Society of Early Americanists: Annual Essay Competition, 2008
- a check for $100
- a certificate
- immortality
Why choose?
The SOCIETY OF EARLY AMERICANISTS is pleased to announce our Tenth Annual Essay Competition. If you have presented or will be presenting a paper on an Americanist topic, broadly conceived, at the ASECS 2008 conference in Portland, March 27-30, 2008; at an ASECS affiliate society’s 2007-2008 conference; or at the Prophetstown Revisited: A Summit on Early Native American Studies, 3-5 April 2008, Purdue University, we invite you to consider entering.
By “Americanist topic, broadly conceived” we mean that the competition is open to papers that address America in terms of both the long and the wide (i.e., circumatlantic) eighteenth century. Our panel of judges will see each entry through a simple system of blind reviewing; your name goes only on a separate cover sheet, and we recommend that you rework any self-citation, either in the body or in notes, to third person. Note that we accept revised papers and that the maximum length for an entry is 6,000 words.
SUBMIT!
Mail four hard copies of your revised Americanist paper by October 1, 2008: double-spaced, 6,000 words maximum, with your name appearing only on the cover sheet, along with your mailing address, and e-mail; panel title, chair’s name, date of presentation, and name of conference to:
Prof. Anna Mae Duane, Chair
SEA Essay Prize Committee
Department of English
University of Connecticut
855 University Drive
Torrington, CT 06790, USA
Your packet must be postmarked by October 1, 2008. Thank you!
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SEA Essay Awards to date:
Ninth Annual Essay Prize, presented March 2008, at the ASECS Conference in Portland:
Bryan Waterman
New York University
“Elizabeth Whitman’s Disappearance and Disappointment”
Eighth Annual Essay Prize, presented June 7, 2007, at the SEA Conference in Williamsburg:
Martin Brückner
University of Delaware
“The Public Life of Maps in Eighteenth-Century British America”
Seventh Annual Essay Prize, presented April 1, 2006, at the Montréal ASECS:
Anna Mae Duane
University of Connecticut
“Pregnancy and the New Birth in Charlotte Temple and The Coquette”
Sixth Annual Essay Prize, presented March 31, 2005, at the SEA Conference in Alexandria: Elizabeth Maddock Dillon
Yale University
“Republican Theatricality and Transatlantic Empire”
Fifth Annual Essay Prize, presented March 27, 2004, at the Boston ASECS:
Brycchan Carey
Kingston University
“ ‘Accounts of Savage Nations’: The Spectator and the Americas”
Fourth Annual Essay Prize, presented April 10, 2003, at the SEA Conference in Providence:
Vincent Carretta
University of Maryland
“Who Was Francis Williams?”
Third Annual Essay Prize, presented April 5, 2002, at the Colorado Springs ASECS:
Laura M. Stevens
University of Tulsa
“The Anglican Quest for Compassion: American Indians and English Deists in the
Sermons of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts”
Second Annual Essay Prize, presented April 20, 2001, at the New Orleans ASECS:
Michael Zuckerman
University of Pennsylvania
“Some Asiatic Prince: Pride, Patriarchy, and the Problem of Generational Succession in the Early South”
First Annual Essay Prize, presented April 14, 2000, at the Philadelphia ASECS:
Eric Slauter
Stanford University
“Manners and Taste in the Making of the Constitution”
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