Steve Mentz
Steve Mentz | |
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| Academic background | |
| Education |
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| Thesis | Romance for Sale: Genre and the Book Market in Elizabethan Prose Fiction (2000) |
| Doctoral advisor | Annabel Patterson |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Early Modern English |
| Sub-discipline | Ecocriticism |
| Institutions | St. John's University |
| Notable ideas | Blue humanities |
Steven Roger Mentz is a professor of English at St. John's University. An early-modernist, Mentz's career began with a focus on Shakespeare before branching out into the literature of the Atlantic World and environmental studies. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Frank C. Munson Institute of American Maritime Studies, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the John Carter Brown Library. He received his PhD from Yale University and his BA from Princeton University.[1] His work focuses on the ocean and the Anthropocene from a humanistic perspective.[2]
Mentz is most famous for developing the "blue humanities," an approach to environmental studies and ecocriticism that challenges the terrestrial bias that previously dominated the discipline.[3][4][5][6][7]
Bibliography
- Romance for Sale in Early Modern England (2006)
- At the Bottom of Shakespeare's Ocean (2009)
- Shipwreck Modernity: Ecologies of Globalization, 1550–1719 (2015)
- Break Up the Anthropocene (2019)
- Ocean (2020)
- An Introduction to the Blue Humanities (2023)
- Sailing without Ahab: Eco-poetic Travels (2024)
References
- ^ "Steven Mentz". St. John's University. Retrieved 2026-02-19.
- ^ S, Reshmi (2024-07-15). "Planetary Water and Oceanic Discourse: Blue Humanities as a New Cultural Turn". ATRAS journal. 5 (02): 101–108. doi:10.70091/Atras/vol05no2.8. ISSN 2992-1376.
- ^ Kluwick, Ursula (2025), "Blue Humanities", Live Handbook Environmental Humanities, J.B. Metzler, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 1–6, doi:10.1007/978-3-662-70886-6_14-1, ISBN 978-3-662-70886-6, retrieved 2026-02-19
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link) - ^ Muharram, Mohammed (January 2025). "Making the Invisible Visible: How the Blue Humanities Translate Climate Change to the Public". Public Humanities. 1: e120. doi:10.1017/pub.2025.10046. ISSN 2977-0173.
- ^ Gillis, John R. (Summer 2013). "The Blue Humanities". Humanities. 34 (3). National Endowment for the Humanities.
- ^ Rothstein, Edward (2010-08-18). "The Sea and the English Who Tried to Master It". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-02-19.
- ^ Das, Arnab; Manjusha, C B (2025-10-17). "Tracing the depths: A narrative review on Blue Humanities and Oceanic Studies". The Anthropocene Review. 12 (3). doi:10.1177/20530196251372128.