Laini Burton is a Senior Lecturer at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Australia, where she is the Convenor of Research Higher Degree programs. Her research interests centre on body politics, bio-art and design, contemporary art practice and criticism, fashion theory, performance, and body/spatial relations. Her current publication project, a book titled Masks in Art, Fashion and Popular Culture: Anonymity, Empowerment, and Identity, will be published by Bloomsbury, in 2024.