Dr. Jefferson Holdridge
Associate Professor of English,
Director of Wake Forest University Press
Contact
Office: C104 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 and 20th Century Irish Poetry
- Late Victorian and Modernist poetry
- Aesthetics
Courses Taught at Wake Forest
ENG 111- Nature Writing
ENG 368- Irish Poetry of the 20th Century
ENG 768- Folklore and Mythology in Irish Literature
ENG 300- Twentieth-Century Irish Literature
ENG 362 - The Irish Literary Renaissance and its Backgrounds
ENG 165- The Rhetoric of Morality
FYS 100- Landscape in Irish Literature
Selected Publications
“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).
Edited and introduced The WFU Series of Irish Poetry: Volume 2 (Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 2010).
“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 Panting Rain” An Sionnach: Special Issue on Paula Meehan, ed. Jody Allen-Randolph (Volume 5: Spring/Fall 2010).
The Poetry of Paul Muldoon (Dublin: Liffey Press, 2008).
Additional Information
Curriculum Vitae: CV in .pdf format; CV in .docx format