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Professor Roy T. Eriksen
Occupation(s)Early Modern Scholar and Professor at University of Agder, Norway

Professor Roy T. Eriksen (8 October 1948 – 22 April 2019[1]) was a Norwegian Renaissance scholar and Marlowe scholar teaching at University of Agder.[2]

Education and Employment[edit]

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.[3]

Taught at University of Oslo 1977-1986:

  • Research Fellow in English Literature, 1977
  • Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature, 1986

Taught at 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

Eriksen was head of the international research group Early Modern Research Group[4] based at the University of Agder. He was general editor of the interdisciplinary journal Early Modern Culture Online[5] 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.[6]

Festschrift[edit]

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 Press[7][8]

Publications[edit]

Books[edit]

  • The Forme of Faustus Fortunes. A Study of the Tragedie of Doctor Faustus (1616), 1987, ISBN 0-391-03440-5, 82-560-0416-9
  • The Building in the text. Alberti to Shakespeare and Milton, 2001 ISBN 0-271-02022-9[9][10][11]
  • L'Edifio testuale. Milano; Mimesis, 2014. Revised and expanded translation of The Building in the Text (in collaboration with Penn UP.

Translations[edit]

  • 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[edit]

  • 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, ISBN 88-7890-384-1
  • 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, ISBN 978-88-8476-103-3[12]
  • Imitation, representation and printing in the Italian Renaissance (with Magne Malmanger), 2009, ISBN 978-88-6227-111-0

References[edit]

  1. ^ Guldal, Tale M.; Holmesland, Oddvar (2019-05-08). "In memory of Professor emeritus Roy Eriksen". Universitetet i Agder. Retrieved 2021-10-31.
  2. ^ "Roy Tommy Eriksen - Universitetet i Agder" (in Norwegian). Uia.no. 2010-12-30. Retrieved 2011-10-21.
  3. ^ 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), ISBN 0-391-03440-5, 82-560-0416-9
  4. ^ "Early Modern Research Group". Uia.no. Retrieved 2011-10-21.
  5. ^ "Early Modern Culture Online". Uia.no. 2011-03-11. Retrieved 2011-10-21.
  6. ^ "UiA-professorer tok årets kompetansefond-priser - Universitetet i Agder" (in Norwegian). Uia.no. 2007-10-31. Archived from the original on 2011-10-01. Retrieved 2011-10-21.
  7. ^ http://arthistory.artsci.wustl.edu/people/wallace_william Washington University in St Louis: William Wallace (Accessed Oct 2011)
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ Brooks, D. A. (2004). The Building in the Text: Alberti to Shakespeare and Milton (review). South Central Review, March 21, 1, 139-142.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ 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
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