Fiona Anderson
Fiona Anderson
- Reader in Design History and Theory
- Job Title
- Reader in Design History and Theory
- School or Academic Area
- School of Design
- School or Academic Area Supervised for
- School of Design
- f.anderson@gsa.ac.uk
- Professional Address
- 2nd Floor, Barnes Building, 9-11 West Graham Street, Glasgow, G4 9LE
Biography
Dr Fiona Anderson holds an MA, History of Design from the Royal College of Art/Victoria and Albert Museum and a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. She formerly taught at the Royal College of Art, Edinburgh College of Art, and was a contracted Independent Assessor at the University of Oxford. Fiona previously worked at the Design Museum and V&A, London, and as Senior Curator of Fashion and Textiles at National Museums Scotland. She has developed an international research profile by regularly publishing peer-reviewed essays. Her book Tweed, published by Bloomsbury Academic, was the major output from an AHRC Fellowship project on which Fiona was the Principal Investigator. Fiona peer reviews for Textile History and the Journal of Design History and was a Design History Society Trustee, 2021–2024. She is a Steering Committee Member of the ‘Tailoring for Women’ research project (part of the ACORSO trans-European Research Group).
Research Interests
Fashion and textile studies; fashion, textiles and gender; textiles and masculinities; curating and museology; material culture and design theory; modernism, interior space and design; adornment, jewellery and the body.
Grants
Principal Investigator, AHRC Research Fellowship Project, Tweed: History, Culture and Design, £52k, 2013.
Principal Researcher, Research Travel and Conference Grant, Design History Society, £1k, 2018.
RDF, Academic Conference Presentation Award, £890, 2025
PGR Supervision Interests
Fashion and textile studies; fashion, textiles and gender; textiles and masculinities; curating and museology; modernism, interior space and design; adornment, jewellery and the body; material culture and design theory.
Teaching
Undergraduate teaching of Design History and Theory to BA (Hons) students at all year levels, including Year 4 supervision. Course Organiser of the cross-disciplinary, School of Design, Year 1 course, Designed Objects: Ideas, Contexts, Histories.
Postgraduate teaching of the cross-disciplinary, elective course, Aesthetics in Creative Practice.
Latest Additions
- Anderson, Fiona (2026) Genre du Textile (Gender of Textiles). In: A Wardrobe of One’s Own: Dissident Femininities in the Long Nineteenth Century. Paris Musees, Paris.
- Anderson, Fiona (2024) Masculinities, Colour, Dyeing and the Design of Tweeds 1829–1914. In: Colour Matters. Open Book Publishers, Cambridge.
- Anderson, Fiona (2022) The Bernat Klein Collection, National Museums Scotland. In: Bernat Klein. Bernat Klein Foundation, Glasgow, pp. 19-36. ISBN 978-1-3999-3059-8
- Anderson, Fiona (2021) Bernat Klein and High Sunderland: Displacement, Design and the Meanings of Home. Journal of Design History, 34 (4). pp. 332-348. ISSN 0952-4649
- Anderson, Fiona (2016) Tweed. Textiles that Changed the World . Bloomsbury Academic, London. ISBN 978-1-84520-697-0
- Anderson, Fiona (2015) Bernat Klein: Colouring the Interior. In: British Design: Tradition and Modernity After 1948. Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp. 89-100. ISBN 978-1-4725-0537-8
- Anderson, Fiona (2008) Curated Exhibition: Jean Muir: a Fashion Icon. National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh, November 7, 2008 to March 15 2009
- Anderson, Fiona (2006) This Sporting Cloth: Tweed, Gender and Fashion 1860-1900. Textile History, 37 (2). pp. 166-186. ISSN 0040-4969
- Anderson, Fiona (2005) Curated exhibition: Fabric to Fashion: Scottish Textiles and International Style. National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh, October 7, 2005 to March 12, 2006
- Anderson, Fiona (2005) Spinning the Ephemeral with the Sublime: Modernity and Landscape in Men's Fashion Textiles 1860-1900. Fashion Theory: the Journal of Dress, Body and Culture, 9 (3). pp. 283-303. ISSN 1362-704X
