Dr. Carter teaches the English department’s course on theory and criticism (English 3000) and classes on American literature and culture, including surveys covering the period 1880 to the present (English 3360 and English 3370), a course on twenty-first-century US writing in relation to notions of globalization (English 3320), and seminars on the cold war (English 4300) and on the work of Henry Adams (English 4980 / 4700).  He also teaches a seminar on detective fiction (English 4400) and a seminar on critical theory in the Marxist tradition (English 4700). 

His scholarship on writers such as Henry Adams, Norman O. Brown, Jacques Derrida, Joan Didion, Martha Gellhorn, Michael Herr, and Fredric Jameson has appeared in boundary 2, Canadian Review of American Studies, Criticism, New England Quarterly, and War, Literature & the Arts, and his work has received financial support from the British Academy and the Massachusetts Historical Society.  He is currently at work on two book manuscripts: one about the relationship between American culture and military thought since the US Civil War, and a second about twentieth-century engagements with the work of Henry Adams.

Among other university and professional governance work, Dr. Carter has served on the budget and planning committee for the College of Letters, Arts & Sciences, on the faculty board for the Heller Center for Arts & Humanities, as an officer for the UCCS chapter of the American Association of University Professors, and as a CU Excellence in Leadership Program (ELP) Fellow (AY 2023–2024).  He is currently (2024–2028) chair of the English Department.

Education

• Ph.D., University of California at Santa Cruz
• B.A., Brown University

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