Mary Rowlandson (c. 1635-1711), A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, a Minister's Wife in New-England. London: Joseph Poole, 1682. CULTURAL READINGS: Colonization & Print in the Americas, Special Collections, University of Pennsylvania Library

Upcoming Conferences

American Literature Association Annual Conference: San Francisco, May 22-25, 2008. The Society of Early Americanists will sponsor 4 SEA sessions at the ALA. Please click here for more information.

SEA’s 6th Biennial Conference will be held 4-7 March 2009 in Hamilton, Bermuda, to mark the 400th anniversary of the wreck of the Sea Venture, flagship of the Jamestown Third Supply voyage, which initiated the permanent settlement of Bermuda--the second permanent English colony in America. Proposals for panels will be due 21 April 2008. Please click here for more information.
The Third Early Ibero/Anglo Americanist Summit: “Early American Borderlands,” St. Augustine, Florida, 6-9 May 2010

Continuing in the tradition of the First (Tucson, AZ, 2002) and Second (Providence, RI, 2004) Early Ibero/Anglo Americanist Summits, this event will bring together scholars of the early Americas working in various languages and disciplines in order to exchange questions, ideas, research and teaching methods, as well as to promote comparative perspectives and cross-disciplinary dialogue in the study of the early Americas. The thematic focus of this event will be on early American borderlands as a space of cultural, linguistic, sexual encounters. Further information and a call for panels and papers will follow in the spring of 2009. The event will be co-sponsored by the Society of Early Americanists (SEA).

Recent Conferences

Prophetstown Revisited: A Summit on Early Native American Studies, 3-5 April 2008, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana: latest in our series of smaller, topically defined conferences in even-numbered years. Please click here for more information. Please click here to register for the conference. SEA Mini-Grants for Graduate Students to Travel to the Prophetstown conference. Please click here.

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 27-30, 2008, Portland, Oregon

Society of Early Americanists’s Fifth Biennial Conference, Williamsburg, June 7-10, 2007
The fifth SEA conference was held jointly with the Thirteenth Annual Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture conference. Program.
For the text of Dennis Moore's Presidential Address, click here: Address

Past Conferences