• since 04/2024 Administration of the professorship "Mediation of Material Culture"
  Institute of Material Culture
  School III - School of Linguistics and Cultural Studies
  University of Oldenburg
• 09/2020 to 08/23 Lecturer in Theory and History of Fashion
  ICDP, Academy of Art and Design
  University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW, Basel
• 08/2019 to 08/2020 Research Assistant
  ICES - Interdisciplinary Centre for European Studies
  European University of Flensburg
• 08/2017 to 07/2019 Research assistant
  Institute for Aesthetic-Cultural Education
  European University of Flensburg
• 04/2003 to 09/2009 Doctorate: Cultural Studies
  Institute for Arts and Media, University of Potsdam
• 10/1993 to 03/2003 Diplom: Cultural Studies and Aesthetic Practice
  Institute of Philosophy, University of Hildesheim

Journal articles

• Collective-Aesthetical Experiences of Vestimentary Self-fabrication, in: ZoneModa Journal, Special Issue 1/2020, ed. by Gioia Laura Ianilli and Stefano Marino, Bologna: University, 265-281.
• fake_fashion_agency - Aesthetical Making and Vestimentary Tactics between Genius, Creativity and Shanzhai, in: Clothing Cultures, ed. by Sarah Gilligan, Jo Turney and Alex Franklin, Bristol: Intellect 2019, 6/1, 77-96.
• Sewing on the net. Strategies of vestimentary self-production between commercial abstinence and rapid consumption, in: II. yearbook netzwerk mode textil e. V., Augsburg: Wißner 2018, 92-103.
• ModeBilderKunstTexte - Die Kontextualisierung der Modefotografien von F.C. Gundlach zwischen Kunst- und Modesystem, in: IMAGE. Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Bildwissenschaft, Issue 7, Vol. 4, 2008, 20-40.

Contributions to the conference proceedings

• "Da, zwischen Körper und Kleid - Das vestimentäre Dazwischen", in: Selbstbehältnisse. Places and Objects of the Storage of Individuality, ed. by Laura Busse, Andreas Gehrlach and Waldemar Isak, Neofelis: Berlin 2021, 57-77.
• "Medienclash und Modehandeln - Ikonotextualität im Magazin", in: WohnSeiten, ed. by Irene Nierhaus, Kathrin Heinz and Rosanna Umbach, Transcript 2020, 134-157.
• "I am other and I am another! - Vestimentary Self-Fabrication on the Net", in: Body Images - Body Practices, ed. by Elke Grittmann and others, Cologne: Halem 2018, 261-284.
• "Why fashion is (not) a modern leading medium ...", in: LeitMedien. Konzepte - Relevanz - Geschichte, vol. 2, ed. by Daniel Müller, Annemone Ligensa and Peter Gendolla, Bielefeld: Transcript 2009, 271-288.
• "Signs of Bliss in Textures and Textiles", in: Fashion in Fiction. Text and Clothing in Literature, Film andTelevision, ed. by Catherine Cole, Vicki Karaminas and Peter McNeil, Oxford/New York: Berg 2009, 161-165.
• "Modehandeln zwischen Bild und Text - Zur Ikonotextualität der Mode in der Zeitschrift", in: IMAGE. Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Bildwissenschaft, issue 8, vol. 4, 2008, 84-95.

Monograph

• medium makes fashion. On the iconotextuality of the fashion magazine, Bielefeld: Transcript 2010.

Book contributions

• "Mode, Anziehen, Klamotten", together w. Nadja Rogalski and Tine-Marie Kaphengst, in: Handbuch Offene Kinder- und Jugendarbeit, ed. by Ulrich Deinet and others, Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2021, 1403-1409.
• "Exclusive Fashion - Vestimentary Inclusion", in: Fashion Dis/ability. Mode, Behinderung und vestimentäreInklusion, ed. by Beate Schmuck, Berlin: Waxmann 2020, 31-46.
• "ModeMedien - Transmedialität und Modehandeln", in: Die Medialität der Mode. Kleidung als kulturellePraxis - Perspektiven für eine Modewissenschaft, ed. by Rainer Wenrich, Bielefeld: Transcript 2015, 109-126.
• "Bread and roses - fashion victims everywhere! A conversation with Magdalena Freudenschuss and Elke Gaugele", in: Feminisms today. Positions in Theory and Practice, ed. by Yvonne Franke, Kati Mozygemba, Kathleen Pöge, Bettina Ritter and Dagmar Venohr, Bielefeld: Transcript 2014, 297-324.
• "Zur Transmedialität der Mode", in: Medien der Mode, ed. by Gabriele Mentges and Gudrun König, Berlin: Edition Ebersbach 2010, 139-150.

