Emily Ripley is Lecturer and Director of the Fashion and Textiles program at Queens College. Her museum and archive work includes the Calvin Klein archive, the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, and a position as a Research Assistant in the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Since 2013, she has served as Curator and Collections Manager of the Queens College Fashion and Textiles Collection. She has over seven years’ experience working in the fashion industry for DKNY/Donna Karan/Hanes. 

Ms. Ripley has assisted with multiple New York City museum exhibitions, and she has curated and staged many exhibitions featuring the Queens College Fashion and Textiles Collection. Employing the archive and with her students as active participants, she has guided numerous exhibits on the Queens College campus. As an educator, Ms. Ripley has integrated material culture practices into the Fashion and Textiles curriculum, aiming to bring her students the most inclusive, innovative, and multi-disciplinary methods in fashion, material culture studies, the arts, and design. 

Ms. Ripley received her MA in Fashion and Textiles Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice from the Fashion  Institute of Technology. Her awards and grants include a PSC-CUNY Research Award, an Andrew W. Mellon Transformative Learning in the Humanities Faculty Fellowship, a Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Studio Program Grant, a Colorado Council on the Arts and Humanities Grant, and a Young Audiences Artist in Residence Grant.