CURRICULUM VITAE
Joseph Carroll
Discipline: English Literature
Main Fields: Literary Theory, Darwinian Literary Criticism, Victorian
Fiction, Victorian Prose
B.A. in English,
University of California at Berkeley, June 1974
M.A. in Comparative
Literature, University of California at Berkeley, June 1976
Ph.D. in Comparative
Literature (major language English; minor languages:
French and German),
University of California at Berkeley, June 1981
Dissertation: “The
Cultural Theory of Matthew Arnold”
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
9/77-6/81 University of
California at Berkeley, instructor, Comparative Literature
9/81-6/85 University of
Denver, assistant professor, English
9/85-6/87 University of
Missouri-St. Louis, assistant professor, English
7/87-6/91 University of
Missouri-St. Louis, associate professor, English
7/91- University
of Missouri-St. Louis, professor, English
AWARDS
1996 Curator’s Award for Scholarly Excellence (UM Press award for Evolution and Literary Theory)
2002 Chancellor’s
Award (UMSL Award) for Research and Creativity
2003 President’s Award
(UM System Award) for Research and Creativity
PUBLICATIONS
I. Books:
1. The Cultural Theory of Matthew
Arnold (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982).
2. Wallace Stevens’ Supreme
Fiction: A New Romanticism (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press,
1987).
3. Evolution and Literary Theory
(Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1995).
4. Literary Darwinism: Evolution, Human Nature, and Literature (London:
Routledge, in press). (Seventeen essays
and reviews, fourteen of which were previously published in journals or edited
books. The three not previously published are (1) “Adapatationist Criteria of
Literary Value: Assessing Kurtén’s Dance of the Tiger, Auel’s The
Clan of the Cave Bear, and Golding’s The Inheritors,” (2) “Human Nature and Literary Meaning: A
Theoretical Model Illustrated with a Critique of Pride and Prejudice,”
and (3) “Modern Darwinism and the Pseudo-Revolutions of Stephen Jay Gould.”)
II. Edition:
On the Origin of Species by Means
of Natural Selection, by Charles Darwin. (Peterborough, Ontario:
Broadview, 2003). Unabridged text of the first edition corrected against the
second edition; includes Darwin’s “Historical Sketch” from the 3rd
edition, and Dallas’s glossary from the 5th edition. The contextual
apparatus contains selections from Darwin’s other works (Autobiography, notebooks, letters, Voyage of the Beagle, and Descent
of Man) and from Darwin’s sources and contemporaries (Genesis, Paley,
Lamarck, Spencer, Lyell, Malthus, Huxley, and Wallace). The edition includes a
scholarly introduction, a chronology, a bibliographic essay, and a register of
the names, positions, and major publications of all the writers cited or
mentioned by Darwin and by the other authors. There are two indexes, Darwin’s
own index for the Origin and the
editor’s index for the other materials in the edition.
III. Journal Articles:
1. “Minna
Von Barnhelm and Le Genre Sérieux:
A Revaluation,” Lessing Yearbook 13 (1981): 1-14.
2. “Arnold and Bolingbroke,” The Victorian Newsletter, no. 61 (1982):
23-26.
3. “The Ancient and the Modern
Sage: Tennyson and Stevens,” Victorian
Poetry 22 (1984): 1-14.
4. “Arnold, Newman, and Cultural
Salvation,” Victorian Poetry 26:
(1988): 163-78.
5. “Pater’s Figures of
Perplexity,” Modern Language Quarterly
52 (1991): 319-40.
6. “The Use of Arnold in a
Darwinian World,” Nineteenth-Century
Prose 21 (1994): 26-38.
7. “Evolution and Literary
Theory,” Human Nature 6 (1995): 119-34.
8a. “Pluralism,
Poststructuralism, and Evolutionary Theory,” Academic Questions 9, no. 3 (summer 1996): 43-57.
8b. Exchange in letters column
about 8 a: Academic Questions 11, no.
3 (summer 1998): 5-8.
9. “Biology and
Poststructuralism,” Symploke 4
(1996): 203-219.
10. “Steven Pinker’s Cheesecake
for the Mind,” Philosophy and Literature
22 (1998): 478-85.
11. “The Deep Structure of
Literary Representations,” Evolution and
Human Behavior 20 (1999): 159-73.
12. “Human Universals and
Literary Meaning: A Sociobiological Critique of Pride and Prejudice, Villette, O
Pioneers!, Anna of the Five Towns, and Tess of the d’Urbervilles,” Interdisciplinary
Literary Studies 2 (2001): 9-27.
13. “The Ecology of Victorian
Fiction,” Philosophy and Literature
25 (2001): 295-313.
14. “Organism, Environment, and
Literary Representation,” Interdisciplinary
Studies in Literature and Environment 9 (2002): 27-45.
15. “Adaptationist Literary
Study: An Emerging Research Program,” Style
36 (2003): 596-617.
IV. Review Articles:
1. “Literary Study and
Evolutionary Theory: An Essay Review,” a discussion of six books (by Alexander
Argyros, Walter Koch, Karl Kroeber, Robert Storey, Frederick Turner, and Mark
Turner), in Human Nature 8
(1998): 273-92.
