Professor Carol Tulloch
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Professor
College
Chelsea College of Arts
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Biography
Carol Tulloch is a writer and curator with a specialism in dress and black identities. She is a member of the Transnational Art, Identity and Nation Research Centre (TrAIN) and is the TrAIN/V&A Fellow in the Research Department of the Victoria and Albert Museum.Tulloch was the Principal Investigator of the Dress and the African Diaspora Network, an international endeavour to develop critical thinking on this subject. Tulloch’s knowledge of this area of study has led to appearances on television and radio in programmes such as Tales from the Front Room, BBC4 (2007) and Good Golly, Bad Golly, BBC Radio 4 (2010).
My current research focus is on the telling of self through the styled black body. This includes cross-cultural and transnational relations, cultural heritage, auto/biography, personal archives and what I call style narratives. I combine these approaches to consider how black people negotiate their sense of self within various cultural and social contexts locally, nationally and internationally.
Understandably, my work includes other social and cultural groups to compare experiences, and/or cultural collaborations with people of the African diaspora that enables me to develop a dialogue in the telling and place of individuals and groups. Additionally, the experiences of lives in different situations, the home, and making things have also informed the expansion of my research.
Grants and awards
(Figures indicate amount awarded to UAL)
- British Academy, The Birth of Cool, £5,244.60, (2011-2014)
- Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Dress and the African Diaspora, £19,974.00, (2006-2007)
Research Outputs
Article
- Tulloch C. Units of Possibility: The Reknit Revolution (2018)
- Tulloch C. Style fashion dress: from black to post-black (2010)
- Tulloch C. How Jackson Dressed to Impress (2009)
Book
- Wilson S, Quinn M, Beech D, Tulloch C, Lehnert M. The Persistence of Taste: Art, Museums and Everyday Life After Bourdieu (2018)
- Tulloch C. Jessica Ogden: Still (2017)
- Tulloch C. The Birth of Cool: Style Narratives of the African Diaspora (2016)
- Tulloch C, Kaiser SB, Rabine L, Breward C, Cheddie J, McCullough SR, Cooper C, Rose C. Fashion theory, special issue: dress and the African Diaspora (2010)
- Tulloch C. The birth of cool: style narratives of the African Diaspora (2008)
- Tulloch C. Black Style (2004)
Book Section
- Tulloch C. A Riot of Our Own: A Reflection on Agency (2018)
- Tulloch C. The glamorous ‘diasporic intimacy’ of habitus ‘Taste’, migration and the practice of settlement (2018)
- Tulloch C. Buffalo: style with intent (2011)
- Tulloch C. There’s No Place Like Home: Home Dressmaking and Creativity in the Jamaican Community of the 1940s and 1960s’ (2010)
- Tulloch C, Shelton S. Rock Against Racism: 12 Points of Reference (2010)
- Tulloch C. Connecting the Dots: Networks of Design and the African Diaspora (2009)
- Tulloch C. Familial Dress Relations and the West Indian Front Room (2009)
- Tulloch C. Greeting (2009)
- Tulloch C. Resounding Power of the Afro Comb (2008)
- Tulloch C. Picture This: The Black Curator (2005)
Conference, Symposium or Workshop item
- Tulloch C. This Time It's Personal (2016)
- Tulloch C, Hackney F, Thomas N, Bunnell K. Crafting communities (2011)
- Tulloch C. A reflection on the inclusion of black studies in design and art education (2011)
- Tulloch C, Shonibare Y, Robins F, Faiers J. When clothes speak: the fabric of our heritage (2011)
- Tulloch C. Handmade tales: exhibition overview (2010)
- Tulloch C. Black style and James Barnor's transatlantic archive (2010)
- Tulloch C. Take Three Garments: Textiles, Critical Thinking and the African Diaspora (2010)
- Tulloch C. Thinking Through Dress, African Diaspora and Diaspora (2010)
- Tulloch C. Dress and the African Diaspora Network’ (2010)
- Tulloch C, Stockwell S, Charles A. Conversations within Conversations (2009)
- Tulloch C. Style—Fashion—Dress: From Black to Post-Black (2009)
- Tulloch C. Style Fashion Dress: From Black to Post-Black (2009)
- Tulloch C. Research—Filling in Gaps, Opening Doors (2009)
- Tulloch C. Just One Shot (2009)
- Tulloch C. A riot of our own: style, blackness and new directions (2009)
- Tulloch C. What’s the Connection? Dress as Auto/Biography in the Jamaican Memories and the Shelton Family Personal Archive (2008)
- Tulloch C. Connecting the Dots: Networks on Dress and the African Diaspora (2008)
- Tulloch C. Photographic Archives and Dress History (2008)
- Tulloch C. Black Identities and the AutoBiographical/I (2008)
- Tulloch C. V&A Symposium: Should Art be Authentic (2006)
Other
- Rangecroft A, Tulloch C. Interview with Carol Tulloch: Handmade Tales Exhibition at the Women's Library (2011)
- Tulloch C. Good Golly, Bad Golly (2010)
- Tulloch C. Woven in Time (2008)
Show/Exhibition
- Tulloch C. Jessica Ogden: Still (2017)
- Tulloch C. International Fashion Showcase - Nigeria, Botswana and Sierra Leone (2012)
- Tulloch C. Handmade tales: women and domestic crafts (2010)
- Tulloch C. A riot of our own (2010)
- Tulloch C, Gregory R, Shelton S. A Riot of Our Own (2008)
- Tulloch C. Text panels for 'The Story of the Supremes' exhibition (2008)
- Tulloch C, Cole S. Day of Record, Nails, Weaves and Naturals: Black British Hairstyle and Nail Art
- Tulloch C, Cole S. Black British Style
Teaching
Current research students
- Kimathi Donkor, Africana Unmasked: Fugitive Signs of Africa in Tate's collection of British Art. (Lead supervisor)
- Leah Muwanga-Magoye, Afrofuturism and the British African Diaspora: a graphic novel. (Joint supervisor)
- Maria Smith, Scheherazade Emerging (2000-2012); Reconstructing the Oriental Female Other in Contemporary Western Visual Culture.' (Lead supervisor)
- Kathleen Stevenson, Potentials of the ‘me-made’: own-use clothing production as ecosophic praxis (Lead supervisor)
- Nicola Stylianou, Producing and Collecting for Empire: African Textiles in the V&A 1852-2000. (Lead supervisor)
- Anushka Hui-Xin Tay, Chinoiserie Outside China 1945-present: an exploration of how British Chinese people have experienced and demonstrated their relationship to their Chinese heritage through dress (Joint supervisor)
- Premila Van Ommen, Kpop, Kathmandu and Camden: Transnational Trends and Fashion Creativity Amongst Young Nepalis in Britain. (Lead supervisor)
Past research students
- Jessica Carden, Contemporary Visual Representations of the Non-White Body in Arctic Space: British Colonial Constructions of the 'Heart of Whiteness' and the Black-White Binary as Fetish. (Lead supervisor)