Your Professor’s Mermaid Scholarly Readings
“Our Mermaid Craze” edited by Jessica Pressman (2024) for ASAP journal online

“Disney’s Black mermaid is no breakthrough – just look at the literary subgenre of Black mermaid fiction” (2022) in The Conversation

“Siren: An Allegory for the Anthropocene and Example of the Contemporary Mermaid Craze” in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (May 2024)

“Entanglements: an exploration of the digital literary work of Joellyn Rock and “FISHNETSTOCKINGS” (a Scalar book) with Mark C. Marino and Diana Leong
The Digital Review, 2022

Additional READINGS in/AROUND MERMAID SCHOLARSHIP

Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals. (2020)

Veronica Strang, Water Beings: From Nature Worship to the Environmental Crisis (2023)

Philip Hayward, Making a Splash: Mermaids (and Mer-Men) in 20th and 21st Century Audiovisual Media (2017)

Philip Hayward, Scaled for Success: The Internationalisation of the Mermaid (2018)

On Sound and the Sonic

Meri Lao Sirens: Symbols of Seduction

Michael Bull, Sirens