Dr Nadya Wang Sin Yee

Dr Wang teaches in the BA (Hons) Fashion Design and Textiles and BA (Hons) Fashion Media and Industries programmes. She oversees the Cultural and Contextual Studies curriculum, working with a team of lecturers to teach fashion history and theories, as well as academic reading and writing. She is also the industry liaison for the School of Fashion, preparing undergraduates for internships and employment opportunities.

In her professional practice, Dr Wang is Founder and Editor of Art & Market (A&M), a multimedia platform that presents specialist content on Southeast Asian art and its community’s artistic, business and curatorial pursuits. More recently, she launched Fashion & Market (FAM), which features the interdisciplinary work of Southeast Asian fashion practitioners. 

Together with School of Fashion colleague Daniela Monasterios-Tan, Dr Wang runs a vodcast In the Vitrine, as part of FAM, where they talk about the business, culture and pleasures of fashion in Singapore, Asia and beyond. Independently, she is the host of From A to Zig-Zag, a podcast featuring creative endeavours in Southeast Asia. 

Dr Wang was awarded her PhD in History of Art at Courtauld Institute of Art in 2022 for her thesis “Accidental Career Girl to Working Mother of the Year: Her World, Women and the Fashion Industry, 1974-1989”. This was supported by the Academic Qualification Funding scheme at LASALLE.