Karen Carr
Assistant Professor
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BA, Evergreen State College
CERT, RI School of Design CE
MA, University of Rhode Island
PHD, University of Rhode Island
A native of New Haven, CT, Karen L. Carr earned her PhD in English from the University of Rhode Island in 1993 and started teaching at RISD in 1997. She has developed and taught courses in a wide range of literary and cultural studies, including gender studies, race and ethnicity and the history of freak shows, minstrel shows and the carnivalesque. Her story, “Until She Sings,” won first prize in the Providence Journal’s fiction contest. Her writing has also appeared in Postmodern Culture, The Fertile Source and, most recently, Contrary Magazine.
Fall 2022
- LAS-E101-18 First-year Literature Seminar
- LAS-E520-01 Spectacles Of The Human Body: Freak Shows, Ethnographic Displays, and Histories Of Difference
- LAS-E520-02 Spectacles Of The Human Body: Freak Shows, Ethnographic Displays, and Histories Of Difference
Wintersession 2023
- LAS-W508-01 Phototextuality: Literatures Of The Embedded Image
- THAD-W508-01 Phototextuality: Literatures Of The Embedded Image
Spring 2023
- ILLUS-506G-01 Seminar: Contemporary Visual History
- LAS-E229-01 Domesticating The Nation: 19th Century Women Writers
- LAS-E445-01 The Lyric, The Hybrid, The Essay: Experiments In Nonfiction Writing
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BA, Evergreen State College
CERT, RI School of Design CE
MA, University of Rhode Island
PHD, University of Rhode Island