Leonard Barkan (born October 6, 1944)[1] is the Class of 1943 University Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University.
[2] He won Berlin Prize, Ellen Maria Gorrissen Fellow in Fall 2009.
[4] Barkan shared the PEN/Architectural Digest Award for Literary Writing on the Visual Arts for Unearthing the Past with Deborah Silverman in 2001.
He was visiting scholar at the Free University of Berlin.
Barkan was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994,[8] and a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2005.