Professor Peter McNeil

Peter McNeil is Professor of Design History at The University of Technology, Sydney. Much of his research is concerned with relationships between fashion and other domains of design. He has published on Enlightenment dressing; men's fashion and the 18th-century English macaroni; World War II British dress; inter-war women and interior design; contemporary queer textiles; fashion and botanical knowledge. His anthology Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers (co-editor Dr G Riello) was published in 2006 (Berg). He is currently writing a series of monographs on the design choices (residences, ateliers) of couturiers.
Email:peter.mcneil@uts.edu.au

Dr Vicki Karaminas

Vicki Karaminas lectures in Fashion Theory and Design Studies in the School of Design, University of Technology Sydney. She is a critical theory and cultural studies scholar with a background in gender studies and visual culture and worked as a photojournalist in the media industry before commencing an academic career. Karaminas has published in the area of contemporary fashion, subcultural style, identity and popular culture and is the editor (with Peter McNeil) of The Men's Fashion Reader (forthcoming Berg).
Email: vicki.karaminas@uts.edu.au

Dr Catherine Cole

Catherine Cole is a novelist and non fiction writer who lectures in Writing in the UTS Writing and Cultural Studies Area. Her research includes projects on creativity and cultural practice, particularly in the post colonial context in countries such as Vietnam. Her novel The Grave at The Le (2005) examines French colonialism in Hanoi and she is currently undertaking a research project with Vietnamese writers in Vietnam and in Australia's Vietnamese diaspora. Catherine's other works include the crime novels, Dry Dock (1999, 2002) and Skin Deep (2002) and the academic monograph, Private Dicks and Feisty Chicks: An Interrogation of Crime Fiction. (2004) She has also written about place and memory in the short fiction of James Joyce and George Moore and is currently completing a non-fiction book about the Australian poet, A.D.Hope. She has been awarded a Nancy Keesing residency at the Cite International des Arts, Paris (2002/03) and an Asialink residency in Hanoi. (2002)
Email: Catherine.Cole@uts.edu.au