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The Melville Society is proposing two panels for the 2026 Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention, to be held in Toronto, Canada, January 8-11, 2026. This news item details the CFPs for “Thermal Melville” and “Melville and the Law” as well as the submission requirements.

We are happy to announce travel awards for the Melville Society's 14th International Conference, Oceanic Melville!

We will award at least five travel grants to help defray travel costs, lodging, and other expenses for conference participants with limited travel funding, in order to enable them to present their work. Grant recipients will receive $300 stipends and have their conference registration fees waived.

The Melville Society is sponsoring two panels at the 2025 American Literature Association Conference, which will be held in Boston, MA, May 21st-24th, 2025.

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.”

Join the Melville Society at our two panels at the 2025 Modern Language Association annual convention in New Orleans, January 9-12, 2025. Read the panel descriptions and panelist rosters here.

Call for Papers: The Melville Society is sponsoring two panels at the 2025 American Literature Association Conference, which will be held in Boston, MA, May 21st-24th, 2025.

Please consider submitting or nominating articles and chapters on the works of Herman Melville published in 2023 for consideration for the Hennig Cohen Prize. Deadline Sept. 15th, 2024.

Call for Papers: Fourteenth International Melville Society Conference - University of Connecticut (maritime campus), Avery Point, Connecticut, USA, June 16-19, 2025 / Deadline for Proposals: October 15, 2024 / Conference Theme: Oceanic Melville

The Melville Society has submitted two panels for the 2025 Modern Language Association annual convention, which will be held in New Orleans, January 9-12, 2025. Read the panel descriptions and panelist rosters here.

Call for Papers: The Melville Society is sponsoring two panels for the 2025 Modern Language Association annual convention, which will be held in New Orleans, January 9-12, 2025.

Call for Papers: The Melville Society is sponsoring two panels at the 2024 American Literature Association Conference, which will be held in Chicago, IL, May 23rd-26th, 2024.

From January 5 - 7, 2024, the New Bedford Whaling Museum will host one of the world’s best known readings of Herman Melville’s iconic American novel, Moby-Dick.

“Medical Melville” - a roundtable sponsored by The Melville Society at the MLA 2024 convention, Thursday, January 4th at 12:00 noon.

The New Bedford Whaling Museum, in association with the Melville Society Cultural Project, has been awarded a $196,290 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for its project “Moby-Dick and the World of Whaling in the Digital Age.” The grant will fund a three-week Summer Institute for Teachers in 2024.

The Melville Society has organized two panels at the 2023 American Literature Association Conference, which will be held in Boston, MA, May 25-28th, 2023. Draft Schedule listed here.

Call for Papers: a proposed special issue of Leviathan on “Melville’s Queer Afterlives”

Call for Papers: The Melville Society is sponsoring two panels, plus one panel co-organized with the Conrad Society, at the 2024 Modern Language Association Convention, to be held in Philadelphia, PA, January 4-7, 2024.

Call for Papers: The Melville Society is sponsoring two panels at the 2023 American Literature Association Conference, which will be held in Boston, MA, May 25-28th, 2023.