Here I am climbing “over the top” on the Joseph Conrad in Mystic in 2006.
My primary scholarly passion is for things blue, vast, and salty.
I’ve been naming this obsession blue cultural studies or the blue humanities since 2008.
Here are some public responses to two of my early efforts in this watery world —
Lost at Sea: The Ocean in the English Imagination, 1550 -1750
an exhibition at the Folger Shakespeare Library, June – September 2010
The Mariner’s MIrror (1588)
New York Times, August 19, 2010
Podcast of July 13, 2010 Lecture
At the Bottom of Shakespeare’s Ocean
Reviews:
Times Literary Supplement 27 Nov. 2009
Times Higher Education 21 Jan 2010
Renaissance Quarterly (Summer 2010)