Adam Barrows

Professor – Time and Temporality; Twentieth-Century Anglophone Literature; Disability and Mad Studies; Globalization and Postcolonial Studies

B.S. (University of Wisconsin-Madison), M.A. (Northern Arizona University), Ph.D. (University of Minnesota)
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Current Research

My research focuses on the experience and expression of time and temporality in creative writing of the twentieth-century. I am interested in viewing time in literature through diverse and eclectic theoretical and philosophical lenses including, but not limited to: globalization and postcoloniality; disability and madness; ecology and the environment; and childhood and youth studies. I have written two books on time and literature: The Cosmic Time of Empire (University of California, 2011) and Time, Literature, and Cartography After the Spatial Turn (Palgrave, 2016) as well as numerous articles and book chapters on the subject in such venues as Literary and Cultural Studies of Disability, James Joyce Quarterly, Modern Fiction Studies, and Modern Language Quarterly. In addition to a range of advanced undergraduate courses in the English Department, I regularly teach for the Childhood and Youth Studies Program. I am a published creative writer, with short pieces in The New York Times and Santa Monica Review, as well as a conservatory trained actor, with extensive experience in stage, screen, and voice acting.

Awards

2018: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Research Excellence Award, �Ӱ�ԭ�� University
2015: Canadian Association of University Teachers Dedicated Service Award
2012: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Teaching Award, �Ӱ�ԭ�� University
2012: New Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award, �Ӱ�ԭ�� University
2011: Margaret Church Memorial Prize for best essay of the year, Purdue University, for “‘The Shortcomings of Timetables’: Greenwich, Modernism, and the Limits of Modernity” in Modern Fiction Studies (Summer 2010).

Publications

Alternative Temporalities: The Emancipatory Power of Narrative. Ed. Teresa Valentini, Angela Weiser and John Zilcosky Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2025.

Kronoscope: Journal for the Study of Time 23.2 (2023): 201-216.

Time in Variance. Ed. Arkadiusz Misztal, Paul A. Harris & Jo Alyson Parker. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2021. 97-111.

Modern Love. The New York Times, 21 Feb. 2021, p. ST6 (creative nonfiction).

“M��Ƿ�.”&�Բ��;Santa Monica Review 32.2 (Fall 2020): 88-100 (fiction).

Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies of Disability 12.4 (2018): 391-405.

Ed. Thomas Allen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 242-256.

in Time, Globalization and Human Experience. Ed. Paul Huebener, Susie O’Brien, Tony Porter et.al. London: Rutgers, 2017. 174-190.

. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

James Joyce Quarterly 51.2-3 (Winter-Spring 2014): 333-352.

in Interdisciplinary/Multidisciplinary Woolf: Selected Papers from the 22^nd Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf. Ed. Ann Martin and Kathryn Holland. Clemson, S.C.: Clemson University Digital Press, 2013. 237-242.

Modern Language Quarterly 73.2 (June 2012): 157-174.

ARIEL: a review of international English literature 42.3-4 (July-October 2011): 89-101.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.

Modern Fiction Studies 56.2 (Summer 2010): 262-289 (winner of the Margaret Church Memorial Prize for best essay of 2010).

in Zombies, Vampires, and Philosophy: New Life for the Undead. Ed. Richard Greene and K.Silem Mohammad. Chicago: Open Court, 2010. 69-80.

Radical Teacher 85 (August 2009): 29-38.

Literature Compass 5.3 (2008): 633-644.

Graduate Supervisions

Hannah Kieft, “Re-Thinking: Understanding Trauma and Unreliable Narration in 20th-Century Literature” (PhD, ongoing)

Matt MacDonald, “”Investigating the Politics of Fully Fictional Spaces in Modern Literature” (PhD, ongoing)

Olivier Jacques, “Bolshevizing Britain in the Postwar Imagination: Popular Fiction and Discourse in Britain, 1917-1921” (PhD, 2021)

Kimberley Sigouin, “Re-writing ‘the little coloured ball of earth entirely’: Embodied Language and Ecology in Gertrude Stein, H.D., and Virginia Woolf” (PhD, 2018)