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David D. Holdeman

Title: Professor

Department: English

College: College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Curriculum Vitae

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Education

  • PhD, University of Michigan, 1992
    Major: English Language and Literature
    Specialization: English Literature
    Dissertation: Much Labouring: Constructions of W. B. Yeats's "In the Seven Woods" and "Green Helmet" Volumes
  • MA, University of Michigan, 1988
    Major: English Language and Literature
  • BA, Indiana University, 1986
    Major: English

Current Scheduled Teaching

ENGL 5760.001Scholarly and Critical WritingSpring 2025
ENGL 3450.001Short StorySpring 2025
ENGL 3440.001British and Anglophone Literature 1780 to the PresentFall 2024 Syllabus
ENGL 3000.002Introduction to Literary Analysis and Interpretation SkillsFall 2024 Syllabus
Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.

Previous Scheduled Teaching

ENGL 3440.002British and Anglophone Literature 1780 to the PresentSpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 5540.001Studies in Twentieth Century British or Irish Literature and CultureSpring 2024 SPOT
ENGL 3000.001Introduction to Literary Analysis and Interpretation SkillsSpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 5800.001Studies in Literary GenresSpring 2023 SPOT
ENGL 3440.001British and Anglophone Literature 1780 to the PresentFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 4800.001Special Seminar in Literature or LanguageFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 4800.301Special Seminar in Literature or LanguageFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 3000.004Introduction to Literary Analysis and Interpretation SkillsSpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 5760.001Scholarly and Critical WritingSpring 2022 SPOT
ENGL 3440.001British and Anglophone Literature 1780 to the PresentFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 3000.004Introduction to Literary Analysis and Interpretation SkillsFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 5760.001Scholarly and Critical WritingSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 5760.601Scholarly and Critical WritingSpring 2021 SPOT
ENGL 2331.003World LiteratureSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 2341.004Forms of LiteratureFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1311.001Honors Composition IFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 3440.001British and Anglophone Literature 1780 to the PresentSpring 2020 Syllabus
ENGL 5800.001Studies in Literary GenresSpring 2020
ENGL 3440.003British and Anglophone Literature 1780 to the PresentFall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 4841.001Studies in Modern Irish LiteratureFall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 4900.724Special ProblemsSpring 2019
ENGL 5540.001Studies in Twentieth Century British or Irish Literature and CultureSpring 2019 SPOT
ENGL 5540.601Studies in Twentieth Century British or Irish Literature and CultureSpring 2019 SPOT
ENGL 4450.002Special Studies in a Single or Dual Author(s)Spring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 6950.724Doctoral DissertationSpring 2017
ENGL 6950.724Doctoral DissertationFall 2016
ENGL 6950.724Doctoral DissertationSpring 2016
ENGL 6950.724Doctoral DissertationFall 2015
ENGL 6950.724Doctoral DissertationSpring 2015
ENGL 6950.724Doctoral DissertationFall 2014
ENGL 5540.001Studies in Twentieth Century British or Irish Literature and CultureFall 2014
ENGL 6950.724Doctoral DissertationSpring 2014
ENGL 5950.724Master's ThesisSpring 2014
ENGL 4841.001Studies in Modern Irish LiteratureSpring 2014 Syllabus
ENGL 6950.724Doctoral DissertationFall 2013
ENGL 5950.724Master's ThesisFall 2013
ENGL 5540.001Studies in Twentieth Century British or Irish Literature and CultureFall 2013
ENGL 5540.791Studies in Twentieth Century British or Irish Literature and CultureFall 2013
ENGL 3440.001British and Anglophone Literature 1780 to the PresentSpring 2013 Syllabus
ENGL 6950.724Doctoral DissertationSpring 2013
ENGL 5950.724Master's ThesisSpring 2013
ENGL 6950.724Doctoral DissertationFall 2012
ENGL 4900.724Special ProblemsFall 2012
ENGL 5540.001Studies in Twentieth Century British or Irish Literature and CultureFall 2012
ENGL 5540.791Studies in Twentieth Century British or Irish Literature and CultureFall 2012
ENGL 6941.724Directed ResearchSpring 2012
ENGL 6941.724Directed ResearchFall 2011
ENGL 5540.001Studies in Twentieth Century British or Irish Literature and CultureFall 2011
ENGL 5900.724Special ProblemsSpring 2011
ENGL 4800.002Special Seminar in Literature or LanguageSpring 2011 Syllabus
ENGL 5900.724Special ProblemsSpring 2010
ENGL 5910.724Special ProblemsSpring 2010
ENGL 3440.001Studies in British Literature 1780 to the PresentSpring 2010
ENGL 5950.724Master's ThesisFall 2009
ENGL 3440.001Studies in British Literature 1780 to the PresentFall 2009
ENGL 6410.001Seminar in British Literature, 1780 to the PresentSpring 2009
ENGL 5750.001Bibliography and Methods of Research in LiteratureFall 2008
ENGL 6410.001Seminar in British Literature, 1780 to the PresentSpring 2008
ENGL 5750.001Bibliography and Methods of Research in LiteratureFall 2007
ENGL 5950.724Master's ThesisSummer 5W1 2007
ENGL 5950.724Master's ThesisSpring 2007
ENGL 3440.002Studies in British Literature 1780 to the PresentSpring 2007
ENGL 5750.001Bibliography and Methods of Research in LiteratureFall 2006
ENGL 6950.724Doctoral DissertationFall 2006
ENGL 5950.724Master's ThesisFall 2006
ENGL 5900.724Special ProblemsFall 2006
ENGL 6950.724Doctoral DissertationSpring 2006
ENGL 5950.724Master's ThesisSpring 2006
ENGL 4420.001PoetrySpring 2006
ENGL 5910.724Special ProblemsSpring 2006
ENGL 5800.001Studies in Literary GenresSpring 2006
ENGL 5750.001Bibliography and Methods of Research in LiteratureFall 2005
ENGL 6950.724Doctoral DissertationFall 2005
ENGL 5950.724Master's ThesisFall 2005
ENGL 4290.001World DramaFall 2005
ENGL 6944.724Directed ResearchSpring 2005
ENGL 6950.724Doctoral DissertationSpring 2005
ENGL 5950.724Master's ThesisSpring 2005
ENGL 5900.724Special ProblemsSpring 2005
ENGL 3440.002Studies in British Literature 1780 to the PresentSpring 2005
ENGL 5800.001Studies in Literary GenresSpring 2005
ENGL 5750.001Bibliography and Methods of Research in LiteratureFall 2004
ENGL 6941.724Directed ResearchFall 2004
ENGL 6942.724Directed ResearchFall 2004
ENGL 6950.724Doctoral DissertationFall 2004
ENGL 5950.724Master's ThesisFall 2004
ENGL 3440.002Studies in British Literature 1780 to the PresentFall 2004
Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book

