Steve Mentz

Steven Roger Mentz is a professor of English at St. John's University. An early-modernist, Mentz's career began with a focus on Shakespeare before branching out into the literature of the Atlantic World and environmental studies. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Frank C. Munson Institute of American Maritime Studies, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the John Carter Brown Library. He received his PhD from Yale University and his BA from Princeton University.^[1] His work focuses on the ocean and the Anthropocene from a humanistic perspective.^[2]

Education

• Yale University (PhD, MA, MPhil)
• Princeton University (BA)

ThesisRomance for Sale: Genre and the Book Market in Elizabethan Prose Fiction (2000)

Doctoral advisorAnnabel Patterson

DisciplineEarly Modern English

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Steve Mentz
Academic background
Education	Yale University (PhD, MA, MPhil) Princeton University (BA)
Thesis	Romance for Sale: Genre and the Book Market in Elizabethan Prose Fiction (2000)
Doctoral advisor	Annabel Patterson
Academic work
Discipline	Early Modern English
Sub-discipline	Ecocriticism
Institutions	St. John's University
Notable ideas	Blue humanities

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Mentz is most famous for developing the "blue humanities," an approach to environmental studies and ecocriticism that challenges the terrestrial bias that previously dominated the discipline.^{[3][4][5][6][7]}