About Steve Mentz
Born 1966. Steve Mentz is a literary scholar, literary historian, scholar of English, university teacher and man of letters.
Steven Roger Mentz is a professor of English at St. John's University. An early-modernist, Mentz's career began with a focus on Shakespeare before branching out into the literature of the Atlantic World and environmental studies. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Frank C. Munson Institute of American Maritime Studies, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the John Carter Brown Library. He received his PhD from Yale University and his BA from Princeton University. His work focuses on the ocean and the Anthropocene from a humanistic perspective.
Mentz is most famous for developing the "blue humanities," an approach to environmental studies and ecocriticism that challenges the terrestrial bias that previously dominated the discipline.
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