Wednesday, March 20, 2024 12:30pm
About this Event
320 S Jackson Street, Athens, GA 30602
NOTE: This event has been cancelled. Organizers are sorry for any inconvenience and hope to schedule a visit from McCrea in the future.
Barry McCrea is the Donald R. Keough Family Professor of Irish Studies and professor of English, Romance languages and literatures, and Irish language and literature at the University of Notre Dame. His research and teaching interests include the novel, comparative literature, modernism, gay and lesbian studies, Irish literature, western European literature, Latin American literature, and world literature.
McCrea is the author of three books: Languages of the Night, winner of the American Comparative Literature Association’s René Wellek prize for the best book of 2016; In the Company of Strangers, which was awarded the Heyman prize for scholarship in the humanities; and a novel, The First Verse, which won a number of awards including the Ferro-Grumley prize for fiction and a Barnes and Noble “Discover” prize. The First Verse was published in Spanish and in German.
This event is presented by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts in partnership with the departments of English, comparative literature, and Romance languages, and with the UGA Humanities Council as part of the 2024 UGA Humanities Festival.
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