Noël Carroll, the current Andrew W. Mellon Term Professor in the Humanities, is an internationally renowned scholar in the fields of film theory, the philosophy of literature, the philosophy of the visual arts, and social and cultural theory. He has a teaching appointment in the Department of Philosophy and his office is on the 10th floor of Gladfelter Hall.

The Andrew W. Mellon Term Professorship in the Humanities contributes to the development of interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching by supporting the work of scholars who have achieved distinction in the humanities and who can present the fruits of their labor to the public.

Professor Carroll is the author or editor of 15 books and hundreds of articles on a wide range of humanistic and cultural topics. His books include The Philosophy of Horror or Paradoxes of the Heart (Routledge, 1990), Interpreting the Moving Image (Routledge, 1998), and A Philosophy of Mass Art (Routledge, 1999). He has recently completed a book manuscript entitles Embodied Mind: Comic Intelligence and Concrete Operations in Buster Keaton’s “The General” and recently finished co-editing an anthology with Jinhee Choi called The Philosophy of Film for Blackwell.

As a journalist, he has written for the Chicago Reader, Artforum, In These Times, Dance Magazine, Soho Weekly News, and The Village Voice. He has also written five documentaries. In 2002, Professor Carroll received a Guggenheim fellowship to explore the relationship of philosophy and dance.

Professor Carroll has taught at many universities, including New York University, Cornell University, Columbia University, and SUNY-Buffalo. Most recently he was Monroe Beardsley Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin. He is also no stranger to Temple University, having been a Visiting Professor of Philosophy in 1983, when he worked with the Temple aesthetician Monroe Beardsley.

Professor Carroll teaches courses in film and media theory, philosophy of art, and philosophy of history at Temple.

Contact: carrolln@temple.edu

After the Mellon Inagural Lecture, April 18, 2005.
From left: Philip Alperson, -, Crispin Sartwell, Tom Rockmore, Susan Feagin, Noël Carroll, Sally Banes, Paul Guyer, and Peter Kivy.