Symposium: Melville on Nantucket at the Quaker Meeting House, August 14, 2019. A presentation of the Nantucket Historical Association.
Dr. Mary K. Bercaw Edwards is an Associate Professor of English and Maritime Studies
Faculty at the University of Connecticut. An internationally-known Herman Melville scholar, she serves as an editor for Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies. She is the author of Melville’s Sources and Cannibal Old Me: Spoken Sources in Melville’s Early Works and the co-editor of Wilson Heflin, Herman Melville’s Whaling Years. Dr. Bercaw Edwards spends her summers working high aloft on Mystic Seaport Museum’s square-rigged ships. She was a crewmember on the 38th Voyage of the 1841 whaleship Charles W. Morgan. A Coast Guard-licensed captain, she has 58,000 miles at sea, all under sail.
