Media
Installation as Lynne Cooper Harvey Distinguished Professor of English at WashU
1776, Then and Now: Hester Blum and Rachael DeWitt, https://rap.wustl.edu/1776-then-and-now/
Weird Moby Dick, UNLV
“For Hester Blum, Scholarship Is an Expedition,” The Ampersand, WashU Arts & Sciences (5 August 2026).
“Hester Blum installed as the Lynne Cooper Harvey Distinguished Professor of English,” The Ampersand, WashU Arts & Sciences (24 February 2026).
“Speaking the Infinite: From the Cold Edge Celebrates Beauty and Terror,” by Emma Riva (28 October 2024), Whitehot Magazine.
“Climate-focused art, writing exhibition features works from Arctic expedition,” Penn State News.
“Antarctic Explorers Wrote Cute, Funny Stories to Hide Dangerous Stunts,” by Allegra Rosenberg (4 March 2024), Atlas Obscura.
“‘Terror Camp’ Could Be a Glimpse of the Future of Fandom and Scholarship,” by Elizabeth Minkel, Atlas Obscura (30 January 2024).
“Literature Course Focuses on Polar Communities and Climate Change,” Penn State News.
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 Newshttp://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)