Loomings: New Bedford and the Land Chapters

9:45am EST: Mustering of Crew for Departure

Readings in Moby-Dick: Chapters 1-22: Extracts, Etymology, “Loomings” to “Merry Christmas,” 1-90:

Moby-Diction word search: http://mobydiction.com

Morning (10:00-12:00)

Part 1: All Astir

Welcome: from New Bedford Whaling Museum Director Amanda McMullen (10)

Introductions from Program Manager, Co-Directors, and Lead Faculty (10)

Monkey Rope Breakouts (10)

Introduction to Annotation Studio and Digital Resources — Erica Zimmer (25)

Break (5)

Departures: “Blindly Plunging Like Fate into the Lone Atlantic”

Morning
Chapters 23-32, “The Lee Shore” to “Cetology,” pp. 91-118; Melville’s Letters to Hawthorne and others while writing Moby-Dick (also in NCE 559-76); “Hawthorne and His Mosses” (also in NCE 544-558)

Annotations: Chapter 23, “The Lee Shore” an Chapter 32, “Cetology”

All Astir Announcements, Overview (10)

Part 1 A Squeeze of the Hand: Social Annotation and Discussion (45)

“The Lee Shore”

“Cetology”

Break (5)

Morning
Chapters 33-42, “The Specksynder” to “The Whiteness of the Whale,” pp. 118-158; “Hawthorne and His Mosses” and Letters to Hawthorne and others while writing Moby-Dick

Annotation
Chapter 35, “The Mast-Head” and Chapter 36. “The Quarter-Deck”

Lunch 12:30 “Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage ‘Round the World,” Spectacle in Motion, New Bedford Whaling Museum, a 34-minute documentary moves through the 1848 panorama of a whaling voyage by Benjamin Russell and Caleb Purrington — the longest painting in the world.

1:05 Presentation on Mystic Seaport’s 38th Voyage, epic journey of their whaling ship, the Charles W. Morgan in 2014

Morning
Chapters 43-57, “Hark!” to “Of Whales in Paint; In Teeth’ In Wood; In Sheet-Iron; In Stone; In Mountains; In Stars,” pp. 157-213’

Annotation: Chapter 50: “Ahab’s Boat and Crew–Fedallah,” and Chapter 54: “The Town-Ho’s Story”

Lunch 12:30-1:15: Professional involvement and academic engagement in Melville Studies: Introduction to the Melville Society, the journal Leviathan, and the upcoming conference in France

1:15: Jeff Markham on experiential pedagogy in teaching Moby-Dick

Afternoon

Morning
Chapters 58-71, “Brit” to ” “The Jeroboam’s Story”,” pp. 213-243.

Annotation Chapter 58, “Brit” and Chapter 60, “The Line”

Afternoon
Faculty Panel, Discussions, and Workshop on Race in Moby-Dick

Supplemental Readings:
Robert K. Wallace. Melville and Douglass Anchored Together in Neighborly Style, Spinner, 2005.

Christopher Freeburg, “Knowing the Bottomless Deep,” from Melville and the Idea of Blackness. Cambridge, 2012, pp. 20-60.

James Noel, “Diversity, Reading Publics, and the Community College,” DRAFT CHAPTER. In A New Companion to Herman Melville. Ed. Wyn Kelley and Christopher Ohge. Wiley, 2021 (forthcoming).

Michael Sawyer, “The Pequod as Middle Passage: Melville’s Meditation on the ‘Long’ Shipwreck,” DRAFT CHAPTER. In A New Companion to Herman Melville. Ed. Wyn Kelley and Christopher Ohge. Wiley, 2021 (forthcoming)

Morning
Chapters 87-96, “The Grand Armada” to “The Try-Works,” pp. 284-314.

Afternoon Talk: Christopher Sten on Trauma and Recovery in Moby-Dick

Supplemental Readings
Judith Herman. Selection fromTrauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence, Basic, 2015.

Chris Sten. Sounding the Whale: Moby-Dick as Epic Novel, Chicago, 1996.

Cindy Weinstein. “Melville’s Operatives,” The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature: Allegory in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction, Cambridge, 1995, pp. 87-128.