Assistant Professor
V. Joshua Adams is a poet, scholar, translator, and critic. Work of his appears in Literary Imagination, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Modern Language Quarterly, Chicago Review, nonsite, and many literary journals. He teaches literature and writing in the English Department at the University of Louisville.
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About V. Joshua Adams
V. Joshua Adams is a poet, scholar, translator, and critic. Work of his appears in Literary Imagination, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Modern Language Quarterly, Chicago Review, nonsite, and many literary journals. He teaches literature and writing in the English Department at the University of Louisville.
| Present | Assistant Professor, University of Louisville ‐ Department of English | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Honors and Awards
- Edward B. Bunn, S.J. Award for Journalistic Excellence, Georgetown University, 1996– 2000.
- Ora Mary Phelan Poetry Prize, Georgetown University, 2000.
- Fellowship from University Unendowed Funds, University of Chicago, 2004–2009
- Chicago International Translation Prize, Cracked Slab Books, 2006.
- Summer Fellowship, University of Chicago Arts Council, University of Chicago, 2006.
- François Furet Travel Grant, France Chicago Center, University of Chicago, 2007.
- Award for Summer Language Study, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago, 2007, 2008
- Honigberg Fellowship for Study in Paris, 2010–2011.
- Franke Institute for the Humanities Fellowship, 2011–2012.
- Ron Offen Prize for Poetry, 2012.
- “B-Side Modernism”/Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Fellowship, 2013
- Writer in Residence, Rivendell Artists’ Colony, May 2017.
- “Faculty Favorite,” University of Louisville, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020.
Courses
- Interpretive Theory: New Criticism to the Present
- American Literature since 1865
- American Literature from 1910 to 1960
- American Literature since 1960
- British Literature from the Restoration to the Victorian Period
- Women and Literature
- Introduction to Literature
- Greek Thought and Literature
- Foundations of Interpretive Theory
- Ideas of Lyric
- Emily Dickinson and Her Afterlives
- Intermediate Creative Writing – Poetry
- Advanced Composition for Freshmen
- Writing about Literature for Non-Majors
| 2014 | Ph.D., University of Chicago ‐ Comparative Literature | |
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| 2002 | A.M., University of Chicago ‐ Religion and Literature | |
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| 2000 | B.A., Cum laude, Georgetown University ‐ English and Theology | |
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