Folger Shakespeare Library and University of Pennsylvania Press

The Folger Institute formally endorses work that arises out of Folger research via a special partnership with the University of Pennsylvania Press [1]. Scholars who have held a Folger fellowship or who have participated in a Folger Institute scholarly program are invited to submit their monographs or edited collections for publication via the University of Pennsylvania Press. If accepted into the partnership, these Folger Institute-sponsored books will receive a subvention towards publication and acknowledgement on their title page that they were “Published in cooperation with the Folger Shakespeare Library.” The topics and methodological approaches of Folger Institute imprint books can be as broad as those of the Folger Institute itself. The arrangement is non-exclusive and the editorial review process is overseen entirely by the University of Pennsylvania Press. We are proud of the central role that research at the Folger plays in so much scholarly writing, and are delighted to partner with the University of Pennsylvania Press on this important endeavor.

Titles to Date

A growing list of publications has emerged from this agreement. The first monograph to emerge from the University of Pennsylvania Press with a Folger Institute imprint was written by Folger fellow Katherine Eggert. Her book Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England [2] appeared in 2015. A volume of essays that grew out of a Folger Institute scholarly programs conference on Early Modern Cultures of Translation [3] (2015), edited by Karen Newman and Jane Tylus, followed shortly after.

Two more titles are in the pipeline: a monograph by recent Folger fellow Musa Gurnis on Heterodox Drama: Theater in Post-Reformation London, and an edited collection of essays from a November 2015 symposium titled Periodization and “Early Modern” Temporalities: Reimagining Chronology through Sixteenth-and Seventeenth-Century Habits of Thought, edited by Kristen Poole and Owen Williams.

Should you produce a work that is appropriate for this avenue of publication, please let your contact at the Folger know of your interest.