Dr. Joshua Kotin

Biography

Joshua Kotin is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Princeton University. His research and teaching focus on poetry and poetics, global modernism, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. literature. He received his BA from McGill University and his PhD from the University of Chicago. Kotin is the author of 'Utopias' (Princeton University Press, 2018) and 'Parkland Mysteries' (The Books, 2023). He directs the Digital Humanities initiative at the Shakespeare Company Project, which he has been leading since 2014, and co-authored the 'Shakespeare Company Project Datasets' (2020–2025). He is currently completing a book titled 'Poems Kill', which centers on the artistic and political implications of Amiri Baraka's work within the context of the Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School. His research has appeared in esteemed journals such as 'Critical Inquiry', 'American Literary History', and 'Post45'. Kotin teaches various undergraduate and graduate courses including 'Language to Be Looked At' and 'James Joyce’s Ulysses'. He is also involved with Princeton's Special Collections to enhance the collections focused on magazines and concrete visual poetry.

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