Curriculum vitae

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Qualifications 

BFA (Hons) Communications Design with minor in Art and Design History, Pratt Institute, 1999

MA Fashion Curation (Distinction), UAL London College of Fashion, 2010

PhD, Centre for Fashion Curation, UAL London College of Fashion, March 2019,

Career details - Present employment in HE

Senior Lecturer, Co-Course Leader: MA International Fashion Marketing, Regent’s University

Associate Lecturer, Fashion Histories and Cultures, UAL London College of Fashion

Previous employment in HE

Lecturer, BA Fashion Business and Styling, Istituto Marangoni, 2019-2020

Guest Lecturer, MA and PhD cohorts, HSE Moscow, May 2019

Lecturer, Critical and Historical Studies for Fashion & Textiles, Royal College of Art, 2017-2019

Lecturer, MA Fashion Management, Winchester School of Art, 2017-2019

Guest lecturer, MA Fashion Curation, UAL London College of Fashion 2012-2019

Guest lecturer, BA Fashion Illustration, UAL London College of Fashion, 2017-2018

Lecturer, UAL Artscom, Creative Direction for Fashion, 2016-2019

Lecturer, BA European Theatre Arts, Rose Bruford College, 2013-2020

Grants and Awards

Regent’s University, HASS Research funding, 2019

NIDA Art Colony, Vilnius Academy, Doctoral Residency, 2018

Writer-in-residence, Strawberry Hill House, 2018

Research fellowship awarded by the Lewis Walpole Library of Yale University, 2017

UAL Artscom PhD Studentship Award (full tuition bursary), 2015

UAL MA Award, 2010

Professional Practice – Curating and Creative Direction

T-Shirt: Cult, Culture, Subversion, Fashion & Textile Museum, London, 2018.

Co-curator               

Fashion & Freedom, 14-18 Now with Manchester Art Gallery and touring, 2016-2018.  

Curator and producer

UAL Awarding Body: ORIGINS, Menier Gallery, London, 2016.

Curator and exhibition designer  

Julia Trevelyan Oman: Designing La Bohéme, Royal Opera House London, 2015.

Curator and exhibition designer

La Galerie Louis Vuitton, Asnieres-sur-Seine, Paris, 2015.

Research curator and design assistant

Women, Fashion, Power, Design Museum London, 2014

Assistant curator

Digital Encounters: Moving Textiles, Herbert Reade Gallery, Kent, 2014.

Curator and exhibition designer 

Swarovski: Runway Rocks, London, 2012-2013.

Exhibitions programme consultant

Diana Vreeland After Diana Vreeland, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, 2012.

Assistant curator

Browns: 40 Years of Fashion Innovation, London, 2010.

Curator and assistant exhibition designer 

Judith Clark Studio, London, 2010 - 2015

Curatorial and design assistant

Simon Costin Studio, London, 2009 - 2014  

Set designer, stylist and research coordinator

Theatrical Costume and Set Design

Lotos Collective (London), Vital Theatre Company (New York City)

Others: details available upon request, 2001 – 2011  

Publications

Authored books:

Rossi-Camus, J. (2016) Fashion & Freedom: New Fashion and Film Inspired by Women During the First World War. Manchester Art Gallery / Cornerhouse Publications, Manchester. ISBN: 9780901673947

Rossi-Camus, J. (2014) Digital Encounters. University for the Creative Arts / Crysalis, Kent. ISBN: 0992733693

Articles and chapters in edited books:

 Rossi-Camus, J. (2012) “Diana Vreeland: An Edited Chronology” in Diana Vreeland after Diana Vreeland, editors. Clark J. and Frisa, Rizzoli, Milan. ISBN: 8831712799

Contributing researcher, (2014) Clark, J. and de la Haye A. (2014) Exhibiting Fashion Before and After 1971. Yale University Press, London.  ISBN: 0300125798

 Academic Journals:

 “Extra-illustration: From Metaphor to Method in Fashion Exhibition-making”. The Journal of the Herzog August Library, Special edition, Summer 2020.

“Political Fashion Cartoons in the New Yorker Magazine.” Fashion Theory Russia, Summer 2017.

Conference presentations:

The hipster was funny before he even existed”. Millennial Masculinities Conference, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand, Dec. 2019. 

“A Genealogy of Fashion Jokes: Satires of the Aesthetic Movement in Punch and their Legacies”. The Pre-Raphaelites and the Arts and Crafts Movement, Conference of the Costume Society of the UK, Birmingham, July 2019. 

“Laughing in the Face of Fashion: Fear of Subcultural Styles in Punch 1958-1982”. The Anthropology of Fear, European University of St. Petersburg, May 2019. 

“Fashion & Folly: Curating Eighteenth-Century Fashion and Graphic Satire”. Wonder in the Eighteenth Century, Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Niagara Falls Ontario, October 2018. 

“Extra-illustration: From Metaphor to Method in Fashion Exhibition-making”. The Unique Copy: Extra-illustration, convened by Dr. Sandro Jung and Christina Ionescu, Herzog August Library, Wolfenbuttel, May 2018.

“Site-Responsive Fashion Installations.” A Space for Fashion Thinking and Practice, Fashion Research Network, Coventry University, 2017.  

“Satirical/Sartorial: Political Fashion Cartoons in the New Yorker.”  Fashion & Humour Conference, Fashion Theory Russia/New Literary Observer. Moscow, Russian Federation, December 2016.

“Fashion Exhibitions as Site-Specific Installations.” Fashion Intersections Conference, London College of Fashion, July 2016

See the Conferences and Lectures page for abstracts.