Publication

• Feminisms today. Positions in Theory and Practice, ed. by Yvonne Franke, Kati Mozygemba, Kathleen Pöge, Bettina Ritter and Dagmar Venohr, Bielefeld: Transcript 2014.
• IMAGE. Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Bildwissenschaft - Themenheft "Ästhetik und Alltagserfahrung", with contributions by Christiane Voss, Kathrin Busch, Wolfgang Ulrich, Gertrud Lehnert, Rüdiger Zill and Petra Leutner, on the occasion of the VII Congress of the German Society for Aesthetics e. V., Issue 8, Vol. 4, 2008.

• "Where Body and Dress Meet", together with. Linda Schraner, The Beginner's Mind: Asking and Telling About Dress Studies, 5-6 November 2022, Dress and Body Association Annual Conference (online), Indiana, USA.
• "There, between body and dress - The vestimentary in-between", Selbstbehältnisse. Places and Objects of the Storage of Individuality, 15-16.11.2019, Symposium of the Humboldt University Society, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin.
• "Vestimentary Self-Fabrication - Collective-Aesthetic Experiences of Diversity, Solidarity and Creativity", ZoneModa Conference: Be cool! Aesthetic Imperatives and Social Practices, 16-18.05.2019, symposium of the International Research Centre for Culture Fashion Communication, Rimini Campus, University of Bologna.
• "Medienclash und Modehandeln - Zur Ikonotextualität der Modestrecke", WohnSeiten. Put in the picture and leafed through. Zeigestrategien des Wohnens in Zeitschriften, 10-12 May 2019, International conference of the research field wohnen+/-ausstellen, co-operation of the Institute of Art Studies/Film Studies/ Art Education, University of Bremen with the Mariann Steegmann Institute (invitation).
• "Textile Transculturality - Techniques between Traditions and Trends", lecture at the Department of Textiles, Graphic Art and Design, 26 February 2019, University of Ljubljana (invitation).
• "DIY - do it yourself! Modehandeln als ästhetische Praxis", Kulturanthropologie der Moden, 30.10.2018, series of lectures at the Seminar for Cultural Anthropology of Textiles, Institute of Material Culture, Technical University of Dortmund (invitation).
• "Vom Spüren zum Wissen - Spürbares Wissen", Irgendwie ... gleich, 25.-26.10.18, presentation at Inklusionstagung, workshop conception and organisation together w. N. Rogalski and E. Mark, European University of Flensburg.
• "Das Ästhetische im Modehandeln", Ästhetische Praxis und kulturwissenschaftliche Forschung, 11-13 October 2018, 4th Annual Conference of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft e. V., University of Hildesheim.
• "fake_fashion_agency - Faking Means Making. Vestimentary Tactics of Self-Empowerment", Fashion, Costume and Visual Cultures (FCVC2018), 17-19 July 2018, International Conference of the Research Network, Faculty of Textile Technology, University of Zagreb.
• "Textile, Tradition, Trend - Vestimentary Identities between Art and Commerce", lecture at the invitation of the district government of Guizhou, 21 May 2018, Guizhou Minzu University, Guiyang; lecture and award of honorary professorship (Prof. h.c.) 28 May 2018, Tongren University, China (keynote).
• "Kulturwissenschaftliche und medienphilosophische Perspektiven auf das Vestimentäre - Transmedialität, Ikonotextualität und Materialität des Modehandelns", Mode hat Methode. Zum aktuellen Stand der Methodenvielfalt in der Modewissenschaft, 06-07 October 2017, Young Researchers' Symposium at the Institute of Music/Textile at the School of Cultural Studies, Paderborn University (invitation).
• "Exklusive Mode - Vestimentäre Inklusion", Inklusion, Diversität & Ästhetische Bildung, 04-05 May 2017, symposium at the Institute for Aesthetic-Cultural Education, Europa-Universität Flensburg (invitation).
• "Sewing on the net. Strategies of vestimentary self-production between commercial abstinence and rapid consumption", Mode - Zwischen Flüchtigkeit und Ewigkeit, 10-11 March 2017, symposium at the Mozarteum Salzburg and the Catholic Private University Linz.
• "Nietzsches bürgerlicher Universalrock", Evidenz und Ambivalenz des Herrenanzugs, 07-09 May 2009, Junior Researcher Symposium, Institute of Cultural Studies, University of Oldenburg.
• "Modehandeln zwischen Bild und Text", Ästhetik und Alltagserfahrung, 29 September - 2 October 2008, VII Congress of the German Society for Aesthetics e. V., Friedrich Schiller University Jena.
• "Texts turn pictures into fashion or art", Interfaces. Mode und Fotografie im Dialog, 28-29.06.2008, Symposium "F.C. Gundlach - Das fotografische Werk", Haus der Photographie, Deichtorhallen Hamburg.
• "On the Transmediality of Fashion", Media of Fashion. Film, Magazine, Web, 18 June 2008, colloquium at the Institute of Material Culture, University of Dortmund (invitation).
• "Warum Mode (k)ein modernes Leitmedium ist ...", LeitMedien, 15-17 November 2007, Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Research Centre "Medienumbrüche", Artur-Woll-Haus, University of Siegen.
• "Kleidung als Symptom - 'denn aller Schmuck versteckt das Geschmückte'", Nietzsche - Philosoph der Kulturen, 23-25 August 2007, International Congress of the Nietzsche Society e. V., Naumburg.
• "Textiles as Signs of Barthes' Bliss Concept within the Texture of Nietzsche's Second Piece of the Unfashionable Observations", Fashion in Fiction, 26-27 May 2007, International Conference, University of Technology, Sydney.

