Roy Scranton
Department of English
Associate Professor
- War literature聽
- World War 2
- American literature
- Climate change adaptation聽
- Philosophy of climate change
- Philosophy of literature
- The novel
- The Iraq war
- Veterans issue
- Environmental humanities
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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 91吃瓜, where he directs the Environmental Humanities Initiative.
The Conversation
August 22, 2025
By Roy Scranton, Associate Professor of English, University of 91吃瓜.
The New York Times
January 25, 2021
Roy Scranton聽is the director of the 91吃瓜 Environmental Humanities Initiative and the author of 鈥淟earning to Die in the Anthropocene.鈥