Oxfordian News

The Shakespeare Fellowship is pleased to announce the formation of a
new journal investigating the Shakespeare Authorship Issue from an
Oxfordian perspective: Brief Chronicles: The Interdisciplinary Journal of the
Shakespeare Fellowship.

The journal will begin as an annual online publication, with the goal
of appearing semi-annually in both print and electronic formats. The
inaugural issue is planned for summer 2009.

General editor of Brief Chronicles is Roger Stritmatter, PhD,
Associate Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature at
Coppin State University in Maryland. Stritmatter holds an MA in Anthropology
from the New School for Social Research and a PhD in Comparative
Literature from University of Massachusetts at Amherst, with a
specialization in Early Modern Studies.

Managing editor is Gary Goldstein, formerly Editor of The Elizabethan
Review, a peer-reviewed history and literary journal which appeared
semi-annually from 1993 through 1999. Goldstein holds an MA in Media
Studies from New York University.

We hereby invite submissions of research articles, essays and reviews
for possible publication in the journal, which will employ a
double-blind peer review process. All submissions must conform to the
Chicago Manual of Style.

A peer-reviewed interdisciplinary publication, Brief Chronicles is
overseen by an Editorial Board comprised of academics with terminal
degrees and distinguished records of scholarship and teaching. The
journal will focus on the authorship of the Shakespeare canon from
the Oxfordian perspective, publishing research-based notes, articles and
monographs, as well as essays and reviews of books, theater
performances and movies based on the drama and literature of the Elizabethan and
Jacobean periods.

More generally, the journal solicits relevant materials that shed
critical light on the Shakespeare canon and its authorship, on
theories and problems in the study of Early Modern authorship and literary
creativity, and on related questions of early modern literary
culture, aesthetics, bibliography, psychology, law, biography, and history.
Contributions that utilize an interdisciplinary methodology that
draws on the conventions and data of more than one relevant humanities
discipline to produce original, carefully reasoned and readable
insights, are especially welcome.

The Editorial Board of Brief Chronicles comprises the following
members:

Dr. Michael Delahoyde, PhD, is a Clinical Associate Professor in
the Department of English, Washington State University. Dr. Delahoyde
is the former editor of the Rocky Mountain Review of Languages and
Literature, the quarterly journal of the Rocky Mountain Modern
Language Association.

Dr. Warren Hope, PhD. An award winning poet and scholar, Dr. Hope is
an instructor in English at the University of the Sciences in
Philadelphia and at Montgomery County Community College. He is the
co-author, with Kim Holston, of /The Shakespeare Controversy: An
Analysis of the Claimants to Authorship, and Their Champions and
Detractors /(McFarland, 1992).

Dr. Sky Gilbert, PhD, a noted popular entertainer, novelist, poet and
filmaker, received his PhD in Theater Studies from the University of
Toronto. Currently he holds the University Chair in Creative Writing
and Theater Studies at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada.

Mr. Tom Regnier, JD. Mr. Regnier taught at the University of Miami
School of Law as Adjunct Professor of Law (including a “Shakespeare
and the Law” course). He serves as a Florida public defender
and recently argued a case before the Florida Supreme Court.

Dr. Sarah Smith, PhD, has written multiple best-selling and
award-winning novels including Chasing Shakespeares (Atria 2003). Dr.
Smith received her BA and PhD degrees from Harvard University,
studied at the University of London as a Fulbright scholar and in London and
Paris on a Harvard fellowship, and has also held an Andrew W. Mellon
Fellowship in the Humanities. She taught at Tufts University for
several years and continues to teach fiction writing.

Dr. Richard Waugaman, MD, is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry,
Georgetown University School of Medicine; Training Analyst Emeritus,
Washington Psychoanalytic Institute. A regular contributor to
numerous psychoanalytical journals, Dr. Waugaman is a Reader at the
Folger Shakespeare Library specializing in the psychology and history of
pseudonymity.

Signed,

Roger Stritmatter
General Editor

Gary Goldstein
Managing Editor