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Join Professor Hester Blum and actor-writer Rob Delaney as they navigate Moby-Dick, the both devastating and hilarious journey of men at odds with the sea and themselves. Together they explore the characters, symbolism, and language that make this text monumental, from Captain Ahab’s obsessive hunt to Ishmael’s musings.

Head to ExploringTheGreats.com (link in bio) for more. by @hesterblum

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We are proud to present a very special journal issue--a glorious, monumental issue--on Arctic environment, art, and culture, which is the artistic fruit of a sailing expedition to Svalbard that reached 80˚ N latitude:

“On the Cold Edge: Creative Meditations on Svalbard,” edited by Hester Blum, Candace Jensen, and Jacinda Russell, Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture 2:1-2 (2026): https://www.regeneration-journal.org/issue/1298/info/.

The twenty-three contributors to this special issue of Regeneration are artists, writers, and researchers who sailed around the high Arctic archipelago Svalbard on a tall ship with the expeditionary residency program The Arctic Circle. The multimedia, interdisciplinary, creative meditations featured in “On the Cold Edge”—nearly 100 individual works—are drawn from and respond to our experience of Arctic flora and fauna; anthropogenic climate change; the history of resource extraction; the sound of calving glaciers; the Northern Lights; the rhythms of a masted sailing ship; and Svalbard’s geological outlandishness.

We are honored that our expeditionary work appears in Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture, which won the 2025 Best New Journal Award from the Counsel of Editors of Learned Journals. We thank Regeneration editors Stephanie Foote, Dana Luciano, and Anthony Lioi for publishing this monumental project.

(link in bio; reposted to correct photo sizing)

“On the Cold Edge”
Editors: Hester Blum, Candace Jensen, and Jacinda Russell

Contributors:
Joan Albaugh @joanalbaugh
Leonor Anthony @leonoranthonyartist
Ashlin Aronin @scenictanker
Hester Blum @hesterblum
Sergei Chernikov @s.chernikov.1
Dianne Chisholm @diannechisholm
Harley Cowan @harleycowan
Jessica Creane @ikantkoan
Laurie Glover #laurieglover
Brian House @h0use
Candace Jensen @artist.cjensen
Hannah Larrabee @hannah.larrabee
Andrea Legge @andrealeggeart
Felicia LeRoy @felicia.lr
Jia-Jen Lin @jiajenlin
Alexandra Lockhart @aelock12
Zoriça Markovich @zorica_kelly_markovich
Terhi Nieminen @slugnieminen
Alma Noor @sarahgerats
Osceola Refetoff @ospix
Jacinda Russell @jacindarussellart
Paula Sćiuk @inmyfabulousness
Drea Zlanabitnig @dreazlanabitnig by @hesterblum

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Speaking at @oregonstateprax @polarsteamteam and listening to galvanizing talks by superb polar artists and educators and researchers and reconvening with Svalbard heroes @jacindarussellart and @hannah.larrabee and lightly weeping at the sight of the rocks and tide pools and mist of Oregon coast and and and, excess of gratitude by @hesterblum

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In Episode 1, Setting Sail, @robdelaney and @hesterblum set off on the voyage, filming in the London house where Melville once lived.

Read & explore it with us.
Join the Moby-Dick book club: link in bio.

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#MobyDick #HermanMelville #BookClub #ClassicLiterature #ExploringTheGreats by @hesterblum

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Final hiking/writing/spiraling retreat photos, Raffin/Lochinver/Assynt by @hesterblum

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Heated Rivalry: Moby-Dick, but make it hockey, with Dr. Hester Blum comes out tomorrow wherever you enjoy podcasts and on YouTube with Lo-fi pixel art animations!

#mobydick #heatedrivalry #mmromance #gamechangers #melville by @hesterblum

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Writing/hiking/worrying livestock retreat, Assynt (where our croft rental has the book collection of my dreams) by @hesterblum

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We've got an excellent new interview coming out this Tuesday with none other than Dr. @hesterblum to discuss her article "'Heated Rivalry' is the 'Moby-Dick' of Canadian Gay Hockey Shows."

We had a fascinating discussion on what is gleaned by analyzing Moby-Dick through the genre lens of MM romance.

Look for it wherever you enjoy podcasts and with lo-fi pixel animations on YouTube!

#mobydick #melville #heatedrivalry #mmromance #bookstagram We've got an excellent new interview coming out this Tuesday with none other than Dr. @hesterblum to discuss her article "'Heated Rivalry' is the 'Moby-Dick' of Canadian Gay Hockey Shows." We had a fascinating discussion on what is gleaned by analyzing Moby-Dick through the genre lens of MM romance. Look for it!

#mobydick #melville #heatedrivalry #mmromance #bookstagram by @hesterblum

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Islay by @hesterblum

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Wishing Melville a happy 207th birthday at the superb @leviathanbookstore with @brianyothers and a SRO crowd of St. Louis‘s finest book lovers by @hesterblum

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Introducing a new way to discover great works - Exploring The Greats. Book clubs hosted by artists and academics. Discover more at ExploringTheGreats.com by @hesterblum

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Celebrating Melville, dicking around, and the pleasures of reading Moby-Dick with new and old friends at @leviathanbookstore, August 1! Hope to see you St Louis: by @hesterblum

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