Roy Eriksen

Professor Roy T. Eriksen (born 1948) is a Norwegian Renaissance scholar and Marlowe scholar teaching at University of Agder.

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.

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-

• 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

Eriksen is head of the international research group Early Modern Research Group based at the University of Agder. He is general editor of the interdiciplinary 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.

• 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
•  . "Early Modern Research Group". Uia.no. Retrieved 2011-10-21. 
• 2011-03-11 (2011-03-11). "Early Modern Culture Online". Uia.no. Retrieved 2011-10-21. 
• "UiA-professorer tok årets kompetansefond-priser - Universitetet i Agder" (in Norwegian). Uia.no. 2007-10-31. Retrieved 2011-10-21. 

A festschrift in honor of Eriksen was produced in 2008.

• Guest, Clare Lapraik (2008) Rhetoric, theatre and the arts of design : essays presented to Roy Eriksen Oslo: Novus Press

• http://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.

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

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
• Imitation, representation and printing in the Italian Renaissance (with Magne Malmanger), 2009, ISBN 978-88-6227-111-0

• 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.
• 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