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
[edit]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] He earned degrees from Swarthmore College (BA), Harvard University (MA), and Yale University (PhD).
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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ Leonard Barkan at Library of Congress
- ^ "Leonard Barkan | Comparative Literature". complit.princeton.edu. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
- ^ "Leonard Barkan: Ellen Maria Gorrissen Fellow – Class of Fall 2009 and Class of Spring 2010". American Academy in Berlin. Retrieved January 31, 2023.
- ^ "Harry Levin Prize Citations". American Comparative Literature Association. Archived from the original on May 23, 2003.
- ^ "PEN American Center – Architectural Digest Award for Literary Writing on the Visual Arts Winners". Archived from the original on October 19, 2012. Retrieved August 29, 2012.
- ^ "Leonard Barkan is Visiting Scholar at the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School". www.fsgs.fu-berlin.de. Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies. Archived from the original on April 26, 2012.
- ^ "Fellows A-G". New York Institute for the Humanities. Retrieved August 27, 2021.
- ^ "Leonard Barkan". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. American Philosophical Society. Retrieved August 27, 2021.
External links
[edit]- Michael S. Roth (March 19, 2011). "Leonard Barkan's Michelangelo: A Life on Paper". The Washington Post.
- "An Appetite for Scholarship" by Leonard Barkan, September 12, 2008, The Chronicle of Higher Education
- "In Rome, AAR Resident Leonard Barkan Explores the Place of Food Culture in Renaissance Art and Thought", February 16, 2010
