Rate My Professor Damien Picariello

Picariello has contributed significantly to scholarship at the intersection of political thought and popular culture through his editorial work. He edited The Western and Political Thought: A Fistful of Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), The Politics of Horror (Routledge, 2020), and Politics in Gotham: The Batman Universe and Political Thought (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). His publications also include the article "Aeschylus and the Binding of the Tyrant" in Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought (2015). His research received support from the University of South Carolina's 2019 Summer Faculty Research Stipend Award for The Politics of Horror. Picariello was awarded the Williams-Brice-Edwards Professorship in Social Sciences and the 2020/2021 Student Government Association Teacher of the Year Award. He was promoted to the rank of Professor in 2024. In addition to his teaching and research, Picariello organizes the annual Constitution Day program, advances dual enrollment initiatives, and contributes to faculty governance through service on the Palmetto College Campuses Tenure and Promotion Committee, Faculty Senate, and the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education's Advisory Committee on Academic Programs.