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Joshua Kotin is an Associate Professor of English at Princeton University, serving as Director of Graduate Studies. He holds affiliated roles in the Program of European Cultural Studies, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, and the University Center for Human Values. Kotin earned his BA from McGill University and PhD from the University of Chicago. His research focuses on poetry, global modernism, and digital humanities initiatives like the Shakespeare and Company Project. He explores intersections of art, politics, and literary canons through projects like Poems That Kill (forthcoming) and The Art of Rejection. Kotin teaches courses on modernist literature, contemporary poetry, and avant-garde movements. His work appears in journals such as Critical Inquiry and American Literary History.
Research highlights include analyzing Sylvia Beach's interwar Paris bookstore's lending library data to challenge canonical assumptions. Kotin's digital humanities collaborations involve large-scale reader reception studies and archival recovery projects. He co-edits scholarly volumes and special journal issues on modernist publishing and pedagogy. Current projects investigate rejected manuscripts' impact on literary history and the cultural networks of Parisian literary spaces.
