Featured Scholars

SEA Scholar of the Month for June 2020: Thomas Hallock How did you become interested in studying early American literature?  I love oddities, asking “how does this text work?” As

SEA Junior Scholar of the Month for May 2020: Kade Ivy   How did you become interested in studying early American literature?  I’ve always been drawn to the history and

SEA Scholar of the Month for February 2020: Sandra Gustafson How did you become interested in studying early American literature?  During my undergraduate years at Cornell, I specialized in Romanticism

SEA Junior Scholar of the Month for January 2020: Jay David Miller How did you become interested in studying early American literature?  I became interested in the field fairly quickly

SEA Junior Scholar of the Month for December 2019: Blevin Shelnutt How did you become interested in studying early American literature? During an undergrad class on nineteenth-century American fiction, I

SEA Scholar of the Month for October 2019: Lucas Hardy How did you become interested in studying early American literature? I became interested in early American studies when I enrolled

SEA Scholar of the Month for September 2019: James M. Greene How did you become interested in studying early American literature?  As an undergrad, I read one of Greil Marcus’s

SEA Junior Scholar of the Month for September 2019: Michael Monescalchi How did you become interested in studying early American literature? In the summer before my sophomore year at SUNY-Albany,

SEA Scholar of the Month for August 2019: Patrick Erben How did you become interested in studying early American literature? Like many Germans, I grew up sharing a fascination with