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Elli Michaela Young
ellimichaelayoung@gmail.com
Education
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PGCertHE, Middlesex University
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PhD University of Brighton
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MA Postcolonial Cultures and Global Policy, Goldsmiths College, University of London
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BA Design (Hons), The Cass, London Metropolitan University
Teaching
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Lecturer Fashion and Visual Cultures, Middlesex University, UK
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Visiting Lecturer, University of the Arts London (UAL), UK
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Independent Researcher, BacktoBacks Birmingham, The National Trust, UK
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Visiting Lecturer, Royal College of Art (RCA), UK
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Associate Lecturer, Middlesex University, UK
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Associate Lecturer, London Metropolitan University, UK
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Associate Lecturer, Central Saint Martins, UK
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Associate Lecturer, University of Brighton, UK​
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Book Review: Birth of Cool, Carol Tulloch, Association of Dress Historians Journal, Issue 81, Autumn 2019, https://dresshistorians.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/JDH_Autumn_2019.pdf.
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Blog: Fashioning a Jamaican Identity, History of Art and Design Blog, University of Brighton.
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​Book Chapter: Patternmaking History and Theory, Creolized Pattern making, A Jamaican Perspective, Patternmaking History and Theory, (ed) Jennifer Grayer Moore Bloomsbury Publishing, ISBN: 9781350227804. Book Review: Dressed in Dreams. A Black Girl’s Love Letter to the Power of Fashion, Tanisha C Ford, Association of Dress Historians Journal, Issue 127, Winter 2020, https://dresshistorians.org/wp/wp-
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Book Review: ‘Collecting Black Studies The Art of Material Culture at the University of Texas at Austin’ The Journal of Modern Craft,16:1,DOI 10.1080/17496772.2023.2212203,
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Book Chapter: ‘It was Jamaican style, and they didn’t have anything like that in England’ (ed) Sarah Lichtman and Jilly Traganou, , Taylor Francis Group.
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Is there really fashion in Jamaica? History Workshop, https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/museums-archives-heritage/is-there-really-fashion-in-jamaica/
Exhibitions
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Jamaica Fashion Guild Ltd: Designing Paradise, Madsen Sylvester Studio, 2025