Leonard Barkan (born October 6, 1944)^[1] is the Class of 1943 University Professor of Comparative Literature atPrinceton University.^[2] He wonBerlin Prize, Ellen Maria Gorrissen Fellow in Fall 2009.^[3] He won the 2001Harry Levin Prize.^[4] Barkan shared the PEN/Architectural Digest Award for Literary Writing on the Visual Arts forUnearthing the Past with Deborah Silverman in 2001.^[5]

Barkan taught at theUniversity of California, San Diego,Northwestern University,University of Michigan, andNew York University. He was visiting scholar at theFree University of Berlin.^[6] He is a Fellow of theNew York Institute for the Humanities.^[7] He earned degrees fromSwarthmore College (BA),Harvard University (MA), andYale University (PhD).

Barkan was elected as a member of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994,^[8] and a member of theAmerican Philosophical Society in 2005.^[9]

• 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 9780823299201doi:10.2307/j.ctv2c02bm4JSTOR j.ctv2c02bm4

• Michael S. Roth (March 19, 2011)."Leonard Barkan'sMichelangelo: 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

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