Richard Alan Barlow is an Associate Professor at NTU and a former Academic Director of the Trieste Joyce School. He received his PhD from Queen’s University Belfast and his MA and MLitt from the University of Aberdeen.

Richard’s most recent book — Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms — was published by Oxford University Press in 2023. His first book, The Celtic Unconscious: Joyce and Scottish Culture, was published by University of Notre Dame Press in 2017. Together with Dr Paul Fagan, he is currently editing a collection titled Finnegans Wake: Human and Nonhuman Histories, which is forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press in 2024.

Dr Barlow has published articles in journals such as James Joyce Quarterly, Irish Studies Review, Irish Studies in Europe, Scottish Literary Review, and Philosophy and Literature. He has also been a contributor to The Irish Times and The Guardian.

Richard has been an invited speaker at the Oxford Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar, the Trieste Joyce School, and the Vienna Irish Studies and Cultural Theory Summer School. He has also given invited lectures at the University of Aberdeen, the University of Dundee, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of Glasgow. Richard is also an international affiliate member of the Scottish Revival Network.