This SEA-sponsored panel invites contributions from those working on any project that highlights the diverse prospects and possibilities of an early American Environmental Humanities (EH) now. Ideally the panel would represent a diverse range of topics, texts, theoretical models, and methodological approaches.
The panel builds on three earlier SEA-sponsored panels at ASLE (at UMD in 2025, Portland in 2023, and UC Davis in 2019, where Lauren LaFauci chaired the original panel, “Before the Anthropocene? Placing Early America in Environmental Humanities”). The current panel seeks …