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{{Short description|American literary theorist (1943–2022)}}
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| discipline = [[English Renaissance|English Renaissance literature]]
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* [[Columbia University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]], [[Master of Arts|MA]], [[PhD]])
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* [[Duke University]]
* [[Johns Hopkins University]]
* [[Emory University]]
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| awards = [[Guggenheim Fellowship]] (1984)
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'''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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://english.emory.edu/home/people/bios/goldberg-jonathan.html|title=Jonathan Goldberg (faculty profile)|publisher=Emory University|access-date=May 29, 2021|archive-date=June 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602212628/http://english.emory.edu/home/people/bios/goldberg-jonathan.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> 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 [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]], [[Master of Arts|MA]], and PhD from [[Columbia University]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Columbia College Today |url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct_archive/may01/may01_bookshelf2.html |access-date=2022-06-07 |website=www.college.columbia.edu}}</ref>

Goldberg received a [[Guggenheim Fellowship]] in 1984.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jonathan Goldberg |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/jonathan-goldberg/ |access-date=2022-06-07 |website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Personal life and death==
Goldberg was born in [[Kew Gardens, Queens]] on June 11, 1943.<ref name="obit" />

Goldberg died in [[Decatur, Georgia]], on December 9, 2022, at the age of 79.<ref name="obit">{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nytimes/name/jonathan-goldberg-obituary?id=38419667|via=Legacy.com|work=The New York Times|title=Jonathan Goldberg obituary|date=December 18, 2022|access-date=December 19, 2022}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
* ''Endlesse Worke: Spenser and the Structures of Discourse'' (1981)<ref>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}}</ref>
* ''James I and the Politics of Literature: Jonson, Shakespeare, Donne, and Their Contemporaries'' (1983)<ref>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'', [https://www.proquest.com/docview/1300307537]; 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}}</ref>
* ''Voice Terminal Echo: Postmodernism and English Renaissance Texts'' (1986)<ref>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}}</ref>
* ''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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==External links==
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