Folger Institute 2010–2011 short-term fellows
Folger Institute short-term fellows for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Charles Beem, Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Pembroke
- “Lord of Misrule: The Life and Times of George Ferrers”
- (One month, March '11)
Sara Brooks, Lecturer, Princeton University
- “Instituting Bodies, Interpreting Ancient Order: Predecessors and Protestant Institution Building”
- (Two months, July - August '10)
Piers Brown, Post-doctoral Fellow, University of York
- “Donne and the Situation of Literate Work in Early Modern England”
- (Two months, September - October '10)
Mark Thornton Burnett, Professor of Renaissance Studies, Queen’s University, Belfast
- “Shakespeare and World Cinema”
- (One month, April '11)
David Carnegie, Professor of Theatre, Victoria University of Wellington
- “Works of John Webster, V. 4”
- (Three months, April - June '11)
Kathleen Comerford, Professor of History, Georgia Southern University
- “Jesuit Foundations and Medici Power, 1541-1700”
- (One month, July '10)
Ambereen Dadabhoy, Lecturer in Western Languages and Literature, Bogazici University
- “The Stage Turk: Suleyman the Magnificent on the English Stage”
- (Three months, March - May '11)
Jason Denman, Associate Professor of English, Utica College
- “Artificial Shadows: The Skepticism of Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy”
- (One month, July '10)
Francesca Di Blasio, Assistant Professor of English Literature, University of Trento
- “The Antipodes in Early Modern Account: Heresy, Utopia, and Travel”
- (Three months, February - March '11)
Cary Di Pietro, Sessional Lecturer II in English and Drama, University of Toronto at Mississauga
- “Seeing through Shakespeare: Visual Culture and Performance in England, 1660-1960”
- (One month, December '10)
Jeffrey Doty, Assistant Professor of English, West Texas A & M University
- “Popularity and Publicity in Shakespeare’s Theater”
- (One month, July '10)
Julie Eckerle, Assistant Professor of English, University of Minnesota, Morris
- “Romancing the Self: A Study of Early Modern English-Women’s Life Writing”
- (One month, June '11)
Ian Gadd, Senior Lecturer in English, Bath Spa University
- “Copyright and Corporate Publishing in the Stationers’ Company, 1617-1710”
- (Four months, January through July '11)
Anthony Guneratne, Associate Professor of Communication, Florida Atlantic University
- “Rediscovering Shakespeare: the Role of Archives in Reconstructing the Shakespeare Film Canon”
- (Two months, March - April '11)
Karl Gunther, Assistant Professor of History, University of Miami
- “The Ideological Origins of English Puritanism, 1525-1590”
- (One month, July '10)
R. Carter Hailey, Research Associate, The College of William and Mary
- “The Shakespeare Papers”
- (Three months, September - November '10)
Jeffery Hankins, Assistant Professor of History, Louisiana Tech University
- “The Dangerous Days of Religious Refugees”
- (Six weeks, tbd)
Jacob Heil, Independent Scholar, Baltimore, MD
- “Making Poems: A Bibliographic Investigation of Poems by J.D.”
- (One month, July '10)
Jonathan Hsy, Assistant Professor of English, George Washington University
- “Polyglot Production: Multilingual Writing and London Trade, 1340-1540”
- (Three months, September - November '10)
Mariko Ichikawa, Professor [of English], Tohoku University
- “A Study of Early Modern Basic Theatrical Terms”
- (Three months, April - June '11)
Robert Jones, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Leeds
- “Mary Tickell’s Letters to her Sister”
- (One month, July '10)
Sean Keilen, Associate Professor of English, College of William and Mary
- “Circle of Affection: Imitation and Tradition in Renaissance Poetry”
- (Three months, June - August '10)
Gerard Kilroy, Honorary Visiting Professor, University College London
- “’Beyond the sownde of tounge or quill’: the Impact, in Print and in Manuscript, of Edmund Campion, S.J.”
