Roy Scranton

Roy Scranton is an Associate Professor of English and Director of the Environmental Humanities Initiative (EHUM) at the University of Notre Dame. His work bridges environmental studies, war literature, and postcolonial theory. He holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University, with prior roles including Visiting Scholar at USC and Postdoctoral Fellow at Rice University's CENHS.

• Education: Ph.D. (Princeton), M.A. (New School for Social Research), B.A. (New School University)
• Research: Focus on climate change, the Anthropocene, and the intersection of war and literature
• Publications: Author of Impasse (2025), Learning to Die in the Anthropocene (2015), and editor of Fire and Forget (2013)

Key awards include the 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship and the 2017 Lannan Literary Fellowship. His writing appears in New York Times, Rolling Stone, and MIT Technology Review. He advises undergraduate and MFA students, teaches courses like Postcolonial Anthropocene, and co-leads the Witnessing Climate Change initiative.

Scientific contributions include critiques of climate narratives and explorations of ethical pessimism. He has lectured globally on climate communication and the Anthropocene.