Previous Folger Institute short-term fellows
2013-2014 Folger Institute short-term fellows
Katherine Acheson, English, University of Waterloo
- “Inscriptions: Writing in Early Modern English Bibles”
Ronda Arab, English, Simon Fraser University
- “The Gentleman Apprentice on the Early Modern London Stage”
Guyda Armstrong, Italian Studies, University of Manchester
- “Boccaccio in English, 1494-1620”
Kevin Bourque, Writing in the Disciplines, Southwestern University
- “Seriality, Singularity, and Celebrity: Pictures in Motion from 1680-1810”
Ian Campbell, Center for Neo-Latin Studies, University College Cork
- “Protestant Natural Law and Irish Natural Slaves”
Urvashi Chakravarty, English, University of Hawaii at Manoa
- “Serving Like a Free Man: Labor, Liberty, and Consent in Early Modern England”
Raz Chen-Morris, History of Science, Bar Ilan University
- “Vision Contested”
David Coast, History, Durham University
- “Rumour and Common Fame in Early Stuart Manuscript Miscellanies”
Matthew Day, English, Newman University
- “Reading the Nation’s Voyages – the Literature of Travel and the Nature of English Nationalism”
Eric Dursteler, History, Brigham Young University (SCSC/Folger Fellow)
- “Around the Mediterranean Table: Foodways and Identity in the Early Modern Era”
Amy Froide, History, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- “Women’s Financial Literacy in Early Modern England”
Nathan Garvey, English, University of Queensland
- “Jane Garland/Lowndes: Printer to the Drury Lane Theatre (fl. 1777-1824)”
David George, English, Urbana University
- “A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus”
Katherine Gillen, English, Texas A&M University, San Antonio
- “Chaste Value: Economic Crises, Sexual Anxiety, and Construction of Identity in Early Modern Drama”
Ken Gouwens, History, University of Connecticut
- “Defining Human Exceptionalism”
John Gouws, English, North-West University
- “Clarendon Edition of the Works of Fulke Greville”
David Greer, Music, Durham University
- “An Edition of Manuscript Music in Printed Sources”
Tobias Gregory, English, The Catholic University of America
- “Milton’s Strenuous Liberty”
Huw Griffiths, English, University of Sydney
- “Love, Desire, and Friendship Between Men in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Adaptations of Shakespeare”
William Hauptman, Independent Scholar, Lausanne, Switzerland
- “Samuel Hieronymus Grimm’s Shakespeare Illustration in the Folger”
Richard Hoyle, History, University of Reading
- “Popular Royalism in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Century”
Miriam Jacobson, English, University of Georgia
- “Renaissance Undead: Resurrecting the Past in Early Modern England”
Christopher Johnson, English, University of California, Los Angeles
- “Squaring the Circle: Representing Self and World in The Anatomy of Melancholy”
Ben Labreche, English, University of Mary Washington
- “Liberty Agonistes: Milton and Modern Freedom”
Katherine Larson, English, University of Toronto
- “The Singing Body in Early Modern England”
Dmitri Levitin, History, Trinity College, Cambridge
- “The Historicization of Religion and Theology, c. 1580-1720”
Christopher Matusiak, English, Ithaca College
- “A Critical Edition of Robert Greene’s Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay”
Agnes Matuska, English, University of Szeged
- “Early Modern Version of the Theatrum Mundi, and our Contemporary Perspectives”
Valerie McGowan-Doyle, History, Lorain County Community College
- “Violence Against Women in Sixteenth-Century Ireland”
Stephanie Morley, English, Saint Mary’s University
- “Lady Margaret Beaufort: The Imitation of Christ, Book IV, The Mirror of Gold to the Sinful Soul – a Critical Edition”
Louise Noble, School of Arts, University of New England (Australia)
- “The Changing Waterscape in Early Modern Rural England”
Sarah Noonan, English, Lindenwood University
- “The Book in Parts: Selective Reading Practices in Late Medieval England”
Shormishtha Panja, English, University of Delhi
- “Shakespeare, Boydell and Bengal”
Vimala Pasupathi, Theatre, Hofstra University
- “The Militia Theatre, 1560-1660: Playing the Soldier in English Drama and British History”
Teresa Prudente, Humanities, University of Turin
- “The Two Noble Kinsmen: a New Translation and Critical Edition in Italian”
Maria Anne Purciello, Music History, University of Delaware
- “Artistry, Rhetoric and … Laughter? Rethinking the ‘Comic’ in 17th-Century Opera”
Mark Rankin, English, James Madison University (RSA/Folger Fellow)
- “William Tyndale’s Practice of Prelates (1530) and the Nature of Reading in Renaissance England”
Lucy Razzall, English, Emmanuel College, Cambridge
- “Printed Repositories in Early Modern England”
Letha Clair Robertson, Art History, University of Texas, Tyler
- “Marketing the Theatrical Celebrity: Thomas Hicks’s Portraits of Edwin Booth”
Benedict Robinson, English, Stony Brook University
- “Feeling Words: An Early Modern Philology of the Affections”
Claire Sponsler, English, University of Iowa
- “Reading the Beauchamp Pageant”
Andrew Strycharski, English, Florida International University
- “Philip Sidney, Community, and the Reformation’s Passionate Ethics”
Edward (Mac) Test, English, Boise State University
- “Cochineal: From Myth to Market”
Clotilde Thouret, Comparative Literature, University of Paris-Sorbonne
- “Defending the Theater, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment: Knowledge, Effects and Uses of a Controversial Art”
Lucy Underwood, Theology, Durham University
- “‘Out of a heretical nation’: English Catholic Representations of Protestant England and their Reception”
Denise Walen, Theatre, Vassar College
- “Dethroning Margaret”
Elizabeth Williamson, Independent Scholar, London
- “Henry Unton and the Afterlives of Letters: Copies, Counterfeits, and the Construction of History”
Carl Wise, Hispanic Studies, College of Charleston
- “Doctrines on Display: Baroque Theologies in the Theater of Antonio Mira de Amescua”
David Worrall, English, Nottingham Trent University
- “Sarah Siddons and Edmund Kean’s Drury Lane Audiences”