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In January, the Folger Shakespeare Library hosts undergraduates from Amherst College in the Amherst-Folger Undergraduate Research Fellowship program. The Fellows conduct research at the Folger Shakespeare Library on a project of their choosing. In recent years, their individual research has been framed by readings, group discussion, and consultation with Folger staff. For more information, see Undergraduate research at the Folger.

Program History

The program began in 1996 under the direction of then-Librarian, Richard Kuhta. At its inception, two to three fellowships were awarded annually, with sponsorship from the Friends of the Amherst College Library. Numbers of undergraduate fellows increased to as many as six in 2011. In 2013, the Folger Institute assumed the onsite direction of the program, and at Amherst, the opportunity was newly situated in the Center for Humanistic Inquiry. Since that time, the program has included a short, intensive seminar, introducing a focus on the materials of early modern textual production and the ways those physical aspects of form also shape our understanding of both content and the social relations that texts mediate over time. 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.

If you are an undergraduate student at Amherst College and interested in applying for the program, you can find more information about the application guidelines and process on the Center for Humanistic Inquiry's website.

Past Fellows

2010s

2018

Annika Ariel '19; "Romantic Depictions of Shakespearean Madness in Hamlet and King Lear"

Isabella Berkley '19; "How Travel Writing in the 17th-century Influenced England's Relationship with the Caribbean"

Jane Bragdon '20; "Implications of the Classic Representation of Ophelia at the Time of Her Suicide"

Ariella Goldberg '19; "A Study of Secrets: The Impact of Renaissance Cryptography"

Ann Guo '20; "Foodways as a Lens into Conceptions of Racial/Ethnic 'Others'"

Phuong-Nghi Pham '18; "The Role and the Staging of Music in Renaissance Theater"

2017

Alura Chung-Mehdi '18; "The Role of Food in Shakespeare’s Plays"

Nayereh Doosti '18; "The European Perspective on Early Interactions with Persia (Iran)"

Ben Fiedler '17; "The Influence of Early Modern European Understandings of Africa on Shakespeare's Portrayals of Africa"

Isabel Miller '17; "Childhood in Renaissance England"

Brian O’Malley '18; "The Magic Quill"

Spencer Quong '18; "Portrayals of 'Nothing'"

2016

Irisdelia Garcia '18; "Focus, Virtuality, and Othello"

Emma Hartman '17; "Manuscript Illumination and the Art of the Book in 19th and Early 20th-Century England"

Catherine "Cat" Lowdon '17; "The English Parlor and Privacy: An Examination of Possible Uses of the Rotherwas Room" [title provided by cataloger]

Kevin Mei '16; "The Falling Sickness and its Remedies"

Jacob Pagano '18; "Shakespeare in China: Enchantment and Humanism during the New Culture Movement (1915-1921)"

Crystal Park '17; "Roots of Imperialism in Costume in the 16th and 17th Century"

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" [title provided by cataloger]

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

Caryce Tirop '17; "Biblical Translations during the Protestant Reformation" [title provided by cataloger]

2014

Richard Altieri '15; "All the Quixotes: Translating Cervantes"

Daria Chernysheva '16; "The Earliest Translations of Hamlet in Imperial Russia"

David Dickinson '16; "The Readings of Terence in Elizabethan Classrooms"

Amar Mukunda '15; "Quantitative Analysis of Mid-Range Characters' Speech in Shakespeare" [title provided by cataloger]

Sophia Padelford '15; "The Elizabethan Reception of the Classical Orator"

Madelin Parsley '15; "'Do You Mark That?': Staging Shakespeare's Eavesdroppers"

2013

Elizabeth Alexander '14; "Othello Comparisons"

Devon Geary '14; "Trauma in the Name of Glory: A Folger Fellowship Reading Project on British Colonialism"

Jeffrey Moro '14; "Media in Translation"

Mark Roh '15; "The Interaction Between Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy of History Plays and the Political Climate in Elizabethan England"

2012

Zachary Bleemer '13; "Marketplace Aesthetics in the Age of Taste"

