Alyssa Lutrin

Editorial Assistant

Toronto Metropolitan UNIVERSITY

Alyssa Lutrin is a writer, researcher, teaching assistant, and current graduate student of Toronto Metropolitan University’s MA Fashion program. Her research focuses on how everyday dress works to exhibit sociological phenomena at play. She is particularly interested in how bodily adornment works as agents of conformity or rebellion to socialize different parts of the body. 

Her pending thesis project, Breast Dressed: A Sociological Approach to Breast Garment Design and Pedagogy will use grounded sociological theories to develop a curriculum of embodiment-informed breast garment design. 

When she is not working on her own projects, Alyssa enjoys working as a teaching assistant for TMU’s Creative School, where she supports undergraduate students in their pursuit of copyright, licensing, and celebrity theory courses.

Following the completion of her Master’s degree, Alyssa plans to pursue a Ph.D. in curriculum pedagogy. She hopes to use her credentials to reform the post-secondary fashion education system into one that values design, aesthetic, and sociological principles equally.