Exciting news! Fashioning Acadians has been shortlisted for the CHA's 'Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History' prize for 2024. The winner will be announced in June.

Teaching

Current Classes

Part-time Academic, Fountain School of Performing Arts, Dalhousie University

 

  • THEA / HIST 2401, Caves to Castles: Dress from Prehistory to 1450 CE
  • THEA / HIST 2402, Castles to Cafés: Dress from 1450 to 1700
  • THEA / HIST 3402, Baroque to Bustles: Dress from 1700-1900
  • THEA / HIST 3403, Bustles to Boardrooms: Fashion from 1900 to the Present

 

 

 

 

Recent syllabi

THEA / HIST 2401, Fall 2021

THEA / HIST 2402 syllabus, Winter 2022 (partially asynch)

THEA / HIST 3402 syllabus, Fall 2021

THEA / HIST 3403 syllabus, Winter 2022 (partially asynch)

 

Previously Taught Classes

  • Aesthetics of Contemporary Dress
  • Aesthetics of Historical Dress
  • Introduction to Costume Studies
  • Costume in Performance I
  • Introduction to Editing

 

“The history of cultures meeting is a history of fashion systems meeting. Learning to ‘read’ fashion in its context exposes a society’s assumptions about the world.”