EVENT SCHEDULE
MONDAY June 16, 2025
9:00 AM-10:00 AM: REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
10:00 AM-10:15 AM: WELCOME
10:15 AM-11:30 AM: "OTHER SEAS: SAILING WITHOUT AHAB" - PLENARY ADDRESS BY STEVEN MENTZ
11:45 AM-1:15 PM: SESSION ONE
1. PANEL: MELVILLE’S (UN)BELONGING (Chair: Arturo Corujo)
ACD 301
Sammy Moriarty, “‘Child of the warm and shallow parts of the sea’: Sea-Slime and Coagulating Genealogies with Oken and Melville”
Caroline Hildebrandt, “Melville’s Oceanic Soteriologies”
Peter W. Brown, “The Ocean is a Magnanimous Element”: The Confidence-Man’s Provisional Fictions of (Un)Belonging”
2. PANEL: MEDIA/POPULAR CULTURE (Chair: Takayuki Tatsumi)
ACD 303
Katsuya Izumi, “Reading the Use of White Whales in Japanese Anime”
Dennis Mischke, “Through Libraries and Data Oceans—Reading GenAI with Melville”
Alan Van Brackel, “Beyond Binaries: Sensations, Inversions and Fluid Identities in the Comic Book La Vieille Anglaise et le continent”
3. PANEL: KNOWLEDGE, SHIP: EPISTEMOLOGY AND EMBODIMENT ABOVE AND BELOW DECK (Chair: Grace King)
Auditorium
Hester Blum, “Polymathic Sailors”
Alison Glassie, “Low Freeboard”
Grace King, “Nineteenth-Century Ship Logbooks in the Age of Big Data”
1:15 PM-2:15 PM: BUFFET LUNCH
2:15 PM–3:45 PM: SESSION TWO
4. PANEL: READING MELVILLE LITTORALLY: ECOLOGIES, ECONOMICS, POETICS (Chair: Michael Jonik)
Auditorium
Sari Edelstein, “‘The greatest beachcomber of all time’: Melville and the Rise of Coastal Leisure”
Christopher Bates, “‘[O]nce strown upon ocean’s beach’: Mardi and Melville’s Oceanic Economies of Wood”
Peter Riley, “Decomposing Empire: Moby-Dick and the Political Ecology of the Stranded Whale”
Michael Jonik, “Melville’s Poetics of the Marge”
5. PANEL: SCALE, EXTREMITY, INFINITUDE (Chair: Christopher Ohge)
ACD 301
Melanie Swan, “Melville and Scale: Oceanic Quantum Imaginaries”
John Wenke, “‘The Sea on Fire’: Mardi, Moby-Dick and the Rhetoric of Oceanic Extremity”
Yonca Denizarslani & Christopher Volpe, “Oceanic Infinitudes Versus the Looming Fall of Modernity in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick: Or, The White Whale”
6. PANEL: AFFECT (Chair: Ralph James Savarese)
ACD 303
Masato Itagaki, “On Resignedness: Reconsidering Betsey Jennings”
Rosa Angélica Martinez, “Melville’s Madame Leviathan”
Timothy Helwig, “The Tartarus of Paper-Feeders and Folding-Girls: Antebellum Representations of Women in the Print Industry”
Susan Lanzoni, “An Ideal Reader? Melville's Meeting with Hawthorne on Monument Mountain”
3:45 PM–4:15 PM: AFTERNOON BREAK
4:15–5:45 PM: SESSION THREE
7. PANEL: MELVILLE AND THE ARTS IN THE CLASSROOM, IN THE GALLERY, AND ONLINE (Chair: Robert K. Wallace)
Auditorium
Lauren Wessel, “The Magic Fabric”
Lucas King, “The Call of the Wretched Seas: Heavy-Metal Moby-Dick from Germany”
Alex Wallace, “Seeing What Melville Saw in the Private Gallery of Samuel Rogers in 1849”
Robert K. Wallace, “Melville’s Print Collection, The Metropolitan Museum, and ‘At the Hostelry’”
8. PANEL: DARK MATERIALS (Chair: Peter Riley)
ACD 301
Wilson Taylor, “Melville’s ‘Yet Yawning Gulf’: The Dark Oceanic Ecology of Moby-Dick”
Sarah Leilani Parijs, “Whale Extinction: A Fragmented Book of Nature”
Michael Schwartz, “Ice in Moby-Dick: Passage through the Solidified Oceanic”
Dawid W. De Villiers, “Epochal Inflections: Melville’s Sea Poems and the Inhuman”
9. PANEL: READING EUROPE (Chair: Justina Torrance)
ACD 303
Doug Jones, “How Dantean were Ishmael’s Oceanic Depths?”
