Hester Blum

Hester Blum is Professor of English at Penn State University. Her most recent book, The News at the Ends of the Earth: The Print Culture of Polar Exploration, was published by Duke University Press in 2019. She is also the author of The View from the Masthead: Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives (2008), which received the John Gardner Maritime Research award, as well as several edited volumes, including the essay collection Turns of Event: Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies in Motion (2016). Blum contributes frequently to Avidly, a channel of the Los Angeles Review of Books. She participated in an Arctic climate change expedition in 2019 with the Northwest Passage Project, and was a 2019-2020 Guggenheim Fellow.

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