Derek Parker Royal is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Johnson C. Smith University, USA and producer of The Comics Alternative podcast. He is the General Editor of the Bloomsbury Comics Studies Series, and his books include Visualizing Jewish Narrative: Jewish Comics and Graphic Novels (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016), Unfinalized Moments: Essays in the De elopement of Contemporary Jewish American Narrative (2012), and the forthcoming The Hernandez Brothers: Conversations.

Derek Parker Royal is Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University, Commerce. He has written numerous articles and book chapters on Roth and other topics, and he is the founder and president of the Philip Roth Society.