She is also interested in themes of Britishness and patriotic shopping, women’s lives and biography, and the interconnections between production and consumption.
She is Associate Professor of History of Fashion and Material Culture at 黑料网, where she also leads the Global Cultures: Material, Textile and Visual research cluster and is a member of the Fashion History and Recreative Research Group.
She is author and editor of many publications including Material Lives: Women Makers and Consumer Culture in the 18th Century (Bloomsbury, 2021) and Labour of the Stitch: The Making and Remaking of Fashionable Georgian Dress (Cambridge UP, 2024),
She is currently working on her next book, Georgian Fashion: Britishness and Dress in the Eighteenth Century (under contract with Yale UP).
She is project lead on the AHRC-funded Making Historical Dress project has brought together global collaborators to establish making as a historical methodology.
Alongside her academic work, Dr. Dyer is also a broadcaster and curator. Her most recent project, with BBC History Extra, is a documentary exploring the importance of the eighteenth-century mantua-maker in the establishment of the modern fashion industry. She also writes and presents the digital series, Fashion Through History, for English Heritage.
She has recently collaborated on exhibitions with the National Trust and Bankfield Museum, and she was previously a curator at the National Portrait Gallery and the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture.