CURRENT POST Professor of Fashion History and Theory, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, the University of the Arts London (CSM/UAL)

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE CAROLINE EVANS EDUCATION BA Honours History and Theory of Art, University of Sussex, 1977 CURRENT RESEARCH Book, Modelling Modernity: Early Fashion Shows in France and America, 1880s 1929, anticipated publication by Yale University Press, London & New Haven, Developing fashion in motion and silent film project for 2012 CURRENT POST Professor of Fashion History and Theory, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, the University of the Arts London (CSM/UAL) CURRENT TEACHING AT CSM/UAL BA, MA, PhD, Fashion History and Theory, Cultural and Critical Studies POSTGRADUATE SUPERVISION AND EXAMINING AT CSM/UAL Currently supervising Morna Laing, Woman as childlike in the post-feminist era: the female body and its representation in fashion images. Rosemary Wallin, New approaches to craft, technology and design in the fashion luxury goods sector (practice-led research) Tamara Tyrer, Film and the female performer: spectacle, skirts, femininity and seduction (practice-led research) Renate Stauss, (Un)dressing the self: Working with dress on concepts of self in therapeutic settings Supervised to completion Francesca Granata, The Bakhtinian grotesque in fashion, , PhD 2010 Claire Barratt, The cultural meanings of contemporary mourning and memento mori jewellery: London , PhD 2009 Jane Tynan, Representations of soldiering, British army uniform and the male body during the First World War, PhD 2009 Lisa Stead, The Emotional Wardrobe, practice-led PhD 2006 Examined Djurdja Bartlett, Fashion: The Spectre That Haunted Socialism, PhD 2006, LCF/UAL Bronwen Edwards, Making the West End Modern: Space, Architecture and Shopping in 1930s London, PhD 2005, LCF/UAL Alison Gill, Wearing Clothes, PhD 2003, University of Sydney, Australia COMMITTEES AND MANAGERIAL POSITIONS AT CSM/UAL 1

2 UAL panel member to investigate impact for REF 2010-present CSM research degrees sub-committee member 2010-present Line manager for fashion research staff at CSM 2010-present CSM School of Fashion and Textiles mentor for RAE drafting CSM panel member of RAE team UAL core member, and on management team, of Research Centre for Fashion, the Body and Material Culture CSM research degrees sub-committee member UAL ethics sub-committee member CSM research committee member UAL cross-college steering committee member for application to UAL for fashion research centre, 2005 CSM validation team member for new History and Theory pathway in BA Fashion Design, 2001 ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London : Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship 2005-present: Professor of Fashion History and Theory : Reader in Fashion Studies : Senior Research Fellow in Fashion : joint AHRC and CSM sabbatical two terms : Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies : Visiting Tutor in Cultural Studies Goldsmith's College, Department of Visual Arts, University of London : Visiting Tutor in Critical Studies (Textiles) Middlesex University, Herts 1992 and occasional lectures throughout 1990s: Visiting Tutor in Cultural Studies London College of Printing : Visiting Tutor in Art History LARGE RESEARCH GRANTS AND AWARDS 117,169 Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship ( ) 299,940 AHRC Research Grant (Arts and Humanities Research Council of Great Britain) Fashion & Modernity: stage 2 ( ) 37,646 AHRC Research Grant Fashion & Modernity: stage 1 ( ) SMALL RESEARCH GRANTS AND FUNDING 8000 euros with co-collaborator for installation at Prague Quadrennial, EU-funding (2011) 200 Pasold Fund for conference paper (2009) 200 from British Academy Conference Fund (2009) 400 from British Academy Conference Fund (2006) 1,700 from UAL Research Centre for Fashion, Body and Material Cultures (2006) 6,000 from CSM research fund for Wearable Tech ( ) 4,529 from AHRC with matched funding from CSM for sabbatical (0.5) concurrent with Fashion & Modernity: stage 1 ( ) 2

