Folger Institute

Artistic Fellow Camille Thomas shares how research at the Folger helps inform her play, Sweet Blood.

In a continuation of a series, a member of the RaceB4Race Mentorship Network discusses what they’re reading and thinking about in their monthly Reading Group.

Fellow Roberta Kwan discusses Shakespeare and loving thy neighbor

An examination of Cleopatra’s racialized and sexualized queenship through the twinned theoretical frameworks of indigenous and queer conviviality

Fellow Douglas Clark delves into the contents of the previously overlooked manuscript, Thomas Grocer’s Banquet of Sweetmeats.

In a continuation of a series, a member of the RaceB4Race Mentorship Network discusses what they’re reading and thinking about in their monthly Reading Group.

Artistic Fellow Leah Hampton showcases the