John Owen Havard is Assistant Professor at Binghamton University and received his PhD from the University of Chicago. His articles and essays have appeared in ELH, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Contemporary Literature and in the volumes Sterne, Tristram, Yorick: Tercentenary Essays on Laurence Sterne and Byron: The Poetry of Politics and the Politics of Poetry. His reviews and review essays have appeared in The Scriblerian, Eighteenth-Century Studies, The New Rambler, and the English Historical Review. He has received fellowships from the British Association for American Studies, the Whiting Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the NEH.