Ilya Parkins

Associate Department Head, Professor

Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, Power, Conflict and Ideas
Other Titles: Undergraduate Program Advisor
Office: ART 258
Email: ilya.parkins@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor


Research Summary

Feminist theories, especially epistemologies; history and theory of fashion; theories of modernity and early twentieth-century cultural formations; femininities; Periodical media’

Courses & Teaching

Gender, Race, Sexuality and Power I: An Introduction; Women and Popular Culture; Critical Foundations: Feminism and Difference; Perspectives on Gendered Bodies; Feminist Research Methodologies; Gender, Dress and Fashion: Histories and Theories; Femininities

Degrees

PhD, Social and Political Thought, York University
MA, Women’s Studies, York University

Research Interests & Projects

Sartorial Emotion Work and Social Reproduction – Funded by SSHRC 2026-30.

Selected Publications & Presentations

Books

Redressing Weddings: Relational Practices of Fashion, Sexuality and Gender. Manchester University Press, forthcoming 2027.

Fashion and Feeling: The Affective Politics of Dress, ed. Roberto Filippello and Ilya Parkins. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

Fashion, New Feminist Essays. Ed. Ilya Parkins and Maryanne Dever. London: Routledge, 2020.

Poiret, Dior and Schiaparelli: Fashion, Femininity and Modernity. London: Berg, 2012.

Cultures of Femininity in Modern Fashion. Ed. Ilya Parkins and Elizabeth M. Sheehan. Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2011.

Articles

(with Rosie Findlay) “Making a Reality: Inclusive Wedding Vendors and Extramarket Morality.” QED: Journal of GLBTQ Worldmaking 10, no. 1 (2023): 77-98.

“Feminist Sentimentalism? Ambivalent feeling in inclusive digital wedding media.” Cultural Studies 37, no. 4 (2023): 647-68.

(with Rosie Findlay) “Commodity Feminism and Dressing the ‘Best Self’ on A Practical Wedding”. Australian Feminist Studies (2021).

“Queering the ‘Modern Bride’: Lessons from Vogue.” Journal of Modern Periodical Studies 11, no. 2 (2020): 292-309.

“You’ll Never Regret Going Bold’: Moods of Wedding Apparel on A Practical Wedding.” Fashion Theory 25, no.  (2021): 799-817.

“Becoming in the Eyes of Others: The Relational Gaze in Boudoir Photography.” In Revisiting the Gaze: The Fashioned Body and the Politics of Looking, edited by Morna Laing and Jacki Willson. London: Bloomsbury, 2020.

PODCASTS

Redressing Weddings, www.redressingweddings.com.

EDITORIAL WORK

Parkins, Ilya and Lise Shapiro Sanders, ed. Special issue of International Journal of Fashion Studies on Affiliative Fashion. Vol. 12, no. 2 (2025).

Parkins, Ilya and Lise Shapiro Sanders, ed. Special issue of Feminist Theory on Fashion Media. Vol 23, no. 3 (2022).

Sanders, Lise Shapiro and Ilya Parkins, ed. Special Issue of Journal of Modern Periodical Studies on Fashion in the Magazines. Vol. 11, no. 2 (2020).

Parkins, Ilya and Maryanne Dever, ed. Special issue of Australian Feminist Studies on Fashion. Vol. 33,no. 98 (2018).

Google Scholar

Selected Grants & Awards

Winner of the 2013 Provost’s Award for Teaching Excellence and Innovation (UBC, Okanagan Campus)

Professional Services/Affiliations/Committees

Co-Principal Editor, International Journal of Fashion Studies

 

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