Author

Steve Mentz

1 book, 2026

Steve Mentz is a professor of English at St. John’s University in New York City whose writing career combines Renaissance literature, maritime culture, and environmental criticism. He is a leading contributor to the “blue humanities,” writing scholarly and accessible books—including Ocean, An Introduction to the Blue Humanities, Shipwreck Modernity, and Break Up the Anthropocene—as well as poetry and literary essays.