Leonard Barkan

Leonard Barkan is Class of 1943 University Professor and Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature, at Princeton University. He won Berlin Prize, Ellen Maria Gorrissen Fellow in Fall 2009. He won the 2011 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

He taught at Northwestern University, University of Michigan, and New York University. He was visiting scholar at Freie Universität Berlin.

Works

• The Gods Made Flesh: Metamorphosis and the Pursuit of Paganism, Yale University Press, 1986, ISBN 978-0-300-03561-2
• 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

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
• http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/906