Submissions Guide
EAL welcomes scholarship treating the pre-1830 writings composed within or treating the circumstances of life in North America.
All submissions
must be in English, though they may treat works written in Spanish,
Dutch, German, French, or Native American languages. Comparative
studies between New World traditions are also welcome.
Scholarship
should be annotated in the new MLA style, described in The MLA
Style Manual (2008).
Authors must
secure permission for illustrations and quotations drawn from
proprietary sources such as unpublished manuscripts or Native American
heritage expressions. There is no set limit on the number of
illustrations that may accompany an article.
Manuscripts
should not exceed 40 pp. in length with notes and citations. When
preparing the manuscript, put your name and title on a separate title
sheet and omit it from the body of the essay.
Submissions may
be posted electronically to the editor at
Sandra.M.Gustafson.6@nd.edu in MSWord 97 (or subsequent versions)
or sent by regular mail to:
Dr. Sandra Gustafson
Early American Literature
Department of English
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Submissions are evaluated by the editorial board and the editor and take approximately two months to process.