Michael Kuczynski is Professor of English at Tulane University, New Orleans.  He recently concluded nine years of service, six of these consecutive, as the department's chair.  He is founder and director of an undergraduate public humanities initiative, Archives and Outreach; a graduate certificate program in Documentary Literary Studies; and the faculty work group TAC (Tulane Archival Collective).  His research and teaching interests include medieval manuscripts, especially Psalters, book history, and the relationship between literature and the visual arts.