Bloomsbury Handbook to the Blue Humanities

Steve Mentz is Professor of English at St. John’s University in New York City, USA. Mohammed Muharram is an Assistant Professor of English Literature and Postcolonial Studies at Thamar University, Yemen. Serpil Oppermann is Professor of Environmental Humanities at Cappadocia University, Turkey.Sandra Young is Professor of English Literary Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

This massive volume, written by an international gathering of scholars, offers a wide-ranging introduction to the blue humanities, across and within different disciplines, historical periods, geographic sites, genres, topics, and elemental forms. This collection will be a gift for scholars who have been scrambling to assemble research in the rapidly emerging field of the blue humanities, offering an abundance of framings, interpretations, and arguments that will both introduce and advance the field.

• Four Poems: Juan Carlos Galeano (Florida State University, USA)Preface: Sea Legs Anna Iltnere (Sea Library, Latvia) Introduction: The Blue Humanities in the World, Steve Mentz (St. John’s University, USA), Mohammed Muharram (University of Bremen, Germany), Serpil Oppermann (Cappacodica University, Türkiye), and Sandra Young (University of Cape Town, South Africa).Part I: Discourses 1. Blue Postcolonialism, Mohammed Muharram (University of Bremen, Germany) and Kerstin Knopf (University of Bremen, Germany) 2. Black Hydrologics, Mapule Mohulatsi (University of Cape Town, South Africa) 3. Blue History, Matt McKenzie (University of Connecticut at Avery Point, USA) 4. Blue Philosophy, Melody Jue (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA)5. Blue Ecology, Michael Blackstock (Independent Scholar, British Columbia, Canada) 6. Blue Religion, Justine Bakker (Radboud University, the Netherlands)7. Blue Linguistics, K. David Harrison (Swarthmore College, USA) and Neal Kelso (University of Hawai?i at Manoa, USA)8. Ocean Laws, Sofie Elise Quist (UiT–Arctic University of Norway, Norway) and Irus Braverman (SUNY Buffalo, USA)9. Blue Anthropology, Nils Bubant (Aarhus University, Denmark)10. Hydrofeminism/s, Tamara Sheffer (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) and Vivienne Bozalek (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) Part II: Networks 11. The Indian Ocean, Rila Mukherjee (University of Hyderabad, India)12. The Atlantic Ocean, Christopher Pastore (SUNY Albany, USA)13. The Pacific Ocean, Antonio Ortega Santos (University of Grenada, Spain)14. The Southern Ocean, Charne Lavery (University of Pretoria, South Africa)15. The Arctic Ocean, Hester Blum (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)Part III: Forms 16. The Nonhuman, Simon Estok (Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea)17. Currents, Dan Brayton, (Middlebury College, USA)18. The Surf, Keven Dawson (University of California at Merced, USA)19. Storms, Alison Maas (University of California at Davis, USA)20. Clouds and Rain, Alison Glassie (Northeastern University, USA)21. Ice, Lowell Duckert (University of Delaware, USA)22. Fresh Water, Ellen Arnold (Ohio State University, USA)23. The Deep, Laurence Publicover (University of Bristol, UK)24. Seabeds, Killian Quigley (Australian Capital University, Australia)25. Coasts and Ports, Isaac Land (Indiana State University, USA)26. Human Bodies, Adem Balci (Independent Scholar, Türkiye) and Gulsah Gocmen (Aksaray University, Türkiye)27. Oceanic Feelings, Steve Mentz (St. John’s University, USA)Part IV: Representations 28. Underwater Photography, Margaret Cohen (Stanford University, USA)29. Blue Acoustics, Stefan Helmreich (MIT, USA)30. Art in the Suspense, Jaimey Hamilton Faris (University of Hawai’I, USA)31. Water and Performance, Maurya Wickstrom (CUNY Staten Island, USA)32. Poetry of Oceania, Craig Santos Perez (Independent Author, Guåhan)33. Blue Literature, Maria Geustyn (Rhodes University, South Africa) and Meg Samuelson (University of Adelaide, Australia)34. Indigenous Poetics, Hsinya Huang Huang (National Sun-Yat Sen University, Taiwan) Conclusion: The Blue Humanities and the Anthropocene, Serpil Oppermann (Cappacodica University, Türkiye)