This is the optimal Moby-Dick reading experience.
24.02.2026 21:11
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Book bedazzling with the crew.
14.02.2026 01:14
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🐋
17.01.2026 22:09
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ExSQUEEZE me?!
28.01.2026 13:34
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I stand with @melville-society.bsky.social on this one! Moby Dick is in my top 5 of all time and I will defend Ishmael's long discourse on cetology to anyone at anytime.
28.01.2026 13:55
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ExSQUEEZE me?!
28.01.2026 13:34
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Influencer life!
22.01.2026 01:02
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Melvilleans (especially Typee and Omoo folks) will be interested in the Henry Adam Society's CFP for ALA 2026:
“Pacific Island Sojourns: The Literary Context of Henry Adams’s Polynesian Engagements.”
Submit abstracts by January 20, 2026.
09.01.2026 14:17
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Call For Papers: Melville Society Panels at the 2026 American Literature Association Conference — The Melville Society
Call for Papers: The Melville Society is sponsoring two panels at the 2026 American Literature Association Conference, which will be held in Chicago, IL, May 20th-23rd, 2026.
The deadline is fast approaching for The Melville Society's CFPs for the 2026 American Literature Association Conference!
We'll be sponsoring two panels:
1. Leisure, Laziness, Labor in Melville and His Contemporaries
2. Melville & Justice
Submit abstracts by January 11th!
09.01.2026 14:11
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After 6 years as comms chair, I've handed over the ship to @kassiejo.bsky.social - who is seeking a new crew! If you or someone you know is too online, too literary, and enough deranged, apply below!!
06.01.2026 18:42
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Communications Committee Interest Form
The Melville Society Communications Committee is looking for new members! We welcome applications from scholars of all ranks who are interested in public scholarship and using social media to expand t...
The spring semester is Looming.
Instead of methodically knocking people’s hats off, join the Melville Society Communications Committee!
Help us share this with folks who might be interested (this is a particularly great opportunity for grad students).
06.01.2026 17:34
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The Pequod leaves Nantucket is the only correct answer.
25.12.2025 14:16
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On this December 25th, which journey are you honoring?
▪️The Pequod leaves Nantucket
▪️The Fellowship leaves Rivendell
25.12.2025 14:10
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Communications Committee Interest Form
The Melville Society Communications Committee is looking for new members! We welcome applications from scholars of all ranks who are interested in public scholarship and using social media to expand t...
Attention Melvilleans!
Have you (or someone you know) ever wanted to join the team behind the memes? Now is your chance!
We're looking for fresh blood on the Communications Committee. Let us know if you are interested by filling out the form below.
20.12.2025 00:17
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Project MUSE -- Verification required!
The Prize Committee called the essay "as compelling as it is original" and praised Kirsch's "beautifully clear and succinct writerly voice." Read the full version on @projectmuse.bsky.social:
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
17.12.2025 21:55
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2024 Hennig Cohen Prize Award — The Melville Society
The Hennig Cohen Prize for 2024 is awarded to Geoffrey R. Kirsch for his essay “Piercing the Corporate Whale: Agents, Principals, and the Personified Impersonal in Moby-Dick ,” published in Leviatha...
We are excited to announce the 2024 Hennig Cohen Prize winner: Geoffrey R. Kirsch, for his article “Piercing the Corporate Whale: Agents, Principals, and the Personified Impersonal in Moby-Dick,” published in Leviathan, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 55-68. www.melvillesociety.org/news/2024-he...
17.12.2025 21:55
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The rumor is true! I used the publishing history of Grove Press’s 1960s French translations to think about the history of midcentury gay male sexuality and the idioms it created, and how those shaped queer theory in the 1990s
10.12.2025 21:37
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I’m thrilled to be part of a new special issue of Leviathan on “Melville’s Queer Afterlives,” co-edited by the wonderful Jordan Alexander Stein, Dana Seitler, and Adam Fales. I got to write about pirates!
10.12.2025 04:17
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brb, adding it all up
10.12.2025 03:49
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Project MUSE - Leviathan-Volume 27, Number 3, October 2025
The special issue I co-edited on "Melville's Queer Afterlives" is here and it's queer. This issue has EVERYTHING: gay pirates, dirty pictures, racist internet fanfic, Gilbert Gottfried, original poetry, and just so many French people.
Available at your library, but LMK if you're paywalled...
08.12.2025 22:08
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Phew! @hopkinspress.bsky.social can check our math, but this might be our longest issue yet (and the issue with the most uses of the F-bomb)
10.12.2025 01:17
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Project MUSE - whalefall
Followed by "whalefall," a poem from Dalton Mobley. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
10.12.2025 01:17
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Project MUSE - Melville, Sendak, <i>Pierre</i>, and <i>Pierre</i>
"Melville, Sendak, Pierre, and Pierre," from Dana Seitler, takes up the queer energies that animate Maurice Sendak’s relationship to, and influence by, the writings of Herman Melville. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
10.12.2025 01:17
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Project MUSE - Sex in Translation: Melville, Mayoux, Ashbery
@jordanstein.bsky.social aims to historicize “outing” in queer Melville scholarship, the better to understand how and why that idiom appeared as it did in "Sex in Translation: Melville, Mayoux, Ashbery" muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
10.12.2025 01:17
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Project MUSE - “uncatalogued creatures of the deep”: Queer Taxonomy between Melville and Genet
Samuel Moriarty's "'uncatalogued creatures of the deep'" takes as its starting point the uncertain and often overlooked possibility that Jean Genet read Melville’s Billy Budd around the period in which he was writing his novel Querelle de Brest. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
10.12.2025 01:17
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Project MUSE - Wu Tsang’s White Whale(s)
In "Wu Tsang’s White Whale(s)," Tavia Nyong'o talks with artist Wu Tsang about three interconnected works that reimagined Herman Melville’s novel Moby-Dick. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
10.12.2025 01:17
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