Publications

Books

Wild Blue Media: Thinking Through Seawater (Duke University Press, February 2020)
- Book Prize, Speculative Fictions and Cultures of Science Award 2020
- Finalist, ASLE Book Award 2021

Saturation: An Elemental Politics (edited with Rafico Ruiz, Duke University Press, September 2021)

Coralations (Minnesota Press, February 2025).

Informatics of Domination (co-edited with Zach Blas and Jennifer Rhee, forthcoming in 2025 with Duke University Press)

Essays

“Water” forthcoming in Energized! ed. Imre Szeman, Valerie Uher, and Jennifer Ann Wenzel.

“Climate Crisis and the Environmental Humanities,” The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction, 2nd edition, ed. Mark Bould, Andrew M. Butler, and Sherryl Vint (Routledge, June 2024), pp. 310-317.  

“Recipes for the Future of Seaweed Aquaculture,” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 37:9 (May 2024), special issue on “Sea Farming and Feminist Blue Humanities,” ed. Jesse Peterson and Cecilia Åsberg, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10806-024-09927-z.

“Invisible Kelp Forest: From Smell to Sound,” Melody Jue with Anya Yermakova, Jacob Cram, and Eli Stine, Plant Perspectives 1:1 (April 2024), pp. 189-203.

“Bubbles as Media in Oceanic Ecologies,” Art exhibit catalogue, Henie Onstad Art Center, Norway (February 2024).

“‘A Seaweed Goes to War’: Agar as a Thermal Medium in C.K. Tseng’s research at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (1943–1946),” Being Algae: Transformations in Water, Plants, ed. Yogi Hale Hendlin, Johanna Weggelaar, Natalia Derossi, Sergio Mugnai (Brill, March 2024), pp. 215-233.

Interview: “Astrobiological Media: A Conversation with Melody Jue, Madelyn Broome, and Zac Zimmer.” Foundry, special issue on “Ethics and Astrobiology,” https://uchri.org/foundry/astrobiological-media/ (September 2023).

“The Slippery Films of Seaweeds,” in “Cultures of Seaweed” art exhibit catalogue, New Bedford Maritime Museum (June 2023) pp. 49-53.

Journal special issue: “Holding Sway: Seaweeds and the Politics of Form,” Foundry (UCHRI), ed. Melody Jue & Maya Weeks, https://uchri.org/series/holding-sway/.

Editor’s introduction, “Holding Sway: Seaweeds and the Politics of Form,” Foundry (UCHRI), ed. Melody Jue & Maya Weeks (June 2023), https://uchri.org/foundry/holding-sway-seaweeds-and-the-politics-of-form/.

“The Floating World of Giant Kelp” (republication), Oceans (Whitechapel/MIT Press, May 2023), pp. 95-97.

Interview: “The Need to Bridge Terrestrial and Oceanic Realms,” A conversation with Melody Jue for Critical Coast, publication for the Danish Pavillion, Venice Architecture Biennale (May 2023), pp. 392-397.  

“Groundedness Through Floating,” for art exhibit catalogue, “Meditation Ocean: Turtlegrass Meadow,” Hope Ginsburg, Wexner Center for the Arts, University of Ohio (May 2023), pp. 6-13.

“The Many Ecologies of AI,” American Literature 95:2 (June 2023), special issue on “Artificial Intelligence” ed. Jennifer Rhee and Rita Raley, pp. 337-349.

“Invisible Seaweed” in Society and Space, special section on “Contesting the Ocean Decade” ed. Katherine Sammler and Kimberley Peters (April 2023).

“The Many Ecologies of AI” in American Literature, special issue on “Artificial Intelligence” ed. Jennifer Rhee and Rita Raley (May 2023).

“Scuba Diving as Praxis” in Fieldwork for Future Ecologies, ed. Bridget Crone, Sam Nightingale, and Polly Stanton (Onomatopee, 2023).

“Submerging Inscription: On Corals and Thermal Stress” forthcoming in ASAP Journal 7:2 (May 2022) pp. 289-295.

“The Floating World of Giant Kelp” for the project Unctuous Between Fingers, curated by Bryony Gillard.

“Anticipating Extinction in the Tales of Two Fish.” Public Books (2021).

