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Rand Brandes

Martin Luther Stevens Professor of English

Lenoir-Rhyne University

Hickory, NC 28601

[email protected]

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, 2011-

Awards and Honors

2010 GlaxoSmithKline Fellowship, Institute of Emerging Issues, NC State University.

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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.

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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 JohnMontague, 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, inPoetry in Contemporary Irish

Literature, edited by Michael Kenneally, (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1995), pp. 190-

203.

A Sense of Place among the Stones, The Tribune Magazine (Dublin, Ireland), March 5, 1995:

19.

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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. 62-

83.

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 CarsonsBelfast Confetti: Politics and Beyond, Thinker Review (University ofLouisville), 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, inD.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 AnnualNo. 7, edited by Warwick Gould (London: MacMillan, 1990), pp.

213-217.

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Ted Hughes in and out of Time:Remains of Elmetand 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 Irelandby

Richard Rankin Russell in theJames Joyce Supplement, Fall 2011.

Human Chain by Seamus Heaney, reviewed in The Irish Literary Supplement, Fall

2011.

Opened Groundby Seamus Heaney, reviewed in The News and Observer(Raleigh, NC),

September 27, 1998: 1G; 14G.

Thirstby David Wheatley, reviewed inNUA: Studies in Contemporary Irish Writing, Vol. 1, No.

2, Spring 1998, pp. 99-102.

Seamus Heaney: The Making of a Poetby Michael Parker, reviewed in the Irish Literary

Supplement, Fall 1993.

As If It Matters by Eamon Grennan, reviewed in theIrish 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 1966-1987by Seamus Heaney, reviewed in theIrish 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.

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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.

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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 HeaneysBeowulf.

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: TheMeaning 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.

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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: TheLast 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.

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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 MurphysPrice of Stone.

Modern Language Association Northeast Region, Toronto, April 1990: Flann OBriens Violent

Edge inAt Swim-Two-Birds.

American Conference for Irish Studies National Convention, St. Louis, March 1990: The

Portrait of the Artist asHomarus 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 NietzschesThe 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 Elmetand 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

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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.



photographers Sally Fanjoy and James Labrenz and the Degas String Quartet.



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)

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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

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University of Missouri Press

Wake Forest University Press

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