Barry McCrea
Barry McCrea (born October 15, 1974 ) is an Irish literary scholar and writer .
biography
McCrea grew up in Dalkey in what is now County Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown south of Dublin . He attended a private Jesuit boys' school near Dublin and then studied French and Spanish literature from 1993 to 1997 at Trinity College in Dublin. He received his BA there and his Ph. D. in 2004 from Princeton . Since 2004 McCrea has taught comparative literature at Yale University .
McCrea wrote, among other things, essays on Ulysses , on exile and allegory with Cortázar and on the relationship between Bram Stoker's Dracula and romantic comedy. At the beginning of 2009 a study entitled Family and the Modern Novel , with chapters on Dickens , Conan Doyle , Joyce and Proust , was completed, but not yet published, in which McCrea discussed the development of narrative forms in the 19th and 20th centuries with one another the changing notion of family. Another study on “firstness in fiction” is being carried out under the working title First Novels, Final Farewells . In 2006 McCrea took part in the International James Joyce Symposium in Budapest.
McCrea's fictional debut was The First Verse in 2005 and published in German in 2008 under the title Die Poeten der Nacht by Aufbau-Verlag . On a semi-autobiographical background, the novel tells a coming of age story in the contemporary Dublin student milieu, combined with a “bow to the world of literature” in an increasingly magical and fantastic atmosphere.
Awards and nominations
- 2004: Sidonie-Klauss award for the dissertation
- 2005: Ferro-Grumley prize for fiction for The First Verse
- 2005: nominated for the Stonewall Book Award of the American Library Association for The First Verse
- 2005: Nomination for a Lambda Literary Award for The First Verse
Works (selection)
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The First Verse. A Novel , Carroll & Graf 2005, ISBN 0786715138
- German: The poets of the night. Roman , ex. by Bettina Stoll. Structure, Berlin 2008, ISBN 3-351-03222-6
- Family and the Modern Novel (unreleased)
Web links
- Literature by and about Barry McCrea in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Profile at Yale University (with photo) (accessed January 14, 2009)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | McCrea, Barry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish literary scholar and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 15, 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ireland |