Faculty Directory
Michael Kiernan
Associate Professor of English
Contact:
120 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802
Office Phone: 814-865-2831
mtk@psu.edu
Office Hours:
Monday/Wednesday 4-5 and Thursday 3:30-4:30
Educational History:
Ph.D. Harvard University
M.A. Marquette University
B.A. Fairfield University
Research Interests:
Renaissance/Early Modern poetry and prose; Shakespeare and his dramatic contemporaries; textual editing
Current research: edition of Francis Bacon's The Historie of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh and Other Works of the 1620s, Vol. 8 of The Oxford Francis Bacon (Clarendon Press)
Awards:
Recipient of research grants and fellowships from:
American Philosophical Society
American Council of Learned Societies
British Academy
Henry E. Huntington Library
Folger Shakespeare Library
NEH-Huntington and NEH-Folger Fellowships
Who's Who Among America's Teachers, 2002
Major Publications:
Francis Bacon's The Advancement of Learning, Vol. 4 of The Oxford Francis Bacon (Clarendon Press, 2000)
Francis Bacon's The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, Vol. 15 of the Oxford Francis Bacon (Clarendon Press 2000) (a re-issue of the 1985 Harvard/Oxford edition)
Henry the Fourth, Part One: A Bibliography to Supplement the New Variorum Edition of 1936 and the Supplement of 1956 (MLA, 1977)
The Plays of George Chapman: The Comedies gen. ed. Allan Holaday, assisted by Michael Kiernan (University of Illinois Press, 1970)
Teaching Statement:
In all my teaching I am most interested in having my students engage directly with the complexities of particular literary works-'the play's the thing'!
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