Steve Mentz

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 .