Robert D. Madison, “The ‘See’ around Us: Seeing Clark Russell as Melville’s Penultimate Handsome Sailor”
Tomoyuki Zettsu, “Queering the Ocean: From Moby-Dick to ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’”
6:00 PM RECEPTION IN BRANFORD HOUSE
TUESDAY June 17, 2025
9:00 AM-10:30 AM: SESSION FOUR
10. PANEL: TEACHING, WRITING (Chair: Wyn Kelley)
ACD 301
Michelle Fernandes, “The Water Ways into Moby-Dick”
Jeffrey Peterson, “Visible Hands: Teaching Moby-Dick with Sentence Sketchbooks”
Hillary Rettig, “Reader, I Dismasted Him: The Challenges and Joys of Writing From the Nonhuman Perspective”
11. ROUNDTABLE: MELVILLE’S ANIMALS (Chair: Alison Glassie)
ACD 303
Cassidy Rotigliano, “Ishmael Says the Whales are Queer”
Brooke Grasberger (co-written with Richard J. King), “Tracking the Birds of Mardi in a Time of Crisis in the Central Pacific”
12. PANEL: TIDES OF TOIL: SEEN AND UNSEEN LABOR IN MELVILLE’S WORK (Chair: Lenora Warren)
Auditorium
Adam Fales, “Bronzed Mariners and Pallid Complexions: Maritime Labor, Sex, and Billy Budd”
Delarys Ramos Estrada, “In the Cuddy, or Reading the Room”
Susannah Sharpless, “Bowls of Chowder, Rivers of Blood: Women’s Work in Moby-Dick and ‘The Tartarus of Maids’”
10:30 AM-11:00 AM: MORNING BREAK
11:00 AM– 12:30 PM: SESSION FIVE
13. PANEL: MELVILLE AND INFRASTRUCTURE (Chair: Tom Nurmi; Respondent: Michael Jonik)
Auditorium
Patrick McDonald, “‘And hosts are sacred—house and all’: Middle Eastern Infrastructure and Divining the Secular in Clarel”
Tom Nurmi, “‘Foundations Without Superstructures’: Melville’s Energy Empire”
Melissa Gniadek, “Arboreal Relics: Melville’s Oceanic Temporalities of Wood”
14. PANEL: PACIFIC ALTERITIES (Chair: Spencer Tricker)
ACD 301
Yoshiaki Furui, “‘No Asylum for Whalers’: Japan in Moby-Dick”
Paul Hurh, “‘But man shall cease’: Omoo and Pessimist Critique”
Ikuno Saiki, “Interrogating Alterity: Pacific Castaways in Moby-Dick and Hakugei”
15. PANEL: AMERICAN INTERTEXTS (Chair: Ariel Silver)
ACD 303
Takayuki Tatsumi, “The Maritime Origins of the Walled Self: Stuyvesant, Irving, and Melville”
Issei Suzuki, “The Throngs Ebbing and Flowing in the Ocean of Melville, Poe, and Hawthorne”
Kelly L. Richardson, “Encounters with Enchanted Islands: Herman Melville’s The Encantadas and Celia Thaxter’s Among the Isles of Shoals”
Mikayo Sakuma, “Grasping the Waters: From Moby-Dick to Gary Snyder’s Turtle Island”
12:30 PM-2:00PM: LUNCH ON YOUR OWN (you can pre-order a lunch on the registration site)
OR “GAMMING THE PROFESSION” (an informal lunch open to scholars at different stages of their careers to discuss all aspects of the profession)
2:00 PM-3:30 PM: SESSION SIX
16: ROUNDTABLE: ELEVEN YEARS AFTER THE MAST (Chair: Hester Blum)
ACD 301
Hester Blum
Lucy Bellwood
Elysa Engelman
Jason Mancini
Katharine Mead
Ben Shattuck
Johnathan Thayer
Mary K. Bercaw Edwards
17. PANEL: EXTRACTS FROM THE SEA (Chair: Tony McGowan)
ACD 303
Stephen Fragano, “Fantasies of Sustainable Mastery and Cultural Reproduction in Moby-Dick”
Jennifer Baker, “Moby-Dick’s ‘land-like feeling towards the sea’”
Ayad Rahmani, “Examining Renewable Energy through Melville’s Oceanic Expeditions”
18. PANEL: PIRACY, MUTINY (Chair: John Wenke)
Auditorium
Mark Kelley, “Pirates of Antipathy: Melville’s Oceanic Sentimental Politics”
David Blake, “Melville and the Threat of Islamicized Seas”
Jonathan Cook, “New Light on the Somers Mutiny and Billy Budd”
