Richard Squibbs

A literary historian and specialist in eighteenth-century British and early American literature, Professor Squibbs is author of Urban Enlightenment and the Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essay (Palgrave, 2014) and further work on Enlightenment periodicals in The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson (2022), The Cambridge History of the American Essay (2024), and Impolite Periodicals: Reading for Rudeness in the Eighteenth Century (Bucknell, 2026). He is writing a new monograph, Antagonizing the Novel: Picaresque, Comic Fiction, and the Road to the Bildungsroman, portions of which have appeared in ECF: Eighteenth-Century Fiction (2018, 2025), The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation (2019), and A Companion to the Spanish Picaresque Novel (Tamesis, 2​022).​​