https://orcid.org/0009-0005-2178-8102
Dr Emma Pearce (she/her) is a Lecturer in Design History & Theory, with research specialisms in art and design history c.1750 to the present day. She completed her PhD in History of Art at the University of Edinburgh, and holds degrees in History of Art from the University of York (BA) and the Courtauld Institute of Art (MA). Emma specialises in the history of Scottish-made textiles such as tartan, particularly in relation to the Caribbean and the Atlantic world, but also contemporary fashion design. Her research more broadly focuses on colonialism, the body, textiles, and, most recently, material culture made from animal bodies in relation to white colonial masculinity. Her research has been supported by the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Pasold Trust, the Yale Center for British Art, and the Winterthur Museum.
textile history; fashion history; visual culture; material culture; colonial history; Scotland; gender and masculinity; the body and design
fashion; textiles; colonialism; Scottish studies; gender; material culture; queer studies
Coordinator for cross-programme PGT School of Design course Design Research Methods
Input into all areas of Design History & Theory teaching for undergraduate School of Design:
Year 1 Designed Objects
Year 2 Pathway for Fashion Design and Fashion Narrative
Year 3 Concepts & Territories of Design
Year 4 Dissertation Supervision
