“Local Linguistics and Indigenous Cosmologies of the Early Eighteenth Century Atlantic World”
Sarah Rivett is Associate Professor of English at Princeton University. Her first book, The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England (2011) was awarded the Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church History. Rivett’s current book, Unscripted America: Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation, explores the impact of New World language encounters between indigenous and European populations on Enlightenment language philosophy and early American literary history. Rivett is also writing The New Cambridge Introduction to the Literature of Early America. Additionally, she has co-edited a volume of essays on Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas (2014). Her articles have appeared in PMLA, American Literary History, Early American Literature, The William and Mary Quarterly, and Early American Studies.