Roy Eriksen
Professor Roy T. Eriksen (8 October 1948 – 22 April 2019) was 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: Taught at 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 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 Festschrift. Festschrifts in honor of Eriksen were produced in 1998 and 2008.