Celebrate the US Semiquincentennial by reading Early American Literature. Every issue this year features special essays that ask: What does 1776 mean to early American literary studies in 2026? Join the conversation! The article featured here is “An Ecosystem View of 1776” from 61.1 of EAL.

★ June is Pride Month! ★ To celebrate this month, check out the following articles in Early American Literature. You can find them in issues 61.1, 59.3, and 58.2.

We are very excited to announce that our new Early American Literature podcast for 60.3, “Common Objects: Literary Materialism and the Early American Novel” is now live on platforms. In this podcast, the importance of objects in literature is discussed! Check it out: soundcloud.com/early-americ...

Congratulations to Jacob Myers @tallowbreeched.bsky.social, whose article “Keeping the Rat-Book: Marly and Visceral Histories of Jamaican Agriculture” won the ASECS Srinivas Aravamudan Prize and received the honorable mention distinction for the James L. Clifford Prize.

Congratulations to Jenny Marie Forsythe @jennymafo.bsky.social, whose article “Inca Garcilaso in Translation: Pierre Richelet's Histoire de la Floride (1670) and the Politics of Paraphrase” won the 2025 Richard Beale Davis Prize.

★April is Poetry History Month!★ To celebrate poetry, read the featured article "Between Pious Exegesis, Devotional Singing, and Property: Cotton Mather's Scriptural Poetry and Hymns" in Volume 60.3 of Early American Literature.

March is Women's History Month! Celebrate by reading the featured Early American Literature articles. You can find them in issues 59.3, 59.2, and 56.1.

We welcome the following colleagues, who have agreed to serve on our Editorial Board! @balkunma.bsky.social @benbascom.bsky.social @acalcaterra.bsky.social @tomkoenigs.bsky.social

We are currently collecting nominations for the 2026 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. @uncpress.bsky.social

Congratulations to Andrew Lipman on being awarded the 2025 EAL Book Prize! We also would like to congratulate the Book Prize's honorable mention Phillip Round and the short list of finalists: Anna Brickhouse, Brycchan Carey @brycchancarey.bsky.social and Russ Castronovo. @uncpress.bsky.social

Celebrate Black History Month by checking out the featured articles of Early American Literature! You can find them in issues 58.3, 59.2, and 60.3.

Early American Literature: Issue 61.1 is out now! This is a special issue, New Directions in Quaker Literary History, AND it also features a Special Essay Stream: What does 1776 mean to early American literary studies in 2026? For one month, this issue is freely accessible! muse.jhu.edu/issue/56402

NEW DIRECTIONS IN QUAKER LITERARY HISTORY a special issue of Early American Literature, inviting readers to see Quakers as central to early American studies and reflecting on what 1776 means to early American lit studies in 2026, is now available to read FREE for 1 month 👇 muse.jhu.edu/issue/56402

We are now accepting submissions for our upcoming special issue, Early American Literature: Translating Cultures. Abstracts must be submitted by May 1, 2026, for consideration. Submission information can be found on the last slide.

Early American Literature is proud of Lauren Santoru and Will Younts, Assistant Editors, for presenting their scholarship—on Native women's material culture and trans histories in Fettered for Life, respectively—at the 2025 Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference!

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!

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.

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 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

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!