3 COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS Prague Quadrennial Festival of Scenography Theory box installation in collaboration with lighting designer Hansjörg Schmidt for international festival in Prague June 2011 Wearable Tech - September September 2001 Co-Director of a 3-person CSM research project on the interface between new technology and the body in current fashion and product design. Fashion & Modernity: stage 2 - July December 2004 Director of large project at UAL that expanded and developed Stage 1 (see below) by integrating history, theory and practice, bringing together 17 theoreticians, curators and practitioners from both CSM and the London College of Fashion Fashion & Modernity: stage 1 - July 1999-June 2000 Director of first stage of a CSM project with 5 researchers who investigated the relation of Western fashion to modernity from the late eighteenth-century to the present through a series of interlocking but distinct studies predicated on a critical relationship between theories of modernity and contemporary cultural theory and practice in fashion. EXTERNAL EXAMINING Royal College of Art, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Derby, VISITING LECTURER Centre for Fashion Studies, University of Stockholm, Guest Professor from present The Courtauld Institute of Art (London), external second marker for BA History of Dress courses from 2010; also for MA History of Dress and Fashion dissertations from 2011 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Visiting Artists Programme, Spring 2007 University of Stockholm, Spring Term 2007, MA Fashion Studies ( Historical Unit), Autumn term 2008, MA films studies and MA fashion studies De Monfort University, Leicester, postgraduate research seminar series, 2007 National School of Art and Design, Oslo, MA Design, 2005 The Theatre Academy of Russia, and The Academy of Textile and Fashion Design, Moscow, 2001 Royal College of Art London, various, lectures from 2000-present EDITORIAL / ADVISORY BOARDS Honorary Member of International Board of Advisors of ATOPOS, Athens, present Editorial Advisory Board Vestoj, Paris, 2009-present Honorary member, Fashion in Film Festival ( present Nominator in international jury in Fashion category for Design Museum s annual Brit Insurance: Designs of the Year, 2008, 2009 Board Member of BFL (Berg Fashion Library), on-line global citation index, present Member of Board of Advisors, Fashion in Film Festival ( Member of Editorial Board of Russian edition of Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture (international refereed journal), present 3

4 Member of Advisory Board of Dress Body Culture series edited by Joanne B. Eicher at the University of Minnesota for Berg Publishers, Oxford & New York, present Member of Editorial Board of Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture (international refereed journal), present EXHIBITIONS Invisible Ink, installation in collaboration with Hansjörg Schmidt (lighting designer) at Rose Bruford College symposium, April Consultant (Member of Comité Scientifique) for Showtime: le défilé de mode, Musée Galliéra de la Mode de la Ville de Paris, 2006, which travelled to Barcelona Museu Tèxtil i d Indumentària, 2007, as Fashion Show. Les desfilades di moda Curator of Fashion and Modernity on the Charing Cross Road, 8 small linked exhibitions funded by the AHRC, London 2004 Exhibitor of Fool s Gold, practice-lead exhibition project forming part of Fashion and Modernity on the Charing Cross Road, London 2004 Research and original concepts for Malign Muses: When Fashion Turns Back, ModeMuseum, Antwerp, 2004, then as Spectres: When Fashion Turns Back, at Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2005 Consultant to The London Look: Fashion from Street to Catwalk, Museum of London, 2004 Consultant to Radical Fashion, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2001 External Curator for Simon Thorogood: Fashion in Motion, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 30 November 2001 CONFERENCE / SYMPOSIUM PAPERS Panel chair, Fashion Media: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, London College of Fashion, October 2010 Fashion's Vernaculars: A Roundtable, position paper on fashion at Modernist Studies Conference, Montreal, Canada, 5-7 November 2009 Mirrors and Modernity for symposium Monitoring Scenography: Space and Desire, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland, 8-10 October 2009 Jean Patou s Américanisme, Fashions: Business Practices in Historical Perspective, joint annual meeting of the Business History Conference (BHC) and European Business History Association (EBHA), Bocconi University, Milan, June 2009 Academic and other publishing on fashion, The Future of Fashion Studies: A Fashion Network, University of Warwick, 30 April 2009 Mirrors, magic and multiplication: early twentieth century fashion shows, Modernism and Visual Culture Conference, University of Oxford, St Anne s College, 1-2 November 2008 Fashion Thoughts, Fourth Annual Center for British and Irish Studies Colloquium, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2-3 October 2008 Chanel s Apartment, Magic and Fashion Symposium, ICA, London, 20 May

