Lectures & courses
Lectures on fashion and literature
I lecture on how fashion works as a social system, and also on how literature writes it: how novels dress their characters, and what clothing tells us about class, identity and the body. I teach in French, Portuguese and English.
Teaching
Since 2016
languages
French · Portuguese · English
formats
Lectures · short courses · workshops
location
Online or in Montréal
Lecture topics
Available as a single lecture, a short course over several sessions or a guest seminar, for universities, cégeps, fashion schools, museums, reading groups and cultural centres.
Fashion theory
How the fashion system works
Imitation, distinction and change: what thinkers like Georg Simmel, Gilles Lipovetsky, Pierre Bourdieu, Lars Svendsen and Yuniya Kawamura tell us about why fashion exists.
Literature
Fashion in the nineteenth-century French novel
How Balzac and his contemporaries use clothing to read class, ambition and the body in modern France.
Reading
Dressing characters
A workshop on reading clothes in fiction: how writers describe dress, and how to interpret it as a reader.
Art & modernity
Fashion, art and modernity
Dress as a way into modern life, from the Paris of the arcades to Japonisme and twentieth-century design and subcultures.
Courses and lectures given
Online courses and commissioned lectures, 2020–2022. Conference papers are on the Research page.
2026
Manon Lescaut: the author, pre-Romanticism and the novel’s sociohistorical context · Cercle des imaginaires, online
2022
Moda Japonesa: História da Moda não Eurocentrada (Japanese Fashion: A Non-Eurocentric History of Fashion) · educational video lecture commissioned by Senac São Paulo for its students
2022
Japanese Fashion? Debates on Subcultures, Technology and Contemporaneity · Momonoki, online
2021
Japonism in Fashion and Art: Telling the Story between Japan and Europe · Momonoki and Universidade de São Paulo, online
2021
The Aesthetics of Coexistence in ANREALAGE and Techno-animism in Fashion
2021
Japanese Deconstructivism in Fashion · Momonoki, online
2021
The Modan Gāru and the Performance of Modernity in Taishō Japan · Momonoki, online
2021
Readings of Contemporary Japanese Art and Society (1970 onwards) · Japonismos, online
2021
The Presence of Nature in the Works of Hayao Miyazaki and Makoto Shinkai · Japonismos, online
2020
The Westernization of Attire in Japan: From Edo to Reiwa · Momonoki, online
Where I’ve taught
Literature, language and university teaching.
2020–now
French Language and Literature Teacher
École Les Lumières, online
2025–2026
Teaching Assistant
Research seminar and epistemology (Université de Montréal)
2021
Teaching assistant
Sociology of Fashion (Universidade de São Paulo, teaching internship)
2020–2022
Guest lecturer
Momonoki, online courses on Japanese fashion, art and culture
2019–2020
French Language and Literature Teacher
Alliance Française de São Paulo
Planning a course or event?
Tell me about your audience and the format you have in mind, and I’ll propose a lecture or a short course.