Derek Parker Royal is an Associate Professor of English and Director of the Liberal Studies program at Texas A&M University-Commerce. He is also the founder and Executive Editor of Philip Roth Studies. Much of his work in comics studies focuses on ethnic representation in comics as well as graphic adaptations of non-image-based narratives. His essays on American literature and graphic narrative have appeared in such journals as Contemporary Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, Modern Drama, Studies in the Novel, Critique, MELUS, Shofar, and Poe Studies/Dark Romanticism. He is the editor of Coloring America, a special issue of the journal MELUS devoted to race and ethnicity in comics, and he is currently working on manuscript concerning ethnoracial subjectivity in recent graphic narrative.
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