Folger Shakespeare Library and University of Pennsylvania Press

Cooperative Publishing Agreement

In 2015, The Folger Shakespeare Library and the University of Pennsylvania Press established a formal publishing agreement. The Press agreed to publish volumes that arise from activities at the Folger Shakespeare Library with a title page notice that the volume is published “in cooperation with Folger Shakespeare Library.” In the intervening years, many such volumes have emerged from work substantially shaped by Folger Institute sponsored research—whether through a research fellowship or a scholarly program.

The topics and methodological approaches can be as broad as those of the Folger Collections and research activities of the Folger itself. The agreement is non-exclusive and the editorial review process is overseen entirely by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Those with relevant monographs or essay collections emerging from Folger research or programming should bring them to the attention of their contact at the Folger; either of the Folger Institute’s Associate Directors are happy to advise: Ashley Buchanan (for Fellowships) or Owen Williams (for Scholarly Programs).

A growing list of publications is resulting from this agreement. Titles include:

Megan Cook. The Poet and the Antiquaries: Chaucerian Scholarship and the Rise of Literary History 1532-1635. 2019.

Cook worked on this project as a Folger short-term fellow in 2015-16.

Katherine Eggert. Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England. 2015.

Eggert worked on the project as an Andrew W. Mellon long-term fellow at the Folger in 2007-08.

Megan Heffernan. Making the Miscellany: Poetry, Print, and the History of the Book in Early Modern England. 2021.

Heffernan worked on the project as a Mowat Mellon long-term fellow in 2016-17.

Musa Gurnis. Mixed Faith and Shared Feeling: Theater in Post-Reformation London. 2018.

Gurnis worked on this project as a Folger short-term fellow in 2014-15.

Thomas Fulton. The Book of Books: Biblical Interpretation, Literary Culture, and the Political Imagination from Erasmus to Milton. 2020.

Fulton worked on this project as a 2015-2016 NEH Long-term Fellow.

Zachary Lesser. Ghosts, Holes, Rips and Scrapes: Shakespeare in 1619, Bibliography in the Longue Durée. 2021.

Lesser was a speaker at a spring 2016 symposium on "Shakespeare's Theatrical Documents."

Ivan Lupić. Subjects of Advice: Drama and Counsel from More to Shakespeare. 2019.

Lupić worked on the project as a short-term fellow at the Folger in 2015-16.

Karen Newman and Jane Tylus, eds., Early Modern Cultures of Translation. 2015.

Newman and Tylus co-organized a Folger Institute conference on “Early Modern Translation: Theory, History, Practice” in 2011.

Kristen Poole and Owen Williams, eds., Early Modern Histories of Time: The Periodizations of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England. 2019.

Poole and Williams co-organized a fall 2015 Folger Institute symposium. 

Debapriya Sarkar. Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science. 2023.

Sarkar worked on the project as a long-term NEH fellow at the Folger in 2016-17.

We are proud of the central role that research at the Folger plays in so much influential scholarly writing, and we are delighted to partner with the University of Pennsylvania Press in this important endeavor.