Proposal submission guidelines can be found here.
Please send proposals to series editors
Rebecca Totaro (rtotaro@fgcu.edu)
and Reginald A. Wilburn (r.a.wilburn@tcu.edu).
The Costume Society of America series at Kent State University Press advances rigorous scholarship in fashion, style, and dress history and cultural studies. It welcomes original research using diverse methodologies, including but not limited to material culture, oral history, ethnography, focus groups, mixed methods, archival research, visual analysis, and practice-based approaches. The series values both theoretically driven and empirically grounded work from a range of disciplinary perspectives. It seeks scholarship across all time periods and global contexts, broadly defining fashion, style, and dress to include adornment, body modification, personal styling, and the social meanings of appearance, with particular interest in work addressing underrepresented communities and issues of power, identity, and social change. Topics could intersect with costume, beauty, labor, manufacturing, distribution, law, museum and curatorial studies, textiles, sustainability, politics, activism, craft, design, identity (e.g., race, class, gender, sexuality) conservation, and/or other parts of the global fashion system. The series welcomes single-author, multi-author and edited volumes ranging from scholarly to general interest and from primarily textual to highly illustrated. Established in 2003 under the auspices of Duquesne University Press, in 2019 this award-winning series was reconceived by PSU Press under the title Cultural Inquiries in English Literature, 1400–1700. It comes to Kent State with its original title and scope. The MRLS Editorial Board includes Dennis Britton, Darryl Chalk, Hillary Eklund, Wendy Beth Hyman, Arthur Little, Julia Reinhard Lupton, Joyce MacDonald, Vin Nardizzi, Gail Kern Paster, Garrett Sullivan, and Tiffany Jo Werth.