James J Rovira

"Every thing that lives is holy" -- William Blake

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My message for #blackhistorymonth #2026

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Testing this thing.

It works!

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ZEUS!

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My new screenplay...

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Women in Rock, Women in Romanticism

My seventh book and my most recently published book is Women in Rock, Women in Romanticism (Routledge 2023). It explores contemporary women musicians and artists as modern day Romantics in an eighteenth/nineteenth-century sense of the word. Check out the video below for more details. This is the last of my posts covering my previously published books. Look forward to more in the coming…

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David Bowie and Romanticism

A short video and blurb about my sixth book, David Bowie and Romanticism, which explores David Bowie as a Romantic in relationship to his space imagery, drug use, androgynous sexual identity, celebrity culture, the Berlin Trilogy, fascism, and the films Labyrinth and The Man Who Fell to Earth. More details in the video…

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Antifa Doesn't Exist

Someone posted this question to Quora: “Is Antifa left-wing fascism?” Here’s my response: haha. First and most importantly, “Antifa” doesn’t exist. There is no organization called “Antifa.” There is no organized leadership structure for a formal or informal organization called “Antifa.” The word “antifa” is just an umbrella term used by the FBI [1] to describe any large number of anti-fascist…

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Reading as Democracy in Crisis: Interpretation, Theory, History

As I mentioned in my previous post, I may have as many as four new books come out over the next year to eighteen months, so ahead of being caught up in all of that I thought I would record short videos about my previous books. My second book is Reading as Democracy in Crisis: Interpretation, Theory, History, published originally by Lexington Books, then a subsidiary of Rowman & Littlefield, but…

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Blake and Kierkegaard: Creation and Anxiety

I may have up to four different book projects coming out in the next twelve to eighteen months, so before getting caught up in all of those, I thought I’d post some short videos about my already published books, starting with the first, Blake and Kierkegaard: Creation and Anxiety. First, I have a relatively short (10 minute) video up about the book on TikTok. @jamesrovira571 Description of my…

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At the #nokingsday rally #cocoa #fl

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David Bowie, Jazz, and Literature

I’m very pleased to have received in the mail yesterday my copy of Jazz and Literature: An Introduction edited by Maria Antonia Lima and Mia Funk. I connected to this project through Antonia and was fortunate enough to recruit Allen Michie and William Levine for it, who both contributed great chapters. My chapter explores the connections among jazz, the songs “Tis a Pity She’s a Whore” and “Sue”…

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Why You Need to Vote Democrat to Save Palestinians

My stance on the issue: I don’t care about Israelis. I don’t care about Palestinians. I care about human beings, and I don’t want any of them killing any others in any numbers for any reason. So if the October 7th Palestinian attacks that killed about 1200 Israelis could be plausibly called a genocide by the Israeli government, there’s no question that the Israeli response which has killed over…

Why You Need to Vote Democrat to Save Palestinians

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Fascism Then and Now

“When and if fascism comes to America it will not be labeled ‘made in Germany’; it will not be marked with a swastika; it will not even be called fascism; it will be called, of course, ‘Americanism.’”-Prof. Harvard E. Luccok, Yale Divinity School. 1938 “Make America great again!”-Donald Trump We need to keep calling Donald Trump a fascist because he is. He lied and continues to lie about the…

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Call for Papers for a new collection of David Bowie essays.

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2017

2017 love is stronger than death faith is stronger than sin truth is stronger than lies hope is stronger than fear life is stronger than denial love is stronger than death and every thing that lives is holy.

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David. Bowie. Is.CFP, AnthologySamuel Gladden and James Rovira, editors2024 As the ten-year anniversary of the shocking death of superstar David Bowie approaches, the time is ripe for a critical re…