Folger Institute 2019-2020 short-term fellows

Folger Institute short-term fellows for the 2020–2021 year. See previous Folger Institute short-term fellows for a multi-year list of previous fellows.

Faith Acker, Adjunct Professor of English, Northern Virginia Community College Servants and Tradesmen in English Renaissance Poetry and Culture (1600-1660)

Morayo Akandé, Director, Writer, and Producer, Lucid Dreamers Productions and Moyo Akandé, Producer, Lucid Dreamers Productions 1745: A Full-Length Feature Film SSEMW Fellows, Artists-in-Residence

Patricia Akhimie, Associate Professor of English, Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University-Newark Editing Shakespeare's Othello

Carolyn Arena, NEH Postdoctoral Fellow, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Yarico's Caribbean: Indigenous Trade‚ Diplomacy‚ and Enslavement 1400-1700

Farid Azfar, Associate Professor of History, Swarthmore College At Peace with Slavery: White Supremacy and the Spirit of the Asiento

Elad Carmel, Postdoctoral Fellow, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Politics of Reason: Ideas and Identities of Freethinking in Eighteenth-Century England

Ruma Chopra, Professor of History, San Jose State University Between God and Darwin: Early Modern Transitions in Understandings about Climate NACBS-Folger Fellow

Thomas Colville, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Cambridge The Seventeenth-Century Fair: An Intellectual Experience

Christopher D’Addario, Associate Professor of English, Gettysburg College Urban Aesthetics and the Invention of the Metaphysical

Natalya Din-Kariuki, Early Career Fellow, Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities and Stipendiary Lecturer in English, University of Oxford Noting‚ Knowing‚ Writing: English Travellers and their Notes‚ 1550-1700

Katherine Gillen, Associate Professor of English and Associate Chair of the Department of Arts & Humanities, Texas A&M University‚ San Antonio Race‚ Rome‚ and Early Modern Drama: The Whitening of England and the Classical World

John Gouws, Professor Emeritus, Rhodes University Oxford Edition Fulke Greville's Literary Works and Letters

Dawn Hoffman, Independent Artist Hooked on Book furniture; Clasps, Corners and Center Medallions; Materials and Techniques used in the Past, how to recreate them in the Present Artist-in-Residence

Bikang Huang, Professor of English, Peking University Shakespearean Appropriation of Classical Chinese Plays in Translation Artist-in-Residence

Shannon Kelley, Associate Professor of English, Fairfield University Wounded Trees and the Poetics of Trauma

Emily King, Assistant Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama, Louisiana State University Second Acts: Reanimation in the English Renaissance

Jeffrey Knight, Associate Professor of English, University of Washington Shakespeare's Books

Alice Leonard, Visiting Fellow, University of Oxford Correcting Shakespeare's Errors

Lauren MacDonald, Independent Researcher Atlantic Reformations‚ 1555-1620 Omohundro-Folger Fellow

Joseph Mansky, Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature, Bard College Seeds of Sedition: Libels, Plays, and the Early Modern Public Sphere RSA Fellow

Emily Mayne, Visiting Research Associate, University of East Anglia Hydras at Court: Networking Religion and Mythology in the Edwardian Revels

William Miller, Assistant Professor of English, University of Rochester The Enthusiast: From Prophecy to Enlightenment in Seventeenth-Century England

Bénédicte Miyamoto, Associate Professor (Maitre de Conférences), Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 Drawing Manuals: Portrait of the Artist as a Reader

Yelda Nasifoglu, Associate member of the History Faculty, University of Oxford Circulation of mathematical books in early modern Britain: evidence from personal collection‚ bookseller and auction catalogues

Noémie Ndiaye, Assistant Professor of English, University of Chicago Early Modern Intersections of Race and Ethnicity

Scott O’Neil, Adjunct Professor of English, St. John Fisher College and SUNY Brockport The Players' Post

Katherine Reinhart, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Cambridge Images for the King: Art, Science, and Power in Louis XIV's France RSA-Kress Fellow

Suparna Roychoudhury, Associate Professor of English, Mount Holyoke College The Cunning Renaissance: Literature‚ Technicity‚ Intelligence

John Saillant, Professor of English, Western Michigan State University Food Gifts in Eighteenth-Century Interracial Situations

Kathryn Santos, Assistant Professor of English, Trinity University Babelian Performances: Early Modern Interpreters and the Theatricality of Translation

Jonathan Sawday, Walter J. Ong S.J. Chair in the Humanities and Professor of English, Saint Louis University Print‚ Space‚ and Void: Absence and Emptiness in Early-Modern English Literature

Betty Schellenberg, Professor of English, Simon Fraser University Reader Creations: Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Verse Miscellanies

Kathryn Schwarz, Professor of English, Vanderbilt University The Transient Renaissance: Contagion, Communion, and Ethical Risk

Drew Thomas, Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University of St. Andrews Counterfeiting Luther: Fraud in the Reformation Book Trade

Constantine Vassiliou, Course Instructor, University of Toronto Back to the Future of Financial Crises: Public Institutions in the Context of the South Sea 'Bubble' in England

Rachel Weil, Professor of History, Cornell University Mere Detention: Custodial Confinement in Early Modern England

Katherine Williams, Assistant Professor of English, University of Toronto Global Shakespeare and the Work of Commemoration SAA Fellow

Matthew Woodcock, Professor of Medieval and Early Modern English Literature, University of East Anglia Robert Barret's Translations of Du Bartas and the Making of an Early Modern Soldier-Poet