Philippa Nesbitt

EDUCATION

AWARDS + GRANTS

2023 SSHRC Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement
$6,000 CAD.

2022     SSHRC CGS Doctoral Scholarship
$105,000 CAD.

2022     Rogers-Ontario Graduate Scholarship
$20,000 CAD (Declined).

2020   CUPE 3904 Unit 3 Equity & Inclusion Research Grant
$7,500 CAD.

2017     Summer Research Grant, Parsons Paris
1,200€. 

2017     Dean’s Merit Scholarship, Parsons Paris
2016 $9,000 USD/year

WORK EXPERIENCE

ACADEMIC + RESEARCH 

RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Dr. Ben Barry, CRIPPING MASCULINITY
TORONTO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY & THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA

TEACHING ASSISTANT
FASHION AND DISABILITY JUSTICE, 2022
PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN, NEW YORK

GRADUATE ASSISTANT
REFASHIONING HISTORY, 2022
FASHION THEORY, 2020-2021
TORONTO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY

TEACHING ASSISTANT
INTRO FASHION STUDIES, 2019
HISTORY OF FASHION, 2018-2019
PARSONS PARIS

RESEARCH AND PROGRAM ASSISTANT
Dr. Marco Pecorari, FASHION STUDIES DEPARTMENT
PARSONS PARIS   
PARIS, 2017-2018

PERSONAL ARCHIVES + CATALOGING
DAME OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND     
PARIS, 2018

PUBLICATIONS

ACADEMIC

“DESIGNING CLOTHES FOR AND FROM LOVE: DISABILITY JUSTICE AND FASHION HACKING”
Ben Barry and Philippa Nesbitt
Fashion and Feeling: The Affective Politics of Dress, eds. Roberto Filippello and Ilya Parkins. London: Palfgrave, 2023.

FASHION, IDENTITY, IMAGE
Paul Jobling, Philippa Nesbitt and Angelene Wong
Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022

“CRIP MASCULINITIES AND EVERYDAY DRESS: NARRATIVES OF VITALITY AND CREATIVITY”
Ben Barry, Megan Strickfaden, Philippa Nesbitt, Kristina McMullin and Alexis de Villa
Fashionable Masculinities: Queers, Pimp Daddies and Lumbersexuals, eds. Adam Geczy and Vicky Karaminas
Rutgers, 2022

“SELF-FASHIONING QUEER/CRIP: STRETCHING AND GRAPPLING WITH DISABILITY, GENDER AND DRESS”
Ben Barry and Philippa Nesbitt
Fashion, Style and Popular Culture 9, no. 1, 2022

”EXHIBITION REVIEW: AZZEDINE ALAIA: “JE SUIS COUTURIER”
Philippa Nesbitt
The Fashion Studies Journal, online, 2018

“DESIGNING CLOTHING FOR AND FROM LOVE: DISABILITY JUSTICE AND FASHION HACKING”
Ben Barry and Philippa Nesbitt
Fashion & Feeling: The Affective Politics of Dress, eds. Roberto Filippello and Ilya Perkins
Palgrave, forthcoming.

“REMAKING CLOTHING, REMAKING WORLDS: ON CRIP FASHION HACKING”
Ben Barry, Philippa Nesbitt, Alexis De Villa, Kristina McMullin and Jonathan Dumitra
Social Sciences, forthcoming.

MAGAZINE ARTICLES

“LA MODE DEPUIS TIKTOK/FASHION SINCE TIKTOK”
Magazine Magazine no. 38, 2023

“CHRONIQUE MODE”/”WHO DECIDES THE FANTASY IN FASHION?”
Magazine Magazine no. 36, 2021

