Professor Roy T. Eriksen (8 October 1948 – 22 April 2019[1]) was a Norwegian Renaissance scholar and Marlowe scholar teaching at the University of Agder.
[2] 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.
[3] Taught at University of Oslo 1977-1986: Taught at the University of Tromsø 1986-2003 Professor of Renaissance Studies, at the Norwegian Institute in Rome, 1997-2000 Taught at University of Bergen 1997-1999 Taught at University of Agder 2003-2019 Visiting Fellowships Eriksen was head of the international research group Early Modern Research Group[4] based at the University of Agder.
Academic Awards Festschrifts in honor of Eriksen were produced in 1998 and 2008.