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Julie Thomas
joined AUP as an adjunct Assistant Professor of
International Communications in 1997, and became a full-time
Assistant Professor in 2001 and an Associate Professor in
2004. She has had a long and varied teaching career, having
been a Maître de Conference in the French university system,
as well as having taught at Parsons’ School of Design,
Paris, the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques,
Trinity College, Dublin, and Harvard University among
others. Her doctoral thesis (University of London) dealt
with how the depiction of England in American writing was
manipulated as a tool in the formation of early American
national identity. She has also studied aspects of visual
culture and communications (History of the Fine & Decorative
Arts at the Victoria & Albert Museum Study Centre), and her
courses at AUP include Communicating Fashion, Colour as
Communication, The Museum as Medium, and the Master’s course
on Material Culture: “Media, Stuff & Values.”
In 2004 she organized
a conference at AUP entitled “Mediating Fashion: Mediating
Paris” in which experts from the fields of sociology of
fashion, fashion design, fashion media (journalism, public
relations) and fashion retailing addressed the diverse ways
in which fashion is mediated in contemporary global culture
and how/if this process continues to mediate Paris as
fashion site. In the field of fashion, Thomas has
co-authored a chapter on Ethical Fashion and Global
Sustainability (co-authored with Mo Tomaney, Senior Research
Fellow in Fashion & Ethics at Central/St.Martin’s, and
founder of the first MA in Ethical Fashion in Europe) for
the Sage Cultures and Globalisation Series, Vol.III,
edited by Raj Isar and Helmut Anheier (2010) and given a
paper entitled “Couture: Tool of Belonging?” at the 2nd
Global Conference, Fashion: Exploring Critical Issues, Oriel
College, Oxford, September, 2010. Other research in visual
communications focuses on colour. In 2005 she presented a
paper on colour, globalization, and cultural space at the
10th Congress of the International Colour Association, was
an invited speaker at the joint Summer Academy of the
Fédération Française de la Couleur and the Centre
d’Information de la Couleur, and was a guest participant in
several seminars at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes des Sciences
Sociales. She also delivered a paper on colour and gender
for the 2008 conference of the AIC, and continues to
research and prepare a book on “Colour Values”, an
inter-disciplinary exploration of colour, cognition and the
creation of cultural space. The ‘mediascape’ of the museum
exhibition is another research interest, and she has written
a chapter in the forthcoming Transnational Media
Cultures and Gendered Formations: Tracking Visibilities,
edited by Radha Hegde (Director, Communication Studies
Program, Dept. of Culture and Communication, NYU), and a
chapter on Museums of Migration in the forthcoming
Cultures and Globalisation Series, Vol. IV, Y. Raj Isar
and Helmut Anheier, eds. (Sage), both of which deal with
‘readings’ of the museum exhibition.
Thomas also has in
the past been engaged in research in the field of digital
media. Research in the late ‘90s on conceptualizations of
cyberspace in cyberpunk literature and on hypertext led to
more recent work on theories of digital interactivity and
attention, as well as to the course Theory and Practice of
Digital Interactivity. With Prof. Claudia Roda of the
Computer Science department, she has organized workshops on
Digital Interaction (at the International Symposium on
Information and Communication Technologies Conference,
Trinity College, Dublin, 2003) and on “Designing for
Attention” (at the 18th annual British Human Computer
Interaction Group Annual Conference, 2004.) A special issue
of the journal Computers in Human Behaviour
(Elsevier) on attention aware systems, guest edited by Roda
and Thomas, appeared as Vol. 22, N.4 in 2006. This issue
also contains their joint article on attention aware
systems, which was cited on the list of Science Direct Top
25 (most downloaded) for January – September, 2006). The
Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction, edited by C.
Ghaoui (IDEA Group), (2006), contains two entries – one on
digital interactivity and one on attention aware systems, by
Roda and Thomas. |
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1998
“La
Cyber-woman - plus ça change?” In Femme et Nature
(Maison des Sciences de l’Homme d’Aquitaine, Bordeaux)
1998
“From ‘Crime’ to
‘Clave’ to ‘Promised Land’: the Changing ‘Values’ of
Ethnicity, Cultural Identity, and the Mainstream”, OVERhere,
A European Journal of American Culture, (18,2)
Winter,1998 (University of Nottingham)
2000
“The Female ‘Body of
Knowledge’ in Gibson’s Neuromancer” Résonances:
Femmes et savoir(s), Numéro 5, avril.
