Associate Professor Margaret Maynard
Honorary Associate Professor
School of Communication and Arts
Researcher biography
Associate Professor Margaret Maynard's research is interests include Australian dress, identity and fashion; fashion photography and gender studies.
Her current research includes dress studies, history of fashion, and Australian fashion photography.
She is the author of:
- Fashioned from Penury: Dress as Cultural Practice in Colonial Australia, CU Press (Cambridge University) 1994.
- Out of Line: Australian Women and Style, Uni. of New South Wales Press, 2001.
- Dress and Globalisation, Manchester Uni. Press, 2004.
Dr Maynard is a dress historian and an Honorary Consultant of the Queensland Museum.
Publications
Books
Maynard, Margaret (2004). Dress and Globalisation. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press.
Maynard, Margaret (2001). Out of Line. Australian Women and Style. 1 ed. Sydney, Australia: University of New South Wales Press.
Brown, Julie K. and Maynard, Margaret (1980). Fine art exhibitions in Brisbane, 1884-1916. St. Lucia, Qld. : Fryer Memorial Library, University of Queensland.
Book Chapters
Maynard, Margaret (2016). Status: 1805-1900. 200 years of Australian fashion. (pp. 10-25) Melbourne, VIC, Australia: National Gallery of Victoria.
Maynard, Margaret (2015). Queensland Fashion. Remotely fashionable: a story of subtropical style. (pp. 21-35) edited by Nadia Buick and Madeleine King. Brisbane, Qld, Australia: Fashion Archives.
Maynard, Margaret (2013). Fast fashion and sustainability. The Handbook of Fashion Studies. (pp. 542-556) edited by Sandy Black, Amy de la Haye, Joanne Entwistle, Agnès Rocamora, Regina Root and Helen Thomas. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic.
Maynard, Margaret (2012). Fashion modelling in Australia. Fashioning models: image, text and industry. (pp. 80-96) edited by Joanne Entwistle and Elizabeth Wissinger. New York, United States: Berg Publishers.
Maynard, Margaret (2012). Clothing: art clothes or wearable art?. Fashion and art. (pp. 145-154) edited by Adam Geczy and Vicki Karaminas. Oxford, United Kingdom: Berg Publishers.
Maynard, Margaret (2010). Globalization and dress. Berg encyclopedia of world dress and fashion. (pp. 252-263) edited by Joanne B. Eicher and Phyllis G. Tortora. Oxford, U.K.: Berg. doi: 10.2752/BEWDF/EDch10035
Maynard, Margaret (2010). Distance and respectability in Colonial Australia. The Fashion History Reader: Global Perspectives. (pp. 399-401) edited by Giorgio Riello and Peter McNeil. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York: Routledge.
Maynard, Margaret (2010). Preface to Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. Berg encyclopaedia of world dress and fashion, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. (pp. xvii-xviii) edited by Margaret Maynard. Oxford, U.K.: Berg.
Maynard, Margaret and Macaskill, Philippa (2010). Akubra. Symbols of Australia Uncovering the Stories behind the Myths. (pp. 193-200) edited by Melissa Harper and Richard White. Sydney, NSW, Australia: UNSW Press and National Museum of Australia.
Maynard, Margaret (2010). Economies and cultures of dress. Berg Encyclopedia of world dress and fashion: Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. (pp. 9-13) edited by Margaret Maynard. Oxford, U.K.: Berg.
Maynard, Margaret (2010). Geographical and geopolitical introduction. Berg Encyclopedia of world dress and fashion/ vol. 7, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. (pp. 3-8) edited by Margaret Maynard. Oxford, U.K.: Berg.
Maynard, Margaret (2009). The mystery of the fashion photograph. Fashion in fiction: Text and clothing in literature, film, and television. (pp. 55-66) edited by Peter McNeil, Vicki Karaminas and Catherine Cole. Oxford, UK: Berg Publishers.
Maynard, Margaret (2008). Doris Zinkeisen: New Idea portrait with leaf background. Harold Cazneaux: Artist in photography. (pp. 30-31) edited by Natasha Bullock. Sydney, Australia: Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Maynard, Margaret (2008). The fashion photograph: An 'ecology'. Fashion as photograph: Viewing and reviewing images of fashion. (pp. 54-69) edited by Eugenie Shinkle. New York, U.S.A.: I. B. Tauris.
Maynard, M. (2005). Australian dress. Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion. (pp. 101-104) edited by V. Steele. New York: Thomson Gale.
