Umberto Rossi is a literary critic, comics scholar, and secondary school teacher. He has published various articles on comics studies, science-fiction studies, and war literature. He is the author of two monographs: The Twisted Worlds of Philip K. Dick: A Reading of Twenty Ontologically Uncertain Novels (McFarland, 2011) and Il secolo di fuoco: Introduzione alla letteratura di guerra del Novecento (Bulzoni, 2008). He has also edited two collection of essays, one on Thomas Pynchon ( Dream Tonight of Peacock's Tails: Essays on the Fiftieth Anniversary of Thomas Pynchon's V. CSP, 2015) with Paolo Simonetti, one on Philip K. Dick ( Trasmigrazioni: I mondi di Philip K. Dick , Le Monnier, 2006) with Valerio Massimo De Angelis. He is a member of the ICLA Research Committee on Comics Studies and Graphic Narrative and the SFRA.