Save the Date: Melville in Our Seaport - August 13-16
Save the date for New Bedford Whaling Museum’s “Melville in Our Seaport” event, August 13-16. The event coincides with the installation of the new Herman Melville statue at the Seamen’s Bethel this summer.
Leviathan 25.3 “Melville in Public” wins “Best Special Issue” from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals
At the 2025 Modern Language Association (MLA) convention in New Orleans, the Council of Editors of Learned Journals awarded Leviathan vol. 25 no. 3, “Melville in Public” as “Best Special Issue.”
Billy Budd at 100 Virtual Roundtable - September 28, 2024 at 1:30 Central
Join us Saturday, September 28th for a virtual roundtable on Billy Budd at 100, moderated by Brian Yothers and Jennifer Greiman of Leviathan and featuring John Bryant, Wyn Kelley, John Paul Wenke, Edouard Marsoin, and Lenora Warren.
Neither Believer nor Infidel: Book Talk with Jonathan A. Cook - Thursday, 19 October at 7pm EST on Zoom!
Join us on Thursday, October 19, 7 PM EST on zoom for a presentation and discussion with Jonathan A. Cook exploring the 19th-century debate between religious skepticism and Christian faith in Herman Melville's shorter fiction and poetry.
Organized by the Melville Society and Melville's Marginalia Online.
“A Melville Gam” with Jennifer Greiman & Cody Marrs (Wednesday, June 28th, 8:00pm ET, Zoom)
Join us for “A Melville Gam,” a discussion with and between recent Melvillean authors, Jennifer Greiman and Cody Marrs. They will be speaking about their recent books, Greiman’s Melville’s Democracy: Radical Figuration and Political Form (Stanford UP, 2023), and Marrs’s Melville, Beauty, and American Literary Studies: An Aesthetics in All Things (Oxford UP, 2023). This event is free and will be held by zoom; please register in advance.
A Melville Gam with Jennifer Greiman and Cody Marrs
Wednesday, June 28, 2023, 8:00PM EST
Call For Papers: “Melville’s Queer Afterlives”
Call for Papers: a proposed special issue of Leviathan on “Melville’s Queer Afterlives”