Publications Leviathan Issues Available on Project Muse Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies - Vol. 21 No. 1 Now Available
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 which all membes receive three times a year and which offers scholarly articles, book and art reviews, Society news, and Melville-related events. Membership is open to all. For information about Leviathan and joining The Melville Society click here.
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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.
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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.
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.
Now Available
Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies
Vol. 21 – No. 1
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The March 2019 issue of Leviathan (vol. 21, no. 1) is now available on Project Muse! This issue is the first of four special “Melville at 200” issues. Dues-paying members of The Melville Society who subscribe to the print edition should receive their copies in the mail soon. The issue features essays on “The New Art of Moby-Dick" by Elizabeth Schultz (including twenty color plates in the print edition along with numerous other images throughout the essay); Elizabeth S. Melville and the field formation of Melville studies, by Jordan Alexander Stein and Adam Fales; and “‘Bartleby’ on Speed” by Alex Benson. It also features a cycle of sonnets, “Of August,” by Wyn Kelley; Theo Davis’s review of One Foot in the Finite, by K. L. Evans; Robert J. Scholnick’s review of Herman Melville Among the Magazines, by Graham Thompson; Mary K. Bercaw Edwards’s review of The Sea and Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Literary Culture, edited by Steve Mentz and Martha Elena Rojas; and Mary K. Bercaw Edwards’s “All Astir,” Colin Dewey’s report on the Moby-Dick Marathon in San Francisco, and Ross Martin’s note on a portrait of Lemuel Shaw that he recently identified in the Extracts section. For information about subscribing to Leviathan, click here.
Visit for Details about Upcoming Events and Melville-Related News
| 18 Jun 2020 07:30PM - 08:30PM Zoom event: In Bed with Ishmael: Queer Approaches to the Life, Work, and Legacy of Herman Melville |
| 01 Aug 2020 Melville's Birthday |
| 28 Sep 2020 Melville's passing |
| 18 Oct 2020 British Edition of Moby-Dick Published as The Whale |
| 14 Nov 2020 Moby-Dick Published |
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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.
Woodlawn Cemetary - final resting place of Herman, his wife, Elizabeth, and other family members. Click here to view photos of the gravesites.
A celebration of Melville's life at Woodlawn Cemetary on the 125th anniversary of his passing.
Melville lived for nine years in this Lansingburgh house. It was here that he wrote Typee and Omoo.
Melville's Arrowhead home and farm in Pittsfield, MA where he wrote Moby-Dick and lived for most of the 1850s.
