Leonard Barkan Explained

Leonard Barkan (born October 6, 1944) 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 2001 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

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.^[5] He is a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities.^[6] 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,^[7] and a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2005.^[8]

Works

• The Gods Made Flesh: Metamorphosis and the Pursuit of Paganism, Yale University Press, 1986,
• Book: Renaissance Plays: New Readings and Rereadings. Leonard Barkan. Northwestern University Press. 1987. 978-0-8101-0677-2. none.
• Book: Transuming Passion: Ganymede and the Erotics of Humanism. Stanford University Press. 1991. 978-0-8047-1851-6.
• Book: Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture. Yale University Press. 2001. 978-0-300-08911-0.
• Satyr Square: A Year, a Life in Rome, Northwestern University Press, 2008,
• Michelangelo: a life on paper, Princeton University Press, 2010,
• Berlin for Jews: A Twenty-First-Century Companion, University of Chicago Press, 2016,
• Reading Shakespeare Reading Me, Fordham University Press, 2022,

External links

• News: Leonard Barkan's Michelangelo: A Life on Paper. Michael S. Roth. March 19, 2011. The Washington Post. none.
• "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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Leonard Barkan Comparative Literature. 2020-06-15. complit.princeton.edu.
2. Web site: Leonard Barkan: Ellen Maria Gorrissen Fellow – Class of Fall 2009 and Class of Spring 2010. American Academy in Berlin. January 31, 2023.
3. Web site: Harry Levin Prize Citations. American Comparative Literature Association. dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20030523170322/http://www.acla.org/levincitations.html . 2003-05-23.
4. Web site: PEN American Center – Architectural Digest Award for Literary Writing on the Visual Arts Winners . 2012-08-29 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121019005322/http://pen.org/page.php/prmID/906 . 2012-10-19 .
5. Web site: Leonard Barkan is Visiting Scholar at the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School. Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies . www.fsgs.fu-berlin.de . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120426001348/http://www.fsgs.fu-berlin.de/en/news/Leonard_Barkan_ist_Gastwissenschaftler_der_Friedrich_Schlegel_Graduiertenschule.html . 2012-04-26.
6. Web site: Fellows A-G. 2021-08-27. New York Institute for the Humanities.
7. Web site: Leonard Barkan. 2020-06-15. American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
8. Web site: APS Member History. American Philosophical Society. 2021-08-27. search.amphilsoc.org.