Lecturer

Email: barry.nevin@tudublin.ie

My PhD in French Studies and BA International were awarded by NUI Galway. I currently work as Lecturer in French at Technological University Dublin. My primary research interest is French interwar cinema, particularly representations of gender, class and colonialism in the films of Jean Renoir, Jacques Feyder and Marcel Carné. Since 2010, I have held a Visiting Researcher scholarship at the University of California, Los Angeles, and have lectured on European cinema, American cinema, French literature and translation across a variety of third-level institutes including TU Dublin, Trinity College, NUI Galway and l’Université de Bretagne-Sud, Lorient.

I have published across a range of journals including French Studies (Oxford UP), SubStance (Johns Hopkins UP) and French Screen Studies (Taylor & Francis), and my research has attracted a number of external sponsors including the Irish Research Council, the Society for French Studies and the Irish Association for French Studies in association with the Swiss Embassy in Ireland. I authored a monograph based on my PhD thesis, which was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2018. I am currently preparing a monograph on Belgian filmmaker Jacques Feyder, which will be published by Manchester University Press, and a project on French popular cinema of the 1950s, which will be published in a themed issue of French Screen Studies.

ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4078-1556 

Monograph:

Nevin, Barry (2018), Cracking Gilles Deleuze’s Crystal: Narrative Space-Time in the Films of Jean Renoir (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press).

Guest-edited journal issue:

Nevin, Barry, Aoife Connolly, and Clíona Hensey (eds) (2022), ‘Algeria and Memory’, special issue of Contemporary French Civilization (Edinburgh UP) 47.3, pp. 279–383.

Journal articles:

Nevin, Barry (2022), ‘Poetic Realism after the Liberation: Gender, Montmartre and Post-Occupation Memory in Macadam (1946)’, Irish Journal of French Studies (Ingenta), pp. 44–72.

Nevin, Barry (2022), ‘Checking the Imperial Gaze in Muriel ou le temps d’un retour (Resnais, 1963)’, Contemporary French Civilization (Liverpool UP) 47.3, pp. 357–377.

Nevin, Barry, and Clíona Hensey (2022), ‘Introduction: From the Algerian War of Independence to the Post-colonial Mise en Scène of Memory’, Contemporary French Civilization 47.3 (Liverpool UP), pp. 279–297.

Nevin, Barry, and Aoife O’Connor (2022), ‘Nicholas Winding Refn’s Abject Male: Inhibiting Spectator-identification in Bronson (2008) and Drive (2011)’, SubStance (Johns Hopkins UP) 51.2, pp. 38–60.

Nevin, Barry (2022), ‘Theorising the Queer Optique through Curtis Harrington’s Night Tide (1961)’, Journal of Homosexuality (Routledge).

Nevin, Barry (2022), ‘Pays des brumes: The Persistence of Poetic Realism in French Cinema of the Occupation’, Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques (Berghahn) 48.1, pp. 65–94.

Nevin, Barry (2021), ‘French Military Masculinities and the Birth of Cinéma colonial: Triangulating Queer Desire in Jacques Feyder’s L’Atlantide (1921)’, Modern & Contemporary France (Routledge) 29.4, pp. 341–366.

Nevin, Barry (2021), ‘Female Agency in the Films of Jean Renoir’, French Cultural Studies 32.4 (SAGE), pp. 388–402.

Nevin, Barry (2020), ‘Framing “l’Âme des personnages”: Performance and Affect in Jacques Feyder’s Pension Mimosas (1935)’, Australian Journal of French Studies 57.2 (Liverpool UP), pp. 217–232.

Nevin, Barry (2020), ‘(Re)visions of the Outre-Mer: Looking at the Male Gaze in Jacques Feyder’s Le Grand Jeu (1934)’, French Screen Studies 20.2 (Routledge), 87–106.

Nevin, Barry (2020), ‘The Very Essence of French Cinema’(?): Jacques Feyder’s Return to France, 1944–1948’, Quarterly Review of Film and Video 37.5 (Routledge), pp. 456–483.

Nevin, Barry (2020), ‘Le(s) Visage(s) de Garbo: Negotiating Discourses of Authorship and Stardom in Jacques Feyder’s The Kiss (1929)’. Nottingham French Studies 59.1 (Edinburgh UP), pp. 97–116.

Nevin, Barry (2019), ‘“Elle t’aime trop et moi, pas assez”: Jacques Feyder’s Melodramatic Mise en Scène of Female Desire in Pension Mimosas (1935)’, French Studies 73.2 (Oxford UP), pp. 198–216.

