Élodie CHAZALON

Cultural studies, fashion & clothing, sociology, semiotics, performance

Elodie Chazalon, Associate Professor in North American cultural studies at La Rochelle Université, France. Her research focuses on visual and material cultures in the USA. She has had a long-standing interest in the social dimension and semiotics of fashion and dress, clothing behaviors, and in gender representations in popular culture, on which she has coordinated and published several works. Her current research addresses the circulation and recycling of fashion (as a language, individual and collective practice, and an industry) that she approaches through the transversal notions of “performance” and “performativity.”