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Biography

Adam Cotton's teaching reviews can be found on . 

Research Interests

Composing courses. Lecturing on grammar, literacy, the essay, versification, themes and issues of modernist literature, totalitarianism, literary indoctrination, free speech, and elegy

Selected Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications  

“Notes on Robert Lowell’s Proleptic Elegy with ‘Il Miglior Fabbro.’” Modern Horizons: Toronto, 2016. Web.

Conference Papers & Seminars 

“Grammars and Digressions in the Later Poems of T. S. Eliot.” The International T. S. Eliot Society. Senate House, University of London: London, UK. 11 July 2022. 

“Early Poems and Criticism” of T. S. Eliot. The International T. S. Eliot Society. Senate House, University of London: London, UK. 6-15 July 2019. 

“Pharmakoi, Asyndeton, the Historical Sense and T. S. Eliot’s Murder in the  Cathedral.” The International T. S. Eliot Society. Emory University: Atlanta, GA. 21 Sept. 2018.  

“As ‘The Sharp Guitars’ Mourn the Poet’s ‘Name’: American Elegies for Federico García Lorca.” Humanities Graduate Student Association. York University: Toronto, 2017.  

“Dialogical Struggle in the Canadian Elegies for Federico García Lorca.” Institute of Modern Languages Research. Senate House, University of London: London, UK. 11 July 2016. 

“Anxieties and Pleasantries in Modernist Philia: The Friendship(s) of T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound.” The International T. S. Eliot Society. Auditorium Teatro della Clarisse: Rapallo, Italy. 21 June 2016. 

“Catastrophe and Dilemmas of Commemoration in Two Canadian Elegies for Federico García Lorca.” Modernist Studies Association. Westin Copley Place: Boston, MA. 19 Nov. 2015. 

“‘No Other Way’: A Defense of the Three War Elegies by John Cornford.” ACCUTE. University of Ottawa: Ottawa, ON. 31 May 2015. 

“The Disbelieving Believer in T. S. Eliot and the Believing Disbeliever in Virginia Woolf.” The International T. S. Eliot Society. Washington University: St. Louis, MO. 19 Sept. 2014.  

“Samuel Richardson’s ‘Buzz of Mixed Voices’: Polyphony in Clarissa.” Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies: London, ON. 16 Oct. 2013.

Awards and Recognition

• 2024 - T. S. Eliot International Summer School Scholarship
• 2022 - T. S. Eliot International Summer School Scholarship
• 2020 - (Nominated) Queen’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
• 2019 - T. S. Eliot International Summer School Scholarship
• 2018 - Queen’s English Travel Award (QETA)
• 2016 - (QETA)
• 2016 - Jamieson Award for Excellence in Canadian Literary Studies
• 2016 - Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS)
• 2016 - Queen’s Graduate Dean’s Doctoral Field Travel Grant
• 2015 - (OGS)
• 2015 - (QETA)
• 2014 - (OGS)
• 2014 - (QETA)
• 2012 - Queen’s Graduate Award

Graduate Supervision

John Pierce
Supervisor

Gabrielle McIntire
Second Reader 

Dissertation

Confronting Form, the Disappearing Poet, and the Elegiac Traces of Federico García Lorca.

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