2000
“Cyberspace, Gothic Space” in Fenêtres sur
l’Obscur, ed. Max Duperray (Publications de l’Université
de Provence)
2003
(with Claudia Roda)
"Digital Interaction: Introduction to the first
international workshop". International Symposium on
Information and Communication Technologies (Digital
Interaction workshop), Trinity College Dublin, Ireland,
Computer Science Press, ISICT 2003 Conference Proceedings,
ACM Conference Proceedings Series and ACM Digital Library.
2004
(with Claudia Roda)
"Designing for attention". Proceedings Annual
conference of the British HCI group; Designing for Attention
workshop. A. Dearden and L. Watts editors. Leeds, UK 6-10
September 2004. Vol. 2 pp. 249-250
2005
(with Claudia Roda)
"Digital Interactivity: various points of view". in C.
Ghaoui (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of Human Computer Interaction,
IDEA Group. 2005
2005
(with Claudia Roda)
"Attention Aware Systems". in C. Ghaoui (Ed.),
Encyclopaedia of HCI. IDEA Group. 2005
2005
“Colour,
Globalisation, and Cultural Space”. Proceedings, 10th
Congress of the International Colour Association, AIC
Colour 2005, Vol. 2, p.1375.
2005
“Home Again,
Cathleen? A Vision of Women’s ‘Space’ in Contemporary
Ireland” in Bel, ed. Role et Place de la
Femme dans la Société Européenne de l’antiquité à nos jours,
Les Cahiers du Littoral, I/No. 4, juin 2005
2006
(with Claudia Roda,
Ann Borel, Eugeni Gentchev) “Digital image library
development in academic environment: designing and testing
usability”, OCLC Systems & Services, Vol. 21, No. 4, 2005,
Emerald Group.
2006
“Home Again,
Cathleen?” in J.Thomas and M. Ghabris (eds.)
Woman as Written
(invited articles from the colloque “Femme et Société en
Europe”), Centre d’Etudes et de Recherche sur les
Civilisations et les Littératures Européennes, Université
du Littoral
2006
(with Claudia Roda) "Attention Aware Systems:
Theory, Application, and Research Agenda". Computers in
Human Behavior, Forthcoming 2006.
2006
“Fashion at Risk: The
review of Wessie Ling’s Game On: The World Fashion
Conquest”, ARTPOST.INFO, November, 2006.
2010 “Ethical Fashion
and Global Sustainability” with Mo Tomaney, for Cultures
and Globalisation Series, Vol. III: Cultural
expression, creativity, and innovation, Y. Raj Isar and
Helmut Anheier, eds. (Sage).
2011 (Forthcoming)
“Recycling Heroines
in France: Transnational or Transitional?” for
Transnational Media Cultures and Gendered Formations:
Tracking Visibilities, Radha Hegde, ed. (NYU Press,
Spring, 2011)
2011 (Forthcoming)
“Memory & Heritage in
Museums of Migration” for Cultures and Globalisation
Series, Vol. IV, Y. Raj Isar and Helmut Anheier, eds.
(Sage)
In preparation:
Book : "Colour Values: Colour and Cultural Space".
EDITORIAL
Co-Editor (with 11
others) of the Proceedings of the International Symposium on
Information and Communication Technologies, Dublin Ireland.
2003
Guest editor with
Claudia Roda for the special issue on "Attention Aware
Systems" of the Journal Computers in Human Behavior.
2006
CONFERENCES
ORGANIZED
2003
Workshop on Digital Interactivity: Co-organiser and co-chair
with Dr. Claudia Roda of Computer Science &
Communications, AUP) at the International Symposium on
Information and Communication Technologies, Trinity College,
Dublin, 24-26 September.
2004
Workshop: “Designing
for Attention”: Co-organiser and co-chair with Dr. Claudia
Roda, at HCI 2004, (The 18th British Human
Computer Interaction Group Annual Conference), Leeds
Metropolitan University, UK, 6-10 September, 2004.
2004
Mediating Fashion:
Mediating Paris: at The American University of Paris.
Conference held on Wednesday, 21
April, jointly sponsored by The American University of Paris
and Parsons School of Design, Paris. In three panel sessions
(morning and afternoon), invited experts from the fields of
sociology of fashion, fashion design, fashion media
(journalism, public relations), and fashion retailing
addressed the diverse ways in which fashion is mediated in
contemporary global culture and how / if this process
continues to mediate Paris as fashion site.
Organiser and co-chair with Carol Mongo of Parsons’ School
of Design, Paris (Mellon Grant funding).
CURRENT RESEARCH
AREAS:
Ethical Fashion
(Chapter on Ethical Fashion, Paper: “Couture, Tool of
Belonging?”). The ‘mediascape’ of the museum exhibition
(Chapters: “Recycling Heroines” and “Museums of
Migration”).
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