Kenneth R. Bartlett

Kenneth R. Bartlett (born 1948) is a Renaissance historian, author, public lecturer and professor of History and Renaissance Studies at Victoria College in the University of Toronto. He received his PhD from the University of Toronto in 1978, and then assumed a position in the department of History before moving into the administration as Assistant to the President of the University of Toronto and subsequently Acting Vice-President Institutional Relations. In 1985 he returned to full-time academic work at Victoria College. He was the founding director of the Office of Teaching Advancement (now CTSI), and the director of the Faculty of Arts and Science's faculty programs, which include the First-Year Seminars, the Research Opportunities Program and the Independent Experiential Study Program, which won the Northrop Frye Award for excellence and innovation in linking teacher and research. Professor Bartlett was also the founding director of U of T's Art Centre, and served as a trustee for the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art for fifteen years. He has been the recipient of the Victoria University Excellence in Teaching Award, the Students Administrative Council and Association of Part-Time Students Undergraduate Teaching Award (on two occasions), and the Faculty of Arts and Science Outstanding Teaching Award. In 2005, Professor Bartlett was awarded both the prestigious 3M National Teaching Fellowship and a University of Toronto Arbor Award. In 2007 he was awarded an inaugural LIFT Award by the Province of Ontario and was a finalist in the TVO Best Lecturer Competition. In addition to teaching, he has published many monographs and over 35 scholarly articles and contributions to books, and several editions and translations of Renaissance texts and a recent book on historiography. He has served as the editor of Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme, and President of the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies. He has produced five video series for the Teaching Company on various aspects of Italian Renaissance culture, European civilization and European travel, and has also appeared on television series such as Museum Secrets. Together with his wife, Dr Gillian Bartlett, he leads cultural tours of Europe either sponsored by museums or universities or through the partnership they founded, Bartlett Cultural Connections.

Selected Publications The Experience of History (2017) A Short History of the Italian Renaissance (2013) The English in Italy 1525-1558: A Study in Culture and Politics (1991) The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance (First edition, 1992; revised edition, 2011) The Northern Renaissance and the Reformation (with M. McGlynn, 2014)

...
Wikipedia