Professor
and Director of Graduate Studies
English Department
St John Hall, Room B40-4
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, Ecocriticism
and Environmental Approaches to Literature, History of the Book and
Media Cultures, Digital Humanities
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 blog
.