Brontë Hebdon

PhD Candidate

Areas of interest: Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century French Art; History of Fashion; Gender and Performance; Materiality and Ephemerality

Brontë Hebdon is a PhD candidate in art history at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She teaches the history of menswear and European fashion at the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, and was the 2022 Veronika Gervers Fellow in Textile and Fashion History at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada. Her PhD dissertation uses Napoleonic salon painting, court costumes, and embroidery to consider how French court costumes became tools of imperial and cultural conquest in early nineteenth-century Europe. Her recent article, ‘Embroidered Hierarchies: French Civil Uniforms and the décret du 29 messidor in Napoleonic Paris and Milan,’ was published in the Fall 2023 edition of Costume.