Roy Scranton

Author, We're Doomed. Now What?

Roy Scranton is the author of We're Doomed. Now What?War Porn and Learning to Die in the Anthropocene. He is the co-editor of Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War. Scranton's journalism, essays and fiction have been published in The NationRolling StoneThe New York TimesBoston Review and elsewhere. 

He holds a Ph.D. in English from Princeton and an M.A. from the New School for Social Research and teaches in the Department of English at the University of Notre Dame.

Photo credit: Hannah Dunphy

Recordings

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Storytelling Through the Climate Crisis

May 15, 2020
How are writers using stories to help readers – and themselves – process the experience of climate change? Author Jenny Offill felt a “creeping sense…
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We're Doomed. Now What?

July 11, 2018
Can changing our consciousness hold off the climate apocalypse? When we think about the enormity of climate change and what it’s doing to our planet,…