Univ.-Prof. Dr.phil. M.A. Elke Gaugele

Elke Gaugele is a cultural anthropologist and professor for Fashion and Styles/Contextual Design at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She specializes in postcolonial and feminist intersectional fashion theory and practice with a focus on the politics, global/social justice, ethics, and aesthetics of fashion. Her cultural analysis further focuses the role of fashion, design and art in the context of global flight and migration, and times of far-right extremism. She directed the Austrian Center for Fashion Research ACfFR (2017-2021), was a researcher in the DFG Scientific Network Entangled Histories of Art and Migration: Forms, Visibilities, Agents (2018-2022), and research fellow at Goldsmiths College, University of London, Department for Visual Arts, UK (2004-2005), among others. Her internationally renowned publications and (co-)editorships include Fashion and Postcolonial Critique (2019), Fashion as Politics: Dressing Dissent (special issue Fashion Theory. Vol. 23, 2019), Aesthetic Politics in Fashion (2014), and Fashion Knowledge, Theories, Methods, Practices and Politics (2022). Her work has been awarded the Lise Meitner Habilitation Grant of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia/Germany (2005) and the Maria Goeppert-Mayer Guest Professorship at the University of Vechta (2004).

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