Jordan Windholz lives in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He is an associate professor of Early Modern British literature and Creative Writing at Shippensburg University.
He is the author of The Sisters (Black Ocean, 2024), and Other Psalms (University of North Texas Press, 2015), winner of the 2014 Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry. You can find some of his poems in Boston Review, Seneca Review, Tupelo Quarterly, DIAGRAM, and the tiny journal, among a number of other places.
His research in early modern British literature focuses on gender, sexuality, masculinity, and the teaching of early modern texts using digital tools. You can read his scholarship in English Literary Renaissance, Modern Philology, Humanities, and MLA’s Profession. An essay on A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the literary histories of white supremacy appears in Shakespeare Studies (vol. 50), in their forum on whiteness and Shakespeare, edited by David Sterling Brown, Patricia Akhimie, and Arthur Little, Jr.
His academic monograph, The Single Life: Unpatriarchal Manhoods in English Renaissance Literature is forthcoming from the University of Alabama Press, in their Strode Series in Early Modern Literature and Culture. It examines the manifold and sometimes competing meanings of the single life as it genders men in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
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