Leonard Barkan
Leonard Barkan 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 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 the University of California at San Diego, Northwestern University, University of Michigan, and New York University.
He was visiting scholar at Freie Universität Berlin.
He is a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities.
Barkan was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994.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, The University of Chicago Press, 2016,
