Leonard Barkan
Encyclopedia
Leonard Barkan is Class of 1943 University Professor and Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature, at Princeton University
.
He was Berlin Prize
, Ellen Maria Gorrissen Fellow in Fall 2009.
He won the 2011 Harry Levin Prize.
, University of Michigan
, and New York University
.
He was visiting scholar at Freie Universität Berlin.
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
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He was Berlin Prize
Berlin Prize
The Berlin Prize is a residential fellowship at the Hans Arnhold Center, awarded by the American Academy in Berlin.- Fellows of the American Academy in Berlin :-References:*http://www.americanacademy.de/home/about-us/hans-arnhold-center/...
, Ellen Maria Gorrissen Fellow in Fall 2009.
He won the 2011 Harry Levin Prize.
Life
He taught at Northwestern UniversityNorthwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
, University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
, and New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
.
He was visiting scholar at Freie Universität Berlin.
Works
- The Gods Made Flesh: Metamorphosis and the Pursuit of Paganism, Yale University Press, 1986, ISBN 9780300035612
- Satyr Square: A Year, a Life in Rome, Northwestern University Press, 2008, ISBN 9780810124943
- Michelangelo: a life on paper, Princeton University Press, 2010, ISBN 9780691147666
External links
- 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