Joel Fineman; UC Berkeley Professor, Shakespeare Scholar

Joel Fineman, 42, a UC Berkeley professor and Shakespeare scholar who wrote “Shakespeare’s Perjured Eye: The Invention of Poetic Subjectivity in the Sonnets.” It won the 1986 Modern Language Assn. James Russell Lowell Award for Outstanding Book of the Year. He was working on another book, “Shakespeare’s Will,” at the time of his death and was a frequent lecturer at universities and scholarly institutions in the United States and Europe. Fineman was also a member of the editorial boards of several journals, including Representations and October. Fineman, a member of the university’s English department, received numerous awards. They included a Mellon post-doctoral fellowship in 1976 and a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship in 1985. In Berkeley on Saturday of cancer.