Rand Brandes Martin Luther Stevens Professor of English Lenoir-Rhyne University Hickory, NC 28601 brandes@lr.

edu Education
B.A., Hanover College, Hanover Indiana; 1978 M.A., Emory University, Atlanta GA; 1982 Ph.D., Emory University, Atlanta, GA; 1985

Employment
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC; 1985-1988 Lenoir-Rhyne University; 1988-2011

Teaching
Core writing courses; Creative Writing; Modern British Literature and Post-Modern Theory

Administrative Appointments
Writer-in-Residence (1999-present) Director, Visiting Writers Series (1988-2022) including The Big Read (2005-2010), The Little Read (2006-2011) and the Spirit of Black Mountain College Celebration (2007-2008) Director, Lenoir-Rhyne University Honors Program, 2000-2005 Director, Lineberger Center for Cultural and Educational Renewal, 2011Awards and Honors 2010 GlaxoSmithKline Fellowship, Institute of Emerging Issues, NC State University.

Appalachian College Association Summer Fellowship, Dublin, Ireland; Mentor Seamus Heaney; Project: A Commentary on the Collected Poems of Seamus Heaney (book-length study) Lenoir-Rhyne University Faculty Scholar Award2004. Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship, Dublin, Ireland, March-August 2003. Project: A Commentary on the Collected Poems of Seamus Heaney (book-length study). Institutional Affiliation, University College Dublin. Lenoir-Rhyne University Roediger Distinguished Service Professorship2002. Roger McHugh Prize for outstanding learned essay in the past years volume of the journal, New Hibernia Review for the essay Letter by Strange Letter: Yeats, Heaney and the Aura of the Book. (1999) Lenoir-Rhyne University Writer-in-Residence, 1997present. Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship, Dublin, Ireland, September 1993-August 1994. Project: worked with Seamus Heaney in Dublin to organize, catalogue, and preserve his manuscripts. Martin Luther Stevens Professor of English; 1990present. Books and Editions Seamus Heaney: A Bibliography 1959-2003, co-authored by Michael J. Durkan (d. 1996), (London: Faber and Faber, 2008), 494 pages. Studies in the Literary Imagination: The Schoolroom in Modern Irish Literature and Culture, Vol. XXX no. 2, Fall 1997 co-edited with Margaret Mills Harper. Introduction; A Dialogue with Mebdh McGuckian 1996-1997; pp. 1-5; 37-61. Balefires, Published in Heaven Chapbook Series #77 (Louisville, KY: White Fields Press, 1997): 46 pages; 29 poems. Seamus Heaney: A Reference Guide, co-edited with Michael J. Durkan (New York: G.K. Hall, 1996), 225 pages. An annotated bibliography of over 1500 critical responses to the work of Seamus Heaney.

Essay and Articles The Anthropologists Use of Myth, The Cambridge Companion to Ted Hughes, edited by Terry Gifford (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2011), pp. 67-80. Mercury in Taurus: W.B. Yeats and Ted Hughes, Writing Modern Ireland: South Carolina Review (Special Number), Vol. 43, No. 1, Fall 2010, pp. 198-210. Seamus Heaneys Working Titles: From Advancements of Learning to Midnight Anvil, The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney, edited by Bernard ODonoghue (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009), pp. 19-36. Weighing In: John Montague and Seamus Heaney, in Well Dreams: Essays on John Montague, edited by Thomas Dillon Redshaw, (Omaha, Nebraska: Creighton University Press, 2004), pp. 300-317. Ted Hughes: Crow, A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry, edited by Neil Roberts (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001), pp. 513-523. Letter by Strange Letter Yeats, Heaney, and the Aura of the Book, New Hibernia Review Vol. 2 No. 2, Summer 1998, pp. 28-27. Seamus Heaney, Modern Irish Writers: A Bio-Critical Source Book, edited by Alexander G. Gonzalez (Westport Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1997), pp. 102-110. Inscribed in Sheets: Seamus Heaneys Scribal Matrix, Seamus Heaney: The Shaping Spirit, edited by Catharine Malloy and Phyllis Carey, (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1996), pp. 47-70. An Interview with Medbh McGuckian, The Chattahooche Review Vol. XVI No. 3, Spring 1996, pp. 56-66. A Shaping Music: Richard Murphys The Price of Stone, in Poetry in Contemporary Irish Literature, edited by Michael Kenneally, (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1995), pp. 190203. A Sense of Place among the Stones, The Tribune Magazine (Dublin, Ireland), March 5, 1995: 19.

