Welcome to PequodPod! The podcast on the wonder-world of Herman Melville.

This week, we hit the streets of New Bedford and view some queer-looking nondescripts, especially some downright bumpkin dandies!

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Welcome to PequodPod! The podcast on the wonder-world of Herman Melville.

*SPOILERS for Moby-Dick and Game Changers Series*

In this episode, we interview our special guest Dr. Hester Blum about her fascinating article “Heated Rivalry” Is the “Moby-Dick” of Canadian Gay Hockey Shows. We talk genre, MM Romance, queer eschatologies, and more!

Dr. Hester Blum is the Lynne Cooper Harvey Distinguished Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis; previously, she taught at Penn State University for twenty-two years. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002 and her B.A. from Princeton University in 1995. Her scholarship and teaching focus on oceanic and polar studies, nineteenth-century U.S. literature and culture, Herman Melville, and the environmental humanities. 

If you enjoy the show, please consider helping defray the costs of making the show by joining us on Patreon at patreon.com/PequodPod

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Welcome to PequodPod! The podcast on the wonder-world of Herman Melville.

Hope you're hungry because this is a big boy breakfast! Hot rolls, pea coffee, beefsteaks done rare! In this episode, Tristan, Meg & Jonny talk Ishmael's reaction to Peter Coffin's skylarking, complexion as an indicator of nautical know-how, and what precisely their tummies rumble for in the morning.

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Welcome to PequodPod! The podcast on the wonder-world of Herman Melville.

*SPOILERS for Moby-Dick and Mosses from an Old Manse*

In this episode, we interview our special guest Dr. Mark Noble about why Melville dedicated Moby-Dick to somebody named Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Dr. Mark Noble is Associate Professor of English at Georgia State University, where he teaches American literature and critical theory. He's the author of American Poetic Materialism from Whitman to Stevens (Cambridge UP, 2015). His essays appear in American Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, American Literary History, J19, and various edited collections.

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CONTENT WARNING: Tristan's spooky sleep paralysis story.

Welcome to PequodPod! The podcast on the wonder-world of Herman Melville.

In this episode, our hosts Tristan Bavol-Marques, Meg Fancher, and Jonny Wiles analyze Chapter 5 of Moby-Dick, The Counterpane. In this chapter, Queequeg and Ishmael snuggle, Ishmael relates a striking childhood memory, and Queequeg shaves with his harpoon.

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Welcome to PequodPod! The podcast on the wonder-world of Herman Melville.

In this episode, our hosts Tristan Bavol-Marques, Meg Fancher, and Jonny Wiles dive deep into the second half of Chapter 3 of Moby-Dick: The Spouter-Inn. In this portion of the chapter, Ishmael snoops around his roommate's stuff, undresses while thinking about comely harpooneers, and finally has his fateful encounter with Queequeg himself.

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PequodPod has some new music created by Lost in the Loop and sound engineer Lauren Ayton. Here is the full track.

Welcome to PequodPod! The podcast on the wonder-world of Herman Melville.

In this episode, our hosts Tristan Bavol-Marques, Meg Fancher, and Jonny Wiles dive deep into the first half of Chapter 3 of Moby-Dick: The Spouter-Inn. In this portion of the chapter, Ishmael enters the Spouter-Inn, gets driven distracted by a boggy, soggy, squitchy picture, checks out a hunk named Bulkington, and is generally confounded by the inn's proprietor, one Peter Coffin.

If you enjoy the show, please consider helping defray the costs of making the show by joining us on Patreon at patreon.com/PequodPod

Please also consider telling a friend about the show. Word of mouth is the best way to spread the word about PequodPod, and it helps us tremendously.

Welcome to PequodPod! The podcast on the wonder-world of Herman Melville.

*SPOILERS for Moby-Dick and Benito Cereno*

In this episode, we interview our special guest Naima Karczmar about her Leviathan article “Encyclopedic Raciality: Geo-Ethnographic Speculation in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.” Naima is a PhD candidate in English and Critical Theory at UC Berkeley, where she works on racial epistemologies of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

If you enjoy the show, please consider helping defray the costs of making the show by joining us on Patreon at patreon.com/PequodPod

Please also consider telling a friend about the show. Word of mouth is the best way to spread the word about PequodPod, and it helps us tremendously.

Welcome to PequodPod! The podcast on the wonder-world of Herman Melville.

In this episode, our hosts Tristan Bavol-Marques, Meg Fancher, and Jonny Wiles dive deep into Chapter 2 of Moby-Dick: The Carpet-Bag. In this chapter, Ishmael pokes around New Bedford looking for a not-too-jolly place to spend the night.

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Please also consider telling a friend about the show. Word of mouth is the best way to spread the word about PequodPod, and it helps us tremendously.

Nota Bene: The discerning listener may detect that Tristan's audio sounds like he recorded it on his toaster. Somehow, Tristan did indeed select his toaster instead of his mic as the input audio for this recording. Tristan, our foremost audiophile, has deeply offended the podcasting divinities for his arrogance and persnicketiness and has had to endure editing four episodes in which his audio is the only lousy audio in penance. Starting with our Episode 3, his audio will start sounding good.