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Lectures & courses<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lectures on fashion<\/em> and literature<\/em><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Invite me to lecture<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Teaching<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2016<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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languages<\/p>\n\n\n\n

French \u00b7 Portuguese \u00b7 English<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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formats<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lectures \u00b7 short courses \u00b7 workshops<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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location<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Online or in Montr\u00e9al<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Lecture topics<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Available as a single lecture, a short course over several sessions or a guest seminar, for universities, c\u00e9geps, fashion schools, museums, reading groups and cultural centres.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fashion theory<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How the fashion system works<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Imitation, distinction and change: what thinkers like Georg Simmel, Gilles Lipovetsky, Pierre Bourdieu, Lars Svendsen and Yuniya Kawamura tell us about why fashion exists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Literature<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fashion in the nineteenth-century French novel<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

How Balzac and his contemporaries use clothing to read class, ambition and the body in modern France.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Reading<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dressing characters<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A workshop on reading clothes in fiction: how writers describe dress, and how to interpret it as a reader.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Art & modernity<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fashion, art and modernity<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Dress as a way into modern life, from the Paris of the arcades to Japonisme and twentieth-century design and subcultures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Courses and lectures given<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Online courses and commissioned lectures, 2020\u20132022. Conference papers are on the Research<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manon Lescaut<\/em>: the author, pre-Romanticism and the novel\u2019s sociohistorical context \u00b7 Cercle des imaginaires, online<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moda Japonesa: Hist\u00f3ria da Moda n\u00e3o Eurocentrada<\/em>\u00a0(Japanese Fashion: A Non-Eurocentric History of Fashion) \u00b7 educational video lecture commissioned by Senac S\u00e3o Paulo for its students<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Japanese Fashion? Debates on Subcultures, Technology and Contemporaneity \u00b7 Momonoki, online<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Japonism in Fashion and Art: Telling the Story between Japan and Europe \u00b7 Momonoki and Universidade de S\u00e3o Paulo, online<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Aesthetics of Coexistence in ANREALAGE and Techno-animism in Fashion<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Japanese Deconstructivism in Fashion \u00b7 Momonoki, online<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Modan G\u0101ru<\/em> and the Performance of Modernity in Taish\u014d Japan \u00b7 Momonoki, online<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Readings of Contemporary Japanese Art and Society (1970 onwards) \u00b7 Japonismos, online<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Presence of Nature in the Works of Hayao Miyazaki and Makoto Shinkai \u00b7 Japonismos, online<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Westernization of Attire in Japan: From Edo to Reiwa \u00b7 Momonoki, online<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Where I\u2019ve taught<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Literature, language and university teaching.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2020\u2013now<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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French Language and Literature Teacher<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00c9cole Les Lumi\u00e8res, online<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2025\u20132026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Teaching Assistant<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research seminar and epistemology (Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Teaching assistant<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sociology of Fashion (Universidade de S\u00e3o Paulo, teaching internship)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2020\u20132022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Guest lecturer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Momonoki, online courses on Japanese fashion, art and culture<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2019\u20132020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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French Language and Literature Teacher<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alliance Fran\u00e7aise de S\u00e3o Paulo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Planning a course or event?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tell me about your audience and the format you have in mind, and I\u2019ll propose a lecture or a short course.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Get in touch<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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