Dr Casci Ritchie is a fashion and cultural historian, writer, and educator. She was recently awarded her doctorate for her thesis titled “(Un)dressing the Love Symbol: The Life, Death, and Legacy of Prince’s Wardrobe,” which explores the cultural influences, materiality, labor processes, afterlives, and affective legacies of the musician. She has published her research widely in journals including Critical Studies in Men’s Fashion and Queer Studies in Popular Culture. Her book, On His Royal Badness: The Life and Legacy of Prince’s Fashion, was published in 2021.
She is currently Senior Research Assistant on the ‘Fashioning Ageing Identities: Images, objects and experiences on and beyond the screen’ project alongside Dr Sarah Gilligan at Northumbria University.
Alongside her research, Casci is a public speaker and workshop facilitator, working at a wide range of events and institutions including Victoria and Albert Museum (London), Paisley Book Festival, Glasgow Film Festival, Inverness Film Festival, Glasgow Youth Film Festival, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Heritage Trust, West Dunbartonshire Women’s History Group and Tenement House.
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