Barry Devine

Dr. Devine teaches modern British and Irish literature, Women's Literature, LGBTQ+ Literature, and College Writing. His research interests focus the manuscripts of modern Irish authors, primarily James Joyce. He launched The John Quinn Lecture Series in 2020, and is the Editor-in-Chief of The Rock Creek Review, Heidelberg's international journal of undergraduate literary research. He is a first-generation college student and is the Faculty Advisor for the Tri-Alpha First-Generation Honor Society.

Expertise

James Joyce, Irish Modernism, Irish Women's Fiction, Manuscript Studies, Irish Studies

Research Interests

James Joyce, Irish Modernism, Manuscript Studies

Latest Publication 

Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century (2025). University Press of Florida. Ed. Barry Devine and Ellen Scheible.
This collection from leading Joyce scholars explores innovative pedagogical approaches to the works of this often-challenging writer.

The Irish Bildungsroman (2025). Syracuse University Press. Ed. Gregory Castle, Sarah Townsend, and Matthew Reznicek.
Dr. Devine's chapter in this collection explores James Joyce's use of his early Epiphanies in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Stephen Hero, and Dubliners.

The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes (2022). Cambridge University Press. Ed. Catherine Flynn.
In this reproduction of Joyce's first edition of Ulysses, Dr. Devine is one of 18 scholars from around the world chosen to introduce one of the novel's eighteen episodes.  

Barry Devine's CV