Zbigniew Izydorczyk
Title: Professor
Phone: 204.786.9197
Office: 2A36
Email: z.izydorczyk@uwinnipeg.ca
Biography:
Studied at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, and the University of Toronto, Canada. Has taught the University of Winnipeg since 1986. In 2006, lectured at École Pratique des Hautes Études Section des sciences religieuses, Paris, and, in 2014, as Professeur invité du Labex TransferS, at École Normale Supérieure, Paris. Research interests: medieval religious literature; condemned and forbidden books; apocrypha in the Middle Ages; the Gospel of Nicodemus; manuscript studies; paleography.
Teaching Areas:
Old English language and literature
Middle English language and literature
Chaucer
Contemporary Linguistics
Manuscript and book studies
Latin paleography
Hoping to teach some day: New Testament apocrypha
Courses:
| U2024F | ENGL-1003-001 | TOPICS IN LIT |
| U2024F | ENGL-2981-001 | HISTORY OF THE BOOK |
| U2024F | ENGL-3812-001 | HISTORY OF ENGLISH |
Publications:
Books
(with W. Wydra) Evangelium Nicodemi in Polonia servatum: A Gospel of Nicodemus Preserved in Poland. Corpus Christianorum, Series Apocryphorum, Instrumenta 2. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007
(edited) The Medieval Gospel of Nicodemus: Texts, Intertexts, and Contexts in Western Europe. Tempe, AZ: MRTS, 1997
Manuscripts of the Evangelium Nicodemi: A Census. Subsidia Mediaevalia 21. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1993
Articles
“The Bohemian Redaction of the Evangelium Nicodemi in Medieval Slavic Vernaculars.” Studia Ceranea 4 (2014), 49-64
“On the Evangelium Nicodemi before Print: Towards a New Edition.” Apocrypha 23 (2012), 97-114
“The Earliest Printed Versions of the Evangelium Nicodemi and Their Manuscript Sources.” Apocrypha 21 (2010), 121-32
Translated Books
M. Jarochowska, Out of the Nest: Polish Immigrant Women in Canada. New York: Vantage Press, 2012 (from Polish)
K. Patalas, Providence Watching: Journeys from Wartorn Poland to the Canadian Prairies. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2003 (from Polish)