Roy Eriksen

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

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

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.^[3]

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^[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

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

Books

• 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

• 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, 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