Juliet Ash is known internationally as a leading figure in the field of fashion and dress history and theory. She taught in a number of art and design institutions before she joined the Royal College of Art in 2002 to lecture in Dress and Design History and Theory on the MA in History of Design (until 2009), and is currently CHS Fashion/Textiles Liaison tutor for Fashion and Textiles MA students. She has appeared frequently as a visiting lecturer, and researches and publishes broadly in dress history and theory.
Juliet Ash taught Art History and subsequently Design History (specialising in Fashion Design History) at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Middlesex University, Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication and Kingston University, before joining the RCA.
She has externally examined at a number of art and design institutions in the UK, and she is a qualified member of the Institute of Learning and Teaching.
She has been a Visiting Lecturer at a variety of art and design institutions and presented papers at Association of Art Historians conferences, Design History Society conferences, the ‘4th International Conference in History of Design’, Guadalajara, Mexico, 2004, ‘Dressing Rooms: Current Perspectives in Fashion and Textiles’ in Oslo, Norway 2007, 'Writing Design: Object, Process, Discourse,Translation', Design History Society conference, 2009 and ‘Reading and Writing in Prison’, Edinburgh Napier University, June 2010.
Juliet Ash co-edited ZG magazine and has appeared on a number of radio programmes in connection with dress issues.
Juliet is also a reader of manuscripts for Routledge, Manchester University Press and Berg Publications and has written reviews of books for the Journal of Design History, Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture and Feminist Review Journal.