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Steve Mentz is professor of English at St. John’s University in New York City. His most recent book, Ocean, appeared in March 2020 in Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series. He is the author of four other books, Break Up the Anthropocene (2019); Shipwreck Modernity: Ecologies of Globalization, 1550–1719 (2015); At the Bottom of Shakespeare’s Ocean (2009); and Romance for Sale in Early Modern England (2006). He also edited or co-edited six collections: A Cultural History of the Sea in the Early Modern Age (2021); The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds, 1400–1800 (2020); The Sea in Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Literary Culture (2017); Oceanic New York (2015); The Age of Thomas Nashe (2013), and Rogues and Early Modern English Culture (2004). He wrote numerous articles and chapters on ecocriticism, Shakespeare, early modern literature, and the blue humanities. He curated an exhibition at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Lost at Sea: The Ocean in the English Imagination, 1550–1750 (2010). He blogs at The Bookfish, www.stevementz.com, and tweets as @stevermentz.
RCC Research Project: An Introduction to the Blue Humanities
Selected Publications:
- ed. A Cultural History of the Sea in the Early Modern Age. Vol. 3 of A Cultural History of the Sea, edited by Margaret Cohen. New York: Bloomsbury, 2021.
- Ocean. New York: Bloomsbury, 2020.
- Break Up the Anthropocene. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019.
- Shipwreck Modernity: Ecologies of Globalization, 1550–1719. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
- ed. Oceanic New York. Santa Barbara: Punctum, 2015.
- At the Bottom of Shakespeare’s Ocean. New York: Bloomsbury, 2009.