Melville Society 6/1/23 Melville Society 6/1/23

$25,000 Matching Pledge for the Murray Endowment

In honor of the Melville Society’s 75th anniversary, Professor Dennis Berthold has generously pledged to match donations in any amount up to $25,000, directed to the Society’s Murray Endowment, between June 1 and November 1, 2023.

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Keio Academy of New York Tricultural Lecture Series: “Melville and Mutiny” - Saturday, May 6, 2023

Saturday, May 6th, at 10:00am, Dr. John Bryant, Professor Emeritus of English, Hofstra University, will present “Melville and Mutiny: From the Pacific to Wall Street,” addressing Melville’s transformation of himself and his characters in his involvement, in his life and his research, in mutinies, as they appear in “Bartleby” and “Billy Budd.”

Venue: Speakers' Hall, Keio Academy of New York (3 College Road, Purchase, New York 10577)

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Melville Society Panels at the 2023 American Literature Association Conference

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.

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Call For Papers: “Melville’s Queer Afterlives”

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

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2021 Hennig Cohen Prize Award

The Hennig Cohen Prize for 2021 goes to Daniel Diez Couch and Michael Anthony Nicholson for their article “Silent Eloquence: Literary Extracts, the Aesthetics of Disability, and Melville’s ‘Fragments,’” which was published in Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies.

Melville Society 1/31/23 Melville Society 1/31/23

Call For Papers: Melville Society Panels at MLA 2024

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.

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Call For Papers: Melville Society Panels at the 2023 American Literature Association Conference

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.

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Call for Nominations: Hennig Cohen Prize

Call for nominations for the 2021 Hennig Cohen Prize. Deadline to submit nominations: December 21, 2022.

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Announcing Travel Grants Awarded For the 2022 International Melville Society Conference

Announcing Travel Grants Awarded for the 2022 International Melville Society Conference in Paris

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13th International Melville Society Conference - Paris, France: June 27-30, 2022

Summary of the Thirteenth International Melville Society Conference, “Melville’s Energies,” in Paris, France, June 27-30th, 2022

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International Melville Society Conference - Registration Deadline 15 April 2022

Register by April 15, 2022 for the Thirteenth International Melville Society Conference, “Melville’s Energies,” in Paris, France, June 27-30th, 2022

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Call For Papers: MLA 2023

Calls for Papers for 2 panels at the Modern Language Association 2023 Convention

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Travel Grants Supporting Participation in the 2022 International Melville Society Conference

Announcing Travel Grants supporting participation in the 2022 International Melville Society Conference in Paris

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2020 Hennig Cohen Prize Award

The 2020 Hennig Cohen Prize has been awarded to Édouard Marsoin for his article “‘No Land of Pleasure Unalloyed’: Economies of Pleasure and Pain in Melville’s Typee and Omoo”