Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn

Contact Information

Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn

College: School of Arts, Letters, and Sciences

Department: Social & Psychological Sciences

jfoltyn@nu.edu

(858)642-8469

Torrey Pines South Campus


Education

UC San Diego - PHD - Sociology
Jacque Lynn Foltyn, PhD, Professor of Sociology, is a cultural critic, sociologist, and scholar media commentator shaping public discourse in a variety of fields. An interdisciplinary trained social theorist, her scholarship has focused on popular culture, the body, fashion, beauty, gender, death, bereavement, art, celebrity, social media, the consumer-entertainment-industrial complex, and the social construction of knowledge. Foltyn served as editor-in-chief of Catwalk: The Journal of Fashion, Beauty and Style (2011-2016); appeared in the award-winning documentary about plastic surgery "Take My Nose " Please; has written numerous academic journal articles and book chapters; and is author or editor of four books focused on fashion, beauty, and death and culture. Editor of an award-winning special issue of Mortality: The Corpse in Contemporary Culture: Identifying, Transacting, and Recoding the Dead Body in the Twenty-First Century, Foltyn's analyses of the public interest in celebrity deaths and deathly fashion have an international following; been subjects for scholars, essayists, columnists, bloggers, university courses, and graduate theses; gained her invitations as a plenary, keynote, and public speaker; and attracted international media attention. She has appeared on NBC The Today Show, CBS 48 Hours, NPR, and BBC, and been interviewed by CNN, Maclean's, VICE, Inverse, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, The Sydney Morning Herald, Air Mail, Allure, More, among other publications. The Oprah Winfrey Show, ABC 20/20, NBC Dateline, 60 Minutes Australia, French Vogue, World Anthropologist, Newsweek, Revlon Corporation, Science Museum of Minnesota have sought her expertise. Her studies of quasi-widowhood (gained from her caretaking of her dying ex-spouse) have been used to train clergy, grief counselors, and hospice workers. Foltyn's work has been honored by the American Sociology Association; the American Anthropology Association; the Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath; the San Diego Museum of Art, Ilan Lael Foundation, and Mingei Museum. From 2009 - 2016, she led international conferences at Oxford University focused on critical studies of fashion, beauty, and aesthetics. She writes about travel and architecture and serves on the Editorial Board of Death and Culture Series at Bristol University.

Publications

  • Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn. (March 15, 2024). Collaborative and Fair-Trade Models in the Fashion Industry: The Case of Peruvian Connection.. In Technology, Sustainability and the Fashion....

  • Jacque Lynn Foltyn, Laura Petican, Leigh Giangreco. (October 17, 2022). Foltyn, J. L. and L. Petican. October 2022. Interviewed about book: In Fashion: Culture, Commerce, Craft, & Identity. Humanities Matter podcast.. Humanities Matter, Spotify, Google, Amazon Music,.

  • Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn. (March 17, 2022). Review of Apocalypse Man: The Death Drive and the Rhetoric of White Masculine Victimhood. Mortality.

  • Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn. (January 22, 2022). In Fashion: Fashioning Culture, Commerce, and Identity.

  • Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn. (January 22, 2022). Introduction. In Fashion: Culture, Commerce, Craft, and Identity.

  • Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn. (September 09, 2020). Touring Heaven and Hell: Spectacular Encounters by Celebrities in Near-Death Experiences.. Death in a Spectacular Age..

  • Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn. (November 11, 2019). Foreword. Man-Eating Monsters: Anthropomorphism & Popular....

  • Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn. (August 15, 2019). Couture Skeletons, Skull Style, and Corpse Chic: Death as a Fashion Aesthetic. New Literary Observor.

  • Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn. (August 01, 2019). Bodies of Evidence: Criminalising the Celebrity Corpse. Criminal Bodies in the West: Iconography and Life.

  • Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn. (November 29, 2018). Sustainable Kate? Wear-Again Anne: The Recycled Fashions of the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Royal. Engaging with Fashion: Perspectives on Communicati.

  • Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn. (August 17, 2018). The Public and Private pain of Celebrity Deaths.. NPR Forum.

  • Joan Kron. (January 09, 2018). Take My Nose... Pease. Parvenu.

  • Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn. (November 01, 2017). Review of Death and Social Policy in Challenging Times, by L. Foster & K. Woodthorpe. Critical Social Policy.

  • Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn. (December 31, 2016). Worst Year for Celebrity Deaths?. Today Show, NBC.

  • Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn. (September 01, 2016). Fashion Week San Diego: An Interview with Fashion Entrepreneur Allison Andrews. Catwalk: The Journal of Fashion, Beauty and Style.

  • Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn. (September 01, 2016). Catwalk: Journal of Fashion Beauty and Style. Global Interdisciplinary Research Studies.

  • Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn. (June 01, 2016). The Pseudo-Science of Beauty: Facts and Myths. Cosmetic, Aesthetic, Prophetic: Beyond the Boundar.

  • Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn. (May 10, 2016). Bodies of Evidence: Criminalizing the Celebrity Corpse. Mortality.

  • Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn. (May 01, 2016). What Remains: Crossing Personal, Professional, and Spiritual Boundaries while Caring for a Dying Ex-Spouse. Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life and Palliati.

  • Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn. (January 01, 2016). The Ugly Problem: The Lived Experience. Beauty: Exploring Critical Perspectives, edited by.

  • Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn. (September 01, 2015). Fashion-Wise.

  • Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn. (September 01, 2014). They Shoot Prada, Don't They?. Catwalk: The Journal of Fashion, Beauty and Style.

  • Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn. (September 15, 2013). Introduction. Crafting Allure: Beauty, Culture, and Identity.

  • Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn. (September 15, 2013). Crafting Allure: Beauty: Culture, and Identity.

  • Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn. (June 28, 2013). Sojourn, Transformative: Emotion and Identity in the Dying, Death and Disposal of an Ex-Spouse.. Emotion, Identity and Death: Mortality Across Dis.

  • Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn. (March 01, 2013). Review of Facing Beauty: Painted Women and Cosmetic Art, A. Ribeiro. Catwalk: The Journal of Fashion Beauty and Style.

  • Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn. (January 01, 2013). Fashions: Exploring Fashions through Cultures.

  • Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn. (January 01, 2013). Corpse Chic: 'Dead' Models and 'Living' Corpses in Mainstream Fashion Magazines, edited by J. L. Foltyn.. Fashions: Exploring Fashion through Cultures.

  • Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn. (January 01, 2013). Introduction. Fashions: Exploring Fashion through Cultures.

  • Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn. (September 01, 2012). Enid Collins Handbags: Branding, Nostalgia and the Power of the Purse. Fashion: Exploring Critical Issues, edited by B. B.

  • Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn. (May 01, 2012). The Dog Walk: Canine Chic, Companion Animals and Consumer Culture. Fashion-Wise, edited by Vaccarella, M. and J. L. F.

  • Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn. (September 01, 2011). Corpse Chic: 'Dead' Models and 'Living' Corpses in Fashion Photography.. Fashion Forward, edited by A. De Witt-Paul & M. Cr.

  • Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn. (November 01, 2010). To Die For: Skull Style and Corpse Chic.. SCAN: Journal of Media Arts Culture, 7(2), Special.

  • Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn. (September 01, 2009). Sojourn , Transformative: Emotion and Identity in the dying, death and disposal of an ex-spouse. Mortality Supplement.

  • Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn. (July 07, 2009). Why We Mourn Intimate Strangers. CBS 48 Hours.

  • Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn. (January 01, 2009). Quasi-Widowhood: Crossing Boundaries of Marriage, Divorce, and Death.. Re-Imaging Death and Dying: Global Interdisciplina.

  • Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn. (December 03, 2008). Dead Sexy: Why Death is the New Sex. (2011). pp. 47-51 Sage, in association with The Open University, UK). Published in four books:. Making Sense of Death, Dying and Bereavement: An A.

  • Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn. (May 01, 2008). Dead Famous and Dead Sexy: Popular Culture, Forensics and the Rise of the Corpse. Mortality.

  • Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn. (May 01, 2008). The Corpse in Contemporary Culture: Identifying, Transacting, and Recording the Dead Body in the Twenty-First Century. Mortality.

  • Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn. (May 01, 2008). The Corpse in Contemporary Culture. Mortality.

  • Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn. (September 01, 2007). The Last Look: Anna Nicole Smith, James Brown..... Mortality Supplement.

  • Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn. (September 01, 2005). The New Sex: The Rise of the Dead Body in Popular Culture.. Mortality Supplement.

  • Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn. (January 01, 1996). Dead Beauty: The Preservation, Memorialisation, and Destruction of Beauty in Death.. Contemporary Issues in the Sociology of Death, Dyi.