Anna Hanchett

I joined the Department of Media Studies in the spring of 2019. Before my arrival at the Section for Fashion Studies, I received my BFA in studio art and my BA in art history from Calvin College (USA), and my MA in fashion studies from Stockholm University. I wrote my final MA thesis on the turtleneck and nomadic subjectivity, and I advanced to the PhD program shortly thereafter.

My most pressing intellectual interests include fashion history and theory; feminist, gender and sexuality studies; fashion and materiality; studies of corporeality and the body; and feminist philosophy.

My doctoral research is at the intersections of fashion studies and feminist, gender and sexuality studies. Informed by contemporary feminist theory on embodiment and difference, the project explores women’s experiences with tailored suits. By carrying out in-depth interviews with women involved in tailoring and by engaging in ethnographic observations of women’s encounters at the tailor shop, the project sheds light on the multiple and diverse ways in which women express gendered embodiment through tailored suits.