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. 

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