What does it mean to live with unpredictable wetness? “Amphibious anthropologies: living in wet environments” is a foray into the interstices of land and water amidst stories of disaster, colonialism and capital accumulation. Out in April 2025 University of Washington Press uwapress.uw.edu/book/978029575…

I'm honoured to have met Nobel Literature laureate Professor Abdulrazak Gurnah at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD)! The Yemeni-rooted novelist recently joined NYUAD from University of Kent in the UK.

How do children's books imagine ecofutures? A new eTropic article explores Tropical Eco-African Futurism in Ben Okri’s Every Leaf a Hallelujah & Zandi’s Song, merging Afrofuturism, ecofeminism & Blue Humanities. #BlueHumanities Steve Mentz 🔗 Read more: dx.doi.org/10.25120/etrop…

How does geo-tropicality shape coastal futures? A new eTropic #BlueHumanities article by Abhisek Ghosalexplores Blue (Infra)structuralism in Romesh Gunesekera’s Reef, decolonizing the Indian Ocean’s coastal narratives. Steve Mentz 🔗 Read more: dx.doi.org/10.25120/etrop…

Delighted to share my #bluehumanities review of "Hydrofeminist thinking with oceans: political and scholarly possibilities", (eds. Tamara Shefer, Vivienne Bozalek, and Nike Romano) in Social & Cultural Geography, tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Steve Mentz

New #BlueHumanities research: Europe sees migrant deaths at sea as nature. But they are political. Giulia de Spuches uses art to show that the sea remembers.Steve Mentz 🌊 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/146493… #Migration #Mediterranean #publichumanities

Can the ocean remember for us? At Venice Biennale 2024, Coding Plants by Terreform ONE stores design ideas in kelp DNA. A living reef becomes a memory archive—art, science & sea meet. #BlueHumanities in action. terreform.org/venice #publichumanities Peder Anker Steve Mentz

The Abyss Stares Back by Stacy Alaimo is a new #BlueHumanities book that asks what deep-sea discoveries mean in an age of extinction. Science, art, and ethics come together in this timely work of #publichumanities.Steve Mentz upress.umn.edu/9781517918736/…

🌊 Join us for the launch of Digital Shores: An Interactive Atlas of Beach Narratives. Presenters: Ursula Kluwick, Guðrun í Jákupsstovu, Marion Troxler & Katharina Scheller. RSVP: [email protected] #bluehumanities #digitalhumanities Steve Mentz

Literary Giant. There's only one person that has been bestowed this name in our literary history as we know it. Today we honour a life we've co-lived in books we've read and words we've shared, in stories we were told and in the stories we tell. Ngugi wa Thiong'o, go well.

Just out from Liverpool University Press: Ecotexts in the Postcolonial Francosphere, ed. Nsah Mala & Nicki Hitchcott. With a chapter on Francophone #BlueHumanities by Dr Giulia Champion. Steve Mentz #Ecocriticism #Francophone liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.38…

Feeling joyful today for two reasons: 🕋 Eid al-Adha Mubarak to all! 📘 And my new book review is out in Anglia on the book, Critical Approaches to the Australian #BlueHumanities (Routledge, 2024). 👉 doi.org/10.1515/ang-20… Steve Mentz Routledge Books

The Edge of Water by Olufunke Grace Bankole: A #BlueHumanities story linking USA and Africa, hurricanes and drought, mothers and daughters, prophecy and silence.Steve Mentz pocolit.com/en/2025/06/11/…

Excited that Oceans as Archives has a presence on the Routledge Books website. A joy to work with Renisa Mawani and Mikki Stelder. You can read the abstract and see the table of contents. Thanks to series editor May Joseph for generous support. routledge.com/Oceans-as-Arch…

Very happy to get an early copy of this (my piece on Dune is the final chapter)

A forthcoming fantastic #bluehumanities book!@stevermentz

I like this work which connects literature to the realities of our lives, notably economics. Can't wait to reading it!

Summary of "Hydrofeminist thinking with oceans: political and scholarly possibilities" acume.org/r/hydrofeminis…

Cant wait to read this interesting blue humanities work!

Can rivers remember? Asmita Chhibbar’s study in #BlueHumanities shows they can. In Kedarnath Singh’s poetry, rivers carry fields, prayers & struggles—turning water into memory, justice & belonging in Indian eco-poetics.Steve Mentz rrjournals.com/index.php/rrij…