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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nAssociate Professor of English<\/p>\n\n\n\n
English and Cultural Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Book;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Article;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n For Touching This Leviathan: Touching This Leviathan. Oregon State University Press, 2021. \u201cGently So.\u201d Notre Dame Magazine, winter 2022-23, p. 25. \u201cBones, Bones: How… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2023-scholarship-fair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholars.spu.edu\/scholarshipfair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholars.spu.edu\/scholarshipfair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholars.spu.edu\/scholarshipfair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholars.spu.edu\/scholarshipfair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholars.spu.edu\/scholarshipfair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scholars.spu.edu\/scholarshipfair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/scholars.spu.edu\/scholarshipfair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholars.spu.edu\/scholarshipfair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholars.spu.edu\/scholarshipfair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholars.spu.edu\/scholarshipfair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholars.spu.edu\/scholarshipfair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Touching This Leviathan asks how we might come to know the unknowable\u2014in this case, whales, animals so large yet so elusive, revealing just a sliver of back, a glimpse of a fluke, or a split-second breach before diving away.
Whale books often sit within disciplinary silos. Touching This Leviathan starts a conversation among them. Drawing on biology, theology, natural history, literature, and writing studies, Peter Wayne Moe offers a deep dive into the alluring and impalpable mysteries of Earth\u2019s largest mammal.
Entertaining, thought-provoking, and swimming with intelligence and wit, Touching is Leviathan is creative nonfiction that gestures toward science and literary criticism as it invites readers into the belly of the whale.
And for “Gently So”:
A meditation on death, life, and a bucket of good earth. Published at Notre Dame Magazine.
For “Bones Bones”
This essay recounts building SPU’s Longbranch Whale, now hanging in Eaton Hall.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"