The Society of Early Americanists furthers the exchange of ideas and information among scholars of various disciplines who study the literature and culture of America to approximately 1800. (Our Mission & History of the SEA)

Announcements:

  • The Society of Early Americanists Eighth Biennial Conference will take place Thursday, February 28, 2013 - Saturday, March 2, 2013, Savannah, Georgia, Hyatt Regency Savannah. Save the date! More details forthcoming!

  • The Society of Early Americanists announces the Fourteenth Annual Essay Competition. For information about the contest and details about how to enter, please go to the SEA Essay Contest page, here. Thank you.

  • The Society of Early Americanists will be sponsoring four panels at the 23rd Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, San Francisco, May 24-27, 2012. Details are forthcoming. For more information, please click here.

  • The Society of Early Americanists will be co-sponsoring “ ‘Triumph in my Song’: 18th & 19th Century African Atlantic Culture, History, & Performance,” a SEA special topics conference, at the University of Maryland, May 31-June 2, 2012. Program Chair, Heather S. Nathans (University of Maryland). For the program and more information and the conference website, please click here.

  • The SEA will be sponsoring two panels at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, San Antonio, Texas, March 22-25, 2012. For more information, please click here.

  • Congratulations to Jennifer Heil of Emory University, currently a dissertation fellow at the Library Company of Philadelphia, on receiving the Thirteenth Annual SEA Essay Contest Award for her paper, “Imperial Pedagogy: Susanna Rowson’s Columbus for Young Ladies,” that was presented at the 2011 SEA conference in Philadelphia. She will receive her award at the 2012 ASECS conference in San Antonio. Congratulations again!

  • The Society of Early Americanists is pleased to announce that the University of California Irvine, School of Humanities is our new host for the Society of Early Americanists website. We thank UC Irvine, School of Humanities for generously offering to host the SEA website.

  • To join the SEA or to renew an SEA membership, please click here for the online form. Please see the SEA Directory for current membership status. Membership includes receipt of the SEA Newsletter. Maintaining your membership helps keep the SEA alive and vibrant! Thank you!


To subscribe to the SEA listserv:

send your name and the message
"SUBSCRIBE EARAM-L YOUR NAME"
to listserv@listserv.kent.edu

To join SEA and subscribe to the SEA Newsletter
, please click here




Site best viewed in - PC: Firefox, Internet Explorer | Mac: Firefox, Safari | Updated 01/23/12 | Site Hosted by: University of California, Irvine, School of Humanities | Irvine, CA 92697 | Contact