Leonard Barkan

Leonard Barkan is the Class of 1943 University Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University.[1] He won Berlin Prize, Ellen Maria Gorrissen Fellow in Fall 2009.[2] He won the 2011 Harry Levin Prize.[3] Barkan shared the PEN/Architectural Digest Award for Literary Writing on the Visual Arts for Unearthing the Past with Deborah Silverman in 2001.[4]

Life

He taught at the University of California at San Diego, Northwestern University, University of Michigan, and New York University. He was visiting scholar at Freie Universität Berlin.[5] He is a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities.

Barkan was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994.[6]

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.[7]
• 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, The University of Chicago Press, 2016, ISBN 9780226010663

References

1. "Leonard Barkan | Comparative Literature". complit.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-15.
2. http://www.americanacademy.de/home/distinguished-visitors/detailansicht/person///leonard_barkan/348/detail/
3. http://www.acla.org/levincitations.html
4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-10-19. Retrieved 2012-08-29.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
5. http://www.fsgs.fu-berlin.de/en/news/Leonard_Barkan_ist_Gastwissenschaftler_der_Friedrich_Schlegel_Graduiertenschule.html
6. "Leonard Barkan". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2020-06-15.
7. "Welcome | Yale University Press". yalebooks.yale.edu.

External links

• Michael S. Roth (March 19, 2011). "Leonard Barkan's "Michelangelo: A Life on Paper"". The Washington Post.
• Pictures of Leonard Barkan
• In Rome, AAR Resident Leonard Barkan Explores the Place of Food Culture in Renaissance Art and Thought
• Features | American Academy in Rome
• PEN American Center - Architectural Digest Award for Literary Writing on the Visual Arts Winners