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Leonard Barkan (born October 6, 1944) is the Class of 1943 University Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He won Berlin Prize, Ellen Maria Gorrissen Fellow in Fall 2009. He won the 2001 Harry Levin Prize. Barkan shared the PEN/Architectural Digest Award for Literary Writing on the Visual Arts for Unearthing the Past with Deborah Silverman in 2001.

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. He is a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities. 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, and a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2005.

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

1. Leonard Barkan at Library of Congress
2. "Leonard Barkan | Comparative Literature". complit.princeton.edu. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
3. "Leonard Barkan: Ellen Maria Gorrissen Fellow – Class of Fall 2009 and Class of Spring 2010". American Academy in Berlin. Retrieved January 31, 2023.
4. "Harry Levin Prize Citations". American Comparative Literature Association. Archived from the original on May 23, 2003.
5. "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.
6. "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.
7. "Fellows A-G". New York Institute for the Humanities. Retrieved August 27, 2021.
8. "Leonard Barkan". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
9. "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. American Philosophical Society. Retrieved August 27, 2021.

External links

• 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

• 1944 births
• Living people
• University of California, San Diego faculty
• Northwestern University faculty
• Princeton University faculty
• University of Michigan faculty
• New York University faculty
• Members of the American Philosophical Society
• Swarthmore College alumni
• Harvard University alumni
• Yale University alumni