What’s New/Announcements
Registration now open for 2025 Biennial Conference
Registration for the 2025 SEA Biennial Conference is now open. A current SEA membership is required for conference participation. In order to join the SEA or renew your membership, please go to https://uncpress.org/society-early-americanists-membership/. Once your membership is up-to-date, please go to https://sea2025.exordo.com/registration to register for the conference. Early registration ends on 15 May 2025. A…
SEA Featured Scholar, March 2025: Chip Badley
SEA Featured Scholar, March 2025: Chip Badley How did you become interested in studying early American literature? One is not born, but becomes an Early Americanist though any number of conversions. Mine was in 2017, when I attended my first SEA conference in Tulsa and realized just how energizing the “field” can be. I put…
2025 EAL Book Prize Nominations Sought
The editors of Early American Literature are pleased to announce the annual Early American Literature Book Prize, which will be given in 2025 for an author’s second or subsequent monograph about American literature in the colonial period through the early republic (roughly 1830). The prize is offered in collaboration with the University of North Carolina…
SEA Featured Scholar, December 2024: Travis Foster
SEA Featured Scholar, December 2024: Travis Foster How did you become interested in studying early American literature? I entered graduate school planning to study American modernism and, specifically, Willa Cather. Interest in Willa Cather led me back in time to Sarah Orne Jewett, and that initial jump back in time acquired a momentum of its…
Call for Nominations for EAL Editorial Board Members
Nominations Sought for Editorial Board of Early American Literature Deadline for nominations: December 9, 2024 Founded in 1965, Early American Literature is the official journal of both the Society of Early Americanists and the MLA’s Forum on Early American Literature. EAL’s province is American literature through the early national period (about 1830). Along with the…
Call for Nominations for SEA Executive Coordinator
Call for Nominations (including self-nominations) for the position of SEA Executive Coordinator The Society of Early Americanists announces our biennial election to choose our next Executive Coordinator (EC). Serving in this capacity requires a six-year commitment: after two years as Executive Coordinator, the successful candidate will serve for two years as Vice President and then two…
Junior Scholars’ Caucus Virtual Talk: “Journal Publishing: A Candid Conversation,” 15 October 2024
The Junior Scholars Caucus of the Society of Early Americanists invites you to attend a virtual talk, “Journal Publishing: A Candid Conversation with Early American Literature Editors Cassander Smith and Katy Chiles.” The event will be held via Zoom Tuesday, 15 October 2024, from 3-4 p.m. Central Time. Please RSVP to the event using the…
SEA Featured Scholar, September 2024: Joseph Rezek
SEA Featured Scholar, September 2024: Joseph Rezek How did you become interested in studying early American literature? I fell in love with Emerson and Thoreau my junior year in high school. I was coming out of the closet as gay at that time and they helped me, somehow. “Trust thyself!” Emerson said, and I thought……
Call for Papers: Fourteenth Biennial Conference of the Society of Early Americanists (5-8 June 2025)
The Fourteenth Biennial Conference of the Society of Early Americanists will convene on the campus of the University of Notre Dame, 5-8 June 2025. The Society of Early Americanists is seeking proposals for papers as well as complete panels, workshops, and roundtables by 13 December 2024. In order to submit a proposal, please visit https://sea2025.exordo.com/login…
SEA Featured Scholar, June 2024: Angela Calcaterra
SEA Featured Scholar, June 2024: Angela Calcaterra How did you become interested in studying early American literature? My interest in early America has always intersected with my interest in Indigenous literary histories. My undergraduate program was heavily focused on canonical British and American Literature, but I took a contemporary Native American literature class with Lucy…