Articles

    Collaborations with undergraduate students marked with *

Lead Review of Geoffrey Miller’s Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior. Seed Magazine, June 2009.

“Imagining Human Nature” Co-authored with Joseph Carroll, John Johnson, and Daniel Kruger. In Evolution, Literature, and Film: A Reader, forthcoming, Columbia University Press.

Introduction to Evolution, Literature, and Film: A Reader. Edited by Brian Boyd, Joseph Carroll, and Jonathan Gottschall. Forthcoming, Columbia University Press.

Paleolithic Politics in British Novels of the Nineteenth Century. Co-authored with Joseph Carroll, John Johnson, and Daniel Kruger. In Evolution, Literature, and Film: A Reader, forthcoming, Columbia University Press.

“Human Nature in British Novels of the Longer Nineteenth Century: Doing the Math” Philosophy and Literature, forthcoming. With Joseph Carroll, John A. Johnson, Daniel Kruger. In Evolution, Literature, and Film: A Reader, forthcoming, Columbia University Press.

“Hierarchy in the Library: Egalitarian Dynamics in Victorian Novels.” Evolutionary Psychology. 2008. 6(4): 715-738. With Joseph Carroll, John Johnson, Daniel Kruger.

Hidden Histories. Front page article in The Boston Globe, Ideas Section, Sunday, Sept 28, 2008.

Measure for Measure. Front page article in The Boston Globe, Ideas Section, Sunday, May 11, 2008.

Human Nature in Nineteenth-Century British Novels: Doing the Math. Philosophy and Literature (In Press; 2009). (co-authored with Joseph Carroll, John Johnson, Dan Kruger).

“What are Literary Scholars For? What is Art For?” Response to target article by Joseph Carroll, “An Evolutionary Paradigm for Literary Study.” Style (In Press.)

Review of Muses and Measures: Empirical Research Methods for the Humanities. By Willie van Peer et al. Philosophy and Literature 32 (2008).

*The Beauty Myth is no Myth: Emphasis on Male-Female Attractiveness in World Folktales. Human Nature.  (In Press; 2008)  (co-authored with 30 St. Lawrence University undergraduate students). Read PROOFS.

Burn Down the Thinkeries! A review of Frederick Crews's Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays. Skeptic Magazine 2007.

Greater Emphasis on Female Attractiveness in Homo sapiens: A Revised Solution to an Old Evolutionary Riddle. Evolutionary Psychology.  2007 (5): 347-358.

The Science of Story. Feature article in New Scientist Magazine.  March 2007.

*Romantic Love: A Literary Universal. Philosophy and Literature 30 (2006): 432-452 (co-authored with Marcus Nordlund and 18 St. Lawrence University undergraduate students). Read it in PDF.

*Are the Beautiful Good in Western Literature: A Simple Illustration of the Necessity of Literary Quantification. Journal of Literary Studies 23 (2007) (co-authored with 12 St. Lawrence University undergraduate students). Read PROOFS.

*A Census of the Western Canon: Literary Studies and Quantification.  Interdisciplinary Literary Studies (In press) (co-authored with 13 St. Lawrence University undergraduate Students)

*The Heroine with a Thousand Faces:  Universal Trends in the Characterization of Female Folk Tale Protagonists.  Evolutionary Psychology 3 (2005): 85-103. (co-authored with 15 St. Lawrence University undergraduate Students) Read it in PDF

Sexual Selection and American Novels (Book Review). Evolutionary Psychology 3 (2005): 56-58. Read it in PDF

Reading by the Numbers: Human Universals and Cultural Norms in Victorian Fiction.  In Klein, Uta, Mellmann, Katja, and Metzger, Stephanie (Eds.), Anthropology and Social History: Heuristics in the Study of Literature.  Berlin: Mentis Verlag, 2006. (co-authored with Joseph Carroll, University of Missouri, and 12 St. Lawrence University undergraduates).  Read PROOFS in PDF.

Literary Darwinism (Book Review).  Human Ethology Bulletin, December (2004).

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Literary Universals and the Sciences of the Mind.  Philosophy and Literature 28 (2004): 202-217

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Literature: A Last Frontier in Human Evolutionary Studies, Introduction to The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative.  Eds. Jonathan Gottschall and David Sloan Wilson.  Forthcoming in the edited collection, The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative.   Northwestern University Press (2005) (co-authored with David Sloan Wilson, Binghamton University).

Quantitative Literary Study: A Modest Manifesto and Testing the Hypotheses of Feminist Fairy Tale Studies. In Gottschall, Jonathan and Wilson, David Sloan (Eds.), The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative.  Northwestern University Press (2005). Read PROOFS in PDF

 *Sex Differences in Mate Choice Criteria are Reflected in Folk Tales From Around the World and in Historical European Literature.  Evolution and Human Behavior 25 (2004): 102-112. (co-authored with 3 St. Lawrence University undergraduate students), Read it in PDF

*Patterns of Characterization in Folk Tales Across   Geographic Regions and Levels of Cultural Complexity: Literature as a Neglected Source of Quantitative Data.  Human Nature 14 (365-382): 2003. (co-authored with 15 St. Lawrence University undergraduate students), Read it in PDF

Explaining Wartime Rape.  Journal of Sex Research 41 (2004): 129-136, Read it in PDF

Results of An Empirical Search for the Virgin-Whore Dichotomy.  Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 7 (2006) 1-17.  (Co-authored with 3 St. Lawrence University undergraduate students). Read Proofs

The Tree of Knowledge and Darwinian Literary Study.   Philosophy and Literature 27 (2003): 255-268, Read it in PDF

An Evolutionary Perspective on Homer's Invisible Daughters. Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 4 (2003): 36-55.

Are Per-Incident Rape-Pregnancy Rates Higher Than Consensual Pregnancy Rates? Human Nature 14 (2003): 1-20.  (Co-authored with Tiffani Gottschall, St. Lawrence University), Read it in PDF

 Homer's Human Animal: Ritual Combat in the Iliad.  Philosophy and Literature 26 (2001): 278-294. Read it in PDF

Subversive Commentary on Prominent Christian Themes in Conrad's Lord Jim.  Arkansas Review 5 (1996): 88-110.