Roy Eriksen

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), {{ISBN|0-391-03440-5}}, 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{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.uia.no/emrg |title=Early Modern Research Group |publisher=Uia.no |date= |accessdate=2011-10-21}} based at the University of Agder. He was general editor of the interdisciplinary journal Early Modern Culture Online{{cite web|url=http://www.uia.no/emco |title=Early Modern Culture Online |publisher=Uia.no |date=2011-03-11 |accessdate=2011-10-21}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.uia.no/no/portaler/aktuelt/nyhetsarkivet/uia-professorer_tok_aarets_kompetansefond-priser |title=UiA-professorer tok årets kompetansefond-priser - Universitetet i Agder |language=no |publisher=Uia.no |date=2007-10-31 |accessdate=2011-10-21 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001232831/http://www.uia.no/no/portaler/aktuelt/nyhetsarkivet/uia-professorer_tok_aarets_kompetansefond-priser |archivedate=2011-10-01 }}

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.

• 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}}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.

• 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

• 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}}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, {{ISBN|978-88-6227-111-0}}

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