I am glad to announce that Jennifer Baker, Associate Professor of English and fifteen-year executive member of the Melville Society Cultural Project, has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities grant as a lead faculty member for “Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick and the World of Whaling in the Digital Age.” The Summer Institute will take place from June 23-28 and July 7-19, 2024 and build on the respective strengths and successes of the in-person 2018 and online 2021 Institutes, each of which hosted 25 K-12 teachers from all around the United States. Participants will be empowered for bold and immersive journeys with their students into Moby-Dick that dramatize the imperative value of the humanities as an essential force of social revitalization.