Jonathan Dollimore
(1948 - living) U.K.
Sociologist and academic
Jonathan Dollimore left school at fifteen and worked in a car factory, in farming, and journalism. He attended university as a mature student. His first degree was in English with Philosophy. Both subjects have remained central to his range of interests which include Renaissance and modern literature; gender studies, especially homosexuality and bisexuality; the history of ideas, especially the philosophical preoccupation with decadence and death in Western culture; the history of criticism, especially new historicism and cultural materialism.
He took a post as a teacher of the University of Sussex and became a Reader in the School of English and American Studies. It was there that he co-founded with Alan Sinfield, the pioneering gay studies degree, the MA in "Sexual Dissidence and cultural change". He is now teaching at York University.
Alan Sinfield became his long-term partner. Consternation was caused among some queer theorists when Jonathan Dollimore ditched Alan Sinfield in favour of a woman. Jonathan Dollimore has an academic reviewer for Gay Times.
Source: The Knitting Circle, U.K. - http://www.sbu.ac.uk/stafflag/people.html - et alii
His work include:
- Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries (1984)
- Political Shakespeare: New Essays in Cultural Materialism (1985)
- Sexual Dissidence: Augustine to Wilde, Freud to Foucault (1991)
- Different Desires: Subjectivity and Transgression in Wilde and Gide (1993)
- Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture (1998)
- Sex, Literature and Censorship (2000)
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