Michael J. Colacurcio

Michael J. Colacurcio

Michael Joseph Colacurcio, Jr. (born July 2, 1936 in Cincinnati , Ohio ) is an American literary scholar.

He studied at the Xavier University of Cincinnati (BA 1958; MA 1959) and the University of Illinois (Ph.D. 1963). From 1963 to 1968 and from 1969 to 1976 he taught English literature at Cornell University , from 1968 to 1969 intermittently at Ohio State University and from 1977 first at the University of California in Irvine , then at the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA), with whom he is still associated as a Distinguished Professor .

His main interest is in American colonial and romantic literature; His numerous works on Nathaniel Hawthorne's work have proven to be particularly influential , which Colacurcio, contrary to symbolist or psychological interpretations, understands primarily as historical literature , i.e. as a commentary on the history of New England that is closely related to place and time.

He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2007 .

Works

• The Province of Piety: Moral History in Hawthorne's Early Tales . Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1984. ISBN 0-674-71957-3
  • Paperback: Duke University Press, Durham NC 1995. ISBN 0-8223-1572-6
• (Ed.): New Essays on "The Scarlet Letter" . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1985. ISBN 0-521-31998-6
• Doctrine and Difference: Essays in the Literature of New England . Routledge, New York and London 1997. ISBN 0-415-91238-5
• Godly Letters: The Literature of the American Puritans . University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame IN 2006. ISBN 0-268-02290-9