3:30 PM-4:00 PM: AFTERNOON BREAK
4:00 PM-5:30 PM: SESSION SEVEN
19. ROUNDTABLE: JENNIFER L. FLEISSNER’S MALADIES OF THE WILL (Chair: Robert S. Levine; Respondent: Jennifer L. Fleissner)
Auditorium
Robert S. Levine
Maurice Lee
Sari Altschuler
Jennifer Greiman
Samuel Otter
Jennifer L. Fleissner
20. PANEL: MARINERS, RENEGADES, CASTAWAYS, AND OCEANIC TRANSFORMATIONS (Chair: Meredith Farmer)
ACD 301
Jonathan D. S. Schroeder, “Mariners”
Donald E. Pease, “Castaways, Part I”
Meredith Farmer, “Castaways, Part II”
21. PANEL: MONSTERS/MYTHS (Chair: Rosa Angelica Martinez)
ACD 303
Dean Mendell, “Oceanic Monsters: A Lexical Key to the Maligned and the Sublime in Whaling Fiction”
Timothy Marr, “Melville’s Sea Monsters”
Dorin Smith, “A Head Carried Out to Sea: On Orphic Death in Late Melville”
6:00 PM-7:30 PM
PERFORMANCE: REWRITTEN: PERFORMING MELVILLE, HAWTHORNE, AND QUEER DESIRE (Matthew Cumbie, Roma Flowers, Katherine Stubbs, Tom Truss)
https://matthewcumbie.com/rewritten/
Auditorium
WEDNESDAY June 18, 2025
9:00 AM-3:30 PM VISIT TO MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM
· Moby-Dick tours of the 1841 whaleship Charles W. Morgan
· Sail-handling aboard the 1841 whaleship Charles W. Morgan
· Whaleboat demonstration
· Whaleboat rowing by participants
· Performance of “Moby-Dick in Minutes” (a 35-minute play that only uses Melville’s own language)
· Viewing of Jos Sances’s scratchboard mural Or, The Whale
· Live-printing by Jos Sances in honor of Robert K. Wallace
· Sea music show featuring songs mentioned in Moby-Dick
4:00-5:30 pm SESSION EIGHT
22. PANEL: OCEANIC FEELINGS (Chair: Édouard Marsoin)
ACD 301
Pilar Martínez Benedí, “‘Sapore di mare,’ or Tasting the Sea in Translation”
Édouard Marsoin, “Oceanic Odors: What’s in a Smell in Moby-Dick”
Ralph James Savarese, “Oceanic Horror: Moby-Dick and Huntington’s Disease”
23. ROUNDTABLE: READING EVIDENCE IN MELVILLE SCHOLARSHIP (Chair: Steven Olsen-Smith)
Auditorium
Justina Torrance, “Close and Distant Reading: A Comparative Study of Melville’s Marginalia in Milton
Brandon Hurst, “Melville’s Hazlitt Marginalia and Transatlantic Literary Influence"
Peter Norberg, “Melville’s Copy of A History of the County of Berkshire”
Elisa Barney Smith, “Technology and Reading Evidence”
Christopher Ohge, “A Fluid-Text Edition of ‘Hawthorne and His Mosses’”
24. PANEL: POETICS/POLITICS OF MARITIME LABOR (Chair: Jennifer Greiman)
ACD 303
Schuyler Chapman, “The Just Spirit of Equality: Herman Melville and the Revolutionary Maritime in Mardi and White-Jacket”
Colin Dewey, “Maritime Melville, or: Oceanic Humanities as Craft”
Yu Otake, “Is the Master-at-Arms Equivocal?: Claggart’s Malfunction in Billy Budd”
5:30 PM-6:00 PM EVENING BREAK
6:00 PM-7:30 PM: "'DOES THE WHALE DIMINISH?-WILL HE PERISH?'-CROSS-DISCIPLINARY CURRENTS IN CONVERSATION"
SPECIAL EVENING PANEL WITH ANNE COHEN, JOE ROMAN, AND RUI PRIETO
Panel funded by the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
Auditorium
THURSDAY June 19, 2025
9:00 AM-10:30 PM SESSION NINE
25. PANEL: WAVES (Chair: Nicholas Spengler)
ACD 301
Jake Lundberg, “The Tribute-Rendering Wave: Enchantment and Disenchantment in Melville’s Ocean”
Michiko Shimokobe, “The Ocean and the Sky in Melville’s Nautical Stories: Third Dimension of Referentiality”
Elizabeth Reyes, “‘The firmaments of air and sea’: The Oceanic Divine and Ahab’s Ancient Wound”
26. PANEL: FOSSILS, REMAINS (Chair: Jennifer Baker)
