Joseph Carroll, professor of English at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, has won the
annual Curators' Award for Scholarly Excellence for his book
Evolution and Literary Theory.
The award, which includes a stipend of $2,500, is given each year for the most outstanding book by a UM faculty member published by the University of Missouri Press.
Carroll's book vigorously attacks the principles of poststructuralism and offers a new theory that situates literary criticism within evolutionary theory.
Carroll earned his bachelor's degree in English (1974), and master's (1976) and doctoral degree (1981) in comparative literature, all from the University of California-Berkeley. He taught at the University of Denver before joining the UM-St. Louis faculty in 1985.
"Evolution and Literary Theory is indeed a work of considerable erudition, ... partly because of the quality of the author's openness of mind, reasonableness of argument, and clarity of writing," said Carl N. Degler, a distinguished professor of history at Stanford University.
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