Joseph Carroll
is Curators' Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Missouri, St. Louis.
After publishing monographs on the Victorian cultural theorist Matthew Arnold and the modern American poet Wallace Stevens, he began integrating the evolutionary human sciences and literary study. All his work as author and editor since the early 1990s has been dedicated to that project. His books in evolutionary literary study are Evolution and Literary Theory (1995), Literary Darwinism (2004), Reading Human Nature (2011), and (co-authored) Graphing Jane Austen: The Evolutionary Basis of Literary Meaning (2012). He produced an edition (Broadview 2003) of Darwin’s Origin of Species and has coedited multiple volumes of essays and journal issues. In 2023, he received a “Lifetime Career Award” from the Evolution and Human Behavior Society.
Groups with
Joseph Carroll
Authored by
Joseph Carroll
August 8, 2016
Darwin’s Bridge to the Humanities: An Interview with Joseph Carroll
Bringing together cutting-edge scientists and scholars across this range, Darwin's Bridge gives an expert account of consilience and makes it possible to see how far we have come toward unifying knowledge about the human species, what major issues are still in contention, and which areas of research are likely to produce further progress.
Events with
Joseph Carroll
Friday March 15th at 12pm ET
Seminar: The Truth About Fiction: Biological Reality and Imaginary Lives
Free Seminar and Q&A Session