Joseph Carroll

 

Vita

 

educational background

 

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, University of California at Berkeley, June 1981

 

university appointments

 

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                 

7/91-9/08         University of Missouri-St. Louis, professor, English

9/08-               University of Missouri-St. Louis, Curators’ Professor, English

 

           

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, 2004).

5. Reading Human Nature: Literary Darwinism in Theory and Practice (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2011).

6. Graphing Jane Austen: The Evolutionary Basis of Literary Meaning, by Joseph Carroll, Jonathan Gottschall, John Johnson, and Daniel Kruger (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).

 

II. Edited Works:

 

1. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, by Charles Darwin. (Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview, 2003). 

2. The Evolutionary Review: Art, Science, Culture, edited by Joseph Carroll and Alice Andrews, vol. 1, 2010.

3. Special Evolutionary issue of the journal Politics and Culture, 2010, issue 1: http://www.politicsandculture.org/2010/04/28/contents-2.

4. Evolution, Literature, and Film: A Reader, edited by Joseph Carroll, Brian Boyd, and Jonathan Gottschall (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010).

5. The Evolutionary Review: Art, Science, Culture, edited by Joseph Carroll and Alice Andrews, vol. 2, 2011.

 

III. Journal Articles and Chapters in Books:

 

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.  “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.

8.  “Evolution and Literary Theory,” Human Nature 6 (1995): 119-34.

9.  “Pluralism, Poststructuralism, and Evolutionary Theory,” Academic Questions 9, no. 3 (1996): 43-57.

10. “Biology and Poststructuralism,” Symploke 4 (1996): 203-219.

11.  “’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.

12. “The Deep Structure of Literary Representations,” Evolution and Human Behavior 20 (1999): 159-73.

13. “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.

14.  “Universalien in der Literaturwissenschaft” (“Universals in Literary Study”), in Universalien und Konstruktivismus, ed. Peter M. Hejl (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 2001): 235-56.  (Reprinted, in English, as “Universals in Literary Study,” in Literary Darwinism: Evolution, Human Nature, and Literature)

15. “The Ecology of Victorian Fiction,” Philosophy and Literature 25 (2001): 295-313.

16. “Organism, Environment, and Literary Representation,” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 9 (2002): 27-45.

17. “Adaptationist Literary Study: An Emerging Research Program,” Style 36 (2003): 596-617.

18. “Evolutionary Psychology and Literary Study,” in Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, ed. David Buss, (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2005): 931-52.

19. “Aestheticism, Homoeroticism, and Christian Guilt in The Picture of Dorian Gray: A Darwinian Critique,” Philosophy and Literature 29 (2005): 286-304.

20. “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, 2005): 76-106.  (Previously published in Literary Darwinism: Evolution, Human Nature, and Literature)

21. “Adaptationist Literary Study: An Introductory Guide,” Ometeca 10 (2006): 18-31.

22. “An Academic Visit to Russia,” Academic Questions 18, no. 4 (2006): 54-58.

23. “The Human Revolution and the Adaptive Function of Literature,” Philosophy and Literature 30 (2006): 33-49.

24. “Literature and Evolution,” in Human Nature: Fact and Fiction, ed. Robin Headlam Wells and Johnjoe McFadden (London: Continuum, 2006): 63-81.

25. “Human Nature and Agonistic Structure in Canonical British Novels of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: A Content Analysis,” by Joseph Carroll and Jonathan Gottschall, in Heuristiken der Literaturwissenschaft: Disziplinexterne Perspektiven auf Literatur, ed. Uta Klein, Katja Mellman, and Steffanie Metzger (Paderborn, Germany: Mentis Verlag, 2006): 473-87.

26. “The Adaptive Function of Literature,” in Evolutionary Approaches to the Arts, ed. Paul Locher, Colin Martindale, Leonid Dorfman, Vladimir Petrov, and Dimitry Leontiev (Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing, 2007): 31-45.

27. “Stevens and Romanticism,” in The Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens, ed. John Serio (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007): 87-102.

28. “Evolutionary Approaches to Literature and Drama,” in The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, ed. Robin Dunbar and Louise Barrett (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007): 637-48.

29. “An Evolutionary Paradigm for Literary Study,” (target article to which scholars and scientists were invited to respond), Style 42 (2008): 103-35.

30. “Rejoinder” (reply to 35 scholars writing commentaries on the target article identified in the previous item), Style 42 (2008): 309-412.

31. “The Cuckoo’s History: Human Nature in Wuthering Heights,” Philosophy and Literature 32 (2008): 241-57.

32. “Hierarchy in the Library: Egalitarian Dynamics in Victorian Novels,” by John Johnson, Joseph Carroll, Jonathan Gottschall, and Daniel Kruger, Evolutionary Psychology 6 (2008): 715-38.

