Annie Tummino in Maritime and Naval Studies

Melville and the Silver Screen

I recently visited the New Bedford Whaling Museum and was delighted to learn that the adjacent Mariners’ Home had a special exhibition on “Melville and the Silver Screen.” This couldn’t have been more relevant to my current Maritime Studies course, “The Last Great Hunt…

Annie Tummino in Maritime and Naval Studies

Apr 16, 2018

Visiting the New Bedford Whaling Museum while reading Moby-Dick

This semester I am taking “The Last Great Hunt: Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, and American Culture” with Melville expert Dr. John Rocco. The New Bedford Whaling Museum is only about 30 minutes from where I grew up, and I…

Trisha Seeley in Maritime and Naval Studies

Dec 13, 2017

Kate Chopin, Transcendentalism, & The Sea — A Timeline

Trisha Seeley in Maritime and Naval Studies

Dec 13, 2017

The Hollow Earth Theory, a Bloody Mutiny Aboard a Whaler, the Essex Disaster, and Poe’s PYM — A Timeline

Stephen B. Luce Library in Maritime and Naval Studies

Dec 9, 2017

The Early Governors of Sailors’ Snug Harbor

The Stephen B. Luce Library serves as a repository of the records of Sailors’ Snug Harbor, America’s first home for retired seaman and one of the country’s oldest secular philanthropic institutions. Dedicated to the welfare of “aged, decrepit, and worn…

Annie Tummino in Maritime and Naval Studies

Nov 6, 2017

Edgar Allan Poe and American Sea Fiction

In The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838), Edgar Allan Poe brilliantly riffs on the 19th century sea narrative, incorporating common literary devices of the genre and true tales of disaster into a delicious, terrifying, absurd and dream-like…

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