Amherst fellows

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Every January, the Folger Shakespeare Library hosts undergraduates from Amherst College as part of the Amherst-Folger Fellowship program. The Fellows conduct research at the Folger Shakespeare Library on a project of their choosing and as of 2013, partake in a two-week seminar.

Program History

The program began in 1996 during Richard Kuhta's tenure as the Folger Librarian. At its inception, only two to three fellowships were awarded annually through funds provided by the Friends of the Amherst College Library, but the number rose to as many as six in 2011. The program was originally run through the Central Library division of the Folger, but joined the Folger Institute branch in 2014. As a result of this transition, the program now includes a short, intensive seminar in addition to individual research time which focuses on an introduction to book history and the examination of the form of materials as well as their content. The two-week seminar contains a mix of readings, work with Folger professional staff and fellows in residence, archival exercises, and discussion about wider applications outside the early modern period.

Past Fellows

2010s

2015

Jiwoon “Kristine” Choi '16; “Reliving the Renaissance through Francis Bacon: A Personal Approach to the Development of Empiricism”

Sophie Chung '17; "Advent of Newspapers in Early 17th-Century"

Noel Grisanti '17; “Small Latin and Less Greek: Classics and Education in Shakespeare’s England”

Yeon Woo “Heather” Lee '15; "The Relationship between Words and Texts in Manuscripts"

Matthew Randolph '16; “The Early History of Maryland in the Transatlantic World”

Caryce Tirop '17; "Biblical Translations during the Protestant Reformation"

2014

Richard Altieri 2015; "All the Quixotes: Translating Cervantes"

Daria Chernysheva 2016; "The Earliest Translations of Hamlet in Imperial Russia"

David Dickinson 2016; "The Readings of Terence in Elizabethan Classrooms"

Sophia Padelford 2015; "The Elizabethan Reception of the Classical Orator"

2013

Elizabeth Alexander 2014; "Othello Comparisons"

Devon Geary 2014; "Trauma in the Name of Glory: A Folger Fellowship Reading Project on British Colonialism"

Jeffrey Moro 2014; "Media in Translation"

Mark Roh 2015; "The Interaction Between Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy of History Plays and the Political Climate in Elizabethan England

2012

Zachary Bleemer 2013; "Marketplace Aesthetics in the Age of Taste"

Terrence Cullen 2013; "Representations of the Exotic in English Travel Writing from the Late Middle Ages to the Renaissance"

Matt Hartzler 2013; "T.J. Hind: Contemporary & Historian of the Booth Brothers"

Lester Hu 2013; "Recusant Music Theory: Modal Ordering in an Edward Paston Manuscript Partbook"

Jordan Roehl 2012; "The Folger Library Collection and the Inclusion of African Americans"

2011

Dan Kim 2012

Miranda Marraccini 2012

Colleen O’Connor 2011

Elisabeth Siegel 2011

Elaine Teng 2012

2010

Aaron Aruck 2011; "Social Mobility and the British East India Company"

Max Kaisler 2011; "Seneca's Ideas on Madness and Medicine in Renaissance England"

2000s

2009

Jeffery Blevins 2009

Miranda Hannash 2009

Ryan MacDonald 2010

2008

Emanuel Costache 2009; "Edmund Spenser: Studied Barbarity in The Shepheardes Calendar"

Jamie Ling 2009; "English Grammar Books, 1580-1720"

Emily Wright 2009; "Politics of the Irish Language"

2007

Meghan Kemp-Gee 2007; "Magical Language in Macbeth, Winter's Tale, Richard III, Hamlet, The Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream"

Normandy Vincent 2008; "Catherine de Medici and the Politics of Visual Imagery"

2006

Sarah Courtney 2006; "Fairy Tales in the Literary and Didactic Traditions"

Patrick McGrath 2007; "Lycidas: Milton and Virgil" Hadley Miller 2006; "Noblewomen in the National Legal System in 13th-Century England"

2005

No Fellowships were awarded

2004

Mihailis Diamantis 2004; "George Herbert and Renaissance Wit"

Nick Pedersen 2004; "Shapes of Metaphysical Poetry: Structure and Meaning in 17th-Century Verse"

2003

Benjamin Baum 2003; "The English Succession Crisis, 1553"

Daniel Liss 2003; "Hamlet II.2"

Katharine Liu 2003; "Othello and Social Context"

2002

Daniel Shore 2002; "Milton and his Antinomian Contemporaries"

Rikita Tyson 2002; "Staging Practices in Twelfth Night and As You Like It"

Ema Vyroubalova 2002; "Lyricism, Performativity, and Theatricality in Richard II and Richard III"

2001

Umit Dhuga 2001; "Catullus in the Renaissance"

Stacy Kitsis 2001; "English Origins of Russian Children's Literature"

2000

Suzanne Feigelson 2001; "The Evolution of Twelfth Night in Performance"

Jenna Owens 2001; "The Renaissance Masque: An Invocation of a Utopian Society"

1990s

1999

David Goldstein 2000; "The Reception of Pindaric Odes in the Renaissance"

Justin Snider 1999; "Milton's Satan"

Christine Wong 1999; "Countess of Shrewsbury: English Women and the Courts, 1500-1850"

1998

David Y. Kim 1999; "Catesby, Linnaeus, and the Languages of Representation in Natural History"

Rachel Slaughter 1998; "Reflexivity in Shakespeare's Plays"

1997

Michael Giannelli 1997; "Thematic and Stylistic Relationships between Ariosto's Orlando Furioso and Cervantes' Don Quixote"

Robert Reeder 1997; "John Dryden"

1996

Gregg McHugh 1996; "Milton's God"

Lauren A. Whitehurst 1996; "The Trickster Figure in Shakespeare"