Guest Editor
Rand Brandes PhD is the Martin Luther Stevens Professor of English at Lenoir-Rhyne University, Hickory, North Carolina. He also directs that institution's Lineberger Center for Cultural and Educational Renewal. In both the United States and Ireland, he worked closely with Seamus Heaney over many years. Among his many publications about Heaney and his opus, Dr. Brandes counts Seamus Heaney: A Bibliography, 1959-2003, coauthored with the late Michael Durkan and published by Faber and Faber in 2008.