Dr. Jefferson Holdridge

Professor of English, Chair | Director of Wake Forest University Press

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

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).
Book, 2022, Stepping Through Origins: Nature, Home, and Landscape in Irish Literature (Syracuse:
2022)
Edited and introduced Post-Ireland? Essays on Contemporary Irish Poetry, with Brian O’Conchubhair
(Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 2017).

“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).

“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.
“Hands,” Poetry Wales, forthcoming.
“With Respect to the Nude,” Poetry Ireland Review, forthcoming.
“Human Frailty”, The Asheville Poetry Review, forthcoming.
“Harvest,” Sheepshead Review, Summer 2023
“Four Poems,” The Galway Review (https://thegalwayreview.com/2023/09/15/jefferson-holdridge-four-poems).
“The Shared Risk, the Same Salvation,” Homage to Søren Kierkegaard: Poems in Memory of Reverend Ronald Marshall Ed. Dana Goia (Wiseblood: Menomonmee Falls, WI, 2023)
“Flora and Hypatia” the quint: an interdisciplinary quarterly from the north, 14.3 (June 2022).

Co-written with Alexander Muller, “Still Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Epochal change in Twenty-First-century Irish Poetry,” Routledge Companion to Contemporary Irish Writing (Anne Fogarty and Eugene O’Brien, eds. (London: Routledge, forthcoming in 2024).
“Grief and Grievances: Poetry and Politics in Robert Frost, in Literature and Aging (forthcoming).
“Teaching Seamus Heaney’s Points of Departure in the Post-Ireland of Contemporary Irish Poetry,” Options for Teaching Irish Poetry in English (MLA: forthcoming Fall 2024).
The Struck Lyre Ripples as a Stricken Voice”: Derek Mahon’s Poetry, from Landscape to Ecology,” Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Climate Crisis, edited by Andrew Auge and Eugene O’Brien (London: Routledge, 2022).
“A Roar of Wings: Faith, Scepticism, the Sublime in Medbh McGuckian’s The Book of the Angel in RISE (Review of Irish Studies in Europe, 4.2: 2022)