The Dismembering Muse: Seamus Heaney, Ciaran Carson, and Kenneth Burkes Four Master Tropes, Bucknell Review: Irishness and (Post) Modernism, edited by John S. Rickard, (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1994), pp. 177-194. Hughes, History and the World in which we Live, The Challenge of Ted Hughes, edited by Keith Sagar (London: St. Martins Press, 1994), pp. 142-159. (revised version of Literature & History) Drafting The Price of Stone, The Snow Path, Tracks 10 (Dublin: Dedalus Press, 1994), pp. 6283. Beware of the Siren Call of Prosperity, The Tribune Magazine (Dublin, Ireland), October 30, 1994: 19. Secondary Sources: A Gloss on the Critical Reception of Seamus Heaney 1995-1993, Colby Quarterly, Vol. XXX No. 1, March 1994, pp. 63-77. Ted Hughes, History, and the World in which we Live, Literature & History, (University of Manchester) Third Series, Vol. 2 No. 1, Spring 1993, pp. 68-84. An Interview with Joan McBreen, Colby Quarterly, Vol. XXVIII, No. 4, December 1992, pp. 260-264. Ciaran Carsons Belfast Confetti: Politics and Beyond, Thinker Review (University of Louisville), Vol. No. II, Summer 1992, pp. 331-338 The Economy of Ted Hughess Gaudete, in Critical Essays on Ted Hughes, edited by Leonard M. Scigaj, (New York: G.K. Hall, 1992), pp. 172-187. Behind the Bestiaries: The Poetry of Lawrence and Ted Hughes, in D.H. Lawrences Literary Inheritors, edited by Keith Cushman and Dennis Jackson (New York: St. Martins Press, 1991), pp. 248-267. The Yeats and Ireland Collection at Wake Forest University, co-authored with Edwin G. Wilson, Yeats Annual No. 7, edited by Warwick Gould (London: MacMillan, 1990), pp. 213-217.

Ted Hughes in and out of Time: Remains of Elmet and Moortown Elegies, in World, Self, Poem: Essays on Contemporary Poetry from the Jubilation of Poets, edited by Leonard M. Trawick, (Kent, Ohio: Kent State UP, 1990), pp. 37-43. Interview with Ciaran Carson, The Irish Review, (Cork University Press) N0. 8, Spring, 1990, pp. 77-90. Seamus Heaney: An Interview, Salmagundi 80, Fall 1988, pp. 4-21.

Reviews Poetry and Peace: Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney and Northern Ireland by Richard Rankin Russell in the James Joyce Supplement, Fall 2011. Human Chain by Seamus Heaney, reviewed in The Irish Literary Supplement, Fall 2011.
Opened Ground by Seamus Heaney, reviewed in The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC), September 27, 1998: 1G; 14G. Thirst by David Wheatley, reviewed in NUA: Studies in Contemporary Irish Writing, Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring 1998, pp. 99-102. Seamus Heaney: The Making of a Poet by Michael Parker, reviewed in the Irish Literary Supplement, Fall 1993. As If It Matters by Eamon Grennan, reviewed in the Irish Literary Supplement, Fall 1992. Richard Aldington and H.D.: The Early Years in Letters, D.H. Lawrence Review, Spring 1992. Seeing Things and Selected Poems 1966-1987 by Seamus Heaney, reviewed in the Irish Literary Supplement, Vol. 10, No. 2, Fall 1991, pp. 30-31. Reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, 74, 1993. D.H. Lawrence: New Studies, Ed. Christopher Heywood, The D.H. Lawrence Review, Spring 1988. Renaissance and Modern Studies: D.H. Lawrence Centennial Issue, Ed. James T. Boulton. D.H. Lawrence Review 19.1 (1987): 52-54.

