Theresa M. Winge
Associate Professor of Fashion Design and Theory
An expert on fashion and dress, Theresa M. Winge focuses her research on the construction of identity within visual and material cultures.
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Therèsa M. Winge is an Associate Professor in Apparel and Textile Design, in the Art, Art History, and Design department at Michigan State University. Common throughout her research and design, she focuses on the construction/deconstruction of subcultural visual and material cultures, dress, and narratives. Her research examines subcultural dress for its meanings and construction of identity. Winge deconstructs the bricolage of specific subcultural dress for its significant elements that contribute ... to the creation of her conceptual apparel designs, utilizing both traditional and innovative techniques and methodologies. Her first book Body Style (2012) is about subcultural body modifications, and her second book Costuming Cosplay: Dressing the Imagination (2018).
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University of Minnesota-Twin Cities: Ph.D., Dress Studies | 2004
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities: M.A., Subcultures, Dress, Quantum Physics | 2004
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities: B.S., Clothing Design | 2004
Selected Press
Is ink indecent?
The Varsity | 2016-09-11
In The Berg Companion to Fashion, Valerie Steele defines the ‘tattoo’ as “a permanent or semi-permanent body modification that transforms the skin.” According to Steele, the word tattoo comes from the Tahitian word ‘tautau’, meaning “to mark something.” The practice of tattooing involves puncturing the skin and depositing pigments, like ink, to create permanent patterns and designs.
MSU Experts Can Discuss All Things Oscars
MSUToday | 2016-02-22
Who will take home Hollywood’s most prestigious awards, The Oscars, at the Academy Awards on Feb. 28?
Who, and what, will wow the fashion police?
ATD Students Finalists in 3-D Printing Challenge
MSUToday | 2015-05-15
As part of professor Theresa Winge’s apparel and textile specialized design course, students participated in the 2015 Extreme Redesign 3-D Printing Challenge. ATD students Ashley Christensen and Lauren Aquilina took third place in the competition and MacLain Credeur and Autumn Hauer were finalists in the top 10.
Costumed fans put a gender spin on classic characters
CNN | 2013-09-03
"Men are often quagmired in tropes of 'maleness,' " said Theresa Winge, an assistant professor of apparel and textile design at Michigan State University and an expert on crossplay.
"While it is not uncommon for males to dress as women characters, most male cosplayers have male and nongendered characters that speak to their fandom."
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