Department Head and Associate Professor, Humanities

Year Started

2015

Education

Ph.D. in English, Stony Brook University
M.A. in English, St. John's University
B.A. in English, St. John's University

Teaching Interests

Composition
Literature
Technical and Professional Communication
Humanities Sea Practical

Research Interests

African American Studies
Literary Modernism
Multi-ethnic American Literature
Media Studies
Jazz Studies
Film Studies
 

Biography

Dr. Paul Devlin is a scholar of American literature, specializing in African American literature and culture. His edited books include Ralph Ellison in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues (University of Minnesota Press, 2016). With Henry Louis Gates, Jr., he is the co-editor of Albert Murray: Collected Novels and Poems (Library of America, 2018) and Albert Murray: Collected Essays and Memoirs (Library of America, 2016). Dr. Devlin has published peer-reviewed articles in American Studies, African American Review, Film & History, Archives of American Art Journal, Literature of the Americas, and elsewhere. He has also contributed chapters to various books, including “Something Over Something Else”: Romare Bearden’s Profile Series (University of Washington Press, 2019). His public writing has appeared in Slate, San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Times Book Review, Bomb Magazine, The Nation, The Wall Street Journal, Popular Mechanics, and The New Criterion, among other venues.

Dr. Devlin has been a consultant for Jazz at Lincoln Center, the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, and the American Writers Museum in Chicago. He was appointed to the Modern Language Association’s Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada for the term 2016-19 and since 2017 has served as the book review editor of African American Review (Johns Hopkins University Press).