2. “Wilson’s Consilience
and Literary Study,” a discussion of E. O. Wilson’s Consilience, in Philosophy and Literature 23 (1999):
393-413.
V. Chapters in Books:
1. “Teaching Stevens as a Late
Romantic Poet,” in Teaching Wallace
Stevens: Practical Essays, ed. John N. Serio and B. J. Leggett (Knoxville:
University of Tennessee Press, 1994): 242-56.
2. “’Theory,’ Anti-Theory, and
Empirical Criticism,” in Biopoetics:
Evolutionary Explorations in the Arts, ed. Brett Cooke and Frederick Turner
(Lexington, KY: ICUS, 1999): 139-54.
3. “Universalien in der
Literaturwissenschaft” (“Universals in Literary Study”), in Universalien und Konstruktivismus, ed.
Peter M. Hejl (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 2001): 235-56.
4. “Evolutionary Psychology and
Literary Study,” in Handbook of
Evolutionary Psychology, ed. David Buss, (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, forthcoming).
5. “Human Nature and Literary
Meaning: A Theoretical Model Illustrated with a Critique of Pride and
Prejudice,” in Literature and the Human Animal, ed. Jonathan
Gottschall and D. S. Wilson (Evanston, IL: Northwestern, forthcoming;
previously published in Literary Darwinism: Evolution, Human Nature, and
Literature).
VI. Encyclopedia Entries:
1. “Arnold, Matthew,” The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory
and Criticism, ed. Michael Groden and Martin Kreiswirth (Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1993) (2,200 words).
2. “Matthew Arnold,”
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, ed. Michael Kelly (New York: Oxford University
Press, 1998) (4,000 words).
4-7. Four entries in Encyclopedia
of the Novel, ed. Paul E. Schellinger (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999):
“George Eliot” (1,300 words), “Middlemarch”
(1,000 words), “Vanity Fair”
(1,000 words), “War and the Novel” (3,300 words).
8-17. Ten entries in An Encyclopedia of Literature and Science,
ed. Pamela Gossin (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002): “Matthew Arnold” (100
words), “Charles Darwin” (250 words), “Darwinism” (500 words), “Evolutionary
Theory” (1,250 words), “T. H. Huxley” (100 words), “Jack London” (50 words),
“Karl Popper” (75 words), “Poststructuralism” (250 words), “Science Wars” (100
words) Social Darwinism” (250 words).
18. “Darwin, Charles,” The
Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, ed. Carl Mitcham, et al.
(New York: Macmillan, forthcoming) (1,000 words).
VII. Reviews:
1. review of Harold Bloom’s Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate, in University Publishing: An International Quarterly Review, no. 4
(spring 1978): 7-8.
2. review of Ricardo Quintana’s Two Augustans: John Locke, Jonathan Swift, in University Publishing, no. 6 (winter 1979): 9.
3. review of Jon Silkin’s Out of Battle: The Poetry of the Great War, in University Publishing, no. 7 (spring 1979): 8-9.
4. exchange with Jon Silkin on Out
of Battle, in University Publishing, no. 8 (fall
1979): 18-20.
5. review of Jakob Thomas’ Glossologie oder Philosophie der Sprache, in Lessing Yearbook XIII 13 (1981): 315-16.
6. review of Park Honan’s Matthew Arnold: A Life, in Denver Quarterly 17, no. 1 (spring 1982): 112-14.
7. review of Peter Brazeau’s Parts of a World: Wallace Stevens Remembered, in Denver Quarterly 19, no. 3 (winter 1985): 94-102.
8. review of James Livingston’s Matthew Arnold and Christianity and Robert Giddings (ed.) Matthew Arnold: Between Two Worlds, in Victorian Studies 31
(1987): 137-39.
9. review of J. S. Leonard’s and
C. E. Wharton’s The Fluent Mundo: Wallace
Stevens and the Structure of Reality,
in The Wallace Stevens Journal 12, no. 1 (spring 1988): 71-74.
10. review of Henry Sussman’s High Resolution: Critical Theory and the
Problem of Literacy and Ellen Rooney’s Seductive
Reasoning: Pluralism as the Problematic of Contemporary Literary Theory, in
Journal of English and Germanic Philology
90 (1991): 232-36.
11. review of W. David Shaw’s Victorians and Mystery: Crises of
Representation, in Journal of English
and Germanic Philology 91 (1992): 453-56.
12. review of Kia Penso’s Wallace Stevens: “Harmonium” and the Whole
of “Harmonium”, in American
Literature 64 (1992):613-14.
13. review of Daniel Schwarz’s The Case for a Humanistic Poetics, in Journal of English and Germanic Philology 94 (1995): 554-56.
14. review of three books: John
Bowlby’s Charles Darwin: A New Life,
Adrian Desmond’s and James Moore’s Darwin,
and Janet Browne’s Charles Darwin:
Voyaging, in TLS (Times Literary Supplement), no. 4951
(February 20, 1998): 8-9.
