Jamie L. McDaniel was born and raised in Northeast Alabama, a place that influences much of his work. He is Professor of English in the School of Writing, Language, and Literature at Radford University, where he teaches courses in 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century British Literature, Disability Studies, Game Design, and Film Studies. He serves as an affiliate faculty member in Cinema and Screen Studies and founding coordinator of the Major in English with a Concentration in Game Studies.

Dr. McDaniel received his BA from Samford University and his MA and PhD from Case Western Reserve University. He has published articles on accessibility in business games, representations of disability in horror films, and the relationship between film adaptation and disability in a variety of edited collections and journals, including Gender and History; Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry; The Midwest Quarterly; Where Is Adaptation? Mapping Cultures, Texts, and Contexts; and Not Your Mama’s Gamer Journal. He is also co-editor of Broadening the Horror Genre: From Gaming to Paratexts and winner of the 2025 Chautauqua Creative Writing Contest for Poetry. Liner Notes is his debut poetry collection.