Professor O'Rourke has previously published essays on the intercultural contexts of "Spider-Man in India" (with Pravin A. Rodrigues) and the epideictic rhetoric of the Superman origin in "The Man of Steel" (with Morgan B. O'Rourke). Pravin A. Rodrigues, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Ashland University, Ohio, grew up immersed in Indian, British and American comics. Comics constructed the fantastic worlds he resided in during his childhood and nourished the idealism of his youth. His research interests include intercultural communication, rhetoric, and the Asian Indian identity.