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American academic
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] 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
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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