Overview
Background
Associate Professor Margaret Maynard’s research is interests include Australian dress, identity and fashion; fashion photography and gender studies.
Her current research includes dress studies, history of fashion, and Australian fashion photography.
She is the author of:
- Fashioned from Penury: Dress as Cultural Practice in Colonial Australia, CU Press (Cambridge University) 1994.
- Out of Line: Australian Women and Style, Uni. of New South Wales Press, 2001.
- Dress and Globalisation, Manchester Uni. Press, 2004.
Dr Maynard is a dress historian and an Honorary Consultant of the Queensland Museum.
Availability
- Associate Professor Margaret Maynard is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Arts, Rhodes University
- Masters (Coursework), University College London
- Doctor of Philosophy, Griffith University
Works
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2022
Book
Dressed in time: a world view
Maynard, Margaret (2022). Dressed in time: a world view. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Bloomsbury Publishing.
2017
Journal Article
Fashion and air travel: Australian photography and style
Maynard, Margaret (2017). Fashion and air travel: Australian photography and style. Costume, 51 (1), 103-120. doi: 10.3366/cost.2017.0007
2016
Journal Article
Miss Scott’s world of colonial elegance
Maynard, Margaret (2016). Miss Scott’s world of colonial elegance. Gallery, 35.
2016
Book Chapter
Status: 1805-1900
Maynard, Margaret (2016). Status: 1805-1900. 200 years of Australian fashion. (pp. 10-25) Melbourne, VIC, Australia: National Gallery of Victoria.
2015
Book Chapter
Queensland Fashion
Maynard, Margaret (2015). Queensland Fashion. Remotely fashionable: a story of subtropical style. (pp. 21-35) edited by Nadia Buick and Madeleine King. Brisbane, Qld, Australia: Fashion Archives.
2013
Other Outputs
Queensland fashion: part two
Maynard, Margaret (2013). Queensland fashion: part two. The Fashion Archives, 1 (2).
2013
Other Outputs
Queensland fashion: part three
Maynard, Margaret (2013). Queensland fashion: part three. The Fashion Archives, 1 (2).
2013
Journal Article
Queensland fashion: part one
Maynard, Margaret (2013). Queensland fashion: part one. The Fashion Archives, 1 (1).
2013
Other Outputs
Dress: a future for its past
Maynard, Margaret (2013). Dress: a future for its past. Sydney, Australia: Australian Dress Register.
2013
Book Chapter
Fast fashion and sustainability
Maynard, Margaret (2013). Fast fashion and sustainability. The Handbook of Fashion Studies. (pp. 542-556) edited by Sandy Black, Amy de la Haye, Joanne Entwistle, Agnès Rocamora, Regina Root and Helen Thomas. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic.
2013
Journal Article
Queensland clothing
Maynard, Margaret (2013). Queensland clothing. Queensland Historical Atlas.
2013
Journal Article
Review of Staging Fashion 1880-1920: Jane Hading, Lily Elsie, Billie Burk
Maynard, Margaret (2013). Review of Staging Fashion 1880-1920: Jane Hading, Lily Elsie, Billie Burk. Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture, 17 (1), 123-128. doi: 10.2752/175174113X13502911680257
2012
Book Chapter
Clothing: art clothes or wearable art?
Maynard, Margaret (2012). Clothing: art clothes or wearable art?. Fashion and art. (pp. 145-154) edited by Adam Geczy and Vicki Karaminas. Oxford, United Kingdom: Berg Publishers.
2012
Book Chapter
Fashion modelling in Australia
Maynard, Margaret (2012). Fashion modelling in Australia. Fashioning models: image, text and industry. (pp. 80-96) edited by Joanne Entwistle and Elizabeth Wissinger. New York, United States: Berg Publishers.
2010
Book Chapter
Economies and cultures of dress
Maynard, Margaret (2010). Economies and cultures of dress. Berg Encyclopedia of world dress and fashion: Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. (pp. 9-13) edited by Margaret Maynard. Oxford, U.K.: Berg.
2010
Book Chapter
Preface to Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands
Maynard, Margaret (2010). Preface to Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. Berg encyclopaedia of world dress and fashion, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. (pp. xvii-xviii) edited by Margaret Maynard. Oxford, U.K.: Berg.
2010
Book Chapter
Distance and respectability in Colonial Australia
Maynard, Margaret (2010). Distance and respectability in Colonial Australia. The Fashion History Reader: Global Perspectives. (pp. 399-401) edited by Giorgio Riello and Peter McNeil. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York: Routledge.
2010
Book Chapter
Globalization and dress
Maynard, Margaret (2010). Globalization and dress. Berg encyclopedia of world dress and fashion. (pp. 252-263) edited by Joanne B. Eicher and Phyllis G. Tortora. Oxford, U.K.: Berg. doi: 10.2752/BEWDF/EDch10035
2010
Book Chapter
Geographical and geopolitical introduction
Maynard, Margaret (2010). Geographical and geopolitical introduction. Berg Encyclopedia of world dress and fashion/ vol. 7, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. (pp. 3-8) edited by Margaret Maynard. Oxford, U.K.: Berg.
2010
Book Chapter
Akubra
Maynard, Margaret and Macaskill, Philippa (2010). Akubra. Symbols of Australia Uncovering the Stories behind the Myths. (pp. 193-200) edited by Melissa Harper and Richard White. Sydney, NSW, Australia: UNSW Press and National Museum of Australia.
Funding
Past funding
Supervision
Availability
- Associate Professor Margaret Maynard is:
- Available for supervision
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Supervision history
Completed supervision
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2002
Doctor Philosophy
THE ART AND SCIENCE OF EXPLORATION: A STUDY OF GENRE, VISION AND VISUAL REPRESENTATION IN NINETEENTH CENTURY JOURNALS AND REPORTS OF AUSTRALIAN INLAND EXPLORATION
Principal Advisor
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2013
Doctor Philosophy
Recruiting the Nation: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Second World War Australian Propaganda Posters and Greek Popular Icons
Associate Advisor
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