Early American Literature, published three times a year, is the journal of the Society of Early Americanists and of the MLA’s Forum on Early American Literature. Its province is American literature through the early national period (about 1830). Founded in 1965, EAL invites work treating Native American traditional expressions, colonial Ibero-American literature from North America, colonial American Francophone writings, Dutch colonial, and German American colonial literature as well as writings in English from British America and the US.
Editors:
Katy Chiles (University of Tennessee, kchiles1@utk.edu)
Cassander L. Smith (University of Alabama, clsmith17@ua.edu)
See the Early American Literature website for additional information.
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Table of Contents, Early American Literature
- Volume 61 (2026): 61.1
- Volume 60 (2025): 60.1; 60.2; 60.3
- Volume 59 (2024): 59.1; 59.2; 59.3
- Volume 58 (2023): 58.1; 58.2; 58.3
- Volume 57 (2022): 57.1; 57.2; 57.3
- Volume 56 (2021): 56.1; 56.2; 56.3
- Volume 55 (2022): 55.1; 55.2; 55.3
- Volume 54 (2019): 54.1; 54.2; 54.3
- Volume 53 (2018): 53.1; 53.2; 53.3
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Announcements
2026: Early American Literature Book Prize Nominations Sought
2025: Early American Literature Book Prize Nominations Sought
2024: Early American Literature Book Prize Nominations Sought
2022: Early American Literature Book Prize Nominations Sought
2021: Early American Literature 2021 Book Prize Announcement
2020: Early American Literature 2020 Book Prize Announcement
2019: Early American Literature 2019 Book Prize Announcement Early American Literature Podcast Launched
2018: Early American Literature 2018 Book Prize Announcement