Neville McFerrin

Assistant Professor

About

McFerrin's work centers upon intersections of dress, perception, materiality, and embodiment on the sites of Pompeii and Persepolis.  Her published and forthcoming work explores a range of topics from reconsiderations of gender on the reliefs of the Apadana to spatial negotiations and embodied perceptions of court protocol and etiquette at Persepolis, to the fashionability of pearls in late first century BCE Pompeii.  It has appeared in multiple journals and edited volumes, most recently "The Routledge Handbook of the Senses in the Ancient Near East, Dress in Mediterranean Antiquity: Greeks, Romans, Jews, Christians, and Fashion Studies." She is currently working on a monograph focused upon dress as a lens for reinterpreting visual and material entanglements at Persepolis.