Meet the faculty

Barry McCrea is a scholar of comparative literature and a novelist. His novel, The First Verse, won the 2006 Ferro-Grumley prize for fiction and a Barnes & Noble “Discover” award. He is also the author of two academic books, In the Company of Strangers (2011), and Languages of the Night: Minor Languages and the Literary Imagination in Twentieth-Century Ireland and Europe which was awarded the American Comparative Literature Association’s Wellek prize for the best book of 2016. He is currently finishing a trilogy of novels tentatively entitled Dalkey. At Notre Dame, he teaches in the departments of English, Irish, and Romance Languages, and he holds the Keough Family Chair in Irish Studies.

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