ACD 303
Jeffrey Adams, “Envisioning Prehistoric Seas: Melville and the Aquatic Fossil Record”
Masahiro Uehara, “Melville in the Anthropocene”
Braedon Pauze, “The Desert and its Oceanic Sense: Reading Herman Melville’s Clarel in the Shadow of the American Empire”
27. PANEL: BODIES IN BONDAGE (Chair: Samuel Otter)
Auditorium
Shoko Tsuji, “Melville’s Shifting Perspective in Two Naval Ship Stories: Exploring Each ‘Gulf’ of Race and Class”
Nancy Goldfarb, “Making the Best of Servitude: Humor in Melville’s ‘The Monkey Rope’ Chapter”
Heather Levy, “‘Hate for Pabulum’: Appetites and Carnality in Billy Budd”
10:30 AM-11:00 AM: MORNING BREAK
11:00 AM-12:30 PM: SESSION TEN
28. PANEL: GLOBAL IMAGININGS (Chair: Yoshiaki Furui)
Auditorium
Emilio Irigoyen, “A Longer and More Transnational Visit: The Recently Found Port Records of the Acushnet’s Time in Rio”
Evander Price, “Quito Glow: Mythical Cosmologies of the Gold Doubloon”
Nicholas Spengler (co-written with Esther Pujolràs-Noguer), “Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea and ‘Bartleby’: Transoceanic Migration and the Geopolitics of Reading”
29. PANEL: LEGAL AND ECONOMIC SYSTEMS AT SEA (Chair: Colin Dewey)
ACD 301
Matthew Crow, “Cetacean Constitutions: Legal Pluralism and Melville’s Oceanic Politics”
Akihiro Maru, “‘Bartleby’ as an Oceanic or Defamiliarized Text”
Jordan Williamson, “Melville’s Special Economic Zones”
30. PANEL: OCEANIC DIFFERENCES (Chair: Dawn Coleman)
ACD 303
Kohaku Flynn, “Unmooring Colonial Narratives: Oceanic Resistance and Indigenous Myth in Herman Melville’s Typee”
Christopher J. Slaby, “Picturing Indigenous Peoples at Sea in the Works of Herman Melville”
Yukiko Oshima, “Rescuing a Castaway with Chase: Trans-Oceanic Prayer of Interracial Sympathy in ‘Norfolk Isle and the Chola Widow’”
12:30 PM-2:00 PM LUNCH ON YOUR OWN (you can pre-order a lunch on the registration site)
2:00-3:30 pm SESSION ELEVEN
31: ROUNDTABLE: OCEANIC ARTS, PUBLIC AND DIGITAL HUMANITIES, AND MELVILLE’S IMAGINATION: A ROUNDTABLE IN HONOR OF ROBERT K. WALLACE’S CONTRIBUTIONS TO MELVILLE SCHOLARSHIP (Chair: Brian Yothers)
Auditorium
Dawn Coleman
Christopher Freeburg
Jake Heggie
Wyn Kelley
Peter Michael Martin
Steven Olsen-Smith
Brian Yothers
32. PANEL: MODERNITY, REVIVAL (Chair: Timothy Marr)
ACD 301
Sam Gleason, “Reality or Dream: Sleep, Paralysis, and Oceanic Uncertainty in Moby-Dick”
Dom Bortruex, “Swimming through Libraries: The Role of Librarians in the Melville Revival and Beyond”
William Mowder, “HermanMelvilles Gedankengut: The First Foreign Language Book-Length Study of Melville Which Sank Beneath the Waves of History”
33. PANEL: MARKS, TRACES, GEOGRAPHIES (Chair: Jonathan Cook)
ACD 303
Brandon Hurst, “Waves of Emotion: Visualizing Sentiment Analysis of Melville’s Marginalia”
Koichiro Taura, “‘One Drop of Man’s Blood’: Poetic Traceability in Melville’s Sea Fiction”
Ariel Silver, “Beneath the Surface: Gendered Theologies of Burial in Melville’s Battle-Pieces and Moby-Dick”
3:30 PM-4:00 PM: AFTERNOON BREAK
4:00 PM-5:30 PM: "MELVILLE'S GHOSTS" - PLENARY ADDRESS BY LENORA WARREN
6:00 PM: FINAL RECEPTION AND LIGHT DINNER AT BRANFORD HOUSE
FRIDAY June 20, 2025
Optional trip to New Bedford, Massachusetts (shuttle provided to and from New Bedford) *Additional cost of $60; you may sign up during the online registration process*
· Curator tour of New Bedford Whaling Museum
