I’ve collected my writing on Herman Melville and his works here: hesterblum.com/melville.
Podcasts to which I’ve contributed
The Arctic Circle residency, Autumn Art & Science Expedition, International Territory of Svalbard, October 2022.
Frozen Obsession, a documentary about the Northwest Passage Project; I served as Arctic historian on the expedition.
The Northwest Passage Project, an Arctic expedition I joined in July 2019; on Arctic Media, Past and Future
38th Voyage of the Charles W. Morgan, the world's last surviving wooden whaleship
Essays for The Los Angeles Review of Books
"Being a Woman in Public," conversation with Sarah Blackwood, Hester Blum, Tara Bynum, Jane Hu, Claire Jarvis, Sarah Mesle, and Kyla Wazana Tompkins, Post 45 Contemporaries.
Westward Ho, a road trip to the Southwest