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About
the Faculty
 Barry
McCrea
barry.mccrea@yale.edu
Barry McCrea’s interests include modern European and Latin American
literature, especially narrative, in English, French, Spanish, Italian
and Irish (Gaelic). He has a B.A. in Spanish and French from Trinity
College Dublin, and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Princeton
(2004), where his dissertation won the Sidonie-Klauss award.
His second book, World of Strangers: The New Families of Modern
Fiction is forthcoming from Columbia University Press. With chapters
on Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust, World of Strangers links
the evolution of narrative form to changing conceptions of the family.
His first book, a novel, The First Verse (Carroll & Graf, 2005;
Brandon 2008), won the 2005 Ferro-Grumley prize for fiction and was
selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program. It
was nominated for an American Library Association Stonewall prize and
for a Lambda award and was excerpted in the London Independent on
Sunday and the Spanish daily El País. It was praised by publications
such as the London Review of Books, the Observer and the Financial
Times. The First Verse was published in Spanish as Literati
(DestinoLibro, 2007), and in German as Die Poeten der Nacht (Aufbau,
2008).
He has published articles on modernism and the marriage-plot, puns and
ideas of citizenship in Ulysses, on the relationship between Bram
Stoker’s Dracula and the romantic comedy, and is currently finishing
an essay attempting to articulate a theory of minor-language poetry by
non-native speakers, focusing especially on the Irish poet Seán Ó
Ríordáin and the Friulian poems of Pier Paolo Pasolini.
He is currently working on two new books, one on firstness in fiction,
provisionally entitled First Novels, Final Farewells, and another on
the relationship between the novel and communications technology from
the seventeenth century to the present. He is a frequent contributor
essays and reviews to newspapers and academic journals, and has been a
keynote speaker at conferences and summer schools in the United
States, Ireland and Italy, and was a plenary speaker at the 2006
International James Joyce Symposium in Budapest.
Sample courses:
“Class, Desire, and the Novel”; “Proust and the Novel”; “Joyce and
the Novel”; “Narratives of Formation”
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