We would like to invite proposals for chapters for a forthcoming edited collection on animals, fashion, and colonialism. Our project investigates the way that colonialism was inscribed on the female body through animal fashions in the long nineteenth century and beyond. Contributions are welcome from a wide variety of fields, with interdisciplinary approaches preferred. 

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:  

• Victorian-era biological fieldwork and specimen collecting 

• Biomimicry in fashion 

• Taxidermy and fashion 

• Feathers, furs, bone, ivory 

• Histories of eco-fashion and sustainability 

• Fashion in Victorian travel writing 

• Theft of nature and indigenous trauma related to Victorian collecting 

• Materialist approaches 

• The intersection of gender and any of the above. 

Please send detailed abstracts of 400 words to Audrey Murfin, Sibyl Rae Bucheli, and Victoria Pettersen Lantz at insectsmater@shsu.edu by October 31.