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Hester Blum on Weird Moby Dick, UNLV
“Speaking the Infinite: From the Cold Edge Celebrates Beauty and Terror,” by Emma Riva (28 October 2024), Whitehot Magazine, https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/edge-celebrates-beauty-and-terror/6626.
“Climate-focused art, writing exhibition features works from Arctic expedition,” Penn State News, https://www.psu.edu/news/penn-state-climate-consortium/story/climate-focused-art-writing-exhibition-features-works-arctic
“Antarctic Explorers Wrote Cute, Funny Stories to Hide Dangerous Stunts,” by Allegra Rosenberg (4 March 2024), Atlas Obscura, https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/antarctica-book-and-newspapers.
“‘Terror Camp’ Could Be a Glimpse of the Future of Fandom and Scholarship,” by Elizabeth Minkel, Atlas Obscura (30 January 2024), https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-terror-amc-camp-fandom.
“Literature Course Focuses on Polar Communities and Climate Change,” Penn State News, https://www.psu.edu/news/liberal-arts/story/literature-course-focuses-polar-communities-and-climate-change/.
Jeopardy! Professors Tournament Semifinalist, December 6-17.
https://www.wearecentralpa.com/news/psu-english-professor-appears-on-jeopardy/
https://patch.com/new-jersey/livingston/professor-who-grew-livingston-competes-jeopardy
Jeopardy! Announces First-Ever Professors Tournament with Host Mayim Bialik | PEOPLE.com
https://www.centredaily.com/news/local/education/penn-state/article256318092.html
https://onwardstate.com/2021/12/06/penn-state-professor-to-compete-on-jeopardy-december-6/
‘Jeopardy!’ Announces New Tournament For Professors Only – Deadline
https://www.nexttv.com/news/jeopardy-to-host-first-ever-professors-tournament
https://www.tvinsider.com/1021523/jeopardy-professors-tournament-mayim-bialik/
https://popculture.com/tv-shows/news/jeopardy-airing-first-ever-professors-tournament/
https://www.yahoo.com/now/jeopardy-professors-tournament-air-december-190511675.html
https://tvline.com/2021/11/11/jeopardy-professors-tournament-premiere-date-mayim-bialik-hosting/
https://www.aol.com/jeopardy-professors-tournament-air-december-190511496.html
https://fox17.com/news/local/vanderbilt-law-professor-to-compete-in-jeopardy-tournament
Featured commentary in documentary as Arctic Historian, Frozen Obsession, Directed by David Clark and Bob Elstrom, 2020.
“UI, Penn State Academics Discuss Climate Change,” https://dailyillini.com/features/2021/03/31/ui-penn-state-academics-discuss-climate-change/.
“English Professor Participates in Northwest Passage Project Expedition,” Penn State News, https://news.psu.edu/story/581379/2019/07/19/earth-and-environment/english-professor-participates-northwest-passage
“Penn State’s Hester Blum Named 2019 Guggenheim Fellow,” Penn State News, https://news.psu.edu/story/568847/2019/04/12/academics/penn-states-hester-blum-named-2019-guggenheim-fellow
“Hester Blum and Johanna Beamish on Transoceanic Cultures,” Max Weber Stiftung WeberWorldCafé podcast, https://wwc.hypotheses.org/6056 (March, 2019).
“Thar She Blows: The History of Whales and America,” BackStory podcast https://www.backstoryradio.org/shows/thar-she-blows/ (October, 2018)
“Insights into the Fifth Biennial Conference,” C19 Podcast, https://soundcloud.com/c19podcast/c19-conference (September, 2017).
“Sailing Stories,” Feature article on front page of Penn State website, http://www.psu.edu/feature/2015/04/01/sailing-stories (May, 2015).
Feature, Research Penn State 34:2 (Fall 2014).
“Tiger of the Week: Hester Blum ‘95, Scholar at Sea,” Princeton Alumni Weekly, https://blogs.princeton.edu/paw/2014/07/tiger-of-the-week-hester-blum-95-scholar-at-sea/ (July 2, 2014).
“English faculty member joins whaleship crew to study nautical storytelling,” Penn State News, http://news.psu.edu/story/317550/2014/06/04/research/english-faculty-member-joins-whaleship-crew-study-nautical (June 4, 2014).
“38th Voyagers,” Mystic Seaport, http://www.mysticseaport.org/38thvoyage/voyagers/
“Liberal Arts faculty awarded NEH Fellowships,” Penn State News, http://news.psu.edu/story/299485/2014/01/07/society-and-culture/liberal-arts-faculty-awarded-neh-fellowships (January 7, 2014).
“Shipboard newspapers as social media for early polar explorers,” Penn State News http://news.psu.edu/story/296935/2013/12/03/research/shipboard-newspapers-social-media-early-polar-explorers (December 3, 2013).
“Journeys to the Ends of the Earth,” Chronicle of Higher Education, http://chronicle.com/article/Journeys-to-the-Ends-of-the/134522/ (September 24, 2012).
“Polar Imprints: Book Historian Hester Blum at the University of Toronto,” Toronto Review of Books podcast, https://www.torontoreviewofbooks.com/2011/12/trb-podcast-polar-imprints-book-historian-hester-blum-at-the-university-of-toronto/ (November, 2011)