Early American Literature
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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 is seeking nominations for editorial board members. Please fill out this Google form by December 12th to nominate yourself or someone else. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
EAL is seeking nominations for editorial board members. Please fill out this Google form by December 12th to nominate yourself or someone else. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Early American Literature Issue 60.3 is now available digitally and in print. Keep swiping for more information!
November 18, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Early American Literature Issue 60.3 is now available digitally and in print. Keep swiping for more information!
Celebrate Native American Heritage Month by checking out Conversation: "Breathing Life into Language": Indigenous Language Work, Archives, and Community. You can find it in EAL 59.3. Check out EAL regularly for scholarship on early Native American and Indigenous Studies literary scholarship!
November 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Celebrate Native American Heritage Month by checking out Conversation: "Breathing Life into Language": Indigenous Language Work, Archives, and Community. You can find it in EAL 59.3. Check out EAL regularly for scholarship on early Native American and Indigenous Studies literary scholarship!
The Editorial Team for Early American Literature is thrilled to welcome William-Claire Younts as the new Assistant Editor, Julius “Israel” Lawton as the new Editorial Assistant for Reviews, Melanie Werner as a new Digital Media Editor, and Kingston Trice as a new Digital Media Editor.
October 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
The Editorial Team for Early American Literature is thrilled to welcome William-Claire Younts as the new Assistant Editor, Julius “Israel” Lawton as the new Editorial Assistant for Reviews, Melanie Werner as a new Digital Media Editor, and Kingston Trice as a new Digital Media Editor.
We’re very excited to announce that our newest Early American Literature podcast episode for 60.2, “‘Federalism in Fidelity’: Samuel Relf, the Early American Novel, and the Limits of Textual Representation” is now live!
You can listen to this podcast here: soundcloud.com/early-americ...
You can listen to this podcast here: soundcloud.com/early-americ...
October 22, 2025 at 11:53 PM
We’re very excited to announce that our newest Early American Literature podcast episode for 60.2, “‘Federalism in Fidelity’: Samuel Relf, the Early American Novel, and the Limits of Textual Representation” is now live!
You can listen to this podcast here: soundcloud.com/early-americ...
You can listen to this podcast here: soundcloud.com/early-americ...
Early American Literature Issue 60.2 is now available digitally and in print. Keep swiping to learn more!
October 15, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Early American Literature Issue 60.2 is now available digitally and in print. Keep swiping to learn more!
Congratulations to Ellen Malenas Ledoux and Leopold Lippert, who each received honorable mentions for “‘My Dear Children’: Gender Variance, Parenthood, and Deborah Sampson’s Post-Revolutionary Work” and “The Sexual and Racial Politics of Intimacy in Thomas A. Digges’s Adventures of Alonso (1775).”
May 28, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Congratulations to Ellen Malenas Ledoux and Leopold Lippert, who each received honorable mentions for “‘My Dear Children’: Gender Variance, Parenthood, and Deborah Sampson’s Post-Revolutionary Work” and “The Sexual and Racial Politics of Intimacy in Thomas A. Digges’s Adventures of Alonso (1775).”
Congratulations to Elizabeth A. Bohls, whose essay “John Marrant’s Nova Scotia Journal Writes Displaced Communities” won the 2024 Richard Beale Davis Prize.
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May 28, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Congratulations to Elizabeth A. Bohls, whose essay “John Marrant’s Nova Scotia Journal Writes Displaced Communities” won the 2024 Richard Beale Davis Prize.
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We’re excited to announce that our newest Early American Literature podcast episode, "'Mouth and Toes': Reframing Ability in Early America" is now live!
Listen here: soundcloud.com/early-americ...
Listen here: soundcloud.com/early-americ...
May 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
We’re excited to announce that our newest Early American Literature podcast episode, "'Mouth and Toes': Reframing Ability in Early America" is now live!
Listen here: soundcloud.com/early-americ...
Listen here: soundcloud.com/early-americ...
Early American Literature Issue 60.1 is now available digitally and in print. Keep swiping to learn more!
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March 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Early American Literature Issue 60.1 is now available digitally and in print. Keep swiping to learn more!
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We welcome the following colleagues, who have agreed to serve on our Editorial Board beginning January 2025!
Tara A. Bynum (UIowa), Daniel Diez Couch (US Air Force Academy), Nan Goodman (CU Boulder), Betsy Klima (UMass Boston), Jordan Stein (Fordham), and Kathryn Walkiewicz (UCSD).
Tara A. Bynum (UIowa), Daniel Diez Couch (US Air Force Academy), Nan Goodman (CU Boulder), Betsy Klima (UMass Boston), Jordan Stein (Fordham), and Kathryn Walkiewicz (UCSD).
March 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
We welcome the following colleagues, who have agreed to serve on our Editorial Board beginning January 2025!
Tara A. Bynum (UIowa), Daniel Diez Couch (US Air Force Academy), Nan Goodman (CU Boulder), Betsy Klima (UMass Boston), Jordan Stein (Fordham), and Kathryn Walkiewicz (UCSD).
Tara A. Bynum (UIowa), Daniel Diez Couch (US Air Force Academy), Nan Goodman (CU Boulder), Betsy Klima (UMass Boston), Jordan Stein (Fordham), and Kathryn Walkiewicz (UCSD).
We are currently collecting nominations for the 2025 EAL Book Prize. Please email ealassistanteditor@gmail.com with the author’s name, book title, and webpage URL/link with book description by March 31 for consideration.
#earlyamericanliterature #bookprize #nominations
#earlyamericanliterature #bookprize #nominations
February 21, 2025 at 12:54 PM
We are currently collecting nominations for the 2025 EAL Book Prize. Please email ealassistanteditor@gmail.com with the author’s name, book title, and webpage URL/link with book description by March 31 for consideration.
#earlyamericanliterature #bookprize #nominations
#earlyamericanliterature #bookprize #nominations
Our newest podcast episode, “‘meetinghouse’: Where Education and Community Harmonize,” is live!
Join Digital Media Editor Autumn Hall in conversation with Brece Honeycutt and Miriam Cantor-Stone as they explore their collaborative piece “meetinghouse.”
Listen here: soundcloud.com/early-americ...
Join Digital Media Editor Autumn Hall in conversation with Brece Honeycutt and Miriam Cantor-Stone as they explore their collaborative piece “meetinghouse.”
Listen here: soundcloud.com/early-americ...
January 30, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Our newest podcast episode, “‘meetinghouse’: Where Education and Community Harmonize,” is live!
Join Digital Media Editor Autumn Hall in conversation with Brece Honeycutt and Miriam Cantor-Stone as they explore their collaborative piece “meetinghouse.”
Listen here: soundcloud.com/early-americ...
Join Digital Media Editor Autumn Hall in conversation with Brece Honeycutt and Miriam Cantor-Stone as they explore their collaborative piece “meetinghouse.”
Listen here: soundcloud.com/early-americ...
Early American Literature Issue 59.3 is now available digitally and in print. Keep swiping to learn more!
January 30, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Early American Literature Issue 59.3 is now available digitally and in print. Keep swiping to learn more!