Francesca Granata

Francesca Granata PhD is Associate Professor in the School of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons School of Design, The New School.

She is founder and editor of the nonprofit journal Fashion Projects: On Art, Fashion, and Visual Culture ( fashionprojects.org ). Her research centers on twentieth century and contemporary visual and material culture, with a focus on fashion history and theory, gender and performance studies. She has published in Fashion Theory, Fashion Practice, and in the Journal of Design History.

Her monograph Experimental Fashion: Carnival, Performance Art, and the Grotesque Body Experimental Fashion: Performance Art, Carnival, and the Grotesque Body discusses designers and performers such as Rei Kawakubo, Leigh Bowery, and Bernhard Willhelm, whose work challenges established codes of what represents the fashionable body and gender norms.