Jonathan Goldberg (June 11, 1943 – December 9, 2022) was an American literary theorist who was the Sir William Osler Professor of English Literature at Johns Hopkins University, and Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Emory University where he directed Studies in Sexualities from 2008 to 2012.[1] His work frequently deals with the connections between early modern literature and modern thought, particularly in issues of gender, sexuality, and materiality. He received his BA, MA, and PhD from Columbia University.[2]

Jonathan Goldberg
Born(1943-06-11)June 11, 1943
DiedDecember 9, 2022(2022-12-09) (aged 79)
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (1984)
Academic background
Education
Academic work
DisciplineEnglish Renaissance literature
Institutions

Goldberg received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1984.[3]

Personal life and death

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Goldberg was born in Kew Gardens, Queens on June 11, 1943.[4]

Goldberg died in Decatur, Georgia, on December 9, 2022, at the age of 79.[4]

Bibliography

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  • Endlesse Worke: Spenser and the Structures of Discourse (1981)[5]
  • James I and the Politics of Literature: Jonson, Shakespeare, Donne, and Their Contemporaries (1983)[6]
  • Voice Terminal Echo: Postmodernism and English Renaissance Texts (1986)[7]
  • Writing Matter: From the Hands of the English Renaissance (1990)
  • Major Works, John Milton (1991, co-editor)
  • Sodometries: Renaissance Texts, Modern Sexualities (1992)
  • Queering the Renaissance (1994, editor)
  • Reclaiming Sodom (1994, editor)
  • Desiring Women Writing (1997)
  • The Generation of Caliban (2001)
  • Willa Cather and Others (2001)
  • Shakespeare's Hand (2003)
  • Tempest in the Caribbean (2004)
  • The Seeds of Things (2009)
  • Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, The Weather in Proust (2012, editor)
  • Strangers on a Train (2012)
  • This Distracted Globe (2016, co-editor)
  • Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility (2016)
  • Sappho: ]fragments (2018)
  • Saint Marks: Words, Images, and What Persists (2019)
  • Come As You Are After Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (2021)

References

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  1. ^ "Jonathan Goldberg (faculty profile)". Emory University. Archived from the original on June 2, 2021. Retrieved May 29, 2021.
  2. ^ "Columbia College Today". www.college.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
  3. ^ "Jonathan Goldberg". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
  4. ^ a b "Jonathan Goldberg obituary". The New York Times. December 18, 2022. Retrieved December 19, 2022 – via Legacy.com.
  5. ^ Reviews of Endlesse Worke: Terry Comito, Renaissance Quarterly, doi:10.2307/2860853, JSTOR 2860853; John D. Guillory, Modern Philology, doi:10.1086/391350, JSTOR 437679; Michael McCanles, Criticism, JSTOR 23105000; Eric Sacks, MLN, doi:10.2307/2906009, JSTOR 2906009; G. L. Teskey, Renaissance and Reformation, JSTOR 43444522
  6. ^ Reviews of James I and the Politics of Literature: Raymond A. Anselment, The Modern Language Review, doi:10.2307/3728451, JSTOR 3728451; Jonathan Dollimore, Criticism, JSTOR 23105136; Richard L. Greaves, Clio, [1]; Richard Helgerson, Renaissance Quarterly, doi:10.2307/2861360, JSTOR 2861360; Jean E. Howard, "Old Wine, New Bottles", Shakespeare Quarterly, doi:10.2307/2869940, JSTOR 2869940; L. W. Irwin, College Literature, JSTOR 25111620; Alexander Leggatt, Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England, JSTOR 24322035; Dolores Palomo, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, doi:10.2307/429905, JSTOR 429905; David Harris Sacks, "History in Literature: The Renaissance", Journal of British Studies, JSTOR 175557; Jenny Wormald, History, JSTOR 24415009
  7. ^ Reviews of Voice Terminal Echo: Sheila T. Cavanagh, George Herbert Journal, doi:10.1353/ghj.1985.0006; Margreta De Grazia, Shakespeare Quarterly, doi:10.2307/2870511, JSTOR 2870511; Christopher Kendrick, "Anachronisms of Renaissance Postmodernism: On the Textuality Hypothesis in Jonathan Goldberg's Voice Terminal Echo, boundary 2, doi:10.2307/303264, JSTOR 303264; Leah S. Marcus, Criticism, JSTOR 23110473; Herman Rapaport, The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, JSTOR 27709965; George E. Rowe, Comparative Literature, doi:10.2307/1770650, JSTOR 1770650; Margarita Stocker, The Modern Language Review, doi:10.2307/3731963, JSTOR 3731963; Richard Strier, Renaissance Quarterly, doi:10.2307/2861651, JSTOR 2861651
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