Maclain (Mac) Scott is an Assistant Professor of English and Coordinator of First-Year Seminar--Writing. Before North Central, Mac worked for two years as an English Professor and Director of First-Year Composition at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana. He earned a PhD in English with a concentration in Rhetoric & Writing from the University of Texas at Austin and an MA in English Studies from Illinois State University, which is about an hour's drive from where he grew up.