CEAH | 2023 Donald R. Benson Memorial Lecture: Dr. Hester Blum

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Join the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities for the annual Donald R. Benson Memorial Lecture

The speaker for 2023 is Dr. Hester Blum.

Thursday, March 30, 2023 at 7:00 PM in Curtiss Hall 0127

Hester Blum is Professor of English at Penn State University. His new edition of Moby-Dick for Oxford World’s Classics is published in 2022, and his other volumes include The News at the Ends of the Earth: The Print Culture of Polar Exploration, published by Duke University Press in 2019 and became a finalist. for the Ecocritical Book Award from the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment; The View from the Masthead: Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives (UNC 2008), which received the John Gardner Maritime Research award; the edited collection Turns of Event: Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies in Motion (Penn 2016); special issues of Atlantic Studies (2013) and the Journal of Transnational American Studies (2019) on ocean and archipelagic studies; and a scholarly edition of William Ray’sHorrors of Slavery (2008). Blum is a frequent contributor to Avidly, a channel of the Los Angeles Review of Books. He has participated in several research expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica, and his awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. In December, 2021 he reached the semifinals of the first ever Jeopardy! Contest of Professors.

Learn more about Hester at www.hesterblum.com.

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