Art History: Dress and Textile Histories

Teaching Staff

The programme is team-taught by University staff and external specialists.

Rebecca Quinton Honorary Senior Research Fellow and Convenor, Dress & Textile Histories

Rebecca Quinton is Curator, European Costume & Textiles at Glasgow Museums, where she is writing a book on the 17th century costume in collections. Other research areas include 17th century needlework in the Burrell Collection and Georgian costume. Before that she was Curator, Costume and Textiles at Brighton & Hove Museums where she co-curated the Fashion & Style Gallery.

Liz Hancock Lecturer and Taught Postgraduate Convenor

European furniture and furnishing textiles; the history of collecting, collections and museums

Frances Lennard Senior Lecturer in Textile Conservation

Sarah Foskett Textile Conservation Tutor

Karen Thompson, University Teacher in Textile Conservation

Anita Quye Lecturer in Conservation Science

Guest lecturers in 2011-12 included:

• Mary M Brooks, Monument Fellow, York Museums Trust; Consultant, Museums, Conservation & Textiles; Honorary Senior Research Associate, Institute of Archaeology; and Joint Editor, Textile History
• Dinah Eastop, Clothworkers Research Fellow, The National Archives, Kew; Visiting Research Fellow, University of Southampton; Honorary Research Fellow, University of Glasgow
• Mairi Mackenzie, Lecturer, Glasgow School of Art
• Barbara Burman, author of The Culture of Sewing Gender, Consumption and Homedressmaking,
• Dr Lesley Miller, Senior Curator (Textiles) at the Victoria and Albert Museum
• David Wilcox, Lecturer at Edinburgh College of Art
• Dr Sally Tuckett, Post-doctoral Research Assistant, University of Edinburgh