33. “The Historical Position of Literary Darwinism,” Forbes, February 5, 2009.

34. “Human Nature in Nineteenth-Century British Novels: Doing the Math,” by Joseph Carroll, Jon Gottschall, John Johnson, and Daniel Kruger, Philosophy and Literature, 33 (2009): 50-72.

35.  Interview with David DiSalvo, Neuronarrative, http://neuronarrative.wordpress.com/, posted February 27, 2009.

36. “The Science Wars in a Long View: Putting the Human in Its Place,” in Interdisciplinary Essays on Darwinism in Hispanic Literature and Film: The Intersection of Science and the Humanities, ed. Jerry Hoeg and Kevin S. Larsen (Lewiston, NY: Edward Mellen Press, 2009):

37. “Literature as a Human Universal,” in Grenzen der Literatur: Zu Begriff und Phänomen des Literarischen, ed. Fotis Jannidis, Gerhard Lauer, and Simone Winko (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2009): 142-60.

38. “Commentary on ‘The Evolution and End of Art as Hegelian Tragedy,’” Empirical Studies of the Arts 27 (2009): 147-51.

39. “The Adaptive Function of Literature and the Other Arts,” Invited on-line posting, responses from readers, and my answers to the responses, in Forum, part of the project On the Human at the National Humanities Center, June 22-26, 2009: http://onthehuman.org/

40. “A Darwinian Revolution in the Humanities,” Politics and Culture 2010, issue 1: http://www.politicsandculture.org/2010/04/28/contents-2/ .

41. "Imagining Human Nature," in Evolution, Literature, and Film: A Reader, edited by Brian Boyd, Joseph Carroll, and Jonathan Gottschall (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010): 211-18.

42. “Three Scenarios for Literary Darwinism,” New Literary History 41 (2010): 53-67.

43. “Intentional Meaning in Hamlet: An Evolutionary Perspective,” Style 44 (2010): 230-60.

44. “Quantifying Tonal Analysis in The Mayor of Casterbridge,” by Joseph Carroll, Jonathan Gottschall, John A. Johnson, Daniel J. Kruger, and Stelios Georgiades, Style 44 (2010): 164-88.

45. “Denis Dutton, Universal Connoisseur.” Chronicle of Higher Education, January 24, 2011, B 20: http://chronicle.com/article/Denis-Dutton-Universal/125787/.

46. “Portrayal of Personality in Victorian Novels Reflects Modern Research Findings but Amplifies the Significance of Agreeableness,” by John Johnson, Joseph Carroll, Jonathan Gottschall, and Daniel Kruger. Journal of Research in Personality 45 (2011): 50-58.

47. “Speaking Prose” (a response to Alan Palmer’s target article), Style 45 (2011): 241-43.

48. “Paleolithic Politics in British Novels of the Nineteenth Century,” by Joseph Carroll, Jonathan Gottschall, John Johnson, and Daniel Kruger, in Integrating Science and Humanities, ed. Edward Slingerland and Mark Collard (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012): 385-408.

49. “The Adaptive Function of the Arts: Alternative Evolutionary Hypotheses,” in Literature und Evolution, ed. Carsten Gansel (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012): 50-63.

50. “An Open Letter to Jonathan Kramnick,” Critical Inquiry 38 (2012): 405-10.

51. “The Extremes of Conflict in Literature: Violence, Homicide, and War,” The Oxford Handbook of Violence, Homicide, and War, ed. Todd Shackelford (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012): 413-34.

52. "Meaning and Effect in Fiction: A Model of Interpretation Illustrated with a Reading of “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” Style 46.3 (2012): 297-316.

53. “The Truth about Fiction: Biological Reality and Imaginary Lives,” Style 46.2 (2012): 129-60.

54. “Graphing Jane Austen: Agonistic Structure in British Novels of the Nineteenth Century,” Scientific Study of Literature 2.1 (2012): 1-24.

55. “An Evolutionary Perspective on King Lear,” in Critical Insights: Family, edited by John Knapp (Ipswich, MA: EBSCO, 2012): 83-103

56. “Correcting for The Corrections: A Darwinian Critique of a Foucauldian Novel,” Style, 47 (2013): 87-118.

57. “An Evolutionary Rationale for Literary Study,” Scientific Study of Literature, 3.1 (2013): 8-15.

58. “Teaching Literary Darwinism,” Style 47.2 (2013): 206-38.

59. “Violence in Literature: An Evolutionary Perspective,” in Evolution of Violence, edited by Todd K. Shackelford and Ranald D. Hansen (New York: Springer, 2013) 33-52.

