Steve Mentz teaches Shakespeare, the blue humanities, and environmental literature at St. John’s University in New York City.
Steve Mentz
Articles by Steve Mentz:
He Must See Ghosts: Richard III, Trump, and the Future
in Issue 70 | Safe (Dec 2016)a solitary sleepless ruler with his fingers on twitter - a wine-colored stain under one eye - enough to disorient - stronger and more animal body - He-Who-Must-Always-Win - history itself becoming spectral
Swimming Lessons
in Issue 61 | Sense and Sensation (Feb 2016)there is no long-term survival plan for humans in the ocean - it’s about pretending to be a fish, not a person - I was after something bluer and messier than the sage of Concord’s idyll - I also thought about the Prince of Denmark - so many Romantic fantasies imagine mortality as union with water