Steve Mentz is Professor of English at St. John’s University in New York City. His recent publications include the books
Sailing without Ahab (2024),
An Introduction to the Blue Humanities (2023),
Ocean (2020),
Break Up the Anthropocene (2019), and
Shipwreck Modernity (2015). He has also edited or co-edited several books, including
Water and Cognition in Early Modern English Literature (2024),
A Cultural History of the Sea in the Early Modern Age (2021), and
Oceanic New York (2015). He blogs at
The Bookfish (
www.stevementz.com) and (still) tweets @stevermentz.