The Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship is pleased to announce that Gary Goldstein is the new Editor of the SOF’s annual scholarly journal, The Oxfordian. Gary succeeds Chris Pannell, who served as Editor from 2014 to 2017.
Article submissions for The Oxfordian, Volume 20, which will be published in the Fall of 2018, may be sent by email to Gary at oxfordian@
Gary has stated that The Oxfordian’s intellectual stature is evidenced by the number of libraries which now catalog it as an electronic journal, the fact that it is indexed by the two foremost English bibliographies, and that a third is interested in doing so. As Editor, Gary hopes to expand the journal’s reach.
Gary earned an MA from NYU, after which he co-produced “Uncovering Shakespeare,” a television program on the Shakespeare authorship issue moderated by William F. Buckley, Jr. He later founded The Elizabethan Review, a peer-reviewed history journal on the English Renaissance (1993-2001), and from 2009 to 2011 he was co-editor of the Oxfordian journal, Brief Chronicles, working closely with Roger Stritmatter.
More recently, he wrote Reflections on the True Shakespeare, a book called by Harvard history lecturer Don Ostrowski, “a clear and fascinating presentation of Oxfordian scholarship regarding the Shakespeare authorship controversy. Among other topics, Goldstein explores the extant poetry of the 17th Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere, as the juvenilia of the author we know as William Shakespeare, the use of the expanding popular theater as a vehicle of propaganda for the Tudor government, and the underlying presence of the Essex dialect in the plays. Throughout it all, he demonstrates an enduring curiosity, a wide and deep erudition, and an acute eye for crucial evidence.”
Scholar Warren Hope said of the book: “What sets Goldstein’s work apart is the seriousness with which he treats his subject – seeing the authorship question as a cultural riddle with important implications – and the respect he has for fact. Most of the essays persuasively pile up factual evidence in support of a thesis and yet are written in a lively way so that the arguments are compelling.”
Gary is currently retired from both producing and teaching and was recently awarded a research grant from the SOF to explore the current locations of books from Oxford’s extensive library.
Check the Submission Guidelines and Publication Agreement and Assignment of Copyright if you are considering submitting an article to The Oxfordian for publication.
[posted February 21, 2018]