Poetry
scene unseen, janjoy/labrenz, Hickory 2011, 20 pages; 10 poems. (photographs and words) What Winter, (Hickory, NC: Goosepen Press, 2010); 40 pages; 20 poems. The Wild Goose Poetry Review, Vol. 4 Issue 1 (on-line), Spring 2009: 1 poem. A Conversation Piece, edited by Adrian Rice and Angela Reid, (Belfast, Northern Ireland: The National Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland, 2002): 1 poem. Basarabiei, Anul. 1 nr. 1,(Chisinau, Moldova: Editura, Prut International, 2002): 12 poems translated into Romanian by Nicolae Dabija. Photographer of Lightning, (Hickory, NC: Granite Press, 2001): 10 poems by Nicolae Dabija adapted from the Romanian by Rand Brandes and Maria M. Simonca. Balesfires, Published in Heaven Chapbook Series #77 (Louisville, KY: White Fields Press, 1997): 46 pages; 29 poems. Cobweb (St. Patricks College, Maynooth, Ireland, No. 10, Summer 1994: 1 poem. Thinker Review (University of Louisville), Vol. I, Summer 1992: 1 poem. Thinker Review (University of Louisville), Vol. II, Summer 1992: 3 poems.

Poetry Readings
Hickory Museum of Art, February 25, 2011 (fanjoy/labrenz exhibit). American Conference for Irish Studies, Poetry Panel, Georgia Southern University, February 17, 2011. May Day Installation, May 1, 2010, downtown Hickory warehouse (with fanjoy/labrenz) Burke County Public Library, Morganton, NC Library, Poetry Panel April 2009 (including NC Poet Laureate, Kathryn Stripling Byers). Spirit of the Place: Bunker Hill Covered Bridge (2008)United Arts Council of Catawba County.

Spirit of the Place: Oxford Dam (2007)United Arts Council of Catawba County. Southern Regional Conference of the American Conference for Irish Studies, Poetry Panel, Emory University, March 2004.

Academic Presentations
South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, GA, November 2009: Pigs, Pints, and PoetsComments in Honor of Ronald Schuchard. South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Charlotte, NC, November 2006: The Uncollected Heaney (with Amanda Sperry, Lenoir-Rhyne student). Ted Hughes International Conference, Emory University, October 2005: Mercury in Taurus: Ted Hughes and W.B. Yeats. W.B. Yeats International Summer School, Sligo, Ireland2004: Yeats and Forgetting. Southern Regional Conference of the American Conference for Irish Studies, Young Harris College, February 2002 (with Kate Cartwright, Lenoir-Rhyne student): The Politics of Literary Production and Seamus Heaneys Beowulf. W.B. Yeats International Summer School, Sligo, Ireland2001: Yeats and Ted Hughes. Modern Language Association Nation Convention, Chicago, December 1999: Seamus Heaneys Political Palette. W.B. Yeats International Summer School, Sligo, Ireland1999: Heaneys Yeats. W.B. Yeats International Summer School, Sligo, Ireland1997: Letter by Strange Letter: Yeats, Heaney, and the Aura of the Book. American Conference for Irish Studies National Conference, Albany, NY, April, 1997: The Meaning of Meaning in McGuckian and Heaney. Southern Regional Conference of the American Conference for Irish Studies, UNC Chapel Hill, February, 1996: Occult OperationsSeamus Heaney, the Art of Memory, and the Book.

American Conference for Irish Studies Western Region, University of Arizona, October 1995: Seamus Heaneys White Goddess and Sexist Rubbish. American Conference for Irish Studies National Convention/Canadian Association of Irish Studies, Queens University, Belfast Northern Ireland, June 1995: The Post-Colonial Heaney. American Conference for Irish Studies, College of Charleston, SC, March 1995: Dubbing the Irish: The Last of the Mohicans (the film) and Colonialism. American Conference for Irish Studies National Convention, University of Tulsa, OK, April 1994: Revising the Irish Alphabet. MA Program in Anglo-Irish Literature, University College Dublin, February 1994: Seamus Heaneys Alphabet. MA Program in Anglo-Irish Literature, University College Dublin, February 1994: Paul Muldoon and Post-Colonialism. Faculty and Graduate Student Colloquium, Department of English, Queens University, Belfast Northern Ireland, February 1994: Surreal Solutions: Paul Muldoon and Ciaran Carson. Modern Language Association Northeast Region, Philadelphia, April 1993: Pap for the Dispossessed: The Limits of the Post-Modern, Post-Colonial Imagination. American Conference for Irish Studies National Convention, University College Galway, Galway, Ireland, July 1992: Heaney and History. Modern Language Association Northeast Region, Buffalo, NY, April 1992: Peace and Northern Irish Poetry. American Conference for Irish Studies Southern Region Convention, Lenoir-Rhyne College, Hickory, NC: March 1992: Seamus Heaney. American Conference for Irish Studies National Convention, Madison, Wisconsin, April 1991: Belfast Confetti: Politics and Beyond. Modern Language Association South Atlantic Region, Atlanta, GA, November 1991: History and the Body in Heaney and Carson.