“The Nature Preserve of Memory,” Zocalo Public Square (2021).

“‘Pixels May Lose Kelp Canopy’: The Photomosaic as Epistemic Figure for the Satellite Mapping and Modeling of Seaweeds.” Media + Environment (2021).

Introduction to Madison Bycroft’s film The Fouled Compass, Vdrome (2021).

“Scenting Community: Microbial Symbionts in Octavia Butler’s Fledgling,” MOSF Journal of Science Fiction 4:1 (July 2020), 17-19.

Science Fiction in the Time of Face Masks: On Chen Qiufan’s “The Smog Society.” Science Fiction Studies, special issue “Thinking Through the Pandemic: A Symposium” (2020).

Oceanography as a Patiently Put Together Mosaic, Blue Notes, Penn Environmental Humanities Blog (2020).

Beyond terrestrial thinking: Oceans, estrangement, media, ASLE blog (2020).

Behind the cover of Wild Blue Media, Media Theory Journal (2020).

“Anti-apparatus” in Understanding Flusser, Understanding Modernism, eds. Aaron Jaffe and Michael Miller, Bloomsbury Press (2020).

“Floating Architectures: Fantasies of Safety in Oceanic Riskscapes” in Media & Risk, eds. Bishnupriya Ghosh and Bhaskar Sarkar, Routledge (2019).

“Time is Melting: Glaciers and the Amplification of Climate Change” (co-written with Rafico Ruiz) in Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities 7.2/7.3 (May 2020).

“Fluid Cuts: The Anti-visual Logic of Surfactants  after Deepwater Horizon” in Configurations 27.4 (October 2019), 525–544. Special issue: “Ocean Science & Technology Studies.”

"~*~ (Dophinese: tickling at a distance)" in An Ecotopian Lexicon, ed. Matthew Schneider-Mayerson and Brent Bellamy (Minnesota Press, 2019).

"Submerging Kittler" in Social Science Information 57:3 (2018), 476–482.

"Performative Science Fiction," Science Fiction Studies 45 (2018), 423-424. 

"Intimate Objectivity: On Nnedi Okorafor’s Oceanic Afrofuturism," Women's Studies Quarterly 45:1/2 (April 2017): 171-188.

"From the Goddess Ganga to a Teacup: On Amitav Ghosh’s novel The Hungry Tide" in Scale in Literature and Culture (New York: Routledge, 2017).

"The Anthropocene's Negative Media," International Journal of Central University of Kerala (January 2016). Ed. Prasad Pannian. 

“Vampire Squid Media,” Grey Room 37 (November 2014), p. 82-105. Ed. Lucia Allais and Matthew C. Hunter.

“Proteus and the Digital: Scalar Transformations of Seawater’s Materiality in Ocean Animations,” Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 9.2 (July 2014), p. 245-260. Ed. Sylvie Bissonette.

“Churning up the Depths: Ecologies of Metaphor in Solaris and ‘Oceanic,’” Green Planets: Science Fiction and Ecology, eds. Gerry Canavan and Kim Stanley Robinson. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press: 2014:  226-241.

“Navigating with Metaphor: At Home in the Cybernetic Theater of Consciousness,” Audeamus 2 (2008): 47-61.  

Book Reviews

Review: Control: Digitality as Cultural Logic. (forthcoming in Configurations)

Emerging from Its Elements: Solaris across Media. Review: Solaris, by Mark Bould. Extrapolations Journal 58:1 (April 2017): 113-115.

Review: The Marvelous Clouds: Towards an Elemental Theory of Media. Journal of Environmental Communication. 

Three Science Fiction Novellas: From Prehistory to the End of Mankind, by J.-H. Rosny-aîne.  Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 24.1 (November 2013): 121-123.

Oil and Water, by Steve Duin and Shannon Wheeler.  American Book Review 33:3 (March/April 2012): 14.

Chess Metaphors: Artificial Intelligence and the Human Mind, by Diego Rasskin-Gutman. The Information Society, 27:2 (March 2011):133-134.

Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas, by Stefan Helmreich. Science, Technology & Human Values 36:5 (September 2011): 752-755.

Online Engagements

"Under My Umbrella: Representing Democracy in Hong Kong," In Media Res guest contribution, Nov. 3, 2014.