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Adam Cotton

Graduate Student, PhD

0ac55@queensu.ca

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Biography

Adam Cotton's teaching reviews can be found on RateMyProfessors.com. 

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.

Additional Information

Website: https://adamthomascotton.wixsite.com/mysite