She holds a PhD in Art History from Queen’s University, where her dissertation focused on late nineteenth-century Aesthetic Dress in the context of British visual culture and Aestheticism. Her first book Dressed as in a Painting: Women and British Aestheticism in an age of Reform was published by the University of New Hampshire in July, 2013. Current research focuses on the intersections between academic Feminism and the histories and theories of fashion, from the late nineteenth century to the present. In support of this research, she was recently awarded a SSHRC Insight Development grant for her project Fashioning Feminism: Women, Clothing, Art and Power in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century British Culture.