Daniel Worden teaches and writes about American art, print, and visual cultures. He is an Associate Professor in the College of Art & Design at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
He is the author of Neoliberal Nonfictions: The Documentary Aesthetic from Joan Didion to Jay-Z and Masculine Style: The American West and Literary Modernism, which received the Thomas J. Lyon Book Award in Western American Literary and Cultural Studies. He is the editor of The Comics of Joe Sacco: Journalism in a Visual World and The Comics of R. Crumb: Underground in the Art Museum, and the coeditor of Oil Culture and Postmodern/Postwar--and After.
Daniel’s work on American culture, comics, literature, art, film, television, and the environment has appeared in a number of academic journals and edited volumes, and his teaching interests cover a range of topics in cultural studies and critical theory.