Dr Toby Slade is a lecturer at Bunka Gakuen University and Keio University. His research focuses on Asian responses to modernity seen through art objects of the everyday like fashion and popular culture. His 2009 book, Japanese Fashion: A Cultural History from Berg was the first in English to cover the entire historical sweep of fashion and clothing in Japan. It focused particularly on the modernity of Japanese clothing and the implications of that unique sartorial history for contemporary theories of fashion. His recent book Introducing Japanese Popular Culture presents a wide range of the latest scholarship on contemporary Japan.

Dr. Toby Slade
Ph. D University of Sydney 2006
B.A. (Hons 1) University of Sydney 2000
Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship 2000-2003
Monbukagakusho Research Scholarship 2003-2005

Education

University of Sydney 
2000-2006
Ph.D. Art History and Theory
Department of Art History and Theory
Thesis: Clothing Modern Japan: The Economics of Aesthetics
University Post-Graduate Scholarship 
(3.5 years)

University of Tsukuba 
筑波大学 
2003-2005
Institute of Art and Design
Monbukagakusho Research Scholarship 
(2 years)
文部科学省奨学金

University of Sydney 
1996-1999
Bachelor of Arts, Honours Class 1
Department of Art History and Theory
Thesis: Out of the Shadows:
Modernity in Clothing in Early 20th Century Japan

Sydney Grammar School 
1988-1995
Higher School Certificate
Senior Art Prize
Edward Carter Prize

Employment History

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Bunka Gakuen University 
文化学園大学 
2013-
Lecturer
Graduate Global Fashion Concentrate, Advanced Media Studies
Graduate Seminar: Fashion Theory
Thesis Supervisor

Keio University 
慶應義塾大学  
2007-
Lecturer
Faculty of Economics/ PEARL Program

Radio Adelaide 
2011-2017
Digital And FM 101.5
Breakfast with Tim Brunero
Japan Correspondant

University of Tokyo 
東京大学 
2012-2017
Associate Professor 
准教授
Department of English Language
College of Arts and Sciences
2011-2012 
Associate Professor
特任講師
ALESS Programme 
2008-2011
Assistant Professor
特任講師 
ALESS Programme 

Sophia University 
上智大学 
2009-2012
Part-time Lecturer
Faculty of Liberal Arts, Graduate Program of Global Studies
Graduate Seminar: Japanese Popular Culture 

Kokugakuin University 
國學院大學 
2007-2017
Part-time Lecturer
Department of English
Undergraduate Course: Idiomatic English

Interschool 
インタースクール 
2007-2012
English Instructor 
Business & Governement English Classes

National Defense Academy of Japan 
防衛大学校 
2007-2008
Part-time Lecturer 
Department of Foreign Languages & Culture
Courses on English Language, Western military history and writing

University of Technology Sydney 
2000-2006
Part-time Lecturer
Faculty of Design, Department of Fashion and Textiles
Lecture Series: 20th Century Fashion

University of Sydney 
2000-2002
Course Tutor: Costume, Clothing and Fashion
Course Tutor: Fashion Classics
Department of Art History and Theory

National Trust of Australia 
2000-2002
Museum Officer
Old Government House,
Parramatta

2BL ABC Radio 
2001-2002
Sydney Radio 
Film Reviewer
Nightlife with Tony Delroy

Shoah Foundation 
1995-1996
Research Assistant

Editorial Boards
Critical Studies in Mens Fashion (Hawaii University Press)
Dress and Fashion Research Series (Bloomsbury)
Asia Pacific Fashion (RMIT University Press)

Conference Boards
Non-Western Fashion Conference Steering Committee

Academic Memberships
Research Center for Decolonialising Fashion  
Association for Cultural Studies
Society for Japanese Arts
European Association for Japanese Studies