Nigel Alderman
Assistant Professor
212 Shattuck Hall
(413) 538-3224
office hours: Fridays 9:00-11:00 & by appt.
nalderma@mtholyoke.edu
Education
B.A. (Hons.) Cambridge University
M.A. College of William and Mary
Ph.D. Duke University
Nigel Alderman specializes in twentieth-century British literature
with a more general interest in romantic and post-romantic poetry
and poetics. He is currently finishing a book, From Myth to History:
Transitional Forms in English Literature of the 1960s, that examines
the turn from myth construction to historiographic investigation
in the works of Doris Lessing, Muriel Spark, Harold Pinter, Peter
Brook, Geoffrey Hill, and Ted Hughes. Professor Alderman has also
written on John Milton and memory, on William Wordsworth, John Keats,
Thomas Carlyle and the professional imagination, on William Wordsworth's
construction of a social self, on T. S. Eliot's quatrain poems (an
essay which won the Andrew J. Kappel Annual Award for best article
of literary criticism published in Twentieth Century Literature),
on Philip Larkin and national allegory, and on the historicopoetics
of 1960s British poetry. He co-edited Pocket Epics: British Poetry
After Modernism and he is currently co-editing, with C. D. Blanton,
a forthcoming collection of essays on British and Irish poetry since
1945. Until May 2005, Professor Alderman taught at Yale University
where he was awarded the Sidonie Miskimin Clauss Prize for Teaching
Excellence in the Humanities, the Sarai Ribicoff Award for the Encouragement
of Teaching at Yale College, and a Morse Junior Faculty Fellowship.
He teaches both literature and theory courses that focus primarily
on the twentieth century. In addition to being a member of the English
department, he is also a member of Mount Holyoke's program in Critical
Social Thought.
Selected Publications
"Myth, History, and The New Poetry." A Concise Companion
to Post-War British and Irish Poetry. Eds. Nigel Alderman and
C. D. Blanton. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008.
"'Unity Sublime': The Excursion's
Social Self." Yale
Journal of Criticism. 18. 1 (2005): 21-43.
"Introduction." Pocket Epics: British Poetry After Modernism.
Eds. Nigel Alderman and C. D. Blanton.
Special issue of Yale Journal
of Criticism. 13.1 (2000): 1-2.
"'The Life With A Hole In It':
Philip Larkin and the Condition of England." Textual
Practice. 8.2 (1994): 279-301.
"'Where are the Eagles and Trumpets?':
The Strange Case of Eliot's Missing Quatrains."
Twentieth Century
Literature.
39.2 (1993): 129-151.
Teaching Schedule 2007-2008
English 200f Introduction to the Study of Literature
English 220f Introduction to British Literary & Cultural Studies
since 1660
English 253s Modern British Poetry
English 344s Projects in Critical
Thought
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