DEADLINE EXTENDED! Call For Papers: Melville Society Panels at MLA 2026
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.
Travel Awards for the Melville Society International Conference
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.
Melville Society Panels at the 2025 American Literature Association Conference
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.
Leviathan 25.3 “Melville in Public” wins “Best Special Issue” from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals
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.”
Melville Society Panels at MLA 2025
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.
2023 Hennig Cohen Prize Award
The Hennig Cohen Prize for 2023 is awarded to Sari Altschuler for her essay “Babo’s ‘Mute’-ny: Deaf Culture and Black Testimony in Antebellum America,” published in PMLA, vol. 138, no. 5, 2023, pp. 1149-1164.
Moby-Dick Marathon 2025
Join the Melville Society Cultural Project and friends at the New Bedford Whaling Museum for the 2025 Moby-Dick Marathon, January 3 to 5, 2025, for one of the world’s most renowned readings of Herman Melville’s iconic American novel, Moby-Dick. The Moby-Dick Marathon features a 25-hour read-a-thon from Saturday to Sunday, interspersed with exciting Melville-inspired activities. Enjoy engaging conversations with scholars from the Melville Society Cultural Project (MSCP), live performances, hands-on activities, and more.
Call For Papers: Melville Society Panels at the 2025 American Literature Association Conference
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.
Billy Budd at 100 Virtual Roundtable - September 28, 2024 at 1:30 Central
Join us Saturday, September 28th for a virtual roundtable on Billy Budd at 100, moderated by Brian Yothers and Jennifer Greiman of Leviathan and featuring John Bryant, Wyn Kelley, John Paul Wenke, Edouard Marsoin, and Lenora Warren.
Hennig Cohen Prize Deadline September 15th
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, 2025
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
Melville Society Panels at MLA 2025
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.
2022 Hennig Cohen Prize Award
The Hennig Cohen Prize for 2022 is awarded to Justina Torrance for her essay, “Melville’s Milton: Of the Devil’s Party and Knows It," published in A New Companion to Herman Melville, edited by Wyn Kelley and Christopher Ohge (Blackwell).
Call For Papers: Melville Society Panels at MLA 2025
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: Melville Society Panels at the 2024 American Literature Association Conference
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.
Moby-Dick Marathon 2024: January 5-7
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.
Melville Society Panel at MLA 2024: Thursday, January 4th at 12:00 noon
“Medical Melville” - a roundtable sponsored by The Melville Society at the MLA 2024 convention, Thursday, January 4th at 12:00 noon.
Neither Believer nor Infidel: Book Talk with Jonathan A. Cook - Thursday, 19 October at 7pm EST on Zoom!
Join us on Thursday, October 19, 7 PM EST on zoom for a presentation and discussion with Jonathan A. Cook exploring the 19th-century debate between religious skepticism and Christian faith in Herman Melville's shorter fiction and poetry.
Organized by the Melville Society and Melville's Marginalia Online.
Melville Society Cultural Project and New Bedford Whaling Museum win NEH Grant for 2024 Teacher Institute
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.
Call for Nominations: Hennig Cohen Prize
Call for nominations for the 2022 Hennig Cohen Prize. Deadline to submit nominations: September 30, 2023.