60.  “Why Make Art?” (Response to a symposium question):  Island: Ideas, Writing, Culture, spring 2013: 23.

61. “Evolved Human Sociality and Literature,” in Evolutionary Analysis in the Social Sciences, edited by Richard Malachek, Jonathan Turner, and Alexandra Maryanski (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, forthcoming).

62. “Biocultural Literary Theory,” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (forthcoming).

 

IV. Essay Reviews:

 

1. “Literary Study and Evolutionary Theory: An Essay Review,” a review of five books on evolution and literature, Human Nature 8 (1998): 273-92.

2. “Steven Pinker’s Cheesecake for the Mind,” a commentary on Pinker’s How the Mind Works, Philosophy and Literature 22 (1998): 478-85.

3. “Wilson’s Consilience and Literary Study,” a review of E. O. Wilson’s Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, Philosophy and Literature 23 (1999): 393-413.

4. “The Art Instinct in Its Historical Moment: A Meta-Review,” a review of Denis Dutton’s The Art Instinct, in The Evolutionary Review: Art, Science, Culture 1 (2010): 48-54.

5. “Human Life History and Gene-Culture Co-Evolution: An Emerging Paradigm,” a review of Nicholas Wade’s Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors, Richard Wrangham’s Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, and Gregory Cochran’s and Henry Harpending’s The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution, in The Evolutionary Review: Art, Science, Culture 2 (2011): 23-37.

6. “Dutton, Davies, and Imaginative Virtual Worlds: The Current State of Evolutionary Aesthetics,” a review of Denis Dutton’s The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution and Stephen Davies’s The Artful Species: Aesthetics, Art, and Evolution, in Aisthesis 6.2 (2013): 81-93.

7. “Rejoinder to Stephen Davies,” Aisthesis (forthcoming).

 

V. 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.

17.  review of John Glendening’s The Evolutionary Imagination in Late-Victorian Novels: An Entangled Bank, in Journal of British Studies 48 (2009): 252-54.

18.  review of Stephen Davies’s The Artful Species: Aesthetics, Art, and Evolution, in Estetika, in press.

 

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), “Representations of War in 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, 2005) (1,000 words).

19. “Evolution and Verbal Art,” The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language Sciences, ed. Patrick Colm Hogan (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011) (2,000 words).

20. “Evolutionary Literary Study,” The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory, vol. 2, ed. Robert Eaglestone (London: Blackwell, 2011) (3,000 words)

21. “M. H. Abrams,” The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory, vol. 2, ed. Robert Eaglestone (London: Blackwell, 2011) (1,000 words)

 

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  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,” invited speaker, “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  speaker, Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, Flagstaff, Arizona, 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,” 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, Canada, 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 speaker, “Literature, Science, and Human Nature,” Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England, May 2004

38.    “Creativity and Environmental Challenges: The Adaptive Context,” invited  speaker, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Chichester, England, June, 2004

39.    “Content Analysis, Human Nature, and Deviation from the Norm in Victorian Novels,” organizing a panel and giving a paper, Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Berlin, Germany, July 2004

40.     “The Human Revolution and the Adaptive Function of Literature,” organizing a panel and giving a paper, International Society for Human Ethology, Ghent, Belgium, July 2004

41.    “Human Nature, Literary Study, and Empirical Methodology,” invited speaker, Department of Media Studies, University of Siegen, Germany, February 2005

42.    “The Adaptive Function of Literature,” invited speaker, Creativity and the Psychology of Art, University of Perm, Russia, June 2005

43.    “Adaptationist Literary Study,” invited speaker, co-sponsored by the Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences and the Humanities Center, University of Oregon, Eugene, January 2006

44.    “Graphing Jane Austen: Toward a New Humanities,” organizing a panel and giving a paper, Human Behavior and Evolution Society,” Philadelphia, June 2006.

45.   “Human Nature as Source and Subject of Literary Representation,” invited speaker, “Literature and Evolution: Possibilities, Problems, Prospects,” Center for Cultural Inquiry, University of Auckland, New Zealand, December 2006.

46.   “Male and Female Characters in Male and Female Authors,” Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Williamsburg, Virginia, June 2007.

47.  “Human Nature and Imaginative Culture,” invited speaker, “Autonomy, Singularity, Creativity: The Human and the Humanities,” National Humanities Center, North Carolina, November 2007.

48.  “Consilience and Human Nature: Integrating Knowledge in the University,” keynote speaker, Future of the University, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, April, 2008.

49.  “The Historical Position of Literary Darwinism,” invited speaker, University of Calgary, September, 2008.

50.  “Graphing Jane Austen: Quantifying Literary Meaning in the Victorian Novel,” invited  speaker, Integrating Science and the Humanities, University of British Columbia, September, 2008.

