Roy Scranton
Department of English
Associate Professor
- War literature
- World War 2
- American literature
- Climate change adaptation
- Philosophy of climate change
- Philosophy of literature
- The novel
- The Iraq war
- Veterans issue
- Environmental humanities
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The Boston Globe
OPINION: The world is getting hotter. Pessimism may be our only hope.
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
Misunderstood Malthus: The English thinker whose name is synonymous with doom and gloom has lessons for today
August 22, 2025
By Roy Scranton, Associate Professor of English, University of Notre Dame.
The New York Times
We Want a ‘New Normal.’ It’s Not in the Forecast.
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.”