The 38th Voyage of the Charles W. Morgan
The world’s last surviving wooden whale ship, the Charles W. Morgan (built in 1841), will sail for the first time in over 80 years this summer from its home port at Mystic Seaport. I have been selected...
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I’m learning more about the shipmates with whom I’ll be sharing the commemorative 38th Voyage of the Charles W. Morgan. My leg will be from the historic whaling port of New Bedford to the Massachusetts...
View ArticleA whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard
Image courtesy Mystic Seaport I’m grateful to Penn State News for this story on my participation in the 38th Voyage of the Charles W. Morgan:...
View ArticleCharles W. Morgan videos
I’ve returned from my brief but very rich voyage leg on the Charles W. Morgan, the world’s last surviving 19th-century wooden whaleship, and will have more to share about my experience as a member of...
View ArticleCharles W. Morgan: Her 38th Voyage
I’ve compiled a photo narrative of my time aboard the Charles W. Morgan, the world’s last surviving wooden whaleship, as a member of the 38th Voyage. https://hmblum.exposure.co/charles-w-morgan...
View Article18 Hours Before the Mast: My Whaling Voyage Narrative on LARB
The Los Angeles Review of Books has published my narrative of the 18 hours I spent as a member of the 38th Voyage of the Charles W. Morgan, the world’s last surviving wooden whaleship. It’s a story...
View ArticleBalloons, Ice Blasting, Velocipedes, Smoke Balls
Partial List of Various Suggestions and Schemes from Naval Officers and Others for the Relief of Lost Arctic Explorer Sir John Franklin: “Various Proposals”: Ice Hammers, Balloon, Ice Blasting,...
View ArticleCharles W. Morgan Roundtable in Common-Place
Common-Place, the journal of the American Antiquarian Society, has begun a new series of “First Person” features; first up is a roundtable on the Morgan‘s 38th Voyage to which I have contributed along...
View ArticleSpeaking Substances: Media for the Anthropocene
Our MLA session on anthropocene media now has a tumblr so that we can continue the conversation: http://speakingsubstances.tumblr.com/ MLA Special Session, Thursday, January 8, 2015, 7:00-8:15 pm 8,...
View ArticleStill more Charles W. Morgan!
Three final short essays on my experience as a member of the Charles W. Morgan‘s 38th Voyage have appeared in the last week or so; I think that may be all for my Voyager project writing. Probably. For...
View ArticleWe’re Seeing Some Shit We Ain’t Never Seen Before, Kid
Bergin/Kent mashup by Franklin Ridgway “Moby-Bergin” http://avidly.lareviewofbooks.org/2015/09/27/moby-bergin/ Michael Bergin, creator of the Moby-Dick of viral fishing videos, inspired my latest piece...
View ArticleTurns of Event available for preorder
A volume of essays on nineteenth-century American literary studies that I edited for Penn Press is now on Amazon—preorder here! The fantastic contributors are Monique Allewaert, Ralph Bauer, Martin...
View ArticleTurns of Event tumblr
The forthcoming Turns of Event volume now has a tumblr presence; follow along… http://turns-of-event.tumblr.com/
View ArticleSpeaking Substances: Media for the Anthropocene
Jamie L. Jones, Dana Luciano, Kyla Schuller, and I have written a series of essays for the Los Angeles Review of Books on anthropocenic media. In the 21st century, we are inundated with news about...
View ArticleMelville in London: Melville’s Crossings
The Eleventh International Melville Society Conference will be at King’s College London, June 27-30, 2017. I’m very honored to join Anna Brickhouse, Paul Gilroy, and Ian McGuire as a keynote speaker....
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