethun (2022, 3rd ed., revised, is an anthology reader with a global perspective and a wide range of source types, including commissioned essays from scholarly experts. Professor Welters and I contributed 4 co-authored essays. I wrote an essay on dress in the ancient world and six introductions to the book's parts. The book is available from Bloomsbury Publishers.

Fashion History: A Global View
by Linda Welters and Abby Lillethun (2018), proposes a new perspective on fashion history, arguing that fashion has occurred in cultures beyond the West throughout history, this groundbreaking book explores the geographic places and historical spaces that have been largely neglected by contemporary fashion studies, bringing them together for the first time. The book is available from Bloomsbury Publishers.

Specialization

Research and scholarship:
Fashion theory
-decoloniality
-embodiment
-trade and contact
Fashion/style/dress and textile history
-global fashion history
-fashion history pedagogy
-the Aegean Bronze Age
-Asian-Western design exchange,1885—1935

Office Hours

Spring

Tuesday

8:30 am - 9:30 am

Make an appointment by emailing me at lillethuna@montclair.edu

Friday

8:30 am - 9:30 am

Make an appointment by emailing me at lillethuna@montclair.edu

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• The Fashion Reader, 3rd ed., rev. (2021)
• Fashion History: A Global View (2018)
• Scholarship and Creative Works @ Digital Commons