Master's Student
Caitriona Devlin (she/her) is a first-year English Master’s student, planning on pursuing the Irish Literature and Culture concentration. She is interested in women’s writers, 18th and 19th century Irish Literature, feminist theory, and psychological analysis. She received her Bachelor’s in English and Psychology from Texas A&M University in 2025 and wrote her honors thesis about father-daughter relationships and cognitive dissonance in Frances Burney’s Evelina. She presented her thesis at the Richard Macksey Research Symposium at Johns Hopkins University and was published in the conference’s journal.
During her undergraduate career, Caitriona worked as a writing consultant at her university’s Writing Center where she obtained her Level III CRLA certification. She attended and presented on improving online-asynchronous feedback at the joint IWCA/NCPTW Conference in October 2025. She currently works as a Writing Fellow at Boston College as well as at Messina College where she supports two First-Year writing courses. In addition, she is a writing tutor at the Connors Family Learning Center.
In her free time, she enjoys watching hockey, shopping at antique stores, reading outside, and going to the movie theatre.