Joseph Carroll

I received my doctorate in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Berkeley in 1981. I'm currently Curators' Professor of English at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. After publishing two traditional scholarly and critical books--The Cultural Theory of Matthew Arnold (1982), and Wallace Stevens' Supreme Fiction: A New Romanticism (1987)--I began integrating literary theory with the evolutionary human sciences. Works in that vein include Evolution and Literary Theory (1995), Literary Darwinism: Evolution, Human Nature, and Literature (2004), Reading Human Nature: Literary Darwinism in Theory and Practice (2011), and Graphing Jane Austen: The Evolutionary Basis of Literary Meaning (2012; co-authored). Broadview published my contextualized edition of Darwin's Origin of Species (2003). Brian Boyd, Jonathan Gottschall, and I edited a collection of essays: Evolution, Literature, and Film: A Reader (2010). Dan P. McAdams, Edward O. Wilson, and I edited another collection: Darwin's Bridge: Uniting the Humanities and Sciences (2016). Alice Andrews and I co-edited the first two volumes of The Evolutionary Review: Art, Science, Culture (2010, 2011). I've guest-edited a special evolutionary issue of the online journal Politics and Culture (2010, issue 1). I'm currently (2016) editing a new journal for which the first issue is scheduled in the spring of 2017: Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture. More information is available at these sites:https://umsl.academia.edu/JosephCarroll/ & http://www.umsl.edu/~carrolljc/