What’s Her Name Podcast Features Maria Sibylla Merian

The excellent women’s history podcast What’s Her Name featured Maria Sibylla Merian in a recent episode and included an interview with me about Merian’s exceptional life, her contributions to ecology, and the book Chrysalis, Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis.

Here’s the description from What’s Her Name: “Germany was still burning witches when Maria Sibylla Merian daringly filled her 17th-century home with spiders, moths, and all kinds of toxic plants. Bold choices saved her from accusations of witchcraft–and from a mundane life. Merian’s fascination with metamorphosis led her all the way to the rainforests of South America, where she recorded countless new species, 130 years before Darwin!”

Listen (and see a wonderful collection of Merian artwork) here.