Katherine Tycz

Dr. Katherine Tycz is a Researcher in the School of History at the University of St Andrews, where she serves as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant on the Universal Short Title Catalogue. Her interdisciplinary work focuses on early modern Italian devotional practices, material culture, and print culture. She holds a PhD in Italian from the University of Cambridge (2018) and has held prestigious fellowships, including an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Galway (2021–2023) and an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania.

• Bachelor of Arts: Italian & Art History, College of the Holy Cross
• Master of Arts: History of Decorative Arts, Bard Graduate Center

Her research explores printed prayers in early modern Italy (c. 1460–1660), examining how cheap religious print shaped popular devotion. She has curated exhibitions, including the 2017 Fitzwilliam Museum’s Madonnas & Miracles, and contributed to museum collections research across the US and UK. At St Andrews, she coordinates the Material Bibliography module for the MLitt in The Book: History and Techniques of Analysis and supervises postgraduate dissertations.

Publications span peer-reviewed journals (Italian Studies), exhibition catalogues, and edited volumes, emphasizing materiality, gender, and religious practices. She has delivered lectures on the Catholic Reformation and co-convened academic conferences like The World of Printed Prayers.