Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Honors College
Earle Hall B 106
516.877.4034
ccarson@adelphi.edu
Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine (2007)
M.A. Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine (2000)
B.A. Rhetoric and Philosophy (Double Major), State University of New York, Binghamton (1995)
Harper-Schmidt Fellow & Collegiate Assistant Professor of Humanities @ The University of Chicago 2007-2010
Honors-The Human Condition II
Liberal Arts Seminar: Artificial Intelligence, Theory & Practice
The Literature of Synthetic Life and Artificial Worlds
Unnatural Disasters
The Aesthetics of the Crowd
Staging Pain
Environmental Humanities
Restoration/18th-Century Literature
History of the Novel
Ecocriticism
Literary Theory
Environmental Humanities
Restoration/18th-Century Literature
History of the Novel
Ecocriticism
Literary Theory
The Aesthetics of Democracy: Eighteenth-Century Literature and Political Economy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
Craig Carson (2012). "The Anatomic Economy: Mandeville's Treatise of the Hypochondriak and Hysterick Passions". In Sabine Arnaud & Helge Jordheim (Eds.). The Body and Its Images in Eighteenth-Cenutry Europe. (pp. 167-181). Paris, France: Honor茅 Champion.
Craig Carson (2012). 鈥淩eligion and the French Revolution; or, the Politics of Incarnation". In Sanja Perovic (Eds.). Fragments of Religion: Sacred and Secular Agency in Early Modern France. (pp. 160-172). London, United Kingdom: Continuum.
Craig Carson (2013), . Postmodern Culture, Volume 22, Number 3.
Craig Carson (2011), . Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture, 884-85.
Craig Carson (2011), . Republics of Letters: A Journal for the Study of Knowledge, Politics, and the Arts, Vol. 2, Issue 2, 115-126.
Craig Carson (2010), . The Point, Issue 3, 79-84.
Craig Carson (2024). Motion, Territory, Cosmology: Isaac Vossius’ De motu marium et ventorum liber. In 2024 American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference. Toronto, ON.
Craig Carson (2023). Oceanic Contagion: Grotius, Natural Law, and the Specter of the East Indies. In Aesthetics of Contamination: Oceanic Environments, Identities, & Research-Creation Conference. Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL.
Craig Carson (2015). Sovereign Spectacles: From Monarchy to Liberal Democracy. In Rethinking Sovereignty Conference (pp. 10). SUNY. Albany, Albany, NY.
Craig Carson (2014). Swarm Economies. In Cultural Studies Association Conference (pp. 12). University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
Craig Carson (2013). A Poverty of Philosophy: Autonomism and the Academy to Come. In American Educational Research Association (pp. 13). San Francisco, CA.
Craig Carson (2011). Economic Citizenship. In Citizen-Subject Revisited Symposium, (pp. 15). SUNY, Albany, Albany, NY.
Craig Carson (2010). Rousseau鈥檚 Private War: The Politics of Capital Punishment. In Biennial Radical Philosophy Association Conference, (pp. 14). University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.
Craig Carson (2009). Writing of the Disaster: Catastrophe Narrative in the Work of Daniel Defoe. In World Making Conference (pp. 10). University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Craig Carson (2009). Infinite Accumulation: The Aesthetics of Defoe鈥檚 Political Economy. In American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference (pp. 10). Richmond, VA.
Craig Carson (2008). Counterrevolutionary Agency: Burke and Maistre. In New Paradigms for Revolutionary Studies (pp. 15). Notre Dame University/Indiana University South Bend, South Bend, IN.
Craig Carson (2008). Revolutionary Millennialism and Political Incarnation. In Religion in History and Literature Conference (pp. 16). University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Craig Carson (2008). Locke and the Private War. In American Comparative Literature Association Conference (pp. 11). Cal State Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.
Craig Carson (2008). Sympathy Unbound: Adam Smith鈥檚 Spectacle of Cruelty. In American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference (pp. 14). Portland, OR.
Craig Carson (2007). Mandeville鈥檚 Anatomic Economy. In American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference (pp. 18). Montpellier Medical School, Montpellier, France.
Craig Carson (2006). Only the Shape of Men: The Aesthetic Economy of Mandeville鈥檚 Fable of the Bees. In Rethinking Marxism Conference (pp. 13). U Mass Amherst, Amherst, MA.
Craig Carson (2006). Rousseau, Burke and the Multitude. In American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference (pp. 12). Montreal, Canada.
Craig Carson (2005). Transformations of the People: Rousseau and Burke. In International Conference on Romanticism (pp. 15). Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO.
Craig Carson (2001). Koj猫ve/Bataille: Violence and Legitimacy. In Modern Language Association Conference (pp. 11). Washington D.C..
Craig Carson (2000). Abandoning Law: On the Threshold of the State of Exception. In American Comparative Literature Association Conference (pp. 16). Yale University, New Haven, CT.
Craig Carson (2015, February). On the Politics of the Spectacle: Arendt and Debord. Eugene Lang Liberal Arts College, The New School, New York, NY.
Craig Carson (2014, October). Exploring Critical Issues Television Program (Common Core). Telecare/91国产, Uniondale, NY.
Craig Carson (2009, February). Spectacle, Cruelty and Adam Smith鈥檚 Theory of Moral Sentiments. University of Wisconsin, Madison: 2009 Eighteenth-Century Speakers Series.
Craig Carson (2008, August). Panic; or, Shaftsbury's Lucretius. Lucretius and Modernity International Conference: The Eighteenth- & Nineteenth-Centuries 2008, Occidental College.
Craig Carson (2006, April). Materialism and Pathology in the Work of Bernard Mandeville. UC Irvine鈥檚 Comparative Literature Works in Progress Series, Irvine, CA.
Craig Carson (2004, October). Our Naked, Shivering Nature: Edmund Burke and the Uncertain Spectacle of the Rights of Man. International Doctoral Colloquium, Munich, Germany.
Genel, Katia. "The Question of Biopower: Foucault and Agamben." Trans. Craig Carson. Rethinking Marxism 18.1 (2006): 43-62.
Teaching Excellence Award for Untenured Faculty 2014- 2015
Universit茅 de Paris, Nanterre English Department Teaching Position Award Fall 2003- Fall 2004 (reappointed for Fall 2004- Spring 2005)
Soapbox Series at 91国产 (co-founder & co-director)
Invited Reviewer, Human Rights Review 2011
Book Review: Maja-Lisa von Sneidern, Savage Indignation: Colonial Discourse from Milton to Swift, Scriblerian, Volume XL, Nos. 1-2 (2008), 158-160.