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About

Joseph Carroll, a recipient of both the Chancellor's and President's Award for Research and Creativity, teaches nineteenth-century British literature, literary theory, short stories, and interdisciplinary seminars in the Honors College. He is the author of The Cultural Theory of Matthew Arnold; Wallace Stevens' Supreme Fiction; Evolution and Literary Theory; Literary Darwinism; Reading Human Nature; and Graphing Jane Austen (co-authored). He has produced an edition of Darwin's On the Origin of Species and is co-editor of Evolution, Literature, and Film: A Reader. In 2012, he helped organize an international conference at UMSL. A co-edited volume of essays, Darwin’s Bridge: Uniting the Sciences and Humanities, originated from that conference. Carroll is editor in chief of Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture.

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Education/Academic qualification

Comparative Literature, MA, University of California, Berkeley

English, BA, University of California, Berkeley

Comparative Literature, PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Research Interests

  • Evolution and Culture
  • Literary Theory
  • Literary Criticism
  • Literature
  • Psychology

Disciplines

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Comparative Literature
  • English Language and Literature