• "practice based fashion theory", conception and management of the Winter School on cultural studies & practice-based textile, clothing and fashion research (together with Elke Gaugele, Barbara Schrödl and Philipp Zitzlsperger), doctoral funding from netzwerk mode textil e.V. and ACfFR, 4-6 October 2018, Academy of Fine Arts, Institute for Artistic Teaching, Vienna.
• "Spring School", conception, organisation and management of the 1st school on cultural-scientific & practice-based textile, clothing and fashion research (together with Elke Gaugele, Barbara Schrödl and Philipp Zitzlsperger), doctoral funding by netzwerk mode textil e.V. and the ACfFR (Austrian Centre for Fashion Research), 25/26 May 2017, Fresenius University of Applied Sciences, Department of Design (AMD), Berlin.
• "Welcome to Plurality - Feminisms today", conception, organisation and management of the Women Scientists' Workshop 20012 (together with Y. Franke, K. Mozygemba, K. Pöge, B. Ritter), 19th Annual Conference of Young Women Scientists of the Hans Böckler Foundation, 28-30 September 2012, Mühlhausen in Thuringia.
• "Frauenvorbilder - Vorbildliche Frauen?", conception, organisation and management of the Women Scientists' Workshop 2007 (together with C. Heilig, K. Girgensohn, J.C. Enders), 14th Annual Conference of Young Women Scientists of the Hans Böckler Foundation, 31 August to 2 September 2007, Mühlhausen in Thuringia.

• since 2020: Society for Artistic Research e.V.
• since 2018: Cultural Studies Society e.V.
• since 2017: GEW
• since 2017: Fachverband Textil e.V.
• since 2008: netzwerk mode textil e.V.
• 2000-2017: ver.di
• 2008-2012: German Society for Semiotics e.V.

