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SUMMARY:Modernism à la Mode: A Presentation on Fashion and Literature
DESCRIPTION:Author Elizabeth Sheehan\nThe Department of English and Communications Studies and the School of Liberal Arts present a panel discussion about fashion and literature with special guest Elizabeth Sheehan\, author and professor at Oregon State University. \n4–5 pm: Guest speaker: Elizabeth Sheehan’s Presentation and Discussion \n5–6 pm: Panel discussion and Q & A with three FIT scholars: \n\nSarah Byrd\, School of Graduate Studies\, FIT\nJustine De Young\, History of Art Department\, FIT\nElizabeth Sheehan\, English and Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University\nJeri Zulli\, Assistant Professor\, English and Communication Studies\, FIT\n\nEveryone is welcome to join for one or both hours.\n\nDr. Elizabeth Sheehan\, an assistant professor of English and Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University\, is the author of Modernism a la Mode: Fashion and the Ends of Literature (Cornell University Press\, 2018)\, and co-editor of Cultures of Femininity in Modern Fashion. She has produced ground­breaking publications on modernism\, fashion\, feminist theory\, race\, affect\, photography\, and magazines. \nModernism à la Mode argues that fashion describes why and how literary modernism matters in its own historical moment and ours. Bringing together texts\, textiles\, and theories of dress\, Elizabeth Sheehan shows that writers\, including Virginia Woolf\, D.H. Lawrence\, W.E.B. Du Bois\, Nella Larsen\, and F. Scott Fitzgerald\, turned to fashion to understand what their own stylized works could do in the context of global capital\, systemic violence\, and social transformation. Modernists engage with fashion as a mood\, a set of material objects\, and a target of critique\, and\, in doing so\, anticipate and address contemporary debates centered on the uses of literature and literary criticism amidst the supposed crisis in the humanities. A modernist affect with a purpose\, no less. By engaging modernism à la mode—that is\, contingently\, contextually\, and in light of contemporary concerns—this book offers an alternative to the often-untenable distinctions between strong or weak\, suspicious or reparative\, and politically activist or quietist approaches to literature\, which frame current debates about literary methodology. As fashion helps us to describe what modernist texts do\, it enables us to do more with modernism as a form of inquiry\, perception\, and critique. Fashion and modernism are interwoven forms of inquiry\, perception\, and critique\, writes Sheehan. It is fashion that puts the work of early twentieth-century writers in conversation with 21st-century theories of emotion\, materiality\, animality\, beauty\, and history. \nThis event is free and open to the public. 
URL:https://events.fitnyc.edu/event/modernism-a-la-mode-a-presentation-on-fashion-and-literature/
LOCATION:Katie Murphy Amphitheatre\, Pomerantz Art and Design Center\, Fashion Institute of Technology\, New York City\, NY\, United States
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