5 Visual History: theory and methodology, Fashioning Gender Conference: Contexts and Approaches, University of Warwick, 10 May 2008 A Shop of Images and Signs, The Blurring of Boundaries/High Tension Aesthetics: Aesthetics and Ethics in Contemporary Media Conference, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 8-9 May 2008 Name and a dress, Great Designers Symposium, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, March 2008 Patou s American mannequins, London Modernism Seminar: , Institute of English Studies, University of London, 2 November 2007 Aesthetic labour, panel member with Joanne Entwistle et al, The Death of Taste: unpicking the fashion cycle, ICA, London, November 2006 Mathematics of fashion for Pattern, interdisciplinary symposium at Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, 2 October 2006 Common threads, symposium paper with Rebecca Arnold, Fashion studies: Perspectives for the Future, Stockholm University, September 2006 Mannequins on Parade, Organization of American Historians 99 th Annual Conference, Washington DC April 2006 Panel member, The Many Faces of Frida, Tate Modern, 1 October 2005 London Calling, Fashion s World Cities, London College of Fashion & Museum of London, April 2005 Century of Catwalk, The London Look, Museum of London, 26 February 2005 Conversations and collaborations, Fashion on Display, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 25 February 2005 Ghosts of Modernity, Art: Autonomy and Mass Culture, Department of Art History, University of Oslo, Norway, November 2004 A Shop of Images and Signs, Fashion as Photograph, National Portrait Gallery, London, 21 May 2004 Unhappy Returns: Historicism in 1990s Fashion, Reviving Fashion: Historical Inspirations for Modern Style, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 22 April 2004 Model women: the mannequin in the 1920s, Fashioning the Modern Woman: Couture and Culture in Paris, , Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, February, 2004 Mode, Model, Multiple, Movement, 3 rd International Discipline of Fashion Conference, Dubrovnik University, Croatia, May, 2003; also given at Fashion + Modernity, CSM, London, 30 January 2003 This Vertigo of Time Defeated : Fashion Photography and Melancholy, ImagiNation: Visual Culture and Identity in Britain since the 1940s, Tate Britain, September 2002 Desire and dread: Alexander McQueen and the Contemporary Femme Fatale, Fashion-Art, Fashion-Pleasure, Fashion-Time, University of Hamburg, Germany, 3-5 May 2002; also given at Fashion and Eroticism, Courtauld History of Dress Association, Courtauld Institute, London, July, 1999 The Fashion Photograph as Memento Mori, The Imperfect Image, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 28 October 2000 Urban Fabrications, The Englishness of English Dress, London College of Fashion, May,

6 A Tiger s Leap into the Past, 1 st International Discipline of Fashion Conference, Dubrovnik University, Croatia, April, 2000 Living Dolls: the Mannequin, the Model, and Modernity, The Body Politic, University of Northumbria, September 1999 Tender Buttons: the Accessories and Embroideries of Elsa Schiaparelli, The Craft of Fashion, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, November 1998 Elsa Schiaparelli: A Crisis in Vocabulary, The Ideal and the Real, Design History Society Annual Conference, Brighton, 20 September 1997 Schiaparelli and masquerade, Show Girls and Faux Girls, ICA, London, 30 November 1996 'The Body: Thresholds and Anxiety', Meaningful Bodies, Central Saint Martins, London, 18 November 1994 Masquerade as a Queer Stratagem, Troublesome Visibilities: Reviewing Queer Theory and Gender Performance, Central Saint Martins, London 30 April 1994 'Fashion & Fetishism', Preaching to the Perverted: Are TransgressiveSexual Strategies Always Radical?, ICA, London, 11 July 1992 Paper with Minna Thornton on 'Fashion, Representation, Femininity', Art Historians' Conference, London, February, 1990 PUBLIC TALKS Comme des Garçons and Merce Cunningham, Barbican Centre, London, 28 October 2010 Do dolls have souls?, gallery talk, The House of Viktor & Rolf, Barbican Gallery, London, 18 September 2008 Spectacle, panel discussion, Theatre Museum, London, 22 June 2005 Art and Fashion, in conversation with Alistair O Neill and Aleksandra Olenska, National Art Collections Fund, 21 April 2005 Place to Passage: Hussein Chalayan, Academie Minerva, Groningen, The Netherlands, 16 April 2005 In conversation with Willie Walters, Museum of London, 4 March 2005 In conversation with Judith Clark, Royal College of Art, 23 February 2005 Representations of Trauma in Contemporary Fashion, guest lecture to Phenomenology at the Limits subject group, Department of Academic Clinical Psychiatry, Sheffield University, 2 December 2004 In conversation with Caroline Baker, Museum of London, 10 November 2004 Kyoichi Tsuzuki: Happy Victims, in conversation with Elizabeth Wilson & Alistair O Neill, Photographers Gallery, London, 15 October 2003 Cindy Sherman s Fashion Photographs, Serpentine Gallery, London, July 2003 In conversation with Simon Thorogood, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 30 November 2001 Inside Out/Back to Front, 3 lectures given in Moscow in association with the British Council touring exhibition Inside Out. 6

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