Scott C. McDaniel

Scott McDaniel is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Appalachian Studies in the Department of English.

His research is interdisciplinary and focuses on the intersection of Appalachian Studies, the environmental humanities, continental philosophy, and critical geography. He is currently working on a book project which proposes an existential and ecocritical reimagining of Appalachian poetry and religion around the concept of “creaturely flesh.”

He has recently guest edited a special topics issue on “Planetary Thinking [] Appalachia” for the Critical Humanities journal, and his work can also be found in the forthcoming books Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: Concepts and Applications; A New American Vein; and Entanglements: Place-Based Literatures for Ecological Liberation.

He holds affiliate appointments in the Appalachian Studies program and Religion program.