Donald E. Morse, Professor of American, Irish, and English Literature, University of Debrecen, Emeritus Professor of English and Rhetoric, Oakland University Michigan, and HJEAS editor-in-chief, has been twice Senior Fulbright Professor (1987-89 and 1990-92) and twice Soros Professor at the University of Debrecen. Author or editor of eighteen books—most recently, Irish Theatre in Transition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)—and over one hundred scholarly essays, he has lectured widely in Europe, the United States, and Asia. Among his books are The Novels of Kurt Vonnegut: Imagining Being an American (Praeger, 2003) and, with Kálmán Matolcsy, The Mythic Fantasy of Robert Holdstock (McFarland, 2011). With Csilla Bertha, he edited the first book on the Irish fantastic, More Real than Reality (Greenwood, 1991), and published a collection of translations of five Hungarian plays, Silenced Voices: Hungarian Plays from Transylvania (Carysfort, 2008). He is the recipient of a Rockefeller Study Fellowship (1990) and the Országh László Prize (2006).