Professor Roy T. Eriksen (8 October 1948 – 22 April 2019) was a Norwegian Renaissance scholar and Marlowe scholar teaching at the University of Agder.
Education and Employment Roy T. Eriksen studied at the University of Oslo with Maren-Sofie Røstvig. He wrote his Ph.D thesis on a structural analysis of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus.A version of his thesis was published as:Eriksen R. T. (1987) The Forme of Faustus Fortunes. A Study of the Tragedie of Doctor Faustus (1616), , 82-560-0416-9
Taught at University of Oslo 1977-1986: Research Fellow in English Literature, 1977 Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature, 1986
Taught at the University of Tromsø 1986-2003 Professor of English Literature 1986-2003
Professor of Renaissance Studies, at the Norwegian Institute in Rome, 1997-2000 Taught at University of Bergen 1997-1999 Appointed Professor of English Literature
Taught at University of Agder 2003-2019 Professor English Renaissance Literature and Culture
Visiting Fellowships British Council Fellow, Cambridge University, 1982–1983 NAVF Research Fellow, Cambridge University, 1986 Visiting Professor, Villa I Tatti, Florence, 1990–1991, 1994, 1996, 2008 Universit`s di Padova, Guest Professor 2017
Eriksen was head of the international research group Early Modern Research Group based at the University of Agder. He was general editor of the interdisciplinary journal Early Modern Culture Online and general editor of the bookseries Early Modern and Modern Studies.
Academic Awards Eriksen received Agder Academy of Sciences and Letters's award for outstanding research in 2007.
Festschrift Festschrifts in honor of Eriksen were produced in 1998 and 2008. Guest, Clare Lapraik (2008) Rhetoric, theatre and the arts of design : essays presented to Roy Eriksen Oslo: Novus Presshttp://arthistory.artsci.wustl.edu/people/wallace_william Washington University in St Louis: William Wallace (Accessed Oct 2011)Cunin, M. (2010). Clare Lapraik Guest, ed., Rhetoric, Theatre and the Arts of Design. Essays presented to Roy Eriksen, Novus Press (Oslo, 2008). Cahiers Élisabéthains, 77, 86.
Publications
Books The Forme of Faustus Fortunes. A Study of the Tragedie of Doctor Faustus (1616), 1987, , 82-560-0416-9 The Building in the text. Alberti to Shakespeare and Milton, 2001 Burroughs, C.(2002). Review of Eriksen, R. T.The Building in the Text: Alberti to Shakespeare and Milton. Renaissance Quarterly, December 55, 4, 1431-1433.Brooks, D. A. (2004). The Building in the Text: Alberti to Shakespeare and Milton (review). South Central Review, March 21, 1, 139-142.Cibelli, Deborah H. (2002)Roy Eriksen: The Building in the Text: Alberti to Shakespeare and Milton (2001). Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 33, No. 1, Spring: 287-88. L'Edifio testuale. Milano; Mimesis, 2014. Revised and expanded translation of The Building in the Text (in collaboration with Penn UP.
Translations Christopher Marlowe, Doktor Faustus: En tragedie (Doctor Faustus: A Tragedy), Solum, 1987 John Marston, Kurtisanen (The Dutch Courtesan), Solum, 1988 William Shakespeare, 1 Henrik den fjerde (1 Henry the Fourth), Solum, 1989
Edited volumes Contexts of Pre – Novel Narrative: The European Tradition, 1994 Contexts of Baroque: Theatre, Metamorphosis, and Design, 1997 Rhetoric across the Humanities (with Toril Swan), 1999 Innovation and Tradition: Essays in Renaissance Art and Culture (with Dag T. Andersson), 2000, The Burden of the Ceremony Master (with Staale Sinding-Larsen, 2001 Ashes to ashes : art in Rome between humanism and maniera (with Victor Plahte Tschudi), 2006, Gaston, Robert (2006) Roy Eriksen and Victor Plahte Tschudi, eds., Ashes to Ashes. Art in Rome between Humanism and Maniera, Early Modern and Modern Studies. A Series directed by Roy Eriksen (Pisa & Roma: Edizioni dell’Ateneo, 2006), 227 pp., International Journal of the Classical Tradition, Volume: 15, Issue: 3 Imitation, representation and printing in the Italian Renaissance (with Magne Malmanger), 2009,
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