15. review of John Ellis’s Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the
Corruption of the Humanities, in TLS
(Times Literary Supplement), no. 4967
(June 12, 1998): 27.
16. review of Robert Storey’s Mimesis and the Human Animal: On the
Biogenetic Foundations of Literary Representation, in Journal of English and Germanic Philology 97 (1998): 226-28.
VIII. Conference Papers and Invited Talks:
1. “The Neoclassical and the
Romantic in the Critical Theory of Matthew Arnold,” Colorado Seminar, Denver,
1981.
2. “The Force of Reason”
(response to Stanley Fish’s paper “Force”), Midwest Modern Language
Association, St. Louis, November 1985.
3. “Pure and Normal Poetry:
Philosophical Structures and Stylistic Modes in Stevens Late Poems,” Modern
Language Association, New York, 1986.
4. “Wallace Stevens and the
Romance of the Abstract,” Northeast Modern Language Association, Providence,
1988.
5. Response to Catharine
Stimpson’s keynote address, “The Culture of Criticism,” Midwest Modern Language
Association, St. Louis, November 1988.
6. Organizing a panel and giving
a paper on “Problematic Narrative Authority and Suspended Resolutions in
Victorian Fiction,” Midwest Modern Language Association, Minneapolis, November
1989.
7. Organizing a panel and giving
a paper on “The Relations between Victorian Fiction and Non-fiction Prose,”
Midwest Modern Language Association, Kansas City, November 1990.
8. “Darwin and Arnold: The
Evolution of Cultural Theory,” Armstrong Library International Conference on
Matthew Arnold, Baylor University, April 1993.
9. “Poststructuralism and
Darwinian Naturalism,” Society for Literature and Science, Boston, November
1993.
10. “The Biological Basis of
Figuration,” Modern Language Association, Toronto, December 1993
11. “Poststructuralism, Cultural
Constructivism, and Evolutionary Biology,” Human Behavior and Evolution
Society,” Ann Arbor, July 1994.
12. “An Evolutionary Theory of
Literary Figuration,” Human Behavior and Evolution Society,” Santa Barbara,
July 1995.
13. “An Evolutionary Theory of
Literary Figuration,” Society for Literature and Science, Los Angeles, October
1995.
14. “What Should Evolutionary
Literary Critics Do?” Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Evanston, July
1996.
16. “Huxley, Weinberg, and The
Science Wars,” Society for Literature and Science, Atlanta, October 1996.
17. “’Theory,’ Pragmatic
Criticism, and Empirical Literary Study,” Modern Language Association,
Washington, December 1996.
18. “Reduction and Complexity in
Literary Analysis,” Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Tucson, June 1997.
19. Organizing a panel and giving
a paper on “Structuring Domains for Literary Analysis,” Society for Literature
and Science, Pittsburgh, October 1997.
20. “The Origin of Charles Darwin,”
invited plenary speaker, Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, San
Francisco, November 1997.
21. “Evolution and Literary
Theory,” invited speaker, Colloquium on Evolution and Culture, University of
Tennessee, Knoxville, March 1998.
22. “Inclusive Fitness,
Psychological Models, and Literary Analysis,” Human Behavior and Evolution
Society, Davis, July 1998.
23. “The Deep Structure of
Literary Representation,” invited speaker, English Department, University of
Alberta, Edmonton, October 1998.
24. “Narrative and the Emotional
Brain,” Society for Literature and Science, Gainesville, November 1998.
25. “Marrying Up in Victorian
Fiction,” Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Salt Lake City, June 1999.
26. “Universals and Literary
Meaning,” Human Behavior and Evolution Society,” Amherst, June 2000.
27. “Universals and Literary
Meaning,” Society for the Empirical Study of Literature, Toronto, August 2000.
28. “The Development of
Sociobiological Literary Criticism,” Symposium on Art/Body/Mind, Ohio
University, October 2000.
29. “Ecocriticism and Darwinian
Literary Theory,” Human Behavior and Evolution Society, London, June 2001.
30. “Adaptation, Environment, and
Literary Study,” invited plenary speaker, Association for the Study of
Literature and the Environment, Flagstaff, June 2001.
31. “Adaptationist Literary
Study: An Emerging Research Program,” invited speaker, Darwin Day, University
of Evansville, Illinois, March 2002
32. “Adaptationist Literary
Study: An Emerging Research Program,” invited keynote speaker, Midwest
Conference on Film, Language, and Literature, Northern Illinois University,
April 2002
33. “The Organization of Meaning
in Fictions of Paleolithic Life,” organizing a panel and giving a paper, Human
Behavior and Evolution Society, Rutgers, June 2002.
34. “Inclusive Fitness and Point
of View in Victorian Fiction,” International Society for Human Ethology,
Montreal, August 2002.
35. “The New Paradigm for Human
Nature,” invited speaker, Texas A&M, February 2003.
36. “Darwinian Literary Studies,”
organizing a panel and giving a paper, Human Behavior and Evolution Society,”
Lincoln, NE, June 2003
37. “Evolved Motive Dispositions,
Open Programs, and Creative Flexibility,” invited plenary speaker, “Literature,
Science, and Human Nature,” Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, May 2004