James Rovira is a multigenre / multimodal freelance writer, scholar, and poet. His recent books include Reading as Democracy in Crisis: Interpretation, Theory, History (Lexington Books, 2019); Rock and Romanticism: Post-Punk, Goth, and Metal as Dark Romanticisms (Palgrave Macmillan, May 2018); Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2 (Lexington Books, February 2018)