V. Joshua Adams is a poet, translator, critic, and scholar of comparative literature. His research and teaching encompass poetry and poetics, literature and philosophy, literary theory, ideas of the self, American literature since about 1850, and Fairy Tales. 

Adams is the author of two books: Past Lives: Poems (JackLeg Press, 2024), and Skepticism and Impersonality in Modern Poetry: Literary Experiments with Philosophical Problems (Bloomsbury, 2025). Work of his has appeared or is forthcoming in Modern Language Quarterly, The Brooklyn Rail, Bennington Review, Posit, Chicago Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary Imagination, and elsewhere.