Articles
My scholarly articles have explored fashion, textiles, photography, queer and feminist visual culture, affect theory, and decolonial politics. My research has been published or is forthcoming in journals including Feminist Studies, Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Feminist Media Histories, Australian Feminist Studies, Third Text, Criticism, Cultural Studies, Film Quarterly, Aisthesis, and Fashion Theory. I am Co-Editor of International Journal of Fashion Studies and a founding editorial member of Manchester University Press’s “Fashioning Change: Culture, Environment and Society” series.
Forthcoming (2026)
R. Filippello, “Fashion Storytelling and the Aesthetics of Queer Stealth in Jenin,” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies.
R. Filippello and I. Parkins, “Fashion as Media in Feminist-Queer Histories,” Feminist Media Histories.
R. Filippello and J. Tynan, “Redressing the Homeland: Textiles and Feminism in Palestinian Diasporic Art,”Feminist Studies.
Select Peer-Reviewed Publications
Filippello, R. (2025). "Starved for Pleasure": The Fashion Magazine as a Desirous Queer Archive. Cultural Studies, 39(4), 600-625.
Filippello, R., & Zhang, E. (2024). Who’s In and Who’s Out of (Queer) Fashion (Studies)? Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty, 15(1), 7-21.
Filippello, R. (2023). Baroque Travesty: Queer Anachronism in Gwen van den Eijnde’s Fashion Performances. Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities, 4(1), 30-52.
Filippello, R. (2023). Fashion Statements in a Site of Conflict. Fashion Theory, 27(2), 205-235.
Filippello, R. (2023). [Book review of: L. Melamed (2023) Sovereign Intimacy: Private Media and the Traces of Colonial Violence]. Film Quarterly, 77(1), 111-113.
Filippello, R. (2021). On Sequins and Shit: The Epistemology of Radical Dress in Mario Mieli's Transsexual Utopia. Third Text, 35(1), 130-144.
Filippello, R. (2021). Tarrying with the Elephant: Queer Villainy in Steven Klein’s Fashion Photography. Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture, 5(3), 205-220.
Filippello, R. (2021). ‘White Trash’: Gestures and Profanations in the Visual Economy of Fashion. Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, 13, Article 1886444.
Filippello, R. (2020). Eccentric Feelings: Little Girls’ Pleasures on the Feminist Fashion Set. Australian Feminist Studies, 35(105), 217-238.
Filippello, R. (2020). [Book Review of: Work! A Queer History of Modeling by Elspeth H. Brown]. Fashion Theory, 24(5), 799-804.
Filippello, R. (2019). On Queer Neutrality: Disaffection in the Fashion Photo Story ‘Paradise Lost'. Criticism, 61(3), 335-358.
Filippello, R. (2018). Less Than Zero: Impersonal Affect in Hedi Slimane’s Auteurial Style. Revista dObra[s]: Associação Brasileira de Estudos e Pesquisas em Moda , 11(24), 80-100.
Filippello, R. (2018). Thinking Fashion Photographs through Queer Affect Theory. International Journal of Fashion Studies, 5(1), 129–145.
R. Filippello (2018) Aesthet-ics and Politics of the Fashion Image: A Queer Perspective. Aisthesis 11(2):75-85.