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Owen Williams

is Associate Director for Scholarly Programs, and, from September 2022 through June 2023, serves as interim Executive Director at the Folger Institute of the Folger Shakespeare Library. He welcomes some two hundred scholars to the Institute’s programs each year. He holds the A.B. in Classics, Greek, from Stanford University, the M.A. in English Literature from the University of Tulsa, and the Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania. Editor of Foliomania! Stories Behind Shakespeare’s Most Important Book (2011, reissued 2015), he most recently co-edited Early Modern Histories of Time: The Periodizations of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England, with Kristen Poole for the University of Pennsylvania Press (2019). His scholarly interests concern late-Elizabethan religious separatists and angling as a pseudoscience, then and now.
Focus on a Decade of Folger Institute Research and Community
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Focus on a Decade of Folger Institute Research and Community

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Leah Thomas Owen Williams

In the past decade, seventy-five different Guest Authors have published over one hundred posts in The Collation. Roughly half of these contributors wrote posts about their experiences working with the Folger collections and researcher community through Institute-sponsored programming. Many fellows…

Folger Collections related to Dramatic Performance
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Folger Collections related to Dramatic Performance

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Owen Williams Rachel B. Dankert

In hopes that we can help theater historians discover more about relevant Folger holdings through their own explorations, we have created this post on “named” collections at the Folger that relate to actors, dramatic performance, and the texts used by…

The Folger as a Collection of Collections
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The Folger as a Collection of Collections

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Owen Williams Rachel B. Dankert

The next time a scholar of early modern Europe tells you that they don’t look to the Folger as their research home because they don’t work on Shakespeare, you might gently suggest that there are other parts of the Folger’s…

The Amherst-Folger Fellows
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The Amherst-Folger Fellows

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Owen Williams

As readers of The Collation know, the Folger welcomes scholars on fellowship, Folger Institute program participants, and individual readers to our reading rooms. But what our readers may not know is that each January, we open our doors to a…