Dr. Jefferson Holdridge
Professor of English, Chair
Director of Wake Forest University Press
Contact
Office: C105 Tribble Hall
Phone: (336) 758-3365
Email: holdrij@wfu.edu
Degrees
PhD University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
MA University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
BA San Francisco State University, CA
Areas of Interest
Irish literature from Swift to contemporary period, with particular emphasis on W.B.Yeats, 20th-Century and Contemporary Irish Poetry
Late Victorian and Modernist poetry
Aesthetics
Courses Taught at Wake Forest
ENG 362/ 662- Irish Literature in the 20th Century
ENG 362/662- The Backgrounds of the Irish Literary Renaissance
WRI 111- Nature Writing
ENG 301/ 601- The Poetry, Prose and Drama of W.B. Yeats
ENG 301/601-The Drama of Samuel Beckett
ENG 301- Ideas in Literature; Travelers in Italy
ENG 301/ 601-The Poetry and Criticism of Seamus Heaney
MLS 738- The Sublime is Now
ENG 368/668- Irish Poetry of the 20th Century
ENG 768- Landscape in Irish Literature
ENG 300- Seminar in the Major: Twentieth-Century Irish Literature and Criticism
ENG 165- The Rhetoric of Morality
ENG 190- Epic and Lyric
ENG 150- Literature Interprets the World
FYS 100- Folklore and Mythology in Irish Literature
Selected Publications
Books
Edited and introduced Post-Ireland? Essays on Contemporary Irish Poetry, with Brian O’Conchubhair (Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 2017)
Edited and introduced The WFU Series of Irish Poetry 2 (Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 2010).
The Poetry of Paul Muldoon (Dublin: Liffey Press, 2008).
Essays
“The Autonomous Tear: Conor O’Callaghan’s The Sun King and Caitíona O’Reilly’s Geis in Post-Ireland? Essays on Contemporary Irish Poetry, Jefferson Holdridge and Brian O’Conchubhair, eds. (Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 2017)
“‘Halved Globe, Slowly Turning’: Editing Irish Poetry in America,” South Carolina Review 45: 1, (Fall 2012). Reprint in book form (Liverpool University Press, 2016).
Reprint in paperback 2015. “Bleeding from the ‘Torn Bough’: Challenging Nature in James Joyce’s Poems Penyeach,” The Poetry of James Joyce Reconsidered, ed. Marc Conner (University of Florida Press, 2012).
“Face to Face with Clumsiness: Aberration, Errancy and W.B. Yeats,” Aberration in Modern and Contemporary Poetry, eds. Lucy Collins and Stephen Matterson (McFarland, 2011).
“Landscape and Family in the Eighteenth Century” Yeats in Context, ed. David Holdeman and Ben Levitas (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
“The Wolf Tree: Culture and Nature in Paula Meehan’s Dharmakaya and Painting Rain” An Sionnach: Special Issue on Paula Meehan, ed. Jody Allen-Randolph (Volume 5: Spring/Fall 2010).
Poetry
Book
The Sound Thereof (Bradford, UK: Graft Poetry, 2017).
Devil’s Den and other poems (Ithaca: Split Oak Press, 2015).
Eruptions (Belfast: Lapwing Press, 2013).
Journal
“Benchmark,” Voice in Italian-Americana, Vol. 29, No. 2 (2018).
“The Pot of Basil,” The Tau: The Literary and Visual Art Journal of Lourdes University, 2018.
“Acqua Alta” Prairie Schooner, Summer 2018.
“Alla Bifora,” “Fragment of an Ode,” Watchung Review Volume 2 • July 2018
“Doubting Thomas,” The Anglican Theological Review (99.4: Fall, 2017).
“Against the Dawn,” Pomona Valley Review 11, Friday, July 28th, 2017.
“Irruptions,” Pomona Valley Review 11, Friday, July 28th, 2017.
“Madonna Lactans,” “The Painter’s Riddle,” North of Oxford October 2017.
Additional Information
JEFFERSON HOLDRIDGE CV (pdf)