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Carol Tulloch
Carol Tulloch (she/her) is a writer, curator, maker and professor of dress, diaspora and transnationalism at Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London. She is an honorary senior research fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Her research studies how Black people negotiate their sense of self, through their styled bodies, within different cultural and social contexts alongside the lived experiences of other social groups, for an expanded understanding of being and belonging to a place. She incorporates difference, style narratives, style-fashion-dress, cultural and familial heritage, auto-/biography, personal narratives, personal archives, activism, agency and making. Her work includes the publications: ‘We haven’t got here just on our own: It’s a conversation’ in Jo Littler (ed.), Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and Political (Lawrence Wishart, 2023); ‘T-shirt matters’ in Fashion Knowledge: Theories, Methods, Practices and Politics (Intellect Books, 2022); ‘Long time Gyal me never see you’ in Akeem Smith: No Gyal Can Test (Kaleidoscope, 2021); ‘Epiphanies of dress’ in Lubaina Himid (Tate Publishing, 2021); ‘Style activism: The everyday activist wardrobe of the Black Panther Party and Rock against Racism Movement’ in Fashion and Politics (Yale University Press, 2019); The Birth of Cool: Style Narratives of the African Diaspora (Bloomsbury, 2016); ‘Style-fashion-dress: From black to post-black’ in Fashion Theory (Berg Publishers, 2010); Black Style (V&A Publications, 2004); exhibitions: Jessica Ogden: Still (2017), A Riot of Our Own (2008–12), Handmade Tales: Women and Domestic Crafts (2010) and Black British Style (2004–05).
Contact: Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, 16 John Islip Street, London, SW1P 4JU, UK.
