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Dr Flavia Loscialpo
PhD
Senior Research Fellow
Faculty of Creative Industries, Architecture and Engineering
Biography
Flavia Loscialpo PhD is Senior Research Fellow in Cultural Studies and Fashion, within the School of Art, Design and Fashion at Solent. Her background is in philosophy (PhD, Sapienza University, Rome) and curation (MA, University of the Arts London). Through her research and curatorial activity, she has collaborated with several cultural institutions, such as the Barbican Centre, University of Borås (Sweden), London College of Fashion, the National Gallery London, KG52 Gallery (Sweden), the Thayaht-RAM Archive (Italy), Being Human – A Festival of the Humanities (AHRC), working on exhibitions and publications across art, design and fashion. At Solent, she teaches on the third year of the fashion courses as dissertation supervisor, and on the MA Creative Direction for Fashion and Beauty, which she leads. She supervises postgraduate research students within fine art, curation, cultural studies and fashion.
As a representative of the network FACE (Fashion Academics Creating Equality), she is committed to promoting inclusivity, diversity and equality within the fashion curriculum, addressing in particular the cultural studies and visual culture provision for fashion.
Research interests
Flavia’s scholarly work is driven by the aim to expand theoretical frameworks for a critical analysis of fashion and visual culture. Her published research has been translated in several languages, and has focussed on: utopias in philosophy, fashion and art; philosophical deconstruction and fashion; the exhibition space as a ‘heterotopia’; identity politics and otherness. She is currently working on ethno-racial capitalism within fashion, and the interconnectedness of social, racial and environmental justice. In particular, she is investigating labour exploitation and human rights violations within fashion, collaborating with human rights advocates and activist platforms.
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Keywords
Cultural studies, philosophy, curation, fashion theory, visual culture, Marxism, Marxist feminism
Further information
Dissertation supervision on the third year of the fashion courses.
At postgraduate level, Flavia teaches on the MA Creative Direction for Fashion and Beauty (module leader of Researching Visual Culture, Concept Development, Creative Direction), supervising students on the final MA Project and MA Dissertation.
Research students:
- Emmanuel Boateng, investigating multiculturalism within museums in Southern England (Second supervisor).
- Maja Hill, thesis ‘When things fall apart. Identities in changing states’ (Second supervisor).
- Fatma Al Rasheed, thesis ‘Reinterpreting Sadu textiles: cross cultural developments’. Completed (Lead supervisor).
Taught courses
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