David R. Shumway is Pro­fes­sor of Eng­lish, and Lit­er­ary and Cul­tur­al Stud­ies. He wrote Rock Star: The Mak­ing of Musi­cal Icons from Elvis to Spring­steen (2014), and con­tributed to The World of Bob Dylan (2021), The Cam­bridge Com­pan­ion to Bob Dylan, and The Cam­bridge Com­pan­ion to the The Singer-Songwriter.