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Romanticism, long eighteenth century, oceanic studies, ecocriticsm, Visual culture, media studies, theory, technology, post-humanist studies

Education

PhD, English, Cornell University, 2011

Blog Posts

    Publications

    Chapter 2: Practices: “Robots and Memories” in A Cultural History of the Sea in the Modern Age, Series Ed, Margaret Cohen, 6 vols. London, Bloomsbury Press, (forthcoming).


    Surviving the Essex: The Afterlife of America’s Most Storied Shipwreck,by David O. Dowling and TheEssexand the Whale: Melville’s Leviathan Library and the Birth of Moby-Dick, by R. D. Madison,” review essay solicited by Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, Oct 2017.


     “Melville’s Paintings and Prints,” Herman Melville in Context, Ed. Kevin Hayes, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.


    “Call me Captain,” gCaptain.com, Unofficial Networks LLC, July 26, 2017. Web.


    “By Guess or by God: Catastrophe in The Heart of the Sea,” gCaptain.com, Unofficial Networks LLC, 12 Sep. 2016. Web.


    “Conrad and the Mariner’s Craft: Sea Stories for Real Sailors (part 2),” gCaptain.com, Unofficial Networks LLC, 12 Jun. 2016. Web.


    “Conrad and the Mariner’s Craft: Sea Stories for Real Sailors (part 1),” gCaptain.com, Unofficial Networks LLC, 23 May. 2016. Web.


     “Paths that Shine: Nantucket and the Essex.” Ben Cortes, Producer, and Derek Knowles, Director. USA: Courtyard Films (2015). Motion picture.


    “We Know Ocean! Improving Ocean Literacy at Cal Maritime,” Sea History, 154, Spring (2016): 30-33.


    “Seeing the Eliphant: A Maine Couple’s Adventures in Gold Rush San Francisco, byKenneth R. Martin,”review essay solicited bySea History, 151, Summer (2015): 52-53.


    “The Irish Poet and the Natural World 1581-1819: An Anthology of Verse in English from the Tudors to the Romantics, Andrew Carpenter and Lucy Collins, eds.” review essay solicited by The Journal of Ecocriticism,Vol 7, No 1 Summer (2015): 18-19. 


    “Crafty Sailors, Unruly Seas: Margaret Cohen’s Oceanic History of the Novel,” Criticism, Vol. 56: Iss. 4 (Fall 2014): 861-870.


    Annus Mirabilis to The Ancient Mariner: Oceanic Environments and the Romantic Literary Imagination,” Coriolis: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Maritime Studies, 1.2 (2010): 4-22.


    The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea, by Philip Hoare,” Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies12.3 (2010): 111-116.


    “‘The Hint of Style’: Byron, John Hookham Frere, and Melville’s Marginalia in William Tennant’s Anster Fair,” Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, 9.2 (2007): 25-42.


    Clarelin the Pacific,” Melville Society Extracts, (Supplement) (2003): 12-13.

    Projects

    Lyric Circulation: Logistics, Globalization, and the Poetics of Oceanic Romanticism. Book manuscript.

    Upcoming Talks and Conferences

    2019 “The Peopled Ocean, Unmanned” International Conference on Romanticism, Manchester, UK, July 31-August 2, 2019. 


    2019 “Smoke on the Water: aeolian and oceanic media in the (post)human sea,” Paradise on Fire, Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. June 26-30, 2019, University of California, Davis. 

    Memberships

    American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. (2008)


    The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. (2010)


    The Friends of Coleridge. (2010)


    The Melville Society. (1998)


    Modern Language Association. (2000)


    Nautical Institute (2012)


    Sailors’ Union of the Pacific (1987)

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