From 1991-1993, Devine served as Assistant to the President of Boston University. In addition to his duties in the President's office, Devine taught a course on presidential campaigns in the Department of Political Science and was a frequent university lecturer. He has also taught campaign management and strategy courses at the Graduate School of Political Management at The George Washington University. Devine wrote the chapter on "Paid Media – In an Era of Revolutionary Change" in the book "Campaigns on the Cutting Edge" (CQ Press, 2008) and on how Barack Obama won the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination in the book "Campaigning for President" (Routledge 2009). He also frequently lectures in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. He has lectured at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government on numerous occasions and is a regular lecturer at the American University's Washington Internship Program and for the "Politics and Journalism Semester" program at the Washington Center for Politics & Journalism. He participates frequently in public fora, such as 2009's Bipartisan Policy Center's Inaugural Political Summit] at Tulane University, entitled "Taking the Poison Out of Partisanship.".