Dr. Rolls has taught writing and literature courses on various CUNY campuses as well as at Touro's Landers College for Men and NYSCAS. Early in his career, his research focused on the Early Modern period, mostly on Shakespeare's plays. He published The Theory of the King’s Two Bodies in the Age of Shakespeare (2000) and edited, in 2005, primary texts related to the Early Modern articulation of kings' two-bodies theory. He also published, with Harold Bloom, a collection of texts on Shakespeare's Henry V in 2011. His more recent work is grounded in the twentieth century, the most significant of which is related to the Post-45 US novel. He has published numerous articles on Thomas Pynchon as well as the monograph Thomas Pynchon: The Demon in the Text (2019).

Education

• BA, New York University
• PhD, National University of Ireland, Galway (now the University of Galway) 

Publications

• Rolls, A. (2019). Letters and Juvenilia. In I. H. Dalsgaard (Ed.), Thomas Pynchon in Context (pp. 15–22). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108683784.003

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