About

Dr. James Rovira’s most recent books are the edited anthologies Women in Rock, Women in Romanticism (Routledge, 2022), David Bowie and Romanticism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), Reading as Democracy in Crisis: Interpretation, Theory, History (Lexington Books, 2019), Writing for College and Beyond (Lulu, 2019), Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2 (Lexington Books, 2018), Rock and Romanticism: Post-Punk, Goth, and Metal as Dark Romanticisms (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), and Blake and Kierkegaard: Creation and Anxiety (Bloomsbury, 2010). He has also published poetry, reviews, criticism, short fiction, and creative non-fiction, and has worked on a number of digital humanities projects.

James Rovira teaches literature and writing on Florida’s space coast and has over twenty years’ experience in higher education as an instructor, chair, program director, and in curriculum design. He is also a multigenre / multimodal freelance writer, scholar, and poet who lives in Merritt Island, FL with his wife Sheridan and their children Penn, Grace, and Zoe. He has four adult children named Joshua, Steven, Bethany, and Beka who live in the Central Florida area.

All opinions posted here are representative only of the views of James Rovira and not of any institution with which he is currently or has been affiliated. Comments are solely the opinions of those commenting and their presence on any page or blog entry does not represent endorsement of or agreement with those ideas by James Rovira. Conflicting opinions are welcome for the sake of open dialog and for the advancement of thinking about the issues considered on these pages.

The background image and site design rotates. One common one is a detail of Cynthia Morefield‘s Through Tears with some psycho-crazy alterations by my daughter Beka Rovira.

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