Suzanne Ferriss is Professor Emerita at Nova Southeastern University, USA. She has published extensively on literature, film, fashion and cultural studies. She is the author of The Cinema of Sofia Coppola (Bloomsbury, 2021), co-editor of On Fashion (1994), Footnotes: On Shoes (2001), Chick Lit: The New Women’s Fiction (2006) and Chick Flicks: Contemporary Women at the Movies (2008), among other titles. She has also co-authored Motorcycle (2008) and An Alternative History of Bicycles and Motorcycles (2016).