Dr Shehnaz Suterwalla is a tutor on the V&A/RCA MA in History of Design and on the MRes Humanities pathway at the Royal College of Art, London. Previously she worked at Newsweek International and then at The Economist. Shehnaz has published in Global Design History (Routledge, 2011), Oral History in the Visual Arts (Bloomsbury, 2013) and Women's Studies Quarterly. She has presented at various conferences and symposia including The Postmodern Legacy (V&A, 2011) and the Design History Annual Conference (Ahmadabad, India, September 2013; San Francisco 2015). In November 2014 she co-organised a symposium with the ICA in London entitled 'Authenticity & 'Real'? Body'. In November 2016 she will moderate an event at the RCA for the Being Human Festival of The Humanities. This will be called, 'Inv
more...Dr Shehnaz Suterwalla is a tutor on the V&A/RCA MA in History of Design and on the MRes Humanities pathway at the Royal College of Art, London. Previously she worked at Newsweek International and then at The Economist. Shehnaz has published in Global Design History (Routledge, 2011), Oral History in the Visual Arts (Bloomsbury, 2013) and Women's Studies Quarterly. She has presented at various conferences and symposia including The Postmodern Legacy (V&A, 2011) and the Design History Annual Conference (Ahmadabad, India, September 2013; San Francisco 2015). In November 2014 she co-organised a symposium with the ICA in London entitled 'Authenticity & 'Real'? Body'. In November 2016 she will moderate an event at the RCA for the Being Human Festival of The Humanities. This will be called, 'Invisible Data Performance'. Forthcoming book chapter, 'Smart-ening up the hijab: the materiality of contemporary British Muslim veiling in the physical and the digital', The Routledge International Handbook to Veils and Veiling Practices, (Ashgate, 2016/17).