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...

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).”

Congratulations to Elizabeth A. Bohls, whose essay “John Marrant’s Nova Scotia Journal Writes Displaced Communities” won the 2024 Richard Beale Davis Prize. @uncpress.bsky.social

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...

Early American Literature Issue 60.1 is now available digitally and in print. Keep swiping to learn more! @uncpress.bsky.social

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).

We are currently collecting nominations for the 2025 EAL Book Prize. Please email [email protected] with the author’s name, book title, and webpage URL/link with book description by March 31 for consideration. #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...

Early American Literature Issue 59.3 is now available digitally and in print. Keep swiping to learn more!