About

Melody Jue (pronunciation rhymes with “blue”) is Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on the ocean & environmental humanities, science fiction, media studies, and science & technology studies. Professor Jue is the author of Wild Blue Media: Thinking Through Seawater (Duke University Press, 2020), which won the Speculative Fictions and Cultures of Science Book Prize, and the co-editor of Saturation: An Elemental Politics (Duke University Press, 2021) with Rafico Ruiz. New books include Coralations (Minnesota Press, 2025) and the edited collection Informatics of Domination (Duke Press, 2025) with Zach Blas and Jennifer Rhee. She regularly collaborates with ocean scientists and artists, and many of her writings are informed by scuba diving fieldwork and coastal observations.