Roy Eriksen

Professor Roy T. Eriksen was a Norwegian Renaissance scholar and Marlowe scholar teaching at the 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 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 based at the University of Agder. He was general editor of the interdisciplinary 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.

Festschrift

Festschrifts in honor of Eriksen were produced in 1998 and 2008.

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

Publications

Books

The Forme of Faustus Fortunes. A Study of the Tragedie of Doctor Faustus, 1987,, 82-560-0416-9
The Building in the text. Alberti to Shakespeare and Milton, 2001
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, Solum, 1987
John Marston, Kurtisanen, Solum, 1988
William Shakespeare, 1 Henrik den fjerde, 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, 1999
Innovation and Tradition: Essays in Renaissance Art and Culture, 2000,
The Burden of the Ceremony Master, 2006,
Imitation, representation and printing in the Italian Renaissance, 2009,