• Editor's Note
• Marion Rust

It's prize season at EAL and we have lots to report!

The Early American Literature Book Prize for 2022 has been awarded to Wendy Raphael Roberts, Associate Professor of English at the University at Albany, SUNY, for Awakening Verse: The Poetics of Early American Evangelicalism, published by Oxford University Press in 2020. A full statement regarding this award can be found on page 317 of this issue. Congratulations, Professor Roberts!

The Modern Language Association Forum on Early American Literature has awarded the 2021 Richard Beale Davis prize for the best essay to appear in Early American Literature in that year to Stacey Dearing, Teaching Assistant Professor of English at Siena College, for "Remembering Dorothy May Bradford's Death and Reframing 'Depression' in Colonial New England" (vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 75–104). A full statement regarding this award can be found on page 319 of this issue. Congratulations, Professor Dearing!

The American Literature Society has awarded the 1921 Prize for best essay in any field of American literature (untenured category, cowinner) to Camille S. Owens, PhD candidate in African American Studies and American Studies at Yale University, for "'I, Young in Life': Phillis Wheatley and the Invention of American Childhood," which appeared in the special issue coedited by Tara A. Bynum, Brigitte Fielder, and Cassander L. Smith titled "'Dear Sister': Phillis Wheatley's Futures" (vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 727–49). Congratulations, Camille S. Owens!

In further developments at Early American Literature, our anonymous demographic questionnaire is now live. The questionnaire was created by myself and the next journal editors, Cassander L. Smith and Katy Chiles, as well as our Assistant Editor, Alex Gergely. Many people worked on it, including members of our Editorial Board, the MLA Forum on Early American Literature, and the Society of Early Americanists Council of Officers. Authors who submit essays to the journal will now receive an automatic invitation to fill out the questionnaire. Completion of the questionnaire has absolutely no bearing on the review of the submission, and data is only collected in the aggregate, without reference to individual submissions. The [End Page 321] goal of this questionnaire is to gather anonymized data about scholars who submit to this journal in order to make EAL as equitable as possible by enacting antiracist, inclusive practices in our submission process.

And now to a brief commentary on the contents of this issue. A useful keyword linking the essays published in volume 58, no. 2, comes from one essay: Rochelle Raineri Zuck's "William Apess's Indian Nullification: Narrating Mashpee Wampanoag Sovereignty in Nineteenth-Century America and Beyond" (395–422). The term is "transformative practice" (395). For Zuck, the concept of "nullification" as practiced in William Apess's treatise can be characterized as a transformative practice because it offers authors and readers an alternative means to exert claims not recognized in treaties or other official mechanisms of white settler colonialism. As such, Apess's account reappropriates mechanisms such as the 1780 Massachusetts Constitution to "leverage new political possibilities" for the Mashpee Wampanoags (395).

In Jennifer Putzi's "Charity Bryant and the Queer Affordances of the Early American Acrostic," the overlooked genre of acrostic poetry becomes the site of another transformative practice by means of its "queer affordances" (363). As employed in the context of early American women's same-sex relationships—represented by Charity Bryant, her partner Sylvia Drake, and a wider circle of women engaged in the circulation of manuscripts—these affordances occur through "composition and circulation practices" that "refuse the isolation of the female subject in the heterosexual pair" (363). The acrostics Putzi discusses "normalize same-sex relationships, making them legible and preserving them for posterity" (363).

In "How Is a Rebus Like a Time Machine?," "Archives" contributor Paul Lewis attends to another such overlooked form: rebuses, or "puzzle poems," and in particular "orphan rebuses" that went unsolved in their own time (425). Lewis draws his material from the poems anthologized in The Citizen Poets of Boston: A Collection of Forgotten Poems, 1789–1820 (ed. Lewis, UP of New England, 2016). This is Lewis's second Early American Literature Archives essay based on the Boston Poems Project, the work...

