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This 2021-2022 seminar, designed for writers of early modern dissertations, is directed by '''Joyce E. Chaplin''', '''Julie Crawford''', and '''Jenny C. Mann'''.

This program focuses on the use of primary materials available for the study of the history, culture, society, and literature of early modern Britain, Europe, and the Atlantic World, broadly conceived. Initially meeting virtually to share works-in-progress, should conditions allow, participants will visit rare materials collections in the spring to explore a variety of printed and manuscript sources relevant to Ph.D. candidates in history and literature, and they will learn (with the assistance of staff at the host university libraries) essential research skills as well as strategies for working with digital resources and remediated rare materials. The goal throughout will be to foster interdisciplinary scholarship while considering broad methodological and theoretical problems relevant to current work in early modern studies, especially when working in fields that contain deliberate elisions and silences in their historical archives. 

'''Directors''': '''Joyce E. Chaplin''' is the James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History at Harvard University. A former Fulbright Scholar and Guggenheim Fellow, she has published five monographs, one co-authored book, and two Norton Critical Editions. She did research for her second book, ''Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500–1676'' (2001), at the Folger. '''Julie Crawford''' is the Mark van Doren Professor of Humanities in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is the author of ''Marvelous Protestantism'' (2004), ''Mediatrix'' (2014), and numerous essays on authors ranging from Shakespeare to Anne Clifford and on topics ranging from the history of reading to the history of sexuality. In 2016 she taught a Folger Seminar on Cavendish and Hutchinson, and she is currently completing a book manuscript entitled “Margaret Cavendish’s Political Career." '''Jenny C. Mann''' is an Associate Professor of English at New York University with a joint appointment with NYU Gallatin. She has followed her first book, ''Outlaw Rhetoric: Figuring Vernacular Eloquence in Shakespeare’s England'' (2012), with ''The Trials of Orpheus: Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime'' (2021). Her new research project explores problems of self-reference in utopian literature from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century. 

'''Participants''' 

'''Alexander Batson''', History, Yale University

'''Megan Bowman''', English, Boston University

'''Olivia Branscum''', Philosophy, Columbia University

'''Benjamin Card''', English and Renaissance Studies, Yale University

'''Julia Carroll''', American & New England Studies, Boston University

'''Jin-Woo Choi''', History, Princeton University

'''Madison Forbes''', English, Fordham University

'''Tess Grogan''', English, Yale University

'''Eve Houghton''', English, Yale University

'''Alice King''', History, University of Virginia

'''Sarah-Gray Lesley''', English, University of Chicago

'''Promise Li''', English, Princeton University

'''Jessica Lugo''', English, The City University of New York

'''Meaghan Pachay''', English, The Ohio State University

'''Ian Takaes''', Art History, Columbia University

'''Lanier Walker''', English, University of North Carolina 

'''Madison Wolfert''', English, Princeton University


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