Maurice Sendak, illustration from Pierre; Or, the Ambiguities (Harper, 1995).
BOOKS:
Moby-Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville, Oxford World’s Classics. Editor and author of a new introduction. May, 2022.
The View from the Masthead: Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives (UNC Press, 2008). Winner of the John Garner Maritime Research Award.
SHORTER ESSAYS:
“Weird Moby-Dick,” Oxford University Press Blog
"Moby-Dick is the Answer. What Is the Question?," Oxford University Press Blog
“Herman Melville’s Commode.” Avidly, https://avidly.lareviewofbooks.org/2021/12/05/herman-melvilles-commode/
Recommended Melville reading for Five Books
"Moby-Bergin," Avidly, http://avidly.lareviewofbooks.org/2015/09/27/moby-bergin/
"The Greatest American Novel? 9 Experts Share Their Opinions," The Millions (10 July 2013): http://www.themillions.com/2013/07/the-greatest-american-novel-9-experts-share-their-opinions.html.
LONGER ESSAYS:
"Melville in the Arctic," Leviathan 20 (March 2018): 74-84.
"Terraqueous Planet: The Case for Oceanic Studies," The Planetary Turn: Art, Dialogue, and Geoaesthetics in the 21st-Century, eds. Amy J. Elias and Christian Moraru (Northwestern University Press, 2015).
"Melville and Oceanic Studies," New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville, ed. Robert S. Levine (Cambridge, 2013).
"Melville and the Novel of the Sea," Cambridge History of the American Novel (Cambridge: 2011)
"'No Life You Have Known': Or, Melville's Contemporary Critics," Leviathan 13:1 (March 2011)
"Douglass's and Melville's 'Alphabets of the Blind,'" Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville: Essays in Relation, eds. Robert S. Levine and Samuel Otter (University of North Carolina Press, 2008), 257-78.
"American Graves, Pacific Plots," American Literary Geographies: Space and Cultural Production, 1588-1888, eds. Martin Brückner and Hsuan L. Hsu (University of Delaware Press, 2007), 149-170.
"Atlantic Trade," A Companion to Herman Melville, ed. Wyn Kelley (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006), 113-128.
PODCASTS:
“What Can Whales Teach Us About Clean Energy, Workplace Harmony, and Living the Good Life?” Freakonomics Radio, July 27, 2023, https://freakonomics.com/podcast/what-can-whales-teach-us-about-clean-energy-workplace-harmony-and-living-the-good-life/
“Hester Blum takes a new look at Moby-Dick,” A Brief Chat. http://www.abriefchat.com/2022/12/06/a-brief-chat-223-hester-blum-takes-a-fresh-look-at-moby-dick/ (December 6, 2022).
“Moby-Dick,” New Books Network, interview with William Domnarski. https://newbooksnetwork.com/herman-melville-moby-dick-oxford-up-2022 (November 2, 2022).
BBC Radio 3, The Verb, “The Sea.” https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0016k3f (April 29, 2022).
"Thar She Blows: The History of Whales and America," BackStory podcast https://www.backstoryradio.org/shows/thar-she-blows/ (October, 2018)