• "Cultural significance of fashion - Ins Handeln Kommen", lecture and exercise, advanced training for Slow Fashion Coach, module 6, Clean Clothes Campaign, Hamburg regional group, 11 December 2021.
• "From army to fashion classic", talk with Evelyn Béguin on 29 October 2020, Subkutan, Radio RaBe.
• "Modehandeln - Ins Handeln Kommen", lecture and exercise, Slow Fashion Coach training, module 6, Clean Clothes Campaign, Hamburg regional group, 6 December 2020.
• "The magazine - Schatzkammer der Moden", lecture on the fashion magazine Release AUS and free fashion culture, published by Textem, 24 October 2015, Golem Hamburg.
• "Against the exclusivity of fashion", radio interview by Johanne Fischer, Radio Corax on 19 February 2020 on the occasion of the article "Was zieht mich an?", in:iz3w - 3rd WorldInformation Centre, issue 377, topic "The course of fashion - Aesthetics & Exploitation", March/April 2020, 20- 21.
• "cocon commerz PRIVATSACHEN - Ein Küchengespräch mit Connyie Rethmann über Kleider, Kollektionen und Kundinnen", in: III. yearbook netzwerk mode textil e. V., Augsburg: Wißner 2019, 72-83.
• "We will eventually suffocate in our textile waste", interview by Eva Maria Manz on 15 January 2018 for the Stuttgarter Zeitung.
• "70 Jahre Bikini - Das Kleidungsstück der Selbstermächtigung", radio interview by Max Oppel on 5 July 2016, Kompressor, Deutschlandradio Kultur.
• "Das Magazin - Schatzkammer der Moden", lecture on the fashion magazine release AUS and free fashion culture, published by Textem, 24 October 2015, Golem Hamburg.
• "Not only the ball is round", DIY instructions for destroying and recycling car football flags, in: MissyMagazine, No. 8, 3/2010, 50.
• "mode macht madonna", in: Madonna und wir. Bekenntnisse, ed. by Kerstin Grether and Sandra Grether, Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp 2008, 211-218.
• "ausschlussprinzip kleidung", in: Intro, 3/2000, No. 72, 18-19.
• "Unmittelbare Präsenz des Abwesenden", exhibition publication Pascale Komarnicki, Hanover 1999.
• "Three friends and the horror of good things", in: Toner (2/99), Via 113 Artgenossen, Hildesheim.

• "Fashion Networks", conception and organisation together w. Kat Sark, workshop as part of a meeting of netzwerk mode textil e.V., 6 December 2019, vestibül: ... Raum und Zeit für Kunst und Wissenschaft, Hamburg
• "Vom Spüren zum Wissen - Spürbares Wissen", conception and organisation together with Nadja Rogalski and Elke Mark, workshop at the symposium Irgendwie ... gleich, 25/26 October, Europa-Universität Flensburg.
• "FunnyFashionFakes - mode marken machen munter", holiday workshop for children at Spielhaus Alsenstraße, organised in collaboration with Nadja Rogalski, Tine-Marie Kaphengst and Fabienne Frahm, 9 May 2018, vestibül: ... Raum und Zeit für Kunst und Wissenschaft, Hamburg.
• "Fashion für Fortgeschrittene - Vestimentäre Selbstinszenierung als Zeichen von Hedonismus und Protest", themed evening with keynote speeches by Melanie Haller, Mahret Kupka, Catharina Rüß and Diana Weis, 19 May 2016, vestibül: ... Raum und Zeit für Kunst und Wissenschaft, Hamburg.
• "Sinnvoll mit Powerpoint präsentieren", organisation together with Claudia Heilig. Claudia Heilig, seminar as part of the qualification programme of the Hans Böckler Foundation, ref.: A. Schneider-Müllenstädt, 04/05 April 2008, UKE Education Academy, Hamburg.
• "Writing workshop", organisation together w. Claudia Heilig, workshop as part of the Hans Böckler Foundation's qualification programme, ref.: K. Girgensohn, 1 and 2 August 2008, UKE seminar room, Hamburg.

• 10/2009 to 05/2017 Retail management
  Mrs Tulpe -Fabrics and accessories, Hamburg
• 05 to 09/2009 Fashion research assistant
  Foundation F.C. Gundlach, Hamburg
• 03 to 09/2000 Fashion editor
  Department foundation and management, Intro, Cologne
• 07/1991 to 03/1994 Apprenticeship as a dressmaker
  Klingenspor-Mode, Hanover