Join us at 11:00 am ET on Tuesday August 6 to discuss the oceanic turn in literary studies as it intersects with modernist studies. Sometimes called the blue humanities, sometime critical ocean studies, and, as in the special issue we will explore together for august, sometimes called Hydro-criticism, this concern with the watery, fluid of modernity is a growing focus within the environmental humanities, modernist studies, and beyond. 

All are welcomed! Do try to check out, in advance:

1. Laura Winkiel’s “Introduction” to Special Issue of English Language Notes on Hydro-criticism, 57.1 (April 2019). 

2. We invite you to come with with a text (considered broadly--text, performance, art) in mind to be shared or discussed in the context of the blue humanities with the goal of generating a blue humanities syllabus collaboratively.

3. Feel free to read more from the special issue if you like. Special Issue of English Language Notes on Hydro-criticism, 57.1 (April 2019). 

Link to special issue: https://read.dukeupress.edu/english-language-notes/issue/57/1

Email organizers for access to additional articles. Introduction is currently open access. 

For a nice overview of Blue Humanities, we recommend: 

Gillis, John R. 2013. "The Blue Humanities: In Studying the Sea, We are Returning to Our Beginnings." Humanities: A Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities 34, no. 3 (May/June). 

A predecessor to the ELN conversation is this 2010 cluster from PMLA: https://www.jstor.org/stable/i25704452 

Link to join the session will be sent out over MSA and M&E listservs---email organizers to be added.