· Viewing of whaling logbooks in the New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library
· Visit to Seamen’s Bethel
· Presentation on Melville Society art works
· Walk through the historic area of New Bedford
SATURDAY June 21, 2025
Conference participants are invited to make their own way to Arrowhead, where Melville wrote Moby-Dick. Arrowhead is 2-1/4 hours from Mystic. The cost is $20./person for a tour of Arrowhead, which includes Melville's study, from which he could see Mount Greylock. Advance reservations can be made via the website but are not required. https://berkshirehistory.org/
Conference Participant Affiliations
Adams, Jeffrey, Syracuse University
Altschuler, Sari, Northeastern University
Baker, Jennifer, New York University
Barney Smith, Elisa, Luleå Technical University (Sweden)
Bates, Christopher, University of Sussex (UK)
Bellwood, Lucy, Adventure Cartoonist
Bercaw Edwards, Mary K., University of Connecticut
Blake, David, The College of New Jersey
Blum, Hester, Penn State University
Bortruex, Dom, Yale University
Brown, Peter W., University of California, Berkeley
Chapman, Schuyler, Glenville State University
Cohen, Anne, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Coleman, Dawn, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Cook, Jonathan, Charlottesville, Virginia
Corujo, Arturo, Universitat de Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain)
Crow, Matthew, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Cumbie, Matthew, Colby College
Denizarslani, Yonca, Ege Üniversitesi (Turkey)
De Villiers, Dawid W., Stellenbosch University (South Africa)
Dewey, Colin, California State University Maritime Academy
Edelstein, Sari, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Engelman, Elysa, Mystic Seaport Museum
Fales, Adam, University of Chicago
Farmer, Meredith, Wake Forest University
Fernandes, Michelle, Paramus High School (Paramus, NJ)
Fleissner, Jennifer L., University of Chicago
Flowers, Roma, Texas Christian University
Flynn, Kohaku, Boston University
Fragano, Stephen, Fordham University
Freeburg, Christopher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Furui, Yoshiaki, Rikkyo University (Japan)
Glassie, Alison, Northeastern University
Gleason, Sam, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Gniadek, Melissa, University of Toronto (Canada)
Goldfarb, Nancy, Indiana University Indianapolis
Grasberger, Brooke, Sea Education Association
Greiman, Jennifer, Wake Forest University
Heggie, Jake, Composer
Helwig, Timothy, Furman University
Hildebrandt, Caroline, Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris (France)
Hurh, Paul, University of Arizona
Hurst, Brandon, University of Connecticut
Irigoyen, Emilio, Universidad de la República (Uruguay)
Itagaki, Masato, Kanazawa Gakuin University (Japan)
Izumi, Katsuya, Trinity College
Jones, Doug, The Cambridge School (San Diego, CA)
Jonik, Michael, University of Sussex (UK)
Kelley, Mark, Florida International University
Kelley, Wyn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
King, Grace, Penn State University
King, Lucas, Northern Kentucky University
Lanzoni, Susan, Writer and Historian of Science
Lee, Maurice, Boston University
Levine, Robert S., University of Maryland
Levy, Heather, Western Connecticut State University
Lundberg, Jake, University of Notre Dame
Madison, Robert D., Emeritus, U.S. Naval Academy