Terrence Cullen '13; "Representations of the Exotic in English Travel Writing from the Late Middle Ages to the Renaissance"

Matt Hartzler '13; "T.J. Hind: Contemporary & Historian of the Booth Brothers"

Lester Hu '13; "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 '12

Miranda Marraccini '12

Colleen O’Connor '11

Elisabeth Siegel '11

Elaine Teng '12

2010

Aaron Aruck '11; "Social Mobility and the British East India Company"

Max Kaisler '11; "Seneca's Ideas on Madness and Medicine in Renaissance England"

2000s

2009

Jeffery Blevins '09

Miranda Hannash '09

Ryan MacDonald '10

2008

Emanuel Costache '09; "Edmund Spenser: Studied Barbarity in The Shepheardes Calendar"

Jamie Ling '09; "English Grammar Books, 1580-1720"

Emily Wright '09; "Politics of the Irish Language"

2007

Meghan Kemp-Gee '07; "Magical Language in Macbeth, A Winter's Tale, Richard III, Hamlet, The Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream"

Normandy Vincent '08; "Catherine de Medici and the Politics of Visual Imagery"

2006

Sarah Courtney '06; "Fairy Tales in the Literary and Didactic Traditions"

Patrick McGrath '07; "Lycidas: Milton and Virgil"

Hadley Miller '06; "Noblewomen in the National Legal System in 13th-Century England"

2005

No Fellowships were awarded

2004

Mihailis Diamantis '04; "George Herbert and Renaissance Wit"

Nick Pedersen '04; "Shapes of Metaphysical Poetry: Structure and Meaning in 17th-Century Verse"

2003

Benjamin Baum '03; "The English Succession Crisis, 1553"

Daniel Liss '03; "Hamlet II.2"

Katharine Liu '03; "Othello and Social Context"

2002

Daniel Shore '02; "Milton and his Antinomian Contemporaries"

Rikita Tyson '02; "Staging Practices in Twelfth Night and As You Like It"

Ema Vyroubalova '02; "Lyricism, Performativity, and Theatricality in Richard II and Richard III"

2001

Umit Dhuga '01; "Catullus in the Renaissance"

Stacy Kitsis '01; "English Origins of Russian Children's Literature"

2000

Suzanne Feigelson '01; "The Evolution of Twelfth Night in Performance"

Jenna Owens '01; "The Renaissance Masque: An Invocation of a Utopian Society"

1990s

1999

David Goldstein '00; "The Reception of Pindaric Odes in the Renaissance"

Justin Snider '99; "Milton's Satan"

Christine Wong '99; "Countess of Shrewsbury: English Women and the Courts, 1500-1850"

1998

David Y. Kim '99; "Catesby, Linnaeus, and the Languages of Representation in Natural History"

Rachel Slaughter '98; "Reflexivity in Shakespeare's Plays"

1997

Michael Giannelli '97; "Thematic and Stylistic Relationships between Ariosto's Orlando Furioso and Cervantes' Don Quixote"

Robert Reeder '97; "John Dryden"

1996

Gregg McHugh '96; "Milton's God"

Lauren A. Whitehurst '96; "The Trickster Figure in Shakespeare"

