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Geraldine Higgins is an Associate Professor of English and Director of the Irish Studies Program at Emory University. She holds a B.A. from Trinity College Dublin and a D.Phil. from Trinity College, Oxford. Her research focuses on twentieth-century Irish literature, the Irish Revival, and literature linked to the Troubles, with a particular emphasis on W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney. She directs the Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature and collaborates with Emory’s Rose Library to host Irish writers and scholars. Higgins has curated major exhibitions, including Seamus Heaney: The Music of What Happens and Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again. She was awarded the Massee-Martin/NEH Distinguished Teaching Chair (2014–2018). Her publications include Heroic Revivals from Carlyle to Yeats (2012), Brian Friel (2009), and Seamus Heaney in Context (2021). She has delivered talks such as “Poetry Makes Nothing Happen: The Case of W.B. Yeats” (2019) and participated in panel discussions on Heaney’s legacy.
