When Margaret Fuller left New York for Europe in August of 1846, many of her contemporaries assumed that she had abandoned the United States permanently and that her dispatches from London, Paris, and revolutionary Rome signalled her turn away from a national agenda in literature and criticism. The fact that Fuller herself never returned to American shores has led scholars to conclude that the body of her journalistic work overseas, like her physical body, could not be ‘repatriated’. In this chapter, I contend that Fuller's continuous participation in the work of making American culture at home and abroad marks her as a writer who was at once emphatically national and deliberately transnational. By practising a form of journalism that she described as ‘conversational’, she modelled for her readers the kind of creative transnational exchange that she believed could strengthen American democracy. The very criteria that have been used since the 1840s to exclude Fuller from the American literary canon – her commitment to foreign literatures, her belief in the moral value of a cosmopolitan viewpoint, and her faith in journalism as a means to reach the entire nation at once – argue most strongly for her reinscription into a recognisably American tradition of internationalist thought.