Karen Leslie Carr is an American scholar and McNaughton Rosebush Professor of Liberal Studies and Professor of Religious Studies at Lawrence University.^[1] She is known for her works on nihilism and philosophy of religion.^[2][3][4]

• The Banalization of Nihilism: Twentieth-Century Responses to Meaninglessness, SUNY Press, 1992
• The Sense Of Antirationalism: The Religious Thought Of Zhuangzi And Kierkegaard, with Philip J. Ivanhoe, CreateSpace, 2010