PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
My research contributes to scholarship in dress studies and it subsumes visual and material culture. I provide insight and understanding into knitted dress through the lens of matriculture, popular culture, literature, and the artists at the intersection of art and craft. Knits offer a medium to address and critique tropes commonly associated with gender, labor, and sociopolitical issues because it is entrenched and stereotyped by these same connotations. The inherent material culture of knits offers unexpected foundations for politically charged topics.
Much of the research regarding knits pertains to advancements in technology or technical descriptions of the creation of knits. Handcrafts surface as the focal points in several art movements; however, knitting was only included in scant amounts. My contribution to the discipline is addressing this gap in the knowledge by examining the complex and complicated roles of knitting and knitwear within fashion, art, nature, and society.
Knit materials are laden with historical, familial, domestic, and feminine connections. Practitioners of knit are assumed to be female. The act of knitting is deemed to be a domestic activity, and therefore pejorative. Accordingly, artists and craftivists challenge the position of women and crafts in society by exploring themes of politics, power, sex, and gender, highlighting the second-wave feminist ideology within a third wave feminist vehicle. My research and scholarship reveal the exclusion of knits due to a patriarchal metanarrative and the ways that knitting is a vehicle of empowerment when used as visual political rhetoric.
Much of the research regarding knits pertains to advancements in technology or technical descriptions of the creation of knits. Handcrafts surface as the focal points in several art movements; however, knitting was only included in scant amounts. My contribution to the discipline is addressing this gap in the knowledge by examining the complex and complicated roles of knitting and knitwear within fashion, art, nature, and society.
Knit materials are laden with historical, familial, domestic, and feminine connections. Practitioners of knit are assumed to be female. The act of knitting is deemed to be a domestic activity, and therefore pejorative. Accordingly, artists and craftivists challenge the position of women and crafts in society by exploring themes of politics, power, sex, and gender, highlighting the second-wave feminist ideology within a third wave feminist vehicle. My research and scholarship reveal the exclusion of knits due to a patriarchal metanarrative and the ways that knitting is a vehicle of empowerment when used as visual political rhetoric.
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Article
Schuiling, R.E. (in-review). Knitted in Stardust: The Knits of David Bowie. In Clothing Culture journal.
Schuiling, R.E. (2021). Quarantine Pajama Party: From the Bedroom to the Boardroom, Pajamas Cause Unheimlich. In The New Normal: Dressing and Body Practices in the Pandemic Era, Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture (Russian Edition).
Access: https://www.amazon.com/«Новая-норма»-гардеробные-телесные-Библиотека-ebook/dp/B09B45G31V
ISBN: 978-5-4448-1292-5
Peer-reviewed Chapter
Schuiling, R.E. and Winge, T.M. (2018). Penetrating Knits: Feminists Knits “Cunty First” and “The Pussyhats.” In K. Medvedev and A. Lynch (Eds.), Fashion, Agency, and Empowerment: Performing Agency, Following Script. Oxford: Bloomsbury Publishers.
Publisher Book Link: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/fashion-agency-and empowerment9781350058262/
ISBN: 9781350058262
Teaching Lesson Plan
Schuiling, R.E. (2019) Knitwear: Casting On Around The World. Berg Fashion Library. Bloomsbury Publishers.
https://www.bloomsburyfashioncentral.com/lesson-plans/knitwear-casting-on-around-the-world
Presentations
Peer-reviewed Academic Presentations
Schuiling, R.E (June 17, 2021). Crafting Mother Nature: Revealing and Underscoring Matricultural Knowledge and Praxis. The Soft Politics of Making Panel. The Centre for the Study of Fashion and Cultural Production (Modacult). Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. Fashion Tales: Politics Through the Wardrobes. Online. Milan, ITALY. [peer-reviewed; international]
Schuiling, R.E (June 5, 2021). Knitting the Yarns of Edgar Allan Poe’s Prophecies: Reflections of the “Masque of the Red Death” in Covid-19 Pandemic. Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association Annual Conference. Online [peer-reviewed; national]
Schuiling, R.E. (November 25, 2020). Lockdown Wardrobe: Comfort and the Professional Body. Russian Fashion Theory. Round Table Discussion. Lockdown Wardrobe: Time, Space and the Body in the Quarantine Era. Online. [invited; international]
Schuiling, R.E. (November 13-14, 2020). Welcome to the Uncanny Valley: Exteriorized Interiors through the Lens of Knitwear. Dress & Body Association. Virtually (Un) Dressed: Researching the Body in the Digital Age. Online. [peer-reviewed; international]
Schuiling, R.E (June 24, 2020). Quarantine Pajama Party: From the Bedroom to the Boardroom, Pajamas case Unheimlich. The New Literary Observer Publishing House and Fashion Theory Russia “The New Normal”: Sartorial and Body Practices of the Quarantine Era Conference. Zoom Platform. [international]
Schuiling, R.E. (Accepted: Planned dates, April 15-18, 2020 cancelled due to pandemic). Knitting on the Lam/b: The Knits of Bonnie Parker. Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association Annual Conference. Philadelphia, PA. [national].
