Leonard Barkan (born October 6, 1944) is the Class of 1943 University Professor of Comparative Literature at

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. He won

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, Ellen Maria Gorrissen Fellow in Fall 2009. He won the 2001

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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

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, and

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. He was visiting scholar at the

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. He is a Fellow of the

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. He earned degrees from

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(BA),

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

(MA), and

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

(PhD). Barkan was elected as a member of the

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in 1994, and a member of the

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in 2005.

Works

*''The Gods Made Flesh: Metamorphosis and the Pursuit of Paganism,'' Yale University Press, 1986, * * * *''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,

References

External links

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"An Appetite for Scholarship"
by Leonard Barkan, September 12, 2008, ''

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"In Rome, AAR Resident Leonard Barkan Explores the Place of Food Culture in Renaissance Art and Thought"
February 16, 2010 {{DEFAULTSORT:Barkan, Leonard 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