Barry McCrea
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Barry McCrea (born 15 October 1974) is an
Trinity College, Dublin (1993–1997) where he studied French and Spanish literature. He received a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2004. He taught Comparative Literature at Yale University, where he was appointed full professor in 2012. He holds a chair in literature at the University of Notre Dame
where he teaches at its campuses in Dublin and Rome.
His novel The First Verse was published by
Sortes Virgilianae
.
The First Verse was a bestseller in Spanish, published as Literati (DestinoLibro, 2006) and in German as Die Poeten der Nacht (Aufbau, 2008).
His book Languages of the Night won the René Wellek prize for best book of 2016.
Bibliography
- The First Verse (2005)
- In the Company of Strangers: Family and Narrative in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce and Proust (2011)
- Languages of the Night: Minor Languages and the Literary Imagination in 20th-Century Ireland and Europe (2015)
Further reading
- Allen Randolph, Jody. "Barry McCrea." Close to the Next Moment: Interviews from a Changing Ireland. Manchester: Carcanet, 2010.
- McKeon, Belinda. "Barry McCrea, Novelist." The Irish Times 21 Jan 2006.
References
External links
- Yale faculty biography
- Review in London Review of Books
- Review in Sunday Business Post[permanent dead link]
- Review in Financial Times
- Review in the Observer
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