Research Interests: American writing, Anglo-American poetry, modern and
contemporary American poetry, and 20th Century Hiberno-English writing, especially fiction
John Hildebidle is a poet, short-story writer and essayist, and has taught English, American, and Irish literature at MIT since 1983. His publications include a study of Henry David Thoreau and another of 20th century Irish fiction, Five Irish Writers: The Errand of Keeping Alive. His current research is on the Field Day Theatre Company in Ireland.
Visit John's homepage at: web.mit.edu/lit/www/dutchiamb/.
Winner of the 2005 Arthur C. Smith Award
Signs, Translations (poems)
Salmon Poetry, 2009
http://www.amazon.com/Signs-Translations-John-Hildebidle/dp/1903392837/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254860007&sr=8-1
Defining Absence (poems)
Salmon Publishing, 1999
http://www.amazon.com/Defining-Absence-John-Hildebidle/dp/1897648588/
One Sleep, One Waking (poems)
Wyndham Hall, 1994
http://www.amazon.com/One-Sleep-Waking-Poems/dp/155605243X/
Five Irish Writers: The Errand of Keeping Alive (criticism)
Harvard University Press, 1989
http://www.amazon.com/Five-Irish-Writers-Errand-Keeping/dp/067430487X/
Stubbornness: A Field Guide (fiction)
New Myths, 1987
http://www.amazon.com/Stubbornness-Field-Guide-John-Hildebidle/dp/0938621009/
Thoreau: A Naturalist's Liberty (criticism)
Harvard University Press, 1983
http://www.amazon.com/Thoreau-Naturalists-Liberty-John-Hildebidle/dp/0674886402/
Modernism Reconsidered (criticism: assisted Robert J. Kiely as editor)
Harvard University Press, 1983
http://www.amazon.com/Modernism-Reconsidered-Harvard-English-Studies/dp/0674580656/
The Old Chore (poems)
Alice James Books, 1981
http://www.amazon.com/Old-Chore-John-Hildebidle/dp/0914086340/
21L.004 Reading Poetry
21L.006 Intro to American Literature
21L.325 Small Wonders
21L.430 Popular Narrative
21L.488 Contemporary Literature
21L.704 Studies in Poetry
21L.705 Masterworks in American Short Fiction
