Daniel Worden teaches and writes about American art, comics, print, and visual cultures. He is a Professor of Art at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He also curates exhibits at RIT's Cary Graphic Arts Collection and is a founding Board Member of WNY Comic Arts, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that organizes the annual Rochester Indie Comics Expo. In 2026, he received the Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching at RIT,
He is the author of the Eisner-nominated Petrochemical Fantasies: The Art and Energy of American Comics, 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 has also edited The Comics of Joe Sacco: Journalism in a Visual World and The Comics of R. Crumb: Underground in the Art Museum, and he is the coeditor of New Directions in Print Culture Studies, 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.