Steve Mentz
I'm an Associate Professor of English at St. John's U in New York City, where I teach Shakespeare, Renaissance Literature, and literary theory. This blog features my musings about "blue humanities" - a way of thinking about literature and culture that puts the oceans at the center of our world. It's also a place to write about swimming and why it matters.
Categories used most frequently by the blogger:
Blue Humanities Shakespeare Theater Anthropocene New York Theater Talks Swimming Newtown Creek Environmental Humanities Weather Pictures Books Shipwreck
Art under Constraints: Courtney Leonard and Prometheus Firebringer
23 September 2023
Two great events between Long Island and Brooklyn yesterday afternoon. As Friday traffic grew, I drove out to the lovely Heckscher Museum in Huntington to see Courtney Leonard’s mid-career...
Sailing without Ahab – coming in April 2024!
18 September 2023
I’m so pleased to have a cover to share for my forthcoming book of eco-poetry, Sailing without Ahab, which will appear this coming April from Fordham University Press. Like any parent,...
Shax and the Sea / Greenwich ’23!
11 September 2023
My first trip to Greenwich was in May 2007, when I was a greenhorn oceans scholar and nobody was yet talking about #bluehumanities. When I arrived in London that spring, the Cutty Sark,...
Shakespeare, the Sea, and the Folger
31 August 2023
The end of summer 2023 coincides with the e-publication of two public pieces courtesy of the good people at the Folger Shakespeare Library, that hub of scholarship and all things Shakespearean...