140 Gilman Hall

Jonathan Goldberg, the Sir William Osler Professor of English Literature, specializes in early modern literature in relationship to questions of modern thought and sociality. His earliest books, Endlesse Worke: Spenser and the Structures of Discourse (1981), James I and the Politics of Literature (1983), Voice Terminal Echo (1986), Writing Matter (1990) -- broached these questions through high theory, new historicist and materialist vocabularies. His more recent work including Sodometries: Renaissance Texts, Modern Sexualities (1992), Desiring Women Writing (1997), Willa Cather and Others (2001) – finds its emphasis in questions of gender and sexuality. His recent graduate teaching includes courses on Spenser and late Foucauldian paradigms; Milton and questions of civil society; Renaissance literature and the history of sexuality, early modern women writers, as well as more general courses in the history of sexuality. His most recent book is Tempest in the Caribbean (2004), which was prompted by twentieth-century Caribbean appropriations and adaptations of Shakespeare’s Tempest, and that ranges widely among texts by George Lamming, Michelle Cliff, Sylvia Wynter and others; in conjunction with this research, he has taught graduate seminars on the history of race and slavery in relationship to literary representations, as well as a seminar around the work of Fanon. Among his other publications are editions of Milton for Oxford University Press, and the edited volumes, Queering the Renaissance and Reclaiming Sodom. His essays on Shakespeare were recently collected in Shakespeare’s Hand (2003). His current projects include work on the relationships between materiality and sexuality in early modernity, and includes essays on Spenser, Margaret Cavendish and Lucy Hutchinson, as well as Tintoretto.