Steve Mentz

Professor, St. John’s University (New York City)

Steve Mentz is professor at St John’s University in New York, where he teaches Shakespeare, literary theory and the ‘blue humanities’ with a focus on environmental questions. His most recent book is Ocean (2020). He lives in Short Beach, Connecticut.

Written by Steve Mentz

Photo of an overhead view of a swimmer in a lane of a clear blue swimming pool with lane dividers.

I swim to think and to stay afloat in an ever-wetter world

‘The Beames my Bones, my flesh the plankes’: in pools, I glimpse the future of our terrestrial bodies in an ocean world

by Steve Mentz