Leonard Barkan

Leonard Barkan is Class of 1943 University Professor and Chair of the Department 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 Northwestern University, University of Michigan, and New York University. He was visiting scholar at Freie Universität Berlin.^[5]

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. ^[6]
• 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

References

External links

• Michael S. Roth (March 19, 2011). "Leonard Barkan’s "Michelangelo: A Life on Paper"". The Washington Post. 
• http://chronicle.com/article/An-Appetite-for-Scholarship/14527
• http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~dpd/DeanOfFaculty/person_FILES/Leonard.Barkan.html
• http://sofaarome.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/in-rome-aar-resident-leonard-barkan-explores-the-place-of-food-culture-in-renaissance-art-and-thought/
• http://www.aarome.org/news/features/princetons-leonard-barkan-raar10-2011-jerome-lecturer
• http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/906