Professor
English
St John Hall, Room B40-9
Queens campus
Tel: (718) 990-6690
Fax: (718) 990-2525
mentzs@stjohns.edu
Educational Background
AB, 1989, Princeton University, English
MA, Mphil, 1998, Yale University, English
PhD, 2000, Yale University, English
Areas of Specialization
English Renaissance Literature,
Maritime Literature, Environmental Approaches to Literature,
History of the Book and Media Cultures
Steve Mentz teaches early modern and Renaissance literature,
especially Shakespeare, with interests in environmental criticism,
maritime culture, media technologies from print to stage to
internet, and literary theory.
His current scholarly passion is global maritime culture.
He has recently published a book on early modern oceanic
literature, At the Bottom of Shakespeare's Ocean
(2009). During the summer of 2010, he curated a public
gallery exhibition, "Lost at Sea: The Ocean in the Early Modern
Imagination, 1550 - 1750," at the Folger Shakespeare Library in
Washington, DC.
For more information about him and his work, see his personal
web page (www.stevementz.com) and blog
(www.stevementz.com/blog)