SEA Featured Scholar, July 2026: Abram Van Engen How did you become interested in studying early American literature/culture? When I began graduate school, I wanted to study twentieth-century poetry and
SEA Featured Scholar, March 2026: Anthony Trujillo How did you become interested in studying early American literature/culture? I grew up in one of the Native Pueblos in Northern New Mexico
Please join the Scholarly Engagement and Access Committee (SEAC) on April 3, 2026 at 1:30 p.m. EDT for an online discussion of Dean Spade’s Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This
Early American Literature is now accepting nominations for its 2026 Book Prize! The EAL Book Prize is awarded in even calendar years to a first monograph published in the prior two years, and
The Society of Early Americanists seeks submissions for its 2027 biennial conference, to be held in Chicago, March 18-20, 2027. We welcome proposals for individual papers and fully constituted panels,
The deadline for submission to the Biennial Essay Competition has been extended to February 6, 2026. Please submit your entries as an email attachment to SEAEssayContest@gmail.com. All papers presented at our
The Society of Early Americanists seeks proposals for panel streams for the 2027 biennial conference, to be held in Chicago, March 18-20, 2027. SEA has featured panel streams at conferences
The Society of Early Americanists seeks proposals for the 2027 Common Reading Initiative. Begun in 2021, the Common Reading Initiative aims to create a community of teachers and learners around
SEA Featured Scholar, December 2025: Caroline Wigginton How did you become interested in studying early American literature? I began my doctoral program with an interest in twentieth-century transatlantic fiction and
