Gabrielle McIntire

Professor Gabrielle McIntire is a faculty member in the Department of English Language and Literature at Queen’s University, within the Faculty of Arts and Science. She specializes in British and American literary modernism (1890-1945), with particular focus on poetry, poetics, eco-criticism, psychoanalytic theory, and theories of memory, desire, and the sacred.

Education: PhD from Cornell University. She has held SSHRC grants including a Standard Research Grant at Queen’s and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Toronto. Notable fellowships include residencies at Banff Centre for the Arts and Holywell Manor, Balliol College, Oxford.

Research Interests:

• Modernist poetry and prose
• Eco-critical approaches to literature
• Memory and desire in modernist texts
• Sacred narratives in literary modernism
• Psychoanalytic criticism

Awards:

• W.J. Barnes Award for Distinguished Teaching (2004)
• Clark Award for Distinguished Teaching (Cornell University, 2002)
• SSHRC grants (2008-2012, 2023-2028)

Editorial Roles: Editorial board member of Woolf Studies Annual, T.S. Eliot Studies Annual, Twentieth-Century Literature, and The A-Line.

Creative Work: Published poetry collections include Unbound (2021) and numerous journal contributions. Her creative writing explores ecological themes, mysticism, and human experience.

Teaching: Taught at Cornell University and the T.S. Eliot International Summer School. Known for innovative pedagogy recognized through teaching awards.