Professor Roy T. Eriksen (born 1948) is a Norwegian Renaissance scholar and Marlowe scholar teaching at 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.
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, 2008
Universit`s di Padova, Guest Professor 2017
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.
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
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
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
Imitation, representation and printing in the Italian Renaissance (with Magne Malmanger), 2009, ISBN 978-88-6227-111-0
