Philip Roth Studies

Executive Editor, Philip Roth Studies

Executive Editor

About

Derek Parker Royal is the founder of the Philip Roth Society as well as founding Executive Editor of its peer-reviewed journal, Philip Roth Studies.  His essays on American literature and comics/graphic novels have appeared in over 30 different scholarly journals and book collections, and he is the guest editor of 8 special issues of academic journals.  He is the editor of Philip Roth: New Perspectives on an American Author (Praeger, 2005), and the new book, Unfinalized Moments: Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish American Narrative, which will be published by Purdue University Press in December 2011.  He is currently working on a monograph concerning Philip Roth, More Than Jewish Mischief: Narrating Identity in Philip Roth's Later Fiction; a handbook on American Pastoral (with Patrick Badonnel and Daniel Royot, published by Atlande); and two projects for the University Press of Mississippi: a book of interviews with the Hernandez Brothers, and a collection of essays on the topic of race, ethnicity, and American comics.

Professional Website:
http://derekroyal.com

Curriculum Vitae:
http://derekroyal.com/vita.htm

Philip Roth Studies: http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/journals/prothstuds.html

Philip Roth Society:
http://rothsociety.org

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