The purpose of SEA is to further the exchange of ideas & information among scholars who study the literature & culture of the early Americas.
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The Society of Early Americanists retweeted
@C19Podcast @C19Americanists @TheRealSEA This spring I interviewed Dr. Robert Gunn about teaching and writing on 18C and 19C American literature, as well as his book, Ethnology and Empire, which I assigned to my early American seminar. Check it out! youtu.be/woNnY88ycMo
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Check out our new call for conference reviews!
We seek reviewers for the following 2023 conferences. Scroll to find out what to review with more info on what a conference review is + who can review. 1/🧵
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New article!
Here, Emily Gowen examines how abortion appeared in the "paratexts" of the early US—footnotes, appendices, indexes, and margins—illuminating the hidden "textual practices through which information about reproductive health was disseminated."
insurrecthistory.com/archive…
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Dear @C19Americanists and @TheRealSEA members: Please consider submitting a proposal for a slate of panels on "Afterlives of Early American Literature" that I'm organizing for the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900 thelouisvilleconference.com
Friends: consider submitting an abstract for the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900!
Our terrific keynotes this year include Jennifer Egan, Stephanie Burt, Fernando Operé, and Merve Emre. More info at link; dm with questions!
thelouisvilleconference.com
The Society of Early Americanists retweeted
The sparkly new archive site for the Woman’s Literary Club of Baltimore is now live, with enhanced search capabilities and using the open-source #CollectionsBuilder platform. Explore, research, teach these women writers! wlcb.github.io/archive/
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#Reminder
Are you interested in 18th century anti-racist pedagogies, early Caribbean experiences and literature?
Make it a date with us!
Graduate students in attendance can receive free copies of the books. To qualify, please complete this form docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
The Society of Early Americanists retweeted
Calling all @SHEARites! SHEAR wants your feedback!
We've launched the first ever SHEAR Membership Survey to help us learn more about our members and provide valuable insight as we develop programming and design future initiatives.
Get the details at thepanorama.shear.org/2022/0….
The Society of Early Americanists retweeted
The draft program and registration site for the STS 2022 Conference are live! 🎉 Check out both here: textualsociety.org/2022-sts-….
The conference, themed "Cultural Mappings," will take place at Loyola University Chicago from May 26-28.🌎
The Society of Early Americanists retweeted
We have an open #CallForPapers #CFP here @CommonplaceJrnl and we'd love to read your work! 👍 Articles of approx. 2000 words on any topic relating to #VastEarlyAmerica before 1900 are very welcome. 📃 Please see more info about submitting here: commonplace.online/article/s…
The Society of Early Americanists retweeted
It's Tuesday!📆 You know what that means... we've published a new #Commonplace article! 🙌📰Check out "The Influences of the Underworld" by Brittney Ingersoll right here: commonplace.online/article/t… @AmAntiquarian @OIEAHC #VastEarlyAmerica #NewArticle
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Dr. Patrick Erben is a faculty member in the Department of English, Film, Languages, and Performing Arts at the University of West Georgia. He is the immediate past president of @TheRealSEA. One of his interests is the multilingual beginnings of early America.
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Please check out the CFP for "The Climate Crisis: Early Americanists Respond," a hybrid conference with multiple in-person hubs convening June 16-17 2022. Proposal deadline March 1. We'd love to hear from you! mceas.org/CFP-Climate-2022.p…
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Please join us over at the #JER and #JERPano in welcoming @ElenaTRyan to our editorial team! Learn more about Elena’s work below, and look out for some special projects she’ll be focused on in the coming months ⬇️
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Here's something to celebrate this holiday season! The winner of our 2021 Book Prize is Rodrigo Lazo, for his book Letters from Filadelfia: Early Latino Literature and the Trans-American Elite. Read the announcement here to learn more about this very deserving awardee.
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Announcing the long-awaited and well-deserved recipients of the 2020 Richard Davis Beale Prize: Courtney Chatellier & Drew Lopenzina! Read the prize statement in the following tweet.
The Society of Early Americanists retweeted
We are so grateful to our editorial board -- both outgoing and incoming! Thank you so much to our outgoing members Kathleen Donegan, Laura Stevens @lauramstevens , Edward Watts, and Edward White for all their hard, excellent work. And now...
The Society of Early Americanists retweeted
It is the day of the show, y'all!
Thrilled to announce that @ChronAmLOC is now live. Follow this fabulous feed & please help spread the NEWS! @RSAPeriodicals @SHARPorg @C19Americanists @CCP_org @TheRealSEA @OIEAHC @jgob @jimccasey1 @SarahHSalter @w758 @TradeCardCarl
Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Follow us @ChronAmLOC for updates on new content, the latest news about the National Digital Newspaper Program, compelling headlines from the past, history trivia, and more. chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/l…
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On this day in 1854, Henry David Thoreau published the book “Walden,” about his time living at Walden Pond. Read more about him in our historic newspaper archive. chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/l… #ChronAm #OTD
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Today marks the 500th anniversary of the invasion of Tenochtitlan, when a months-long siege by Cortés came to an end.
[Map of Tenochtitlan, 1525] collections.carli.illinois.e…