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-{{Incomplete}}
-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.
+In January, the Folger Shakespeare Library hosts undergraduates from [https://www.amherst.edu/ Amherst College] in the Amherst-Folger Undergraduate Research Fellowship program. The Fellows conduct research at the Folger Shakespeare Library on a project of their choosing. In recent years, their individual research has been framed by readings, group discussion, and consultation with Folger staff. For more information, see [http://www.folger.edu/undergraduate-research Undergraduate research at the Folger].
 == 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.
+The program began in 1996 under the direction of then-Librarian, Richard Kuhta.  At its inception, two to three fellowships were awarded annually, with sponsorship from the Friends of the Amherst College Library. Numbers of undergraduate fellows increased to as many as six in 2011.  In 2013, the Folger Institute assumed the onsite direction of the program, and at Amherst, the opportunity was newly situated in the [https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/colloquia/center-humanistic-inquiry Center for Humanistic Inquiry]. Since that time, the program has included a short, intensive seminar, introducing  a focus on the materials of early modern textual production and the ways those physical aspects of form also shape our understanding of  both content and the social relations that texts mediate over time. 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.
+If you are an undergraduate student at Amherst College and interested in applying for the program, you can find more information about the application guidelines and process on the Center for Humanistic Inquiry's [https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/colloquia/center-humanistic-inquiry/folger website].
 == Past Fellows ==
 ==== 2010s ====
+'''2018'''
+:Annika Ariel '19; "Romantic Depictions of Shakespearean Madness in ''Hamlet'' and ''King Lear''"
+:Isabella Berkley '19; "How Travel Writing in the 17th-century Influenced England's Relationship with the Caribbean"
+:Jane Bragdon '20; "Implications of the Classic Representation of Ophelia at the Time of Her Suicide"
+:Ariella Goldberg '19; "A Study of Secrets: The Impact of Renaissance Cryptography"
+:Ann Guo '20; "Foodways as a Lens into Conceptions of Racial/Ethnic 'Others'"
+:Phuong-Nghi Pham '18; "The Role and the Staging of Music in Renaissance Theater"
+'''2017'''
+:Alura Chung-Mehdi '18; "The Role of Food in Shakespeare’s Plays"
+:Nayereh Doosti '18; "The European Perspective on Early Interactions with Persia (Iran)"
+:Ben Fiedler '17; "The Influence of Early Modern European Understandings of Africa on Shakespeare's Portrayals of Africa"
+:Isabel Miller '17; "Childhood in Renaissance England"
+:Brian O’Malley '18; "The Magic Quill"
+:Spencer Quong '18; "Portrayals of 'Nothing'"
+'''2016'''
+:Irisdelia Garcia '18; "Focus, Virtuality, and ''Othello''"
+:Emma Hartman '17; "Manuscript Illumination and the Art of the Book in 19th and Early 20th-Century England"
+:Catherine "Cat" Lowdon '17; "The English Parlor and Privacy: An Examination of Possible Uses of the Rotherwas Room" [title provided by cataloger]
+:Kevin Mei '16; "The Falling Sickness and its Remedies"
+:Jacob Pagano '18; "Shakespeare in China: Enchantment and Humanism during the New Culture Movement (1915-1921)"
+:Crystal Park '17; "Roots of Imperialism in Costume in the 16th and 17th Century"
 '''2015'''
-:Jiwoon “Kristine” Choi '16; “Reliving the Renaissance through Francis Bacon: A Personal Approach to the Development of Empiricism”
+: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"
+:Noel Grisanti '17; "Small Latin and Less Greek: Classics and Education in Shakespeare’s England"
