Scott Hicks (he/him/his) is professor of English and member of the Esther G. Maynor
Honors College and Willam Howard Dean Graduate School faculties at UNCP. A graduate
of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Vanderbilt University, he teaches
courses in African American literature, environmental literature, first-year composition,
and humanities.
With Jane Haladay, he is 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 American Literary History,Arizona Quarterly, Callaloo, Environmental Humanities, Alan G. Braddock and Laura Turner Igoe's A Greene Country Towne: Philadelphia, Ecology and the Material Imagination, Honors in Practice, IJEP: International Journal of ePortfolio, International Journal for Students as Partners, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature & Environment, Journal of American Studies, Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, Deborah Plant's New Critical Essays on Zora Neale Hurston, North Carolina Literary Review, Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities, Laurie Grobman and Roberta Rosenberg's Service Learning and Literary Studies in English, Studies in Oral History, Sustainability & Climate Change, 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 is committed to the work of scholarly teaching, exemplified by his election to
the POD Network Core Committee from 2024 to 2027, selection to the Mellon Foundation
Civic Engagement & Voting Rights Teacher Scholars program in 2024, and participation
in the MLA Institute on Reading & Writing at Access-oriented Institutions in 2023.
He has won awards at UNCP for excellence in teaching and service-learning, including
the American Indian Heritage Center’s Outstanding Allyship Award in 2022 and the Adolph
L. Dial Award for Scholarship/Creative Work in 2023. He served as chair of UNCP's
Faculty Senate from 2014 to 2016 and director of the Teaching & Learning Center from
2017 to 2024.
