Jonathan Hufstader

Background

Jonathan Hufstader was born on May 2, 1939, in Trenton, New Jersey, United States.

Education

Jonathan Hufstader earned a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University in 1960. He received a Licentiate in sacred theology from Pontificio Ateneo di Sant'Anselmo in 1968. He earned a Master of Arts in 1991 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1993 from Harvard University.

Career

Jonathan Hufstader worked as a teacher of French and religion (1968-1986), college advisor (1970-1975), school chaplain (1975-1983), headmaster (1983-1986) at Portsmouth Abbey School. He was a teacher of French and English (1986-1990), and an academic dean ( 1987-1989) at Dana Hall School. In 1992-1993, Hufstader was a visiting lecturer in English at Framingham State College. In 1993, Jonathan Hufstader became an assistant professor of English at the University of Connecticut.

In 1999, Jonathan Hufstader published Tongue of Water, Teeth of Stones: Northern Irish Poetry and Social Violence. In this study of seven major poets, including Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, and Medbh McGuckian, Hufstader seeks to determine how poetry has most effectively dealt with violence within its artistic domain. In doing so, he walks a thin line that avoids the dominant critical strategies of placing Irish poetry into the larger contexts of postcolonial debate on the one hand and a mode of deconstructive revisionism on the other. He has contributed to academic journals, including Colby Quarterly, Essays in Criticism, Studies in the Renaissance, Irish University Review, and Downside Review.

Achievements

• Jonathan Hufstader has written a number of essays on Irish poets. He became a Professor Emeritus of the University of Connecticut.

Works

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  • Tongue of Water, Teeth of Stones: Northern Irish Poetry and Social Violence

    (In a 1984 lecture on poetry and political violence, Seamu...)

    1999

Membership

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  Modern Language Association , United States

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  American Conference for Irish Studies , United States