“EVERYTHING IS PERMISSIBLE, AS LONG AS IT’S FANTASTIC: THE CASA MOLLINO”
Neptune no. 1, 2020

”TRANSGENDER MODELS: NEW REPRESENTATIONS IN FASHION”
Merde no. 2, 2020

“LA SCIENCE DES ODEURS/THE SCIENCE OF SMELL: INTERVIEW WITH SISSEL TOLAAS”
Revue Beauté no. 1, 2019

“FORMES ET PERSPECTIVES: KIRI UNA BRITO-MEUMANN”
Revue online, 2020

“AUTOBIOGRAPHIE: CLAIRE MILBRATH”
Revue online, 2019

”WEAR ME LIKE WATER: STEF WILSON & SINEAD O’DWYER”
Revue online, 2019

“JUDGING A MAGAZINE BY ITS COVER: ANGELO CIRIMELE ON THE BUSINESS OF ART DIRECTION AND THE SHIFT OF PRINT MEDIA”
Regard(s) no. 1, 2018

“THE PARADOXICAL PRACTICE OF RETOUCHING: INTERVIEW WITH AIR FRANCE MADAME’S ART DIRECTOR GIORGIO MARTINOLI”
Regard(s) no. 1, 2018

CONFERENCES + INVITED TALKS

“Picturing Diversity: Re-Imagining Representation in Contemporary Fashion Imagery”
Philippa Nesbitt
Invited Talk
Fashion at the Creative School, Toronto Metropolitan University, 2022

“Crip Fashion Hacking as Mutual Aid: Kinship, Care and Desiring Disability.”
Ben Barry, Philippa Nesbitt, Kristina McMullin and Jonathan Dumitra
Ways of Caring — Practicing Solidarity International Fashion Conference
Arnhem, The Netherlands, 2022

“Crip Community Can Save Fashion: How Disabled People Generate Alternative Fashion Practices.”
Ben Barry, Philippa Nesbitt, Kristina McMullin, Alexis De Villa and Jonathan Dumitra
Responsible Fashion Series, University of Antwerp, 2021

“Intersectional Interventions: Grappling with Masculine Disabled Self Fashioning Practices.”
Philippa Nesbitt and Ben Barry
Fashion Tales Conference 2020+1, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, 2021

“Cripping Fashion: How Disability Communities Resist Neoliberal Logics.”
Philippa Nesbitt and Ben Barry
London College of Fashion Cultural and Historical Studies Digital Symposium, London, 2021

“Intersectional Interventions into Disabled Masculinities Through Fashion.”
Ben Barry and Philippa Nesbitt
Congress: The Canadian Sociological Association Conference, Edmonton, 2021

“When Body Meets Clothes: Fitting and Misfitting Through Disability and Dress.”
Philippa Nesbitt and Ben Barry
Costume Society of America’s 47th Annual Meeting and Symposium, Salt Lake City, 2021

“On QueerCrip Fashion: Stretching and Grappling with Disability, Gender and Dress.”
Philippa Nesbitt and Ben Barry
Fashion, Style and Queer Culture Conference, Drexel University, Philadelphia, 2021

“Digitizing Fashion: A Round-table Discussion with Byronesque and Statements the Podcast.”
Philippa Nesbitt and Gill Linton
Fashion Criticism in the Digital Age, Glassbox Gallery, Paris, 2018 

“Designing Liminality: The Careful Identity of Yohji Yamamoto.”
Philippa Nesbitt
Dis/Orienting Identity Graduate Symposium, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, 2018

EXHIBITIONS

CRIPPING MASCULINITY: DESIGNING FASHION UTOPIAS
TANGLED ART + DISABILITY, TORONTO, MARCH-MAY 2023
With the Cripping Masculinity research project

LOCALITÉ KOCHÉ
PARSONS PARIS GALLERY, 2019
Collaboration with Koché & Justin Morin

OBJÉTS D'ÉTUDES: THE POLITICS OF THE STUDY COLLECTION WITHIN THE FASHION MUSEUM
LE COEUR GALLERY, PARIS, 2018
With the Parsons Paris MA Fashion Studies class of 2019

PERFORMING THE STUDY COLLECTION EXHIBITION CATALOGUE
LE COEUR GALLERY, PARIS, 2018
Photographer

ShowOFF: CREATIVE LABOUR IN THE FASHION INDUSTRY
GLASSBOX GALLERY, PARIS, 2017
With the Parsons Paris MA Fashion Studies class of 2019

SAVAGE MINDS EXHIBITION
PARSONS PARIS GALLERY, 2017
With the Parsons Paris MA Fashion Studies and MA Design class of 2019