Jordan Windholz is a poet and scholar who lives in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. An associate professor of Early Modern British literature and Creative Writing at Shippensburg University, he is the author of The Sisters (Black Ocean, 2024), Other Psalms (University of North Texas Press, 2015, winner of the 2014 Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry), and The Single Life: Unpatriarchal Manhoods in English Renaissance Literature (University of Alabama Press, 2025), part of the Strode Series in Early Modern Literature and Culture.
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.
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