Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies appears three times a year in March, June, and October. We welcome articles, notes, reviews, and creative writing on the life, works, and influence of novelist and poet Herman Melville (1819-1891). Click here for more information.
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The New Bedford Whaling Museum in collaboration with The Melville Society is the established home of the Melville Society Cultural Project and Melville Society Archive. The Melville Society Archive is housed at the New Bedford Whaling Museum's Research Library, where significant works from this collection are also on display. The Melville Society Cultural Project also sponsors a book donation program and presents exciting annual events including the Moby-Dick Marathon and a Birthday Lecture.“Your trick of scratching is borrowed from him,
Grimace and cunning, with many a whim,
Your fidgets and hypoes, and each megrim—
All’s traced in the family tree!”
Ha, the wag of the cave of Engihoul:
Buss me, gorilla and ghoul!
The Melville Society is dedicated to the study and appreciation of the nineteenth-century American author Herman Melville, writer of Typee, Moby-Dick, and Billy Budd, such short stories as “Bartleby” and “Benito Cereno,” and several volumes of poetry, including Battle-Pieces and the epic Clarel.
We publish the award-winning journal Leviathan and meet twice a year for fellowship and scholarly discourse at the annual conferences of the Modern Language Association and the American Literature Association. We also sponsor International Conferences and tours every other year.
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Melville and Whitman in Washington: The Civil War Years and After
History | Politics | Nation | Memory
Washington, DC – June 4 - 7, 2013
Library of Congress - Civil War photos - Item 96511712
Our Ninth International Melville Conference, coinciding with a major year of the Civil War sesquicentennial observances, focuses on the Washington-area War experiences of Melville and Whitman, seen largely through their poetry, private writings, and time spent in the capital area—although all topics will be considered, including approaches to teaching the authors and their milieu.
We anticipate a wide range of scholarly presentations, teaching roundtables, several plenary addresses, digital demonstrations, and events around Washington, DC. We are interested in paper and panel topics that include (but are not limited to) the following areas of interest:
Presented by Darkstuff Productions
Tuesday 3 April until Thursday 19 April
A Conference in Honor of Professor Sanford E. Marovitz
September 7-9, 2012
A one day international conference hosted by the
School of American Studies at the University of East Anglia
Visit Our Media Pages Featuring Videos from Our International Conferences and a Poetry Reading by Gordon Poole
Tim Marr reading from Clarel at Mar Saba
Neapolitan Folk Songs and Dances at the Eighth International Melville Conference, Rome, June 2011.
New Photo Albums - MLA Seattle 2012 - January 5-8
Melville Society Archive
Walter E. Bezanson Fellowship
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New York Public Library
Short-term Research Fellowships
Graduate students or other affiliated academics whose work would benefit from visiting the Manuscripts and Archives Division to view collections such as the Gansevoort-Lansing collection, and Duyckinck family papers are encouraged to apply. The application is due March 18, 2012.
06.25.2012 - 07.27.2012
NEH Summer Institute - Mystic Seaport Museum
10.10.2012 - 11.02.2012
Moby-Dick Opera - San Francisco
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