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.
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