51.  "The  Historical Position of Literary Darwinism," invited speaker, University of Lund, Sweden, November, 2008.

52. “Graphing Jane Austen: Quantifying Literary Meaning in the Victorian Novel,” invited speaker, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, November, 2008.

53. “The  Historical Position of Literary Darwinism," invited speaker, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, November, 2008.

54. “The Historical Position of Literary Darwinism,” invited speaker, symposium on Darwinism in studies of literature and film, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, November, 2008.

55. “Graphing Jane Austen: Quantifying Literary Meaning in the Victorian Novel,” invited speaker, symposium on Darwinism in studies of literature and film, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, November, 2008.

56.  “The Historical Position of Literary Darwinism,” keynote speaker, Symposium on Modern Evolutionary Theory, University of Trent, Peterborough, Ontario, February, 2009.

57. “The Historical Position of Literary Darwinism,” invited speaker, Darwin Bicentennial Celebration, Monmouth College, Monmouth, Illinois, March, 2009.

58. “The Historical Position of Literary Darwinism,” keynote speaker, Darwin Bicentennial Celebration, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, May, 2009.

59. “Three Scenarios for Literary Darwinism,” Geschichten Erzählen/Telling Stories, keynote speaker, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany, May, 2009

60. “Paleolithic Politics in British Novels of the Nineteenth Century,” Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Fullerton, CA, May, 2009.

61. “Integrating Evolutionary Psychology and Literary Criticism,” American Culture Association, St. Louis, MO, March 2010.

62. “The Historical Position of Literary Darwinism,” invited speaker, lecture sponsored by the departments of English and Biology, University of Missouri, Columbia, March 2010.

63. “The Historical Position of Literary Darwinism,” invited speaker, St. Louis Institute for the Advancement of Science,” St. Louis, December 2010.

64. “The Historical Position of Literary Darwinism,” invited speaker, Ethology of the Arts, Max Planck Institute, Andechs, Germany, February 2011.

65. “The Historical Position of Literary Darwinism,” invited speaker, Helsinki Institute for Advanced Study,” Finland, February 2011.

66. “The Historical Position of Literary Darwinism,” invited speaker, European Society for Evolutionary Biology,” Tübingen, Germany, August 2011.

67. “Violence in Literature,” invited speaker, Oakland University Conference on the Evolution of Violence, Detroit, Michigan, April 2012.

68. “Graphing Jane Austen: Agonistic Structure in British Novels of the Nineteenth Century,” Consilience Conference, conference organizer, University of Missouri, St. Louis, April 2012.

69.  “The Historical Position of Literary Darwinism,” invited video lecture, Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City, Mexico, August 2012.

70. "The Historical Position of Literary Darwinism," invited speaker, ALLELE series, University of Alabama,  Tuscaloosa Alabama, April , 2013

71. “Evolution and Literature,” invited speaker, Montessori School, Syracuse, NY, October 2013.

72. “Three Scenarios for Literary Darwinism,” invited speaker, University of Copenhagen Media and Communications Department Symposium on Evolutionary Aesthetics,” November 2013.

73. “Meaning and Effect in Fiction,” invited speaker, class on horror fiction, Aarhus University, November 2013.

74. “Evolutionary Psychology and Literary Criticism,” invited speaker, English Lecture Society, Aarhus University, November 2013.

75. “The Truth about Fiction: Biological Reality and Imaginary Lives,” invited speaker, English Major Student Conference, Aarhus University, November 2013.

76. “The Adaptive Function of the Arts,” invited speaker, Moesgaard Archeological Museum, Aarhus University, November 2013.

77. “Three Scenarios for Literary Darwinism,” invited speaker, Interacting Minds Center, Aarhus University, November 2013.

78. “Literature, Organism, and Environment,” invited speaker, class on ecocriticism, Aarhus University, November 2013.

79. “Graphing Jane Austen,” invited speaker, Digital Humanities Workshop, Aarhus University, November 2013.

80. “The Historical Position of Literary Darwinism,” invited speaker, Human Evolution and Research Initiative, Aarhus University, November 2013.

81. “Current Knowledge about the Evolution of Human Sociality and Culture,” invited speaker, Human Nature and the Future of the International System, Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies, Luxembourg, December 2013.

conference organized

 

Consilience, University of Missouri, St. Louis, April 26-28, 2012: http://consilienceconference.com/. Co-organized with Patty Parker and Dave Rose. Eighteen invited speakers, plus keynote by E. O. Wilson. Thirty-five posters by graduate students and post-docs. Speakers equally divided among biologists, social scientists, and humanists. Audio Album of the conference available at Evolution: This View of Life: http://www.thisviewoflife.com/index.php/magazine/articles/consilience-science-and-the-humanities)