Monica Geraffo Monica Geraffo is a PhD student in UCLA’s Theater and Performance Studies program. Her research utilizes dress as a site to explore the construction of identity, the spread of subculture and popular culture, and representations of materiality across visual and material culture— especially through superhero comics and their film and television adaptations. She is committed to deconstructing the binary between definitions of “fashion” and “costumes” via “performative dress.” She received her MA in Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, and Museum Practice from the Fashion Institute of Technology (a division of SUNY) and her BA in Screen Arts and Cultures from The University of Michigan – Ann Arbor. Her work as a fashion historian has allowed her to present at TEDxBoston, The Comics Arts Conference at San Diego Comic Con, Pop Culture Association, Buzzfeed’s As/Is, The Comics Studies Society, and The Costume Society of America, and she has published with the Film, Fashion & Consumption Journal and public scholarship website The Middle Spaces. Her work as a costumer has been a part of productions for Netflix and AMC, and as an independent contractor with the FIDM Museum in Los Angeles she has helped install five Art of Costume Design for Film and Television exhibitions. She loves anything campy, saccharine, postmodern, or Christmas-y.