Contributors

Jennifer J. Baker is Associate Professor of English at New York University, where she specializes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature, culture, and intellectual history. She is the author of Securing the Commonwealth: Debt, Speculation, and Writing in the Making of Early America (2005) and a member of the Melville Society Cultural Project. In 2019, she co-organized the 12th International Melville Conference in New York City to commemorate the bicentennial of Melville's birth. She is currently writing a book on Romanticism and the life sciences in the mid-nineteenth-century United States.

Dan Beachy-Quick is a poet, essayist, and translator, author of a book of poems based on Moby-Dick, and a literary reverie on the same, Spell (2004) and A Whaler's Dictionary (2008), respectively. His most recent publications are Arrows (2020), a collection of poems, and Stone-Garlan (2020), a translation from the ancient Greek lyric tradition. His work has recently been long-listed for the National Book Award in Poetry, and has been supported by the Monfort, Lannan, and Guggenheim Foundations. He teaches at Colorado State University, where he is a University Distinguished Teaching Scholar.

Mary K. Bercaw Edwards is Professor of English and Director of Maritime Studies at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Melville's Sources (1987), Cannibal Old Me: Spoken Sources in Melville's Early Works (2009), and Sailor Talk: Labor, Utterance, and Meaning (2021). A Coast Guard-licensed captain, she has 58,000 miles at sea, all under sail.

John Bryant, Professor Emeritus of English at Hofstra University, is the author of A Companion to Melville Studies (1986), Melville and Repose (1993), The Fluid Text (2002), Melville Unfolding (2008), and over seventy articles on Melville, related nineteenth-century writers, scholarly editing, and digital scholarship. He is the founding editor of Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies and has published print editions of Typee, The Confidence-Man, Melville's Tales, Poems, and Other Writings, and the Longman Critical Edition of Moby-Dick. He is founder and director of the online critical archive and scholarly edition Melville Electronic Library (MEL) as well as the founder and former director of Hofstra University's Digital Research Center. In 2015, he received the Distinguished Editor Award given by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ). He is the author of Herman Melville: A Half Known Life, vols. 1 and 2 (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020).

Alex Calder teaches at the University of Auckland. He has published many essays on Melville and is the author of The Settler's Plot (2011). He is currently at work on a literary and cultural history of taboo.

Jaime Campomar is a PhD candidate at the George Washington University's English Department. His research interests lie in nineteenth-century US Literature, Textual Studies, Adaptation Studies, and Film Studies. His ongoing dissertation research focuses on the use of ekphrasis in the screenplay drafts for John Huston's movie Moby Dick and its impact on representations of race and disability on screen.

Dawn Coleman is Associate Professor of English and affiliate faculty in Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee. She is the author of Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel (2013) and has served as book review editor for Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies and as a contributing scholar for Melville's Marginalia Online.

Jonathan A. Cook is an independent scholar living in Sterling, Virginia. He is the author of Satirical Apocalypse: An Anatomy of Melville's "The Confidence-Man" (1996); Inscrutable Malice: Theodicy, Eschatology, and the Biblical Sources of "Moby-Dick" (2012); and co-editor of Melville and Religion (2016). He is the creator of the annotated bibliography on "The Bible and American Literature" in the online Oxford Bibliographies series and has published numerous articles on Melville and other nineteenth-century American writers.

Michael P. Dyer is Curator of Maritime History at the New Bedford Whaling Museum. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in American History from York College of Pennsylvania, and a Master of Arts in American Studies from Penn State Harrisburg. He has studied at Mystic Seaport Museum, and was the inaugural USA Gallery Fellow at the Australian National Maritime Museum in 2008. From 1993 to 2001 he was Curator of Maritime History and Librarian at the Kendall Whaling Museum in Sharon, Massachusetts. He has authored two books, "O'er the Wide and Tractless Sea": Original Art of the Yankee Whale Hunt (2017); and George Gale: A Sea-nurtured Artist (2019).

Adam Fales is a PhD student at the University of Chicago. He is co-author with Jordan Alexander Stein of an essay on Elizabeth Melville and her literary labor.

Jennifer Greiman is Associate Professor of English at Wake Forest University; she is the author of Democracy's Spectacle: Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing (2010) and the co-editor, with Paul Stasi, of The Last Western: Deadwood and the End of American Empire (2013). Selections from her current book project, Melville's Ruthless Democracy, have appeared in The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville, J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, and Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies.

David Greven is Professor of English at the University of South Carolina and publishes in nineteenth-century American literature and Film Studies. His books include Intimate Violence: Hitchcock, Sex, and Queer Theory (2017) and The Fragility of Manhood: Hawthorne, Freud, and the Politics of Gender (2012). His current book project is called All the Devils Are Here: Literary Influence and American Romanticism.

Emilio Irigoyen is Professor of European and North American Literature at the Universidad de la República in Uruguay. He has published a book and essays in Spanish on comparative literature and theater. In English, he has published an essay on Israel Potter in Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, and has co-edited a special issue of the journal on Melville and Spanish America (2021).

Michael Jonik teaches eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature and contemporary critical theory at the University of Sussex (UK). His most recent monograph is Herman Melville and the Politics of the Inhuman (2018), and he has published essays on Berkeley, Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Dickinson, William James, Hawthorne and Spenser, Henry James and Joseph Conrad, and Charles Olson. He is editing The New Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Oxford Handbook to Herman Melville (with Jennifer Greiman), and a new Oxford World Classics edition of Herman Melville's Billy Budd and Selected Tales. He is a founding member of The British Association of Nineteenth-Century Americanists (BrANCA), and Reviews and Special Issues editor for Textual Practice.

Wyn Kelley is Senior Lecturer in Literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of Melville's City: Literary and Urban Form in Nineteenth-Century New York (1996), Herman Melville: An Introduction (2008), and, with Henry Jenkins, Reading in a Participatory Culture: Re-Mixing Moby-Dick in the English Classroom (2013). Formerly Associate Editor of Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies (2000-2011), she is currently Associate Director of the Melville Electronic Library.

Richard J. King is visiting Associate Professor in maritime literature and history at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and the author of Ahab's Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick (2019).

Matt Kish is a self-taught artist and a public librarian. He lives in Ohio with his wife, their frog, and far too many books. When not illustrating books, he works in Collection Development at a large public library.

Rodrigo Lazo is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, where he teaches courses in nineteenth-century American literature and LatinX studies. Lazo's most recent book is Letters from Filadelfia: Early Latino Literature and the Trans-American Elite (2020). His articles about Herman Melville have appeared in the journal Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, and in the collections Melville in Context (2018), Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville: Essays in Relation (2008), and Ungraspable Phantom: Essays on Moby-Dick (2006).

Jeffrey Markham has taught English at New Trier High School, in Illinois, for twenty-seven years and has explored Moby-Dick in a variety of classroom contexts. He presented his work at the 12th International Melville Society Conference in New York City and at Robert K. Wallace's "Moby Comes to Covington" at Northern Kentucky University. Additionally, he has contributed to Melville's Marginalia Online and the Melville Electronic Library, and he attended the 2018 NEH Melville Summer Teaching Institute in New Bedford, where he also has taken part in eight Moby-Dick...