Nevin, Barry (2018), ‘Dans la serre: Framing the Greenhouse in Marcel Carné’s Le Jour se lève (1939) and Jean Renoir’s La Règle du jeu (1939)’, French Cultural Studies 29.2 (SAGE), pp. 138–154.

Nevin, Barry (2018), ‘“Prochainement: Arizona Jim contre Cagoulard”: Framing the Future of the Front Populaire in Jean Renoir’s Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (1936)’, Studies in French Cinema 18.2 (Routledge), pp. 113–132.

Nevin, Barry (2018), ‘“After Hollywood and Its Ever-Blue Skies, How Beautiful Paris Looks!”: Jacques Feyder between France and America, 1929–1934’, Film History 30.2 (Indiana UP), pp. 111–140.

Nevin, Barry (2017), ‘Projecting le temps des loisirs: Cycling and Working-class Identity in French Cinema of the 1930s’, in Dominique Jeannerod, Federico Pagello, and Michael Pierse (eds.), Irish Journal for Culture, Arts, Literature and Language 2 (‘The Cultures of Popular Culture’), pp. 1–17.

Nevin, Barry (2016), ‘“What we have done is shameful...”: Interrogating the Relationship between France and its Algérie in Jean Renoir’s Le Bled (1929)’, Studies in French Cinema 16.2 (Routledge), pp. 1–18. (Shortlisted for the 2016 Malcolm Bowie Prize.)

Nevin, Barry (2016), ‘Paris vs Providence: Framing the Crystalline City in Jean Renoir’s La Chienne (1931)’, Journal of Urban Cultural Studies 3.1 (Intellect), pp. 55–71.

Nevin, Barry (2012), ‘Artifice in Depth: the Evolution of Profondeur de Champ in Jean Renoir’s The Golden Coach (1952)’, Kinema 20.2 (University of Waterloo Press), pp. 5–38.

Book reviews:

Nevin, Barry (2022), ‘Gemma King, Jacques Audiard (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021) xii + 188 pp.’, Irish Journal of French Studies (Ingenta), pp. 218–19.

Nevin, Barry (2022), ‘Zola and the Art of Television: Adaptation, Recreation, Translation. By Kate Griffiths. (Transcript, 3.) Oxford: Legenda, 2013. 182 pp.’, French Studies (Oxford UP), pp. 680–81.

Nevin, Barry (2022), ‘Silent Renoir: Philosophy and the Interpretation of Early Film. By Colin Davis. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. IX, 142 pp.’, French Studies (Oxford UP), p. 682.

Nevin, Barry (2022), ‘The Marais: The Story of a Quartier, by Keith Reader (2020)’, Modern & Contemporary France (Taylor & Francis) 30.1, pp. 99–100.

Nevin, Barry (2021), ‘Sarah Leahy and Isabelle Vanderschelden, Screenwriters in French Cinema (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021) xvi + 374 pp’, Irish Journal of French Studies 21 (Ingenta), pp. 156–158.

Nevin, Barry (2020), ‘Vicente Blasco Ibáñez et le cinéma français, 1914–1918, by Cécile Fourrel de Frettes (2015)’, H-France Review (h-france.net, curated by the Society for French Historical Studies).

Nevin, Barry (2020), ‘Boats on the Marne: Jean Renoir’s Critique of Modernity, by Prakash Younger (2017)’, Modern & Contemporary France 28.1 (Taylor & Francis), pp. 126–127.

Nevin, Barry (2018), ‘Engagement in 21st Century French and Francophone Culture Countering Crises, edited by Helena Chadderton and Angela Kimyongür (2017)’, Journal of European Popular Culture 8.3 (Intellect), pp. 59–61.

Awards:

2022: Languages Connect grant (€10,000)

2022: Newcastle University Virtual Visiting Researcher Fellowship (£250)

2020: French Screen Studies Research Bursary (£429).

2020: Maynooth University Visiting Research Fellowship (€500)

2019: NUI Galway Moore Institute Visiting Research Fellowship (€500)

2018: ASMCF Early Career Award (£250)

2018: Dublin Institute of Technology Seed Funding (€4,283)

2016: SFS Research Support (£500)

2013: IRC Postgraduate Scholarship (€45,050)

2013: University of California Visiting Researcher Scholarship

2012: ADEFFI Laureate (€500)

2011: NUI Galway Doctoral Scholarship (€60,000)

Other activities:

2022–present: Editorial board member, Irish Journal of French Studies

2020–present: Executive committee member, ADEFFI (l’Association des études françaises et francophones d’Irlande / Irish Association for French and Francophone Studies)

2018–present: Board member, Irish Screen Studies.