Professor LeAnne Howe Delivers Plenary Talk at The 50th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 

The 50th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (SEASECS) was held February 29 to March 2, 2024 on the campus of Furman University in Greenville, SC. The theme was “Ties that Bind: Reflections on the Past and Future of Eighteenth-Century Studies.” Plenary speakers were LeAnne Howe, Eidson Distinguished Professor at the University of Georgia and member of the Choctaw Nation, and Carolyn Day, Associate Professor of History at Furman University. 

Professor Howe's talk was about the ten years she spent researching in libraries such as The Smithsonian, The Newberry Library, the Mississippi Provincial Archives, and French Dominion in Jackson, Mississippi, and at several other libraries around the country in order to write Shell Shaker, her critically acclaimed first novel. Covering 200 years of Native American history, Howe's novel focuses on the lives of the fictional Billy family in Oklahoma.