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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2009
Conference Publication
What is "Australian" fashion photography? A dilemma
Maynard, Margaret (2009). What is "Australian" fashion photography? A dilemma. Oxford, England: Berg Publishers. doi: 10.2752/175174109X467477
2009
Book Chapter
The mystery of the fashion photograph
Maynard, Margaret (2009). The mystery of the fashion photograph. Fashion in fiction: Text and clothing in literature, film, and television. (pp. 55-66) edited by Peter McNeil, Vicki Karaminas and Catherine Cole. Oxford, UK: Berg Publishers.
2008
Book Chapter
Doris Zinkeisen: New Idea portrait with leaf background
Maynard, Margaret (2008). Doris Zinkeisen: New Idea portrait with leaf background. Harold Cazneaux: Artist in photography. (pp. 30-31) edited by Natasha Bullock. Sydney, Australia: Art Gallery of New South Wales.
2008
Book Chapter
The fashion photograph: An 'ecology'
Maynard, Margaret (2008). The fashion photograph: An 'ecology'. Fashion as photograph: Viewing and reviewing images of fashion. (pp. 54-69) edited by Eugenie Shinkle. New York, U.S.A.: I. B. Tauris.
2007
Journal Article
'Lady be beautiful': Selling corsets in the 1920s
Maynard, Margaret (2007). 'Lady be beautiful': Selling corsets in the 1920s. Journal of Australian Studies, 31 (91), 145-153. doi: 10.1080/14443050709388136
2006
Journal Article
Dress for Dissent: Reading the Almost Unreadable
Maynard, Margaret (2006). Dress for Dissent: Reading the Almost Unreadable. Journal of Australian Studies, 30 (89), 103-112. doi: 10.1080/14443050609388096
2006
Journal Article
Where Do Flappers Fit In?: The Photography of Modern Fashion in Australia
Maynard, Margaret (2006). Where Do Flappers Fit In?: The Photography of Modern Fashion in Australia. Australian Cultural History, 25, 273-290.
2005
Book Chapter
Australian dress
Maynard, M. (2005). Australian dress. Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion. (pp. 101-104) edited by V. Steele. New York: Thomson Gale.
2005
Journal Article
Bound to please: A history of the victorian corset
Maynard, M. (2005). Bound to please: A history of the victorian corset. Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 27 (1), 99-101. doi: 10.1080/08905490500133196
2004
Edited Outputs
Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture
Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture. (2004). 8 (4)
2004
Book
Dress and Globalisation
Maynard, Margaret (2004). Dress and Globalisation. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press.
2004
Journal Article
Narrating style
Maynard, M. (2004). Narrating style. Photofile, 71 (Winter), 46-47.
2004
Journal Article
To look without: Artists' self portraits in Australia
Maynard, Margaret (2004). To look without: Artists' self portraits in Australia. Eyeline (55, Spring), 42-43.
2003
Journal Article
The Study of Dress History
Maynard, M. (2003). The Study of Dress History. Textile History, 34 (1), 89-90.
2002
Book Chapter
Blankets: the visible politics of Indigenous clothing in Australia
Maynard, Margaret (2002). Blankets: the visible politics of Indigenous clothing in Australia. Fashioning the body politic: dress, gender, citizenship. (pp. 189-204) edited by Wendy Parkins. Oxford, United Kingdom: Berg.
2001
Journal Article
Proliferating Habits: Leisure and clothing in the 1890s
Maynard, Margaret (2001). Proliferating Habits: Leisure and clothing in the 1890s. Brisbane History Group Papers, 17, 43-51.
2001
Journal Article
Paperscapes
Maynard, M. (2001). Paperscapes. Eyeline, Spring (Special), 10-11.
2001
Book
Out of Line. Australian Women and Style
Maynard, Margaret (2001). Out of Line. Australian Women and Style. 1 ed. Sydney, Australia: University of New South Wales Press.
2000
Journal Article
'La Mode' - as Sacral?
Maynard, Margaret (2000). 'La Mode' - as Sacral?. Form/Work, 4, 19-25.
2000
Book Chapter
Indigenous dress
Maynard, M. (2000). Indigenous dress. Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture. (pp. 384-390) edited by Sylvia Kleiner and Margo Neale. Melbourne: Oxford UP.
Funding
Past funding
Supervision
Availability
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- 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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