Serena Dyer

Dr Serena Dyer is Associate Professor of History of Fashion and Material Culture at De Montfort University in Leicester. Her prize-winning first book, Material Lives: Women Makers and Consumer Culture in the 18th Century, was published by Bloomsbury in 2021. She also edited Shopping and the Senses (Palgrave, 2022), Disseminating Dress (Bloomsbury, 2022), and Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Bloomsbury, 2020). Before returning to academia, Serena was Curator of the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture and Assistant Curator at the National Portrait Gallery. She is the presenter of English Heritage's Fashion Through History, and she regularly appears on radio and tv. She currently leads the AHRC-funded Making Historical Dress: Hands, Bodies and Methods Network.