Dr. James Rovira is the author of Writing for College and Beyond (Lulu Press, 2019), Reading as Democracy in Crisis (Lexington Books, 2019), Rock and Romanticism: Post-Punk, Goth, and Metal as Dark Romanticisms (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2 (Lexington Books, 2018), and Blake and Kierkegaard: Creation and Anxiety (Bloomsbury, 2010). He is also the author of a number of reviews, articles, poems, short stories, and creative non-fiction. He currently lives on Florida's space coast with his wife and children. If you're a first year writing instructor and would like to consider any of my texts for your course, email me at jamesrovira (at) gmail (dot) com for a desk copy.