Ilya Parkins

Ilya Parkins is Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies in the department of Community, Culture and Global Studies at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus. Her research sits at the intersection of queer feminist theory and fashion studies. She is the author of Poiret, Schiaparelli, and Dior: Fashion, Femininity and Modernity (2012), and the co-editor of Cultures of Femininity in Modern Fashion (2011), Fashion: New Feminist Essays (2020), and Fashion and Feeling: The Affective Politics of Dress (2023), as well as of special issues of Periodical Studies, Feminist Theory, Australian Feminist Studies and International Journal of Fashion Studies.