I received my doctorate in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Berkeley in 1981. I'm currently Curators' Professor of English at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. I published two traditional scholarly and critical books: The Cultural Theory of Matthew Arnold (1982), and Wallace Stevens' Supreme Fiction: A New Romanticism (1987). Then, as an alternative to both traditional humanism and poststructuralism, I began integrating literary theory with the evolutionary human sciences. Works in that vein include Evolution and Literary Theory (1995), Literary Darwinism: Evolution, Human Nature, and Literature (2004), Reading Human Nature: Literary Darwinism in Theory and Practice (2011), and Graphing Jane Austen: The Evolutionary Basis of Literary Meaning (co-authored). I also produced an edition of Darwin's Origin of Species (Broadview, 2003). In company with Brian Boyd and Jonathan Gottschall, I edited a collection of essays: Evolution, Literature, and Film: A Reader (2010). With Alice Andrews, I co-edited the first two volumes of The Evolutionary Review: Art, Science, Culture (2010, 2011). I've guest-edited a special evolutionary issue of the online journal Politics and Culture (2010, issue 1). More information is available at my website: http://www.umsl.edu/~carrolljc/