Schuiling, R.E. (April 17-20, 2019). Lana Turner, a.k.a., Sweater Girl: Unraveling the Sweater to Save the Girl. Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association Annual Conference. Washington D.C. [national]
Schuiling, R.E. (June 13-16, 2018). Gone with the Knits: 1930’s Knitwear Aesthetic through the Lens of Popular Culture. 10th Biennial International Interdisciplinary Gender, Work, and Organization. Sydney, AUSTRALIA. [international]
Schuiling, R.E. (March 28-31, 2018). Pistols and Purls: The Aesthetics of 1920s Knitwear through the Lens of Popular Culture . Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association Annual Conference. Indianapolis, IN. [national]
Schuiling, R.E. (April 12-15, 2017). Knitted of Stardust: The Knits of David Bowie. Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association Annual Conference. San Diego, CA. [national]
Schuiling, R.E. (September 11-12, 2015). Cunty First: Lisa Anne Auerbach’s Subversive Knit Artwork. Fashion, Sex and Power Symposium. College of Design, University of Minnesota. [international]
Research Presentations
Winge, T.M. and Schuiling, R.E. (February 5, 2017) #pussyhats: Knitting Resistance and Agency lecture. Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum. [regional/campus, invited]
Peer Reviewed Teaching Presentations
Schuiling, R.E. Matricultural Practices in Studio Art Courses. The Teaching and Learning Spring Conference. Michigan State University [regional/campus] (May 2021).
Schuiling, R.E. LdL and Experiential Learning: Implementing Effective Teaching Strategies in a Design Studio Context. The Teaching and Learning Spring Conference. Michigan State University [regional/campus] (May 2017).
Peer-Reviewed Journal Article
Schuiling, R.E. (in-review). Knitted in Stardust: The Knits of David Bowie. In Clothing Culture journal.
Schuiling, R.E. (2021). Quarantine Pajama Party: From the Bedroom to the Boardroom, Pajamas Cause Unheimlich. In The New Normal: Dressing and Body Practices in the Pandemic Era, Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture (Russian Edition).
Access: https://www.amazon.com/«Новая-норма»-гардеробные-телесные-Библиотека-ebook/dp/B09B45G31V
ISBN: 978-5-4448-1292-5
Peer-reviewed Chapter
Schuiling, R.E. and Winge, T.M. (2018). Penetrating Knits: Feminists Knits “Cunty First” and “The Pussyhats.” In K. Medvedev and A. Lynch (Eds.), Fashion, Agency, and Empowerment: Performing Agency, Following Script. Oxford: Bloomsbury Publishers.
Publisher Book Link: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/fashion-agency-and empowerment9781350058262/
ISBN: 9781350058262
Teaching Lesson Plan
Schuiling, R.E. (2019) Knitwear: Casting On Around The World. Berg Fashion Library. Bloomsbury Publishers.
https://www.bloomsburyfashioncentral.com/lesson-plans/knitwear-casting-on-around-the-world
Presentations
Peer-reviewed Academic Presentations
Schuiling, R.E (June 17, 2021). Crafting Mother Nature: Revealing and Underscoring Matricultural Knowledge and Praxis. The Soft Politics of Making Panel. The Centre for the Study of Fashion and Cultural Production (Modacult). Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. Fashion Tales: Politics Through the Wardrobes. Online. Milan, ITALY. [peer-reviewed; international]
Schuiling, R.E (June 5, 2021). Knitting the Yarns of Edgar Allan Poe’s Prophecies: Reflections of the “Masque of the Red Death” in Covid-19 Pandemic. Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association Annual Conference. Online [peer-reviewed; national]
Schuiling, R.E. (November 25, 2020). Lockdown Wardrobe: Comfort and the Professional Body. Russian Fashion Theory. Round Table Discussion. Lockdown Wardrobe: Time, Space and the Body in the Quarantine Era. Online. [invited; international]
Schuiling, R.E. (November 13-14, 2020). Welcome to the Uncanny Valley: Exteriorized Interiors through the Lens of Knitwear. Dress & Body Association. Virtually (Un) Dressed: Researching the Body in the Digital Age. Online. [peer-reviewed; international]
Schuiling, R.E (June 24, 2020). Quarantine Pajama Party: From the Bedroom to the Boardroom, Pajamas case Unheimlich. The New Literary Observer Publishing House and Fashion Theory Russia “The New Normal”: Sartorial and Body Practices of the Quarantine Era Conference. Zoom Platform. [international]
Schuiling, R.E. (Accepted: Planned dates, April 15-18, 2020 cancelled due to pandemic). Knitting on the Lam/b: The Knits of Bonnie Parker. Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association Annual Conference. Philadelphia, PA. [national].
Schuiling, R.E. (April 17-20, 2019). Lana Turner, a.k.a., Sweater Girl: Unraveling the Sweater to Save the Girl. Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association Annual Conference. Washington D.C. [national]
Schuiling, R.E. (June 13-16, 2018). Gone with the Knits: 1930’s Knitwear Aesthetic through the Lens of Popular Culture. 10th Biennial International Interdisciplinary Gender, Work, and Organization. Sydney, AUSTRALIA. [international]
Schuiling, R.E. (March 28-31, 2018). Pistols and Purls: The Aesthetics of 1920s Knitwear through the Lens of Popular Culture . Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association Annual Conference. Indianapolis, IN. [national]
Schuiling, R.E. (April 12-15, 2017). Knitted of Stardust: The Knits of David Bowie. Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association Annual Conference. San Diego, CA. [national]
Schuiling, R.E. (September 11-12, 2015). Cunty First: Lisa Anne Auerbach’s Subversive Knit Artwork. Fashion, Sex and Power Symposium. College of Design, University of Minnesota. [international]
Research Presentations
Winge, T.M. and Schuiling, R.E. (February 5, 2017) #pussyhats: Knitting Resistance and Agency lecture. Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum. [regional/campus, invited]
Peer Reviewed Teaching Presentations
Schuiling, R.E. Matricultural Practices in Studio Art Courses. The Teaching and Learning Spring Conference. Michigan State University [regional/campus] (May 2021).
Schuiling, R.E. LdL and Experiential Learning: Implementing Effective Teaching Strategies in a Design Studio Context. The Teaching and Learning Spring Conference. Michigan State University [regional/campus] (May 2017).
