Dr Madeleine Seys

Adelaide University's School of Humanities, College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities.

I am a researcher, writer and artist in the interwoven fields of literary studies and material cultural studies.

My research explores: nineteenth-century literary and fashion histories; Australian literary and material histories; Pasifika photography and visual art; theories and experiences of gender and sexuality; histories of feminism and women's movements; embodiment and corporeality; museology and curatorial studies. Working with textual, material and visual sources, I employ queer and interdisciplinary methodologies to explore and enact the making of stories and identities and objects.

My doctoral research undertaken at The University of Adelaide explored the use of dress as a way to encode narratives of female sexuality and agency in British popular literature from 1860 to 1900.

This work was published as Fashion and Narrative in Victorian Popular Literature: Double Threads by Routledge in 2018.

I write scholarly research and creative non-fiction across my fields of interest. I am a member of the Australasian Victorian Studies Association executive committee and the editorial board for the Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies and social media coordinator for the Mary Elizabeth Braddon Association.

I also work as an academic editor, consulting museum and exhibition curator, fashion historian and bespoke tailor.

I am currently working on a fashion history of South Australia.