PequodPod

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

In this episode, we interview our special guest Rufai Shardow, park ranger at New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park. We talk about the history of New Bedford and cover a range of topics including the indigenous history of the area, Quakers, abolitionism, and whether Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville ever met!

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.

This episode, we meet Father Mapple and see him mount his pulpit. But it is quite a special pulpit. 

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.

This week, PequodPod goes to church! We read some spooky cenotaphs, hear about Tristan's taphophobia, and consider getting hitched at the Seaman's Bethel in New Bedford.

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, we interview our special guest Adam Mellion from the blog All Visible Objects. We talk about his Melvillean sleuthing, from busts to Antarctica, and track down the true origin of the brand name Starbucks.

While we do discuss the company Starbucks on this episode, this is in no way meant as an advertisement or product placement, and in fact we strongly encourage our audience to respect the boycott called by Starbucks Workers United until the company signs a contract with the union. 

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, we interview our special guest Dr. Steve Mentz about his excellent poetry collection Sailing without Ahab. We talk blue humanities, recasting Moby-Dick without its most tyrannical character, swimming, and more!

Dr. Steve Mentz is department chair and professor of English at St John’s University. As well as Sailing Without Ahab, he is the author of several books, including At the Bottom of Shakespeare’s Ocean, An Introduction to the Blue Humanities, Break Up the Anthropocene, and Ocean.

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.

Here is a free preview of our inaugural Melville at the Movies episode. We discuss John Huston's 1956 Moby Dick, starring Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab, Richard Basehart as Ishmael, Leo Genn as Starbuck, Orson Welles as Father Mapple, and with a knockout performance by Harry Andrews as Stubb. 

This is definitely a folio-sized bonus episode, clocking in at 99 minutes. The first 21 are free for you here on our normal feed. We really put a lot of effort into this one, and it's really rather excellent.

You can enjoy the full bonus episode by joining us on Patreon at patreon.com/PequodPod at the Stubb, Starbuck, or Ahab levels.

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.

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

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 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

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.

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.

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.

*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.

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.