Jonathan Goldberg (June 11, 1943 – December 9, 2022) was an American literary theorist who was the Sir William Osler Professor of English Literature at

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, and Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at

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where he directed Studies in Sexualities from 2008 to 2012. His work frequently deals with the connections between

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literature and modern thought, particularly in issues of gender, sexuality, and materiality. He received his BA, MA, and PhD from

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. Goldberg received a

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in 1984.

Personal life and death

Goldberg was born in

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on June 11, 1943. Goldberg died in

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, on December 9, 2022, at the age of 79.

Bibliography

* ''Endlesse Worke: Spenser and the Structures of Discourse'' (1981) * ''James I and the Politics of Literature: Jonson, Shakespeare, Donne, and Their Contemporaries'' (1983) * ''Voice Terminal Echo: Postmodernism and English Renaissance Texts'' (1986)Reviews of ''Voice Terminal Echo'': Sheila T. Cavanagh, ''George Herbert Journal'', ; Margreta De Grazia, ''Shakespeare Quarterly'', , ; Christopher Kendrick, "Anachronisms of Renaissance Postmodernism: On the Textuality Hypothesis in Jonathan Goldberg's ''Voice Terminal Echo'', ''boundary 2'', , ; Leah S. Marcus, ''Criticism'', ; Herman Rapaport, ''The Journal of English and Germanic Philology'', ; George E. Rowe, ''Comparative Literature'', , ; Margarita Stocker, ''The Modern Language Review'', , ; Richard Strier, ''Renaissance Quarterly'', , * ''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)

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* 1943 births 2022 deaths American literary theorists Columbia College (New York) alumni Duke University faculty American academics of English literature American LGBTQ writers American LGBTQ academics Shakespearean scholars Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Johns Hopkins University faculty Emory University faculty People from Kew Gardens, Queens {{US-English-academic-bio-stub