- (Three months, tbd)
Brian Lockey, Associate Professor of English, St. John’s University
- “Catholics, Royalists, Cosmopolitans: Writing at the Margins of Early Modern England”
- (One month, March '11)
Jesus López-Peláez Casellas, Associate Professor of English, University of Jaén
- “The Representation of the Muslim, Jewish, and Spanish Other in the Construction of the English Early Modern Identity”
- (Six weeks, July - August '10)
Katherine Maynard, Associate Professor of French, Washington College
- “Guillaume Du Bartas’ Epic Endeavors”
- (One month, July '10)
Richard C. McCoy, Professor of English, Queens College, CUNY
- “Faith in Shakespeare”
- (Two months, November - December '10)
David McInnis, Ph.D. Candidate (degree in hand by time of residence), University of Melbourne
- “The Lost Plays Database (lostplays.org)”
- (One month, February '11)
Dieter Mehl, Professor Emeritus of English, University of Bonn
- “A Variorum Edition of Shakespeare’s ‘Poems’”
- (Two months, May - June '11)
Shannon Miller, Professor of English, Temple University
- “On the Margins of History: Studies in Pamphlet Collections”
- (Three months, March - May '11)
Melissa Mowry, Associate Professor of English, St. John’s University
- “Ties that Bind: The Hermeneutics of Collectivity and the English Literary Imagination, 1642-1748”
- (Three months, August - October '10)
Alan H. Nelson, Professor Emeritus of English, University of California, Berkeley
- “The Library, Manuscripts, Life, and Opinions of Richard Smith (1590-1675)”
- (Three months, September - November '10)
Webster Newbold, Associate Professor of English, Ball State University
- “The English Secretary by Angel Day: a Critical Edition”
- (One month, July '10)
Corinne Noirot-Maguire, Assistant Professor of French, Virginia Tech
- “Jean de la Taille’s Dramatic Quill”
- (One month, March '11)
Veronica O’Mara, Senior Lecturer, University of Hull
- “A Critical Edition of Thomas Wimbledon’s Paul’s Cross Sermon of c. 1387”
- (One month, May '11)
Jose Roberto O’Shea, Professor of English, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
- “Annotated Verse Translation of Shakespeare’s Two Noble Kinsmen”
- (Three months, August - October '10)
Lena Cowen Orlin, Professor of English, Georgetown University
- “The Textual Life of Things in Early Modern England”
- (Two months, June - September '10)
Mark Rankin, Assistant Professor of English, James Madison University
- “The Myth of Henry VIII in Early Modern England”
- (Three months, January - March '11)
Dosia Reichardt, Lecturer, James Cook University
- “‘Death in a New Dress’: Seventeenth-Century Comic Elegies and the Culture of Mourning”
- (One month, November '10)
Kate Rumbold, Research Fellow, Shakespeare Institute, Birmingham
- “Shakespeare Anthologized”
- (Two months, June - July '11)
Monica Santini, Research Fellow, University of Padua
- “The Queen’s Other Isle: Elizabeth I’s Letters to Ireland”
- (Two months, October - November '10)
Kathryn Schwarz, Associate Professor of English, Vanderbilt University
- “Counterfactual Women: Femininity and Teleology in Early Modern England”
- (Three months, October - December '10)
Marlis Schweitzer, Assistant Professor of Theatre, York University
- “Bringing the World to Broadway: Tracking the Transnational Trade in Theatrical Commodities”
- (Two months, tbd)
Jessica Sharkey, Research Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge
- “Thomas Wolsey’s Reputation and its European Context”
- (Three months, September - November)
Ian Smith, Professor of English, Lafayette College
- “Fabricated Identities: Racial Cross-Dressing on the Early Modern Stage”
- (One month, October '10)
Abraham Stoll, Associate Professor of English, University of San Diego
- “Thus Conscience in Early Modern England”
- (One month, June '10)
Felicity Stout, Research Associate, University of Sheffield
- “Giles Fletcher the Elder and the Elizabethan Commonwealth”
- (Two months, July - August '10)
Catherine Thomas, Assistant Professor of English, College of Charleston
- “Shakespeare and the Graphic Arts: Sketching the Past”
- (One month, March '10)
Anke Timmermann, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Glasgow
- “How Bess of Hardwick Read the News”
- (One month, May - June '11)
David Trim, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Reading
- “Tyranny, Resistance, and the Calvinist Ideology of Holy War, 1560-1650”
- (Three months, August - September '10)
Angus Vine, Lecturer in Early Modern Literature, University of Sussex
- “Manuscripts, Merchants, and Miscellanea”
- (One month, July - August '10)
Andrew Walkling, Dean’s Assistant Professor of Early Modern Studies, SUNY, Binghamton
- “Instruments of Absolutism: Restoration Court Culture and the Epideictic Mode”
- (Three months, April - June '11)
J. Christopher Warner, Professor of English, Le Moyne College
- “Tottel’s Miscellany in the Marian Book Market”
- (Three months, December '10 - February '11)
Adrian C. Weimer, Instructional Assistant Professor of Religion, University of Mississippi
- “Divine Consolations: A Cultural History of Affliction”
- (One month, tbd)
Joshua Westgard, Haslam Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Marco Institute, University of Tennessee
- “Bede’s History and its Readers in the Age of Print”
- (One month, July '10)
Rachel Willie, Teaching Associate in English, University of York
- “Staging Revolution: Drama, Reinvention, and Historical Interpretation”
- (Two months, January - March '11)
David Worrall, Professor of English, Nottingham Trent University
- “Performing Britannia”
- (One month, December '10 - January '11)