Steve Mentz

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THALASSOLOGY, SHAKESPEARE, AND SWIMMING

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The sea! the sea!

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)

Press:

New York Times, August 19, 2010

Washington Post, 7/7/10

Roll Call 6/14/10

Express Night Out, 6/17/2010

Let’s Talk Live 6/22/10

Podcast of July 13, 2010 Lecture

Washington Times 8/6/2010

 

At the Bottom of Shakespeare’s Ocean

Reviews:

Times Literary Supplement 27 Nov. 2009

Times Higher Education 21 Jan 2010

Renaissance Quarterly (Summer 2010)

 

About Steve

Steve Mentz
Professor of English
St. John’s University
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Pages

  • Coastal Studies Reading Group
  • Public Writing
  • OCEAN Publicity
  • Audio and Video Recordings
  • Oceanic New York
  • #shax2022 s31: Rethinking the Early Modern Literary Caribbbean
  • #SAA 2020: Watery Thinking
  • Creating Nature: May 2019 at the Folger
  • Published Work
  • #pluralizetheanthropocene

Recent Posts

  • The Wife of Willesden (BAM)
  • Water-Notes: Improving Water Quality in Short Beach
  • BBQ on Will’s Birthday (Fat Ham on Broadway)
  • The Knight of the Burning Pestle (Fiasco/Red Bull)
  • Snow in the North Country: #shax2023

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