Modern Language Association National Convention, San Francisco, December 1991: The Dismembering Muse: Heaney, Carson, and Muldoon. Modern Language Association Northeast Region, University of Connecticut, Hartford, April 1991: (Su)staining the Body in Beckett. Ted Hughes International Symposium, Holly Royde, University of Manchester, July 1990: Ted Hughes and DH. Lawrence. American Conference for Irish Studies Southern Region, Fort Lauderdale, FL, April 1990: A Shaping MusicRichard Murphys Price of Stone. Modern Language Association Northeast Region, Toronto, April 1990: Flann OBriens Violent Edge in At Swim-Two-Birds. American Conference for Irish Studies National Convention, St. Louis, March 1990: The Portrait of the Artist as Homarus Vulgaris American Conference for Irish Studies Mid-Atlantic Region, New York, NY, November 1989: Surreal Solutions: Paul Muldoon and Ciaran Carson. American Conference for Irish Studies National Convention, Syracuse, NY, April 1989: Ciaran Carson: The Irish for No. American Conference for Irish Studies, Dublin, Ireland, 1987: Seamus Heaney and Nietzsches The Use and Abuse of History. Modern Language Association National Convention, New York, 1986: The Spirit of Ambivalence and Ambiguity in Seamus Heaneys Sweeney Astray and Sweeney Redivivus. A Jubilation of Poets, Cleveland State Poetry Center, 1986: Ted Hughes In and Out of Time Remains of Elmet and Moortown Elegies. D.H. Lawrence Centennial Conference, Tufts University, 1985: The Primitive Connection The Poetry of D.H. Lawrence and Ted Hughes.

Grants for Individual Projects

United Arts Council of Catawba County, NC Innovative Artist Project Grant2009-10. The Spirit of Place and the Soul of Catawba County: a multi-media collaboration with photographers Sally Fanjoy and James Labrenz. United Arts Council of Catawba County, NC Innovative Artist Project Grant2007-8. The Spirit of Place and the Soul of Catawba County: a multi-media collaboration with photographers Sally Fanjoy and James Labrenz and the Degas String Quartet. United Arts Council of Catawba County, NC Innovative Artist Project Grant2006-7. The Spirit of Place and the Soul of Catawba County: a multi-media collaboration with photographers Sally Fanjoy and James Labrenz the Degas String Quartet. Faculty/Student Summer Research Grant with Amanda Sperry, Senior English Major, June 2006. Project: The Uncollected Heaney. Faculty/Student Summer Research Grant with Amy Greensfelder, Freshman English Major, May 2004. Project: A Commentary on the Collected Poems of Seamus Heaney. Faculty Development Leave (Sabbatical), Spring 2003. Project: Seamus Heaney Bibliography and Commentary.

Institutional Grants in Support of the Visiting Writers Series

Catawba Foundation (Hickory, NC) George Foundation (Hickory, NC) Hickory Rotary (Hickory, NC) NEA Grant for American for the Arts 1999 residency of Northern Irish poet Adrian Rice. Partner: Catawba County Arts Council. NEA Grant for partial funding of Word Wide/ North Carolina Literary Consortium North Carolina Arts Council (10) Shuford Foundation (Hickory, NC) Unifour Foundation, 3 (Hickory, NC)

United Arts Council of Catawba County Project Pools Grant (10)

Professional Service
Adjudicator, North Carolina Arts CouncilFiction Panel, 147 submissions, 2009. Adjudicator, Rural Arts Alliance Contest (high school), Batesville, IN, 2005-2009. Executive Committee member, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 2001-2004. North Carolina Council Arts CouncilLiterary Programming, 1998-1999. President, American Conference for Irish Studies Southern Region, 1991-1993. Coordinator and Host, American Conference for Irish Studies Southern Region Conference, Lenoir-Rhyne, March 1992. National Endowment for the Humanities Panel for Fellowships, Reviewer, Washington, D.C., 1991. Nua: Studies in Contemporary Irish Writing, Carson-Newman College; Editorial Board member. Working papers in Irish Studies, Wingate College; Editorial Board member.

Editorial Consulting
Bucknell University Press Faber and Faber Publishing, London Farrar, Straus, and Giroux Publishing Syracuse University Press Twentieth Century Literature University of Kentucky Press

University of Missouri Press Wake Forest University Press