Leonard Barkan

Leonard Barkan (born October 6, 1944)[1] is the Class of 1943 University Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University.[2] He won Berlin Prize, Ellen Maria Gorrissen Fellow in Fall 2009.[3] He won the 2001 Harry Levin Prize.[4] Barkan shared the PEN/Architectural Digest Award for Literary Writing on the Visual Arts for Unearthing the Past with Deborah Silverman in 2001.[5]

Life

Barkan taught at the University of California, San Diego, Northwestern University, University of Michigan, and New York University. He was visiting scholar at the Free University of Berlin.[6] He is a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities.[7]

Barkan was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994,[8] and a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2005.[9]

Works

  • The Gods Made Flesh: Metamorphosis and the Pursuit of Paganism, Yale University Press, 1986, ISBN 978-0-300-03561-2
  • Leonard Barkan, ed. (1987). Renaissance Plays: New Readings and Rereadings. Northwestern University Press. ISBN 978-0-8101-0677-2.
  • Transuming Passion: Ganymede and the Erotics of Humanism. Stanford University Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-8047-1851-6.
  • Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture. Yale University Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-300-08911-0.
  • Satyr Square: A Year, a Life in Rome, Northwestern University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-8101-2494-3
  • Michelangelo: a life on paper, Princeton University Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-691-14766-6
  • Berlin for Jews: A Twenty-First-Century Companion, University of Chicago Press, 2016, ISBN 9780226010663
  • Reading Shakespeare Reading Me, Fordham University Press, 2022, ISBN 9780823299201 doi:10.2307/j.ctv2c02bm4 JSTOR j.ctv2c02bm4

References

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