Faculty

Dr. Morna Laing is Assistant Professor of Fashion Studies in the school of Art and Design, History and Theory at The New School, Parsons Paris.

Her current research focuses on the culture of sustainability, which underpins her teaching practice on Sustainable Systems and Fashion, Ethics and Environments. She is currently working towards a monograph with Routledge, entitled Sustainability and the Fashion Media: Spectatorship, Affect and Social Change (forthcoming).

A related strand of Laing's research focuses on gender, spectatorship and reception studies. She is author of Picturing the Woman-child: Fashion, Feminism and the Female Gaze (2021) and co-editor of Revisiting the Gaze: The Fashioned Body and the Politics of Looking (2020, with Dr. Jacki Willson).

Prior to joining Parsons Paris, she was Senior Lecturer at Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, where she coordinated the theory programme for BA Textile Design. She has also lectured at the London College of Fashion and Central Saint Martins. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK and holds a PG Cert in Academic Practice for Art, Design and Communication (UAL).