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.
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)