Carton, Evan B.
Professor

Education: Ph.D. Johns Hopkins 1979
Office Location: PAR 223
Office Hours: By Appointment
Phone: (512) 471-8916
e.carton@mail.utexas.edu

Evan Carton joined the University of Texas English Department faculty in 1978, after completing undergraduate and graduate degrees in English from Columbia and Johns Hopkins Universities. The current holder of the Joan Negley Kelleher Centennial Professorship in Rhetoric and Composition, he is also the director of the University of Texas Humanities Institute, which he founded in 2001. Taking “the humanities” to encompass all the forms of artistic expression, scholarly inquiry, and everyday experience through which people explore the meanings and challenges of human life, the Institute sponsors a range of programs designed to build civic and intellectual community within, across, and beyond the University’s walls.

Recent Publications: Patriotic Treason: John Brown and the Soul of America(Free Press, 2006)

''Toward the Practice of the Humanities,'' co-authored with Sylvia Gale, The Good Society (Spring 2006)

Writing Austins Lives: A Community Portrait, co-edited and introduced with Sylvia Gale (Waterloo Press, 2004)

'''The Holocaust, French Poststructuralist Theory, the American Literary Academy, and Jewish Identity Poetics,'' Historicizing Theory, ed. Peter Herman, (State University of New York Press, 2004), pp. 17-47.

''What Feels an American: Evident Selves and Alienable Emotions in the New Mans World,'' When Boys Cry: Revisiting American Masculinity, ed. Milette Shamir and Jennifer Travis, (Columbia University Press, 2002), pp. 23-43.

''Crossing Harpers Ferry: Liberal Education and John Browns Corpus,'' American Literature, Vol. 73, number 4, December, 2001: 839-865.

''James Agee, Walker Evans: Tenants in the House of Art,'' co-authored with Janis Bergman-Carton, Raritan, XXIV, Spring 2001: 1-19.

''Millennial Letters; or, Monsieur Hawthorne, Cest Nous,'' ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, vol. 44, Fall, 1998: 199-224.

''The Price of Privilege: 'Civil Disobedience' at 150,'' The American Scholar, Fall 1998: 105-112

The Cambridge History of American Literature, Volume Eight: Poetry and Criticism, 1940-1995, co-authored with Gerald Graff and Robert von Hallberg, (Cambridge University Press, 1996).

The Marble Faun: Hawthornes Transformations, (G. K. Hall and Co., 1992).

''Vietnam and the Limits of Masculinity,'' American Literary History, volume 3, no. 2, Summer 1991: 294-318.

''The Self Besieged: American Identity On Campus and in the Gulf,'' Tikkun, July/August 1991: 40-47.

The Rhetoric of American Romance: Dialectic and Identity in Emerson, Dickinson, Poe, and Hawthorne (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.)