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Fashion Design & Merchandising (formerly Apparel Product Design & Merchandising),
Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

• Professor, 2019-present
• Associate Professor, 2012-2019
• Assistant Professor, 2007-2012
• Fashion Design and Merchandising Program Coordinator, 2007-2020, 2021-present
• Affiliated Faculty, Department of Women’s Studies, 2018-present
• Cooperating Graduate Faculty, Department of Women’s Studies, 2019-present
• UHM Study Abroad Faculty, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany, 2011, 2015, 2017

Projects :

Hawai`i fashion history
Culture and values in Hawaiian clothing

Courses Taught:

FDM 101  Introduction to the Fashion Industry
FDM/WGSS 200  Culture, Gender, and Appearance

Research Interests :

Fashion Theory
Gender and Sexuality related to dress
Hawai`i Fashion History

Selected Recent Publications :

(prior 5 years )Books Authored, Co-authored and/or Edited

1. Barry, B., Reilly, A., & Blanco F., J. [Eds.]Handbook of Men’s Fashion. Intellect Books (in press) 
2. Blanco F., J. & Reilly, A. [Eds]. (2021). Fashion, Dress, and Post-postmodernism. Bloomsbury.
3. Reilly, A. (2020). Introducing Fashion Theory: From Androgyny to Zeitgeist. Bloomsbury.
4. Reilly, A., & Barry, B. [Eds]. (2020). Crossing Gender Boundaries: Fashion to Create, Disrupt, and Transcend. Intellect Books.

Book Chapters (editor reviewed)  

1. Reilly, A., & McGuire, J. K. (in press, 2025). Negotiating masculine gender with dress: Moving beyond the binary. In B. Barry, B., A. Reilly, & J. Blanco F. [Eds.], Handbook of Men’s Fashion. Intellect Books. 
2. Reilly, A. (2024). Haoles in Hawaiian shirts. In H. Clark & L. Downing Peters [Eds.], Fashion in American Life (pp. 39-57). Bloomsbury. (invited) 
3. Reddy-Best, K. L., Reilly, A., & Streck, K. (2024). Negotiating and communicating LGBTQ identities through dress and LGBTQ-focused fashion brands in the 21^st century. In J. A. Gedro & T. S. Roccot [Eds.], Routledge Companion to LGBTQ Identity in Global, Social, Political, and Work Contexts (pp. 320-333). Routledge.  
4. Reilly, A. (2022). The rise of the bottom: Counterdiscourse to challenge heteronormativity within the gay community. In V. Karaminas, A. Geczy, & P. Church Gibson [Eds.], Fashionable Masculinities: Queers, Pimp Daddies and Lumbersexuals (pp. 112-122). Rutgers University Press. (invited) 
5. Reilly, A., & Blanco F., J. (2020). Masculinities in fashion and dress. In L. Gottzén, U. Mellström, & T. Shefer [Eds.], Routledge Handbook of Masculinity Studies (pp.122-136). Routledge. (invited) 
6. Barry, B., & Reilly, A. (2020). Gender more: An intersectional perspective on men’s transgression of the gender dress binary. In A. Reilly & B. Barry [Eds.], Crossing Boundaries: Fashion to Deconstruct and Reimagine Gender (pp. 122-136). Intellect Books.

Articles in Referred Journals

• 1. Reddy-Best, K. L., Reilly, A., Streck, K., Green, D., Morris, K., & Doty, K. (2023). Chest-binding practices for trans and nonbinary individuals within different spatiotemporaities: Redefining the meanings of space, place, and time. Fashion Theory. https: //doi.org/10.1080/1362704X.2023.2196761
  2. McGuire, J. & Reilly, A. (2020/2022). Aesthetic identity development among trans adolescents and young adults. Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, 40(3), 235-250.

1. Refereed Presentations 

• 1. Reilly, A., & Antonio, J. (2024). Native Hawaiian values in design and manufacturing: A case study of Micah Kamohoaliʻi. International Textile and Apparel Association, Long Beach, CA.
  2. Sasaki, C., & Reilly A. (2024). Paradise fashioned: Introducing a new Concept. International Textile and Apparel Association, Long Beach, CA. 
  3. Bahng, Y., Reilly, A., & Kang, J-Y. (2024). Natural dyes for the sustainable textile industry: A review of literature on Native Hawaiian plants. International Textile and Apparel Association, Long Beach, CA. 
  4. Evenson, S., Hannel, S., & Reilly, A. (2023). Teaching the Anthropology of Dress Panelist. International Textile and Apparel Association, Baltimore, MD. 
  5. Reilly, A. (2022). Haoles in Hawaiʻi: Reducing Negative Distinctiveness through the Hawaiian Shirt. International Textile and Apparel Association, Denver, CO.  
  6. Reilly, A., & Leibreich, H. (2022). “It started off as Hot Topic, and that was like the gateway store”: Narratives of Dress and the LGBTQ+ Coming Out Process. International Textile and Apparel Association, Denver, CO. 
  7. Johnson, J., Reilly, A., Paulins, A., & LeHew, M. (2021). Proactive advocacy for the Textiles and Apparel Discipline (special topic session). International Textile and Apparel Association, online. 
  8. Reilly, A., Yancura, L., & Bahng, Y. (2020). Reminiscence fashion history project. International Textile and Apparel Association, online.
  9. Reddy-Best, K., Reilly, A., Streck, K., Green, D., & Morris, K. (2020). Why bind?Public, private, and secret self chest binding for trans and gender non-conforming individuals. International Textile and Apparel Association (online). 
  10. Morris, K., Green, D., Streck, K., Reddy-Best, K., & Reilly, A. (2020). Why bind?Emotional, physical, and cultural considerations for trans and gender non-binary individuals. International Textile and Apparel Association (online). 
  11. Reilly, A., & Schofield, S. (2020). A conceptual framework for post-postmodern garment design. International Textile and Apparel Association (online). 
  12. Schofield, S., & Reilly, A. (2020). A theory, a friendship and Uzbekistan. Fashion and Design Conference: Creation and Research. University of Vigo, Spain (online).