Madeleine Seys

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Dr Madeleine Seys is a Research Fellow in the Department of English, Creative Writing and Film at the University of Adelaide where she researches fashion, literary, and visual cultures from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries.
Her extensive publication record explores questions of identity formation and storytelling in relation to gender, sexuality and material cultures. Her first book "Fashion and Narrative in Victorian Popular Literature: Double Threads" was published by Routledge in 2017. Madeleine's work has also been published in "Artlink", AGSA's "Radical Textiles" and various scholarly journals.

Madeleine also works as a consulting fashion historian and curator, bespoke tailor, and textile conservator. She was a featured expert on the ABC's "The Way We Wore" (2024). She is currently writing a fashion history of South Australia and sewing clothes for her family.

Experience

  • 2009–present
    Costume Curator, Ayers House Museum, National Trust of South Australia
  • 2015–present
    Sessional Lecturer and Tutor in Department of English and Creative Writing, The University of Adelaide
  • 2011–2015
    PhD Candidate and Tutor in Discipline of English and Creative Writing, The University of Adelaide

Education

  • 2015 
    The University of Adelaide, PhD
  • 2010 
    The University of Adelaide, First Class Honours in English
  • 2009 
    The University of Adelaide, Bachelor of Arts

Publications

  • 2014
    ‘Re-Visiting the Victorian Subject.’, Changing the Victorian Subject
  • 2014
    ‘The Scenery and Dresses of Her Dreams: Reading and Reflecting (on) the Victorian Heroine in M. E. Braddon’s The Doctor’s Wife’. , Changing the Victorian Subject

Contact Madeleine for

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  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision
  • Location: Adelaide, Australia.
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