-:Matthew Randolph '16; “The Early History of Maryland in the Transatlantic World”
-:Caryce Tirop '17; "Biblical Translations during the Protestant Reformation"
+:Yeon Woo "Heather" Lee '15; "The Relationship between Words and Texts in Manuscripts" [title provided by cataloger]
+:Matthew Randolph '16; "The Early History of Maryland in the Transatlantic World"
+:Caryce Tirop '17; "Biblical Translations during the Protestant Reformation" [title provided by cataloger]
 '''2014'''
-Richard Altieri 2015; "All the Quixotes: Translating Cervantes"
+:Richard Altieri '15; "All the Quixotes: Translating Cervantes"
+:Daria Chernysheva '16; "The Earliest Translations of ''Hamlet ''in Imperial Russia"
+:David Dickinson '16; "The Readings of Terence in Elizabethan Classrooms"
-Daria Chernysheva 2016; "The Earliest Translations of ''Hamlet ''in Imperial Russia"
+:Amar Mukunda '15; "Quantitative Analysis of Mid-Range Characters' Speech in Shakespeare" [title provided by cataloger]
-David Dickinson 2016; "The Readings of Terence in Elizabethan Classrooms"
+:Sophia Padelford '15; "The Elizabethan Reception of the Classical Orator"
-Sophia Padelford 2015; "The Elizabethan Reception of the Classical Orator"
+:Madelin Parsley '15; "'Do You Mark That?': Staging Shakespeare's Eavesdroppers"
 '''2013'''
-Elizabeth Alexander 2014; "Othello Comparisons"
+:Elizabeth Alexander '14; "''Othello ''Comparisons"
-Devon Geary 2014; "Trauma in the Name of Glory: A Folger Fellowship Reading Project on British Colonialism"
+:Devon Geary '14; "Trauma in the Name of Glory: A Folger Fellowship Reading Project on British Colonialism"
-Jeffrey Moro 2014; "Media in Translation"
+:Jeffrey Moro '14; "Media in Translation"
-Mark Roh 2015; "The Interaction Between Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy of History Plays and the Political Climate in Elizabethan England
+:Mark Roh '15; "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"
+:Zachary Bleemer '13; "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"
+:Terrence Cullen '13; "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"
+:Matt Hartzler '13; "T.J. Hind: Contemporary & Historian of the Booth Brothers"
-Lester Hu 2013; "Recusant Music Theory: Modal Ordering in an Edward Paston Manuscript Partbook"
+:Lester Hu '13; "Recusant Music Theory: Modal Ordering in an Edward Paston Manuscript Partbook"
-Jordan Roehl 2012; "The Folger Library Collection and the Inclusion of African Americans"
+:Jordan Roehl 2012; "The Folger Library Collection and the Inclusion of African Americans"
+'''2011'''
-Dan Kim 2012
+:Dan Kim '12
-Miranda Marraccini 2012
+:Miranda Marraccini '12
-Colleen O’Connor 2011
+:Colleen O’Connor '11
-Elisabeth Siegel 2011
+:Elisabeth Siegel '11
-Elaine Teng 2012
+:Elaine Teng '12
+'''2010'''
-Aaron Aruck 2011; "Social Mobility and the British East India Company"
+:Aaron Aruck '11; "Social Mobility and the British East India Company"
-Max Kaisler 2011; "Seneca's Ideas on Madness and Medicine in Renaissance England"
+:Max Kaisler '11; "Seneca's Ideas on Madness and Medicine in Renaissance England"
 ==== 2000s ====
+'''2009'''
+:Jeffery Blevins '09
-Jeffery Blevins 2009
+:Miranda Hannash '09
-Miranda Hannash 2009
+:Ryan MacDonald '10
-Ryan MacDonald 2010
+'''2008'''
+:Emanuel Costache '09; "Edmund Spenser: Studied Barbarity in ''The Shepheardes Calendar''"
-Emanuel Costache 2009; "Edmund Spenser: Studied Barbarity in The Shepheardes Calendar"
+:Jamie Ling '09; "English Grammar Books, 1580-1720"
-Jamie Ling 2009; "English Grammar Books, 1580-1720"
+:Emily Wright '09; "Politics of the Irish Language"
-Emily Wright 2009; "Politics of the Irish Language"
+'''2007'''
+:Meghan Kemp-Gee '07; "Magical Language in ''Macbeth'', ''A Winter's Tale'', ''Richard III'', ''Hamlet'', ''The Tempest'' and ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''"
