Geraldine Higgins is Associate Professor of English and Director of Irish Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. Her publications include works on Yeats and other Revival writers, Yeats and popular culture, Brian Friel and Seamus Heaney. She is the curator of the National Library of Ireland's acclaimed exhibition, 'Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again', open at the Bank of Ireland Cultural and Heritage Centre in Dublin until 2023 A former director of the W.B. Yeats Summer School in Sligo, Ireland, she was Emory's Massee-Martin/NEH distinguished teaching chair from 2015–2018.