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Mark O’Connell
Dr Mark O’Connell (Ph.D. Communication and Culture, Ryerson University; MA Fashion, Ryerson University; BA, OCADU) is a professor of fashion studies at Seneca College, Toronto, Canada. His research explores the potential for social justice reforms in transnational fashion production and supply chains. His articles have been published in Fashion Theory, Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture and Fashion Studies. His chapter ‘Clandestina: An ethnographic study of economic policy and colonial hegemonies encoded in the consumption of used garments’ will be included in the forthcoming publication Ethical Fashion and Empowerment (Intellect, 2020), also his chapter ‘Cover me: The Hudson’s bay point blanket as a metonymic of colonial incursion and nascent Canadian nationhood’ will be published in Critiques of Canada’s Creative Industries (Canadian Scholars Press, 2021). Prior to teaching, Mark worked as a designer both in house at MAC Cosmetics and for his own clothing line, Modular Menswear.
Contact: School of Fashion, Seneca College, 1750 Finch Ave E, North York, ON M2J 2X5, Canada.