In 2013, Barry chaired a panel at the Modern Language Association convention in Seattle, “Teaching Theory One Generation Later.” For that panel he delivered a paper entitled “Foundational Theory,” which he is currently revising for publication. In addition, Barry is working on expanding an earlier paper, “The Politics of Pleasure and the Pleasure of Politics.” This is part of a longer project on “pleasure” itself and its marginalization in current cultural criticism and theory. Barry’s interests also always involve working through poststructuralistic thought, particularly the work of the Jacques Derrida.