-Meghan Kemp-Gee 2007; "Magical Language in Macbeth, Winter's Tale, Richard III, Hamlet, The Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream"
+:Normandy Vincent '08; "Catherine de Medici and the Politics of Visual Imagery"
-Normandy Vincent 2008; "Catherine de Medici and the Politics of Visual Imagery"
+'''2006'''
+:Sarah Courtney '06; "Fairy Tales in the Literary and Didactic Traditions"
-Sarah Courtney 2006; "Fairy Tales in the Literary and Didactic Traditions"
+:Patrick McGrath '07; "Lycidas: Milton and Virgil"
-Patrick McGrath 2007; "Lycidas: Milton and Virgil"
+:Hadley Miller '06; "Noblewomen in the National Legal System in 13th-Century England"
-Hadley Miller 2006; "Noblewomen in the National Legal System in 13th-Century England"
+'''2005'''
 No Fellowships were awarded
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 '''2004'''
-Mihailis Diamantis 2004; "George Herbert and Renaissance Wit"
+:Mihailis Diamantis '04; "George Herbert and Renaissance Wit"
-Nick Pedersen 2004; "Shapes of Metaphysical Poetry: Structure and Meaning in 17th-Century Verse"
+:Nick Pedersen '04; "Shapes of Metaphysical Poetry: Structure and Meaning in 17th-Century Verse"
 '''2003'''
-Benjamin Baum 2003; "The English Succession Crisis, 1553"
+:Benjamin Baum '03; "The English Succession Crisis, 1553"
-Daniel Liss 2003; "Hamlet II.2"
+:Daniel Liss '03; "Hamlet II.2"
-Katharine Liu 2003; "Othello and Social Context"
+:Katharine Liu '03; "''Othello ''and Social Context"
 '''2002'''
-[[Daniel Shore]] 2002; "Milton and his Antinomian Contemporaries"
+:[[Daniel Shore]] '02; "Milton and his Antinomian Contemporaries"
-Rikita Tyson 2002; "Staging Practices in Twelfth Night and As You Like It"
+:Rikita Tyson '02; "Staging Practices in ''Twelfth Night'' and ''As You Like It''"
-Ema Vyroubalova 2002; "Lyricism, Performativity, and Theatricality in Richard II and Richard III"
+:Ema Vyroubalova '02; "Lyricism, Performativity, and Theatricality in ''Richard II'' and ''Richard III''"
 '''2001'''
-Umit Dhuga 2001; "Catullus in the Renaissance"
+:Umit Dhuga '01; "Catullus in the Renaissance"
-Stacy Kitsis 2001; "English Origins of Russian Children's Literature"
+:Stacy Kitsis '01; "English Origins of Russian Children's Literature"
 '''2000'''
-Suzanne Feigelson 2001; "The Evolution of Twelfth Night in Performance"
+:Suzanne Feigelson '01; "The Evolution of ''Twelfth Night'' in Performance"
-Jenna Owens 2001; "The Renaissance Masque: An Invocation of a Utopian Society"
+:Jenna Owens '01; "The Renaissance Masque: An Invocation of a Utopian Society"
 ==== 1990s ====
 '''1999'''
-David Goldstein 2000; "The Reception of Pindaric Odes in the Renaissance"
+:David Goldstein '00; "The Reception of Pindaric Odes in the Renaissance"
-Justin Snider 1999; "Milton's Satan"
+:Justin Snider '99; "Milton's Satan"
-Christine Wong 1999; "Countess of Shrewsbury: English Women and the Courts, 1500-1850"
+:Christine Wong '99; "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"
+:David Y. Kim '99; "Catesby, Linnaeus, and the Languages of Representation in Natural History"
-Rachel Slaughter 1998; "Reflexivity in Shakespeare's Plays"
+:Rachel Slaughter '98; "Reflexivity in Shakespeare's Plays"
 '''1997'''
-Michael Giannelli 1997; "Thematic and Stylistic Relationships between Ariosto's Orlando Furioso and Cervantes' Don Quixote"
+:Michael Giannelli '97; "Thematic and Stylistic Relationships between Ariosto's Orlando Furioso and Cervantes' ''Don Quixote''"
-Robert Reeder 1997; "John Dryden"
+:Robert Reeder '97; "John Dryden"
 '''1996'''
-Gregg McHugh 1996; "Milton's God"
+:Gregg McHugh '96; "Milton's God"
-Lauren A. Whitehurst 1996; "The Trickster Figure in Shakespeare"
-[[Category:Folger Institute]]
+:Lauren A. Whitehurst '96; "The Trickster Figure in Shakespeare"  [[Category:Folger Institute]] [[Category:Undergraduate]]