Associate Professor in English

Norman Mayer Room 233
Telephone: (504) 862-8163
Fax: (504) 862-8958
E-mail: mkuczyn@tulane.edu

 

Michael P. Kuczynski took his B.A. in English from Saint Joseph¹s University, Philadelphia in 1979, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in English and American Literature in 1981 and 1987, respectively, from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.  He has taught at Tulane since 1987.  Professor Kuczynski¹s major fields are Old and Middle English Literature and his minor field Early Modern Literature, with special attention to Milton.  His research interests include Chaucer, Middle English manuscripts and religious texts in prose and verse (especially Psalters), medieval women's spirituality, mysticism, and astronomy, and the relationship between literature and the visual arts from the medieval period through the twentieth century.  Kuczynski has published numerous articles on such topics as Chaucer, 14th c. prose-verse miscellanies, medieval religious, mystical, and astronomical manuscripts, and on nineteenth-century antiquarianism.  In 1995 he published a book-length study, Prophetic Song:  The Psalms as Moral Discourse in Late Medieval England (University of Pennsylvania Press) and is currently completing two long-term projects: the religious lyrics chapter of A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050-1500 (Connecticut Academy of the Arts) and a critical edition of a glossed Lollard Psalter in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.