Sridevi Gopakumar

Sridevi Gopakumar is a marketing researcher based in Chennai, India, and is in the final stages of completing her PhD at Loyola Institute of Business Administration. Her doctoral research examines how greenwashing tactics in the beauty and personal care industry shape...

Jaina Hunt

    Jaina Hunt is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Portsmouth, specialising in early modern women’s history with a particular focus on beauty culture in Tudor England. Her doctoral thesis, Pretty and Privileged: Never-married Women, Beauty and...

Eileen G’Sell

    Eileen G’Sell is a culture critic, poet, and scholar with recent contributions to The Hopkins Review, Reverse Shot, Hyperallergic, and Jacobin. Her first book of poetry, Life After Rugby, was published in 2018; her second poetry volume, Francofilaments,...

Montserrat Cabré

  Montserrat Cabré is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Cantabria, Spain. Since the 1990s, she has been working on the care of the female body in medieval culture, paying special attention to its visibility and how cosmetics and adornment...

Katherine Aske

Katherine Aske is a Lecturer of English Literature at Edinburgh Napier University (ENU). Her research examines understandings and moral associations of female beauty in the literature and cultural history of the long eighteenth century, and is currently working on the...

Romana Sammern

Romana Sammern is an art historian and permanent research scholar at the University of Salzburg. She researches and teaches at the intersection of the body, art, cosmetics, and medicine in the early modern period, with relevance to the present. She received her PhD...