Carver, Larry D.
Professor

Education: Ph.D. U. of Rochester 1973
Office Location: GEB 1.206
Office Hours: TH 1:30-5:00 p.m.
Phone: (512) 471-3458
carver@mail.utexas.edu

Larry Carver, Professor of English and holder of the Doyle Professorship in Western Civilization, is a graduate of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut and of the University of Rochester.  He has taught at UT Austin since 1973, focusing his scholarly work on Restoration and 18th-Century British poetry and drama and on the work of Feliks Topolski.   He currently serves as the Director of the Liberal Arts Honors Programs.  

Research Interests: 

18th Century British Literature and Rhetoric

Recent Publications: 

“The Controversial Portraits of Feliks Topolski,” in Penultimate Adventures with Britannia Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain, ed. Wm. Roger Louis. New York:  I.B. Tauris, 2007, pp. 229-243.

Review:  James William Johnson.  A Profane Wit:   The Life of John Wilmot Earl of Rochester, in The Scriblerian, 38 (Spring 2006) 308-309.

Awards and Honors:

Friar Centennial Teaching Fellowship 2001-2002

William David Blunk Memorial Professorship, 1997-1998

The Chad Oliver Plan II Teaching Award, 1993

Liberal Arts Council Award for Outstanding Advising, 1990

Wickenden Award for Best Paper Published in Engineering Education (with Hans Mark), 1990

Leslie Waggener, Sr. Centennial Teaching Fellowship, 1985

Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship, 1970-1971

National Defense Education Act Graduate Fellowship, 1967-1968

Phi Beta Kappa, 1966