About the Journal

Our award-winning journal, published three times a year by Johns Hopkins University Press, features scholarly articles, notes, reviews, creative writing, interviews, and book reviews by established and younger scholars for an academic and wider public audience, domestic and international. Its “Extracts” section reports on Melville Society news and Melville-related events in each issue. Recent special issues of Leviathan have focused on Melville’s late writings; digital humanities analyses of Melville’s marginalia in Homer, Shakespeare, and Milton; new artistic responses to Moby-Dick, and the completion of the Northwestern-Newberry edition of The Writings of Herman Melville.

Leviathan is published by the Johns Hopkins University Press and is available online through Project Muse.

The Henry Murray Endowment, begun in 1990 with a donation by Henry Murray, provides minimal stipends for Leviathan’s editorial staff. Membership dues pay for only half of our publication costs. We seek additional funding to augment the Murray stipends and to cover production expenses.