PhD, MA Higher Education, BA (Hons) Theatre Design
Committee member of the Costume Society of Great Britain.
Society of British Theatre Designers (SBTD).
National Society for Educators in Art and Design (NSEAD).
Doctoral thesis on the self-presentation of women at the London Opera House in the late eighteenth-century.
Published work:
Mary Collins and Joanna Jarvis, (2016) ‘The Great Leap from Earth to Heaven: The Evolution of Ballet and Costume in England and France in the eighteenth-Century’, Costume, 50,2
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/05908876.2016.1165955
Caroline Archer-Parré and Malcolm Dick editors (December 2018) ‘Performance and print culture: Two eighteenth-century actresses and their attempts at image control’, Pen and Print: communication in the eighteenth-century, University of Liverpool Press.
https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/id/53166/
In preparation for publishing:
Michael Burden and Jennifer Thorp editors (2019?) ‘Natural Beauty or ‘paint painted’? Giovanna Baccelli by Thomas Gainsborough’, With a Grace not to be Captured: Representing the Georgina theatrical dancer, 1760-1830, Turnhout: Brepols.
Recent conference papers:
Culture, Costume and Dress. BCU, Birmingham, June 2019
Mrs Abington in the character of… An Eighteenth-century actress and her use of costume in the performance of her life.
Dance Symposium, Oxford, April 2018
Warwick eighteenth-century symposium, May 2018
Upstaged by the drama in the audience – the relationship between audience and performers in the eighteenth-century London Opera House
Birmingham Repertory Theatre
The National Trust
Range of companies as a free-lance costume designer/maker