Department of English
Associate Professor
The Boston Globe
January 12, 2026
Roy Scranton is an essayist, novelist, literary critic, climate philosopher, and author, most recently, of “Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress.” He teaches at the University of Notre Dame, where he directs the Environmental Humanities Initiative.
The Conversation
August 22, 2025
By Roy Scranton, Associate Professor of English, University of Notre Dame.
The New York Times
January 25, 2021
Roy Scranton is the director of the Notre Dame Environmental Humanities Initiative and the author of “Learning to Die in the Anthropocene.”