About

Scott Hicks, Ph.D., is professor of English and member of the Esther G. Maynor Honors College faculty at the University of North Carolina, Pembroke. A graduate of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Vanderbilt University, he teaches classes in African American literature, environmental literature, first-year composition, and the humanities. With Jane Haladay, he is the co-editor of Narratives of Educating for Sustainability in Unsustainable Environments (Michigan State University Press, 2017). His research on African American and environmental literatures, teaching, and service-learning appears in Arizona Quarterly; Callaloo; Environmental Humanities; Alan G. Braddock and Laura Turner Igoe's A Greene Country Towne: Philadelphia, Ecology, and the Material Imagination; ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature & Environment; Deborah Plant's New Critical Essays on Zora Neale Hurston; North Carolina Literary Review; Laurie Grobman and Roberta Rosenberg's Service Learning and Literary Studies in English; Amy Schrager Lang and Cecelia Tichi's What Democracy Looks Like: A New Critical Realism for a Post-Seattle World; and Christina Robertson and Jennifer Westerman's Working on Earth: Class and Environmental Justice. He has won awards at UNCP for excellence in teaching and service-learning, and he served as chair of UNCP's faculty senate from 2014 to 2016.