Timothy Erwin (English) was named the Donald and Mary Hyde fellow at Harvard's Houghton library for 2012-13. He is conducting research on an 88-page manuscript drama by Richard Savage for a new book. He also was appointed to the editorial boards of Eighteenth-Century Life, a Duke Press journal, and the Huntington Library Quarterly, from the University of California Press. In March he was named editor of the book series Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture (Johns Hopkins University Press), a repeat performance as he held the same position from 1997 to 2001. He recently has seen into print a new article on Jane Austen, "Seeing and Being Seen in Northanger Abbey" in the collection Women, Popular Culture, and the Eighteenth Century (Toronto), and another on Samuel Johnson, "Sir John Hawkins on Richard Savage and the Profession of Authorship" in Reconsidering Biography(Bucknell). This month he will be speaking in Los Angeles at the annual meeting of the Jane Austen Society of America - Southwest on visual raillery in Austen.