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Books

      The Abercrombie Age: Millennial Aspiration and the Promise of Consumer Culture

      Communicating Fashion: Clothing, Culture and Media
      Winner of the John G. Cawelti Award for Best Textbook / Primer by the Popular Culture Association

      Consumer Identities: Agency, Media and Digital Culture
      with Candice D. Roberts

Journal articles

     Displays of Expertise: Constructing Authority in Men's Fashion Advice Videos
     in Visual Communication Quarterly

     Contextualizing Clothing: Meaning, Social Media and AOC's 'Tax the Rich' Dress
     in Popular Communication 22.3

     Considering Fashion Journalism: News Values, Frames and Hybrid Genre in the Release of 'Satan Shoes'
     in Journalism Studies 24.10

     The Fashion Editrix in the U.S. Cinematic Imagination: From Funny Face to The Devil Wears Prada
     in The Journal of American Culture 46.1

     Ghost Signs at the Mall: Structuring Semiotics and (Formerly) Branded Retail
     in Social Semiotics

     Anti-Fashion Branding: Framing Technology in Uniqlo and Allbirds
     in Fashion Theory 26.6

     Considering Taste After Gamification: Collective Selection, Cultural Intermediation and Casual Gaming
     in Critical Studies in Media Communication 39.1

     Bro-ing up the Brand: Privileged Masculinity in Birddogs Shorts
     in The Journal of Popular Culture 54.1

     Complicated Green Advertising: Understanding the Promotion of Clothing Recycling Efforts
     with Maryann R. Cairns in Westminster Papers in Culture and Communication 15.2

     'Cool' Workings: Glamour Labor and Identity Issues in Fashion Branding
     in Fashion Theory 24.2

     Toward the Study of Framing Found in Music Journalism
     with Jordan M. McClain in Popular Music and Society 43.1

     'Girls That Wear Abercrombie & Fitch': Reading Fashion Branding Aesthetics into Music Videos
     in Studies in Communication Sciences 18.1

     Metaconsumption, Convergence and Stylization in the 'Real' Teens of Laguna Beach
     in IAFOR Journal of Media, Communication and Film 5.1

     Oscar PR Girl: How Interconnected Social Media Platforms Humanized the Oscar de la Renta Identity
     with Kaitlyn Smith and Jordan M. McClain in Fashion, Style and Popular Culture 5.2

     Brand Tangents: Semiotics and Circulation in Introduction
     in Fashion Practice 10.1

     Brand References and Music Video Intertextuality: Lessons from 'Summer Girls' and 'She Looks So Perfect'
     in Film, Fashion and Consumption 6.2

     What to Wear to the End of the World: The Function of Fashion in Apocalyptic Narrative
     with Candice D. Roberts in Film, Fashion & Consumption 4.1

Book chapters

     'What Am I Supposed to Do?' Cher's 'Believe' and the Siren Call of a Gay Icon
     in The Adolescentia Project: Essays on Music, Adolescence and Identity

     Fashion, Dress and Communication
     in The Meanings of Dress (5th ed.)

     Contour of Masculinity: Reading Bros in Popular Culture and Fashion Branding
     in The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture (2nd ed.)

     Hypermodern Branding: The Case of Uniqlo
     in Fashion, Dress and Post-Postmodernism

     Only Bright Lights for Uniqlo? Devising Strategies for Suburban Growth
     in Fashion Business Cases: A Student Guide to Learning with Case Studies

     Faux, Faux Fur: Responding to Supply Chain Crises
     in Fashion Business Cases: A Student Guide to Learning with Case Studies

     Remixing the Fashion Brand: Uniqlo through Instagram and Twitter
     in Fashion Communication in the Digital Age

     Lifestyle Journalism as Brand Practice: The Cases of Uniqlo and Abercrombie & Fitch
     in Lifestyle Journalism: Social Media, Experience and Design

     Stores, Shoppers and Mediated Images: The Relational Space of Uniqlo
     in The Fashion Business Reader

     It's All Inside: J.C. Penney and 'Cut 'n' Paste' as Branding Practice
     in Global Fashion Brands: History, Luxury and Style

Other publications

     Review: Fashion Knowledge: Theories, Methods, Practices and Politics
     in Fashion, Style & Popular Culture 10.3

     Masculinities, menswear and media
     in ICA Encyclopedia of Gender, Media and Communication

     Review: Fashion Journalism: History, Theory and Practice
     in Fashion, Style & Popular Culture 6.3

     Review: Fashioning Fat: Inside Plus-Size Modeling
     in The Journal of Popular Culture 49.5