Publications

Books

ATOMIC BOMBSHELLS: HOW PLASTICS SHAPED POSTWAR BODIES 

(Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2026).

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Book Chapters

NYLON, INTIMACY, AND THE COMMERCIAL POWER OF TOUCH

in Commercial Intimacy: Affinity and the Marketplace, edited by Brenton J. Malin, Richard Popp, and Wendy Woloson

(Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025).

CURATING PLASTICS

co-authored with Susan Lambert (Museum of Design in Plastics), Rupert Cole (Science Museum London), and Helen Peavitt (Science Museum London) in The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Plastics, edited by Genevieve Godin, Þóra Pétursdóttir, Estelle Praet, and John Schofield

(London, UK: Routledge, 2024).

Peer-Reviewed Articles

SHAPING FOUNDATIONS: TRANS FEMININE SELF-FASHIONING, DIY AND COMMUNITY BUILDING IN THE POSTWAR US

Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty

Special Issue: Transgender Embodiment in Fashion and Beauty

Vol. 15 (June 2024) pp. 49 – 74.

REDEFINING NUDE: UNRAVELLING NYLON’S UNMARKED NORMS

Journal of Fashion, Style, & Popular Culture

Special Issue: Historically Marginalized Identities, Social Justice, Fashion and Style

Vol. 11 (March 2024) pp. 45 – 64.

Reviews

FASHION THEORY, published first online May 13, 2024

Exhibition Review: John Waters: Pope of Trash. Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Los Angeles, US. September 17, 2023–August 4, 2024.

Invited Reviews

ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY, Issue 28, Vol. 3, (July 2023)

Erica Cirino, Thicker Than Water: The Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Crisis, Washington D.C.: Island Press, 2021, pp. 584-586. 

DESIGN ISSUES, Vol. 36, No. 2, (Spring 2020)

Design History Beyond the Canon ed. by Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler, Victoria Rose Pass, and Christopher S. Wilson, London & New York: Bloomsbury, 2019, pp. 97 – 99.