Mancini, Jason, Connecticut Humanities
Marr, Timothy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Marsoin, Édouard, Université Paris Cité (France)
Martin, Peter Michael, Artist
Martinez, Rosa Angélica, California State University, Sacramento
Martínez Benedí, Pilar, University of L’Aquila (Italy)
Maru, Akihiro, Nihon University (Japan)
McDonald, Patrick, Bilkent University (Turkey)
McGowan, Tony, United States Military Academy West Point
Mead, Katharine, Art Museum Fundraising and Grants Management
Mendell, Dean, Touro University
Mentz, Steve, St. John’s University
Mischke, Dennis, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)
Moriarty, Sammy, King’s College London (UK)
Mowder, William, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Norberg, Peter, St. Joseph’s University
Nurmi, Tom, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway)
Ohge, Christopher, University of London (UK)
Olsen-Smith, Steven, Boise State University
Oshima, Yukiko, Fukuoka University (Japan)
Otake, Yu, National Institute of Technology (Kosen), Ibaraki College (Japan)
Otter, Samuel, University of California, Berkeley
Parijs, Sarah Leilani, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Pauze, Braedon, Independent Scholar, Alumnus of the University of British Columbia (Canada)
Pease, Donald E. Dartmouth College
Peterson, Jeffrey, The College Preparatory School (Oakland, CA)
Prieto, Rui, University of the Azores, Institute of Marine Sciences – OKEANOS (Azores)
Price, Evander, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (China)
Rahmani, Ayad, Washington State University
Ramos Estrada, Delarys, University of California, Berkeley
Rettig, Hillary, Writer
Reyes, Elizabeth, Thomas Aquinas College
Richardson, Kelly L., Winthrop University
Riley, Peter, University of Exeter (UK)
Roman, Joe, University of Vermont
Rotigliano, Cassidy, Northeastern University
Saiki, Ikumo, Tokyo Gakugei University (Japan)
Sakuma, Mikayo, Gakushuin Women's College (Japan)
Savarese, Ralph James, Grinnell College
Schroeder, Jonathan D. S., Rhode Island School of Design
Schwartz, Michael, The Academy at Penguin Hall (Wenham, MA)
Sharpless, Susannah, Cornell University
Shattuck, Ben, Writer
Shimokobe, Michiko, Seikei University (Japan)
Slaby, Christopher J., College of William & Mary
Smith, Dorin, University of Chicago
Spengler, Nicholas, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain)
Stubbs, Katherine, Colby College
Suzuki, Issei, Kyushu Institute of Technology (Japan)
Swan, Melanie, University College London (UK)
Tatsumi, Takayuki, Keio University
Taura, Koichiro, Jissen Women’s University (Japan)
Taylor, Wilson, Moses Brown School (Providence, RI)
Thayer, Johnathan, Queens College, City University of New York
Torrance, Justina, Santa Clara University
Tricker, Spencer, Clark University
Truss, Tom, Independent Artist
Tsuji, Shoko, Matsuyama University (Japan)
Uehara, Masahiro, Senshu University (Japan)
Van Brackel, Alan, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (France)
Volpe, Christopher, Artist and Writer
Wallace, Alex, Northern Kentucky University
Wallace, Robert K., Northern Kentucky University
Warren, Lenora, Cornell University
Wenke, John, Salisbury University
Wessel, Lauren, Northern Kentucky University
Williamson, Jordan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Yothers, Brian, Saint Louis University
Zettsu, Tomoyuki, Rikkyo University (Japan)