Maynard, Margaret (2002). Blankets: the visible politics of Indigenous clothing in Australia. Fashioning the body politic: dress, gender, citizenship. (pp. 189-204) edited by Wendy Parkins. Oxford, United Kingdom: Berg.
Maynard, M. (2000). Indigenous dress. Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture. (pp. 384-390) edited by Sylvia Kleiner and Margo Neale. Melbourne: Oxford UP.
Maynard, M. (2000). What to wear for Holy Communion. Imaginary Materials: a Seminar with Michael Carter. (pp. 23-27) edited by John Macarthur. Brisbane: IMA Publishing.
Journal Articles
Maynard, Margaret (2017). Fashion and air travel: Australian photography and style. Costume, 51 (1), 103-120. doi: 10.3366/cost.2017.0007
Maynard, Margaret (2016). Miss Scott’s world of colonial elegance. Gallery, 35.
Maynard, Margaret (2013). Queensland fashion: part two. The Fashion Archives, 1 (2).
Maynard, Margaret (2013). Queensland fashion: part three. The Fashion Archives, 1 (2).
Maynard, Margaret (2013). Queensland fashion: part one. The Fashion Archives, 1 (1).
Maynard, Margaret (2013). Review of Staging Fashion 1880-1920: Jane Hading, Lily Elsie, Billie Burk. Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture, 17 (1), 123-128. doi: 10.2752/175174113X13502911680257
Maynard, Margaret (2013). Queensland clothing. Queensland Historical Atlas.
Maynard, Margaret (2007). 'Lady be beautiful': Selling corsets in the 1920s. Journal of Australian Studies, 31 (91), 145-153. doi: 10.1080/14443050709388136
Maynard, Margaret (2006). Dress for Dissent: Reading the Almost Unreadable. Journal of Australian Studies, 30 (89), 103-112. doi: 10.1080/14443050609388096
Maynard, Margaret (2006). Where Do Flappers Fit In?: The Photography of Modern Fashion in Australia. Australian Cultural History, 25, 273-290.
Maynard, M. (2005). Bound to please: A history of the victorian corset. Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 27 (1), 99-101. doi: 10.1080/08905490500133196
Maynard, M. (2004). Narrating style. Photofile, 71 (Winter), 46-47.
Maynard, Margaret (2004). To look without: Artists' self portraits in Australia. Eyeline (55, Spring), 42-43.
Maynard, M. (2003). The Study of Dress History. Textile History, 34 (1), 89-90.
Maynard, M. (2001). Paperscapes. Eyeline, Spring (Special), 10-11.
Maynard, Margaret (2001). Proliferating Habits: Leisure and clothing in the 1890s. Brisbane History Group Papers, 17, 43-51.
Maynard, Margaret (2000). 'La Mode' - as Sacral?. Form/Work, 4, 19-25.
Maynard, M. (2000). Clothes encounters. The Bulletin, 118, 126-127.
Maynard, Margaret (2000). Staging masculinity: Late 19C photographs of indigenous men. Journal of Australian Studies, 24 (66), 129-137. doi: 10.1080/14443050009387618
Maynard, Margaret (2000). Tokyo Vogue: Couture at risk. Eyeline, 42 (Autumn/Winter), 20-42.
Maynard, M. (2000). Grassroots style. Reevaluating Australian fashion and Aboriginal art in the 70s and 80s. Journal of Design History, 13 (2), 137-150. doi: 10.1093/jdh/13.2.137
Maynard, M. (1999). Ann Maxwell: Colonial photography and exhibitions. Journal of Australian Studies (61), 202-203.
Maynard, Margaret (1999). Living dolls: The fashion model in Australia. Journal of Popular Culture, 33 (1), 191-205. doi: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1999.3301_191.x
Maynard, M. (1999). The Red Centre: The quest for 'authenticity' in Australian dress. Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, 3 (2), 175-196.
Maynard, M. (1990). Civilian clothing and fabric supplies: the development of fashionable dressing in Sydney, 1790-1830. Textile History, 21 (1), 87-100.
Maynard, Margaret. (1980). Aspects of taste : exhibitions of art in Brisbane 1876-1887. John Oxley journal: a bulletin for historical research in Queensland, 1 (6), 16-29.
Conference Paper
Maynard, Margaret (2009). What is "Australian" fashion photography? A dilemma. Oxford, England: Berg Publishers. doi: 10.2752/175174109X467477
Creative Work
Maynard, Margaret (2013). Dress: a future for its past. Sydney, Australia: Australian Dress Register.