This is a themed selection of my writing from the last twenty years on everyday creativity and style, particularly in dress and interiors, and in autobiographical literature.
These are academic pieces, archived here in pre-print or open access versions as required by the publishers. The publisher’s typeset versions are available through the DOIs with permission.
(This is also me, waving my hands around and talking about Henry Miller’s paintings, in Asilomar, in 2025.)
For my other writing on word and image, on photography, literature, and on conceptual art, see my full bibliography on my University page or through my ORCID record.
Writing
“Out of Time: Constant Change, Maternity Dressing and Clothing Practices” in Fashion and Motherhood, edited by Laura Snelgrove. Bloomsbury, 2024. ISBN: 9781350276697.
“Against Interpretation: Georgia O’Keeffe and ‘the Zen of Aestheticism.’” Women: A Cultural Review 32, no. 1 (2021): 86–103. https://doi:10.1080/09574042.2021.1883268
"Sewing Lives: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the Global Garment Industry." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 21.7 (2019) https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.3665
“‘A Cook Book to Be Read. What about It?’ Alice Toklas, Gertrude Stein and the Language of the Kitchen.” Comparative American Studies 7, no. 1 (2009): 34–56. https://doi.org/10.1179/147757009X417215.
“‘This Temptation to Be Undone…’ Sontag, Barthes, and the Uses of Style.” In Art & Life in Aestheticism: De-Humanizing Art, the Artist & the Artistic Receptor, edited by Kelly Comfort. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230583498_12