Rate My Professor John Havard

Havard's scholarly work focuses on hemispheric American studies and religious studies, particularly within early American literature. He authored the monograph Hispanicisms and Early U.S. Literature: Spain, Mexico, Cuba, and the Origins of U.S. National Identity (University of Alabama Press, 2018) and co-edited Spain, the United States, and Transatlantic Literary Culture throughout the Nineteenth Century (Routledge, 2021). Notable publications include articles such as “William Apess, Religious Liberty, and the Conversion Narrative” in Prose Studies (2022), “Herman Melville’s ‘Benito Cereno’: Anti-Catholicism, Religious Freedom, and Liberalism” in Comparative American Studies (2019), “Mary Peabody Mann’s Juanita and Martin R. Delany’s Blake: Cuba, Urban Slavery, and the Construction of Nation” in College Literature (2016), and a chapter “Slavery and the Emergence of the African-American Novel” in The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature (2016). Among his honors are the William H. Gilman Memorial Prize for Outstanding Ph.D. Graduate in English from the University of Rochester (2012), Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society induction (2015), and a Professional Improvement Leave from Auburn University at Montgomery (2018). Havard has contributed to university governance as Chair of the University Chairs and Directors Assembly (2023-2024) and through various faculty committees.