  • Holdeman, S.D., Levitas, B. (2010). W. B. Yeats in Context. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
  • Holdeman, S.D. (2008). The Cambridge Introduction to W. B. Yeats (China reprint edition). Shanghai, Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press.
  • Holdeman, S.D. (2006). The Cambridge Introduction to W. B. Yeats. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
  • Holdeman, S.D. (2002). In the Seven Woods and The Green Helmet and Other Poems: Manuscript Materials by W. B. Yeats. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press.
  • Holdeman, S.D. (1997). Much Labouring: The Texts and Authors of Yeats's First Modernist Books.. Ann Arbor, MI, University of Michigan Press.

    • Book Chapter

  • Holdeman, S.D. (2014). "Looking at Art in Bernard MacLaverty's Fiction". Bernard MacLaverty: New Critical Readings, ed. Richard R. Russell. 165-77. London, Bloomsbury Press.
  • Holdeman, S.D. (2010). "Manuscripts and Revisions,". W. B. Yeats in Context. 365-75. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

    • Book Review

  • Holdeman, S.D. (2009). Review of Klaus Peter Jochum, ed., The Reception of W. B. Yeats in Europe. London and New York: Continuum, 2006. 107 (2) 311-14. Modern Philology.
  • Holdeman, S.D. (2002). "Wilde's Textual Masks." Review essay on Bobby Fong and Karl Beckson, eds., The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. Vol. 1: Poems and Poems in Prose (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000) and Nicholas Frankel, Oscar Wilde's Decorated Books (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000).. Textual Cultures. 15 361-71.
  • Holdeman, S.D. (2000). Review of A. Norman Jeffares, Images of Invention: Essays on Irish Writing. Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire: Colin Smythe, 1996.. 35-36 (4-1) 930-32.
  • Holdeman, S.D. (2000). Review of Paul Eggert and Margaret Sankey, eds., The Editorial Gaze: Texts in Literature and the Arts. New York: Garland, 1998.. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. 94 (1) 144-46.
  • Holdeman, S.D. (1997). Review of William T. Gorski, Yeats and Alchemy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996.. 62 (3) 114-17. South Atlantic Review.
  • Holdeman, S.D. (1995). Review of George Mills Harper, et al., Yeats's Vision Papers. 3 vols. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992.. Textual Cultures. 8 469-77.
  • Holdeman, S.D. (1995). Review of Jerome McGann, Black Riders: The Visible Language of Modernism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.. 8 (1) 54-57. Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography.

    • Journal Article

  • Holdeman, S.D. “‘Their monument and mine’: Material Artifacts, Thoor Ballylee, and Yeats’s Later Poetry”. International Yeats Studies. 7 (1) 43-68. https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/iys/
  • Holdeman, S.D. (1996). "Beyond Editing: Textual Studies, Literary Interpretation, and Pedagogy.". Textual Cultures. 9 160-67.
  • Holdeman, S.D. (1996). "Historicizing Yeats: The Textual and Interpretive History of 'The Green Helmet and Other Poems.'". Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies. (XII) 119-32.
  • Holdeman, S.D. (1995). "Interpreting Textual Processes: The Case of Yeats's 'In the Seven Woods.'". Textual Cultures. 8 249-65.
  • Holdeman, S.D. (1994). "Constructing Yeats: The Collaborative Authorship of 'In the Seven Woods.'". Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies. (XI) 119-28.
  • Holdeman, S.D. (1994). "Revision and Closure in Yeats's 'The Rose.'". Yeats Eliot Review. 12 (3 & 4) 121-24.

    • Special Issue of Scholarly Journal

  • Holdeman, D. Yeats and Materiality. International Yeats Studies. 7 (1) 1-325. https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/iys/
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