Review Committee & Organisation

Critical Costume 2015 Academic Host
Conference Chair & Exhibition Curator

Dr. Sofia Pantouvaki
Professor of Costume Design for Theatre and Film
Costume in Focus Research Group leader
Department of Film, TV and Scenography
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture

Critical Costume 2015 Scientific and Review Committee

Sidsel Bech
Scenographer
Programme Leader BA (Hons) Theatre Design
Edge Hill University
United Kingdom

Jessica Bugg, PhD
Associate Professor
Associate Head, Research for Fashion and Textiles
School of Fashion and Textiles
RMIT University
Australia

Greer Crawley, PhD
Visiting Lecturer Scenography
Department of Drama and Theatre
Royal Holloway University of London
United Kingdom

Rachel Hann, PhD
Lecturer in Scenography
School of Arts
University of Surrey
United Kingdom

Kathleen Irwin, PhD
Head, Theatre Department
Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies
Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Regina
Canada

Aoife Monks, PhD
Reader in Theatre Studies
Department of Drama
School of English and Drama
Queen Mary, University of London
United Kingdom

Siobhán O’Gorman, PhD
Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow
Samuel Beckett Centre
School of Drama, Film and Music
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland

Suzanne Osmond, PhD
Course Coordinator, Design Thinking & Object Ecology
UTS:INSEARCH
University of Technology Sydney
Australia

Natalie Rewa, PhD
Professor
Department of Drama
Cross appointed to the Departments of Gender Studies, and Cultural Studies
Queen’s University
Kingston, Ontario
Canada

Fausto Viana, PhD
Professor
School of Communication and Arts
São Paulo University (USP)
Brazil

Organizing Committee

Dr. Elena Trencheva
Post-doctoral Researcher in Costume Design
Costume in Focus Research Group
Department of Film, TV and Scenography
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture

Tua Helve
Doctoral candidate, Costume in Focus Research Group
Department of Film, TV and Scenography
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture

Jorge Sandoval
Doctoral candidate, Costume in Focus Research Group
Department of Film, TV and Scenography
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture

Joanna Weckman
Doctoral candidate, Costume in Focus Research Group
Department of Design
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture

Merja Väisänen
Lecturer in Costume Design for Film
Costume in Focus Research Group
Department of Film, TV and Scenography
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture

Exhibition coordinator
Jorge Sandoval
Doctoral candidate, Costume in Focus Research Group
Department of Film, TV and Scenography
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture

Conference coordinator
Liisa Pesonen
Department of Film, TV and Scenography
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture