Elisabeth Gernerd

Dr Elisabeth Gernerd is a historian of fashion, art, and material culture in the eighteenth century. Her first book, The Modern Venus: Dress, Underwear and Accessories in the late 18th Century Atlantic World, was published by Bloomsbury in November, 2023. She has published articles and chapters on stockings, banyans, and feathers in Textile History (2015), Appearance(s) (2022), Eighteenth-Century Studies (2023), and Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Nation of Makers, ed. Serena Dyer and Chloe Wigston Smith (2020). Her current research interests center on eighteenth-century dress and its relationship to politics, gender, graphic satire and global trade, as well as women's networks and correspondence.

Lis is Lecturer in Design Cultures at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. She completed her PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2016, and she also has previously taught at the London College of Fashion, London Metropolitan University, the University of Westminster, and Queen Mary University London. She was the inaugural Deidre Murphy Postdoctoral Fellow at Historic Royal Palaces, and has held fellowships with the Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art, UCLA, Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, Colonial Williamsburg and Yale University. She is a founding member of the Sartorial Society Series.