Leviathan
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.
The Eaton Portrait
By permission of Houghton Library, Harvard University: 61Z-4
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Melville Electronic Library
The Melville Electronic Library is an online resource for Melville texts. Housed on a Hofstra University server, MEL is being developed and maintained by a group of Melville scholars and digital specialists.
Johns Hopkins University Press
To join the Melvillle Society and subscribe to Leviathan, visit Leviathan's Johns Hopkins University Press journal site by clicking here.
Melville Society Cultural Project
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.
Herman Melville's Arrowhead
Herman Melville's Arrowhead Facebook Group page of the Berkshire Historical Society. Celebrating historical Berkshire County and Herman Melville's Arrowhead, the farm and home where Melville lived while writing Moby-Dick.
Call for Papers
MLA 2016 - Austin, TX
Melville's Late Fiction, or Radical Inhabitation
This panel will ask how Melville's late fictions (Moby-Dick and after) recast natural histories of the Americas; and in the process, complicate our understanding of the political and challenge assumptions of the gothic, the ghostly, the human and non-human. Topics include: the nature of things and persons; the problem of faith and/or re-making of a spirituality that has little to do with piety or moralism and everything to do with sensation—along with the instinct or affections that stimulate it--and the unexpected prose that results when the care of craft joins with the demands of ethical attention. Please send abstract and brief cv to Colin Dayan: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Calendar
Upcoming Events
| 19 May 2018 Exhibit: Frank Stella Unbound - Literature and Printmaking |
| 30 May 2018 Exhibit: Martin Machado: Fluid State |
| 28 Jun 2018 Dance - Leviathan - James Wilton Dance |
| 14 Jul 2018 Exhibit: Grand Panorama - NBWM |
| 09 Aug 2018 Play: Moby-Dick - Australia |
| 28 Aug 2018 07:00PM - Lecture: HERMAN MELVILLE’S MOBY-DICK AND THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT OF 1850 |
| 31 Aug 2018 New Book: The Value of Herman Melville |
| 06 Sep 2018 07:00PM - Lecture: "...BUT DROWNED THE INFINITE": READING MELVILLE'S MOBY-DICK IN THE WAKE OF CLIMATE CHANGE |
| 20 Sep 2018 02:00PM - Book Discussion - NYPL |
| 28 Sep 2018 Melville's passing |
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Fellowships and Scholarships
Melville Society Archive
Walter E. Bezanson Fellowship
The Melville Society, under the auspices of the Melville Society Cultural Project in New Bedford, offers an annual fellowship to help a scholar undertake research on Herman Melville at the Society’s Archive in the Research Library of the Whaling Museum in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
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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.
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Links
Woodlawn Cemetary
Woodlawn Cemetary - final resting place of Herman, his wife, Elizabeth, and other family members. Click here to view photos of the gravesites.
125th Anniversary Celebration
A celebration of Melville's life at Woodlawn Cemetary on the 125th anniversary of his passing.
Lansingburgh Historical Society
Melville lived for nine years in this Lansingburgh house. It was here that he wrote Typee and Omoo.
Berkshire Historical Society
Melville's Arrowhead home and farm in Pittsfield, MA where he wrote Moby-Dick and lived for most of the 1850s.