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Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Also any excuse to push our 'Blue Humanities' series, ed. @serpiloppermann.bsky.social & @stevementz.bsky.social First three books are 'The Agony of Water in an Age of Climate Change', 'Hydropoetics' and 'Anti-Colonial Poetics of Water'. Check the series out here: www.bloomsbury.com/series/the-b...

Image is of a series flyer for the Bloomsbury series 'Blue Humanities'. Text reads:
SERIES EDITORS:
Steve Mentz, Professor of English, St. John’s University, USA, mentzs@stjohns.edu Serpil Oppermann, Professor of Environmental Humanities, Cappadocia University, Turkey, serpil.oppermann@kapadokya.edu.tr
The Blue Humanities is a book series about humans and water, in all the forms that both of these assume and create. Re-examining relations between human and watery spaces, the books in this series will explore connections between waterscapes and landscapes from cultural, social, historical, theoretical, literary, symbolic, aesthetic, and ethical perspectives, often using data provided by the scientific disciplines of oceanography and limnology. The books published in this series will engage with the multivalent meanings of salt and freshwaters and the compounded changes that all waterscapes are undergoing today.
The series will present new research on postmodernist, hydrofeminist, new materialist, posthumanist, postcolonial, and new historiographic approaches to the poetics of water. Since the blue humanities is transdisciplinary and methodologically diverse, interacting with marine and freshwater sciences, the series will contribute significantly to the future direction and reorientations of broader discourses in environmental studies.
Forthcoming in the series
The Agony of Water in an Age of Climate Change
By Simon Estok
December 2026
This book proposes a methodology for better understanding and conceptualizing our relationship to water in an age characterized by climate change.
Hydropoetics
Briony Hughes
June 2027
Examines work by innovative poets to think about the ‘hydro’ not simply thematically but also in terms of methodology, material, and practice.
Anti-Colonial Poetics of Water
Kate Lewis Hood
October 2027
This book develops an interdisciplinary approach that reads poetic work in dialogue with anti-colonial spatial practices.