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• 马里昂·鲁斯特

现在是EAL的颁奖季，我们有很多要报告的！

2022 年美国早期文学图书奖授予纽约州立大学奥尔巴尼大学英语系副教授温迪·拉斐尔·罗伯茨 (Wendy Raphael Roberts)，其作品《觉醒诗歌：早期美国福音派的诗学》(Awakening Verse: The Poetics of Early American Evangelicalism)，由牛津大学出版社于 2020 年出版。 完整声明有关该奖项的信息可参见本期第317页。恭喜罗伯茨教授！

现代语言协会早期美国文学论坛将 2021 年早期美国文学最佳论文奖授予锡耶纳学院英语助教史黛西·迪林 (Stacey Dearing)，其论文《纪念多萝西·梅·布拉德福德 (Dorothy May Bradford) 之死》以及重新定义新英格兰殖民地的“抑郁症”（第 56 卷，第 1 期，第 75-104 页）。有关该奖项的完整声明请参见本期第 319 页。恭喜迪林教授！

美国文学协会将 1921 年美国文学各个领域的最佳论文奖（非终身教授奖，并列获奖者）授予耶鲁大学非裔美国人研究和美国研究博士候选人卡米尔·S·欧文斯 (Camille S. Owens)，其获奖作品为《我，青年》生活’：菲利斯·惠特利和美国童年的发明”，出现在塔拉·A·拜纳姆、布丽吉特·菲尔德和卡桑德·L·史密斯合编的特刊中，题为“‘亲爱的姐妹’：菲利斯·惠特利的未来”（第 57 卷，第 3 期，第 727-49 页）。恭喜卡米尔·S·欧文斯！

在早期美国文学的进一步发展中，我们的匿名人口统计调查问卷现已上线。该调查问卷是由我本人和下一任期刊编辑 Cassander L. Smith 和 Katy Chiles 以及我们的助理编辑 Alex Gergely 创建的。许多人都参与其中，包括我们的编辑委员会、MLA 早期美国文学论坛和早期美国主义者协会官员理事会的成员。向期刊提交论文的作者现在将收到自动填写调查问卷的邀请。问卷的填写完全不影响提交材料的审核，数据只是汇总收集，不参考个人提交的材料。[完第321页]本调查问卷的目的是收集向本期刊提交论文的学者的匿名数据，以便通过在我们的提交过程中制定反种族主义、包容性的做法，使EAL尽可能公平。

现就本期内容进行简要评述。一个有用的关键字，链接第 58 卷第 1 号中发表的文章。2，来自一篇文章：罗谢尔·雷内里·扎克（Rochelle Raineri Zuck）的《威廉·阿佩斯的印第安人废除：叙述十九世纪美国及以后的马什皮·万帕诺亚格主权》（395 –422）。这个术语是“变革性实践”（395）。对于扎克来说，威廉·阿佩斯论文中实践的“无效”概念可以被描述为一种变革性实践，因为它为作者和读者提供了一种替代手段来提出白人定居者殖民主义条约或其他官方机制中未认可的主张。因此，Apess 的叙述重新利用了 1780 年马萨诸塞州宪法等机制，为马什皮·万帕诺亚格人“利用新的政治可能性”（395）。

在詹妮弗·普茨（Jennifer Putzi）的《慈善·布莱恩特（Charity Bryant）和美国早期离合诗的酷儿启示》中，被忽视的离合诗体通过其“酷儿启示”成为另一种变革性实践的场所（363）。正如在早期美国女性同性关系的背景下所采用的那样——以查丽蒂·布莱恩特、她的伴侣西尔维娅·德雷克以及更广泛的从事手稿流通的女性圈子为代表——这些可供性是通过“写作和流通实践”而发生的，这些实践“拒绝”异性恋中女性主体的孤立”（363）。普茨的离合诗讨论了“使同性关系正常化，使它们清晰可见并为子孙后代保存”（363）。

在“画谜如何像时间机器？”中，《档案》撰稿人保罗·刘易斯关注了另一种被忽视的形式：画谜，或“谜题诗”，特别是在他们自己的时代没有解决的“孤儿画谜”（425） ）。刘易斯从《波士顿公民诗人：被遗忘的诗歌集，1789-1820》（Lewis 编辑，新英格兰大学，2016 年）中的诗选中汲取素材。这是刘易斯基于波士顿诗歌项目的第二篇早期美国文学档案文章，该作品......