Dr. Tom Carr

Professor of French; Graduate Chair

1203 Oldfather Hall
402-472-3833
tcarr1@unl.edu

Tom Carr, Professor (Ph.D. Wisconsin) teaches courses in 18th-century literature and Quebec literature and civilization. His research interests have focused on the history of rhetoric and Port-Royal. Besides articles on Voltaire, Malebranche, and Marivaux, he published Descartes and the Resilience of Rhetoric (Southern Illinois UP 1990) and an edition of Antoine Arnauld's Réflexions sur l'éloquence des prédicateurs (Droz 1992). Professor Carr has written a number of articles on the pedagogy of French civilization and participated in the AAFT's Acquiring Cross-Cultural Competence (NTC 1996). Recent articles have appreared in The French Review (Marivaux), Quebec Studies (Gabrielle Roy) and Rhetorica. His Voix des Abbesses du Grand Siècle: La predication au féminin à Port-Royal (Tubingen, Biblio 17) appeared in 2006.