Brian O’Roark is a university professor of economics at Robert Morris University, where he has won the President’s Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching and the School of Business Teaching Innovation Award. Additionally, he has won the Middle Atlantic Association of Colleges of Business Administration’s Undergraduate Teaching Innovation Award, and the Best in Class Teaching Award from the National Economics Teaching Association. Professor O'Roark's research focuses on teaching economics, including a series of articles on the role economic education plays on how members of Congress vote and various articles on teaching economics using superheroes. His list of books includes the textbook Essentials of Economics, published by W. W. Norton, Why Superman Doesn't Take Over the World: What Superheroes Can Tell Us About Economics, published by Oxford University Press, and Superheroes and Economics: The Shadowy World of Capes, Masks and Invisible Hands, published by Routledge Publishing. He is also a contributor to The Ultimate Guide for Principles of Economics, The Ultimate Instructor’s Resource Guide for Essentials of Economics, and Smartwork for Principles of Economics. Professor O'Roark is the new editor for the Journal of Economics Teaching and the editor for Routledge Publishing’s Economics and Popular Culture series.