Elizabeth Castaldo Lundén

(MENAFN- The Conversation)

• Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress, University of Southern California

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Dr. Elizabeth Castaldo Lundén holds a doctoral degree in Fashion Studies and a Master of Arts in Cinema Studies from Stockholm University, as well as a Bachelor of Science in Public Relations from Universidad Argentina de la Empresa (U.A.D.E.). Currently, she is a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress through a fellowship awarded while working at the University of Southern California (USC).

While at USC's School of Cinematic Arts, Dr. Lundén designed and taught a course titled“Fashion and Media Synergies.” She has received several prestigious fellowships, including the Fulbright Scholarship for 2023-2024, the ASF Fellowship for 2024-2025, and the SweAmFo Fellowship for 2023-2025.

Her research examines the historical connections between Hollywood and the fashion industry, focusing on how Hollywood's intermedial influence has shaped the international fashion system. Drawing heavily on archival sources, her work integrates fashion, cinema, and media history. Her latest book,“Fashion on the Red Carpet: A History of the Oscars, Fashion, and Globalisation,” analyzes the Academy Awards' red carpet as a global fashion media event, exploring the collaboration between Hollywood and fashion institutions. The book illustrates how public relations campaigns and media have influenced the fashion discourses surrounding the Oscars.

In 2024, she was awarded the Rettig Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities for her significant contributions to the development of fashion studies as an academic field. The Academy noted that her research,“in its wealth of perspective and power, is fundamental to the subject's identity and has offered new insights into the possibilities of fashion studies.” (Vitterhetsakademin 2024)

Experience

• 2023–present Fulbright Scholar | SweAmfo Research Fellow, University of Southern California
• 2022–2023 Assistant Professor, Linnaeus University
• 2021–2022 Assistant Professor, Stockholm University
• 2018–2021 Lecturer, Stockholm University
• 2013–2018 TA/Doctoral candidate, Stockholm University
• 2000–2003 Jefe de trabajos prácticos, Universidad Argentina de la Empresa
• 1998–2000 Ayudante de Cátedra, Universidad Argentina de la Empresa

Education

• 2018 Stockholm University, Doctor of Philosophy in Fashion Studies
• 2012 Stockholm University, Master of Arts in Cinema Studies
• 1998 Universidad Argentina de la Empresa, Licenciatura en Relaciones Publicas (BSc)

Publications

• 2023 “Branding the Oscarcast: The Public Relations Strategies that Established the Academy Awards Ceremony as a Media Spectacle.”, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television V. 43, no. 1
• 2022 “The Most Famous Costume Designer: Revisiting Edith Head's Career Through a Contractual Lens.”, Film History 34, no. 4
• 2021 Fashion on the Red Carpet: A History of the Oscars, Fashion and Globalisation, Edinburgh University Press
• 2021 “Reporting Fashion News: Fashion Moving Images from News Films to Web Series.”, Insights on Fashion Journalism
• 2020 “Exploring Fashion as Communication: The Search for a New Fashion History Against the Grain.” , Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture 18, n. 4
• 2020 “Fearless Fashion, Rudi Gernreich.” , Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture V. 24, no. 5
• 2019 “Användningen av digitala arkiv inom humaniora.” , Humanistiska fakultetens 1919-2019: Nedslag i humaniora
• 2019 “Editorial Foreword - Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Fashion and the Moving Image.” , Journal of Film, Fashion, and Consumption Vol. 8 No. 1
• 2018 Introduction to“Exploring the Intersections of Fashion, Film and Media.”, Networking Knowledge Vol. 11, no. 1
• 2016 “Barbarella's Wardrobe: Exploring Jacques Fonteray's Intergalactic Runway.” , Film, Fashion, and Consumption Vol. 5, no. 2
• 2015 “Lo Squalo, le strategie di marketing della universal e la costruzione della 'Jawsmania'.”, Cinergie 7
• 2014 “No Oscar for The Oscar? Behind Hollywood's Walk of Greed.” , Networking Knowledge 7, no. 4

Grants and Contracts

• 2024 Stiftelsen Fritz O Fernströms stipendiefond Role: Main Applicant Funding Source: Sweden-America Foundation
• 2024 ASF Role: Main applicant Funding Source: The American Scandinavian Foundation
• 2023 Fulbright Research Scholar Role: Main applicant Funding Source: Fulbright Commission
• 2023 Anders Zorn Postdoctoral Research Fellow Role: Main applicant Funding Source: Sweden-America Foundation
• 2020 Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School Role: Main applicant Funding Source: Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
• 2020 Research grant Role: Main applicant Funding Source: Holger och Thyra Lauritzens Stiftelse
• 2020 Research Grant Role: Main applicant Funding Source: Wahlgrenska Stiftelse
• 2019 Research grant Role: Main applicant Funding Source: Holger och Thyra Lauritzens Stiftelse
• 2018 Research grant Role: Main applicant Funding Source: Holger och Thyra Lauritzens Stiftelse
• 2017 Print cost grant Role: Main applicant Funding Source: RunJanne stipendium
• 2016 Alvin Achenbaum Travel Grant Role: Main applicant Funding Source: Duke University
• 2016 Madonna and Michael Marsden Travel Grant Role: Main applicant Funding Source: PCA/ACA
• 2015 Research grant Role: Main applicant Funding Source: Siljeström Stiftelse
• 2015 Research initiation grant Role: co-applicant Funding Source: Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
• 2014 Research grant Role: Main applicant Funding Source: Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse
• 2014 Research grant Role: Main applicant Funding Source: Lydia och Emil Kinanders Stiftelse
• 2013 Research grant Role: Main applicant Funding Source: Holger och Thyra Lauritzens Stiftelse

Professional Memberships

• Society of Cinema and Media Studies
• Association of Dress Historians

Honours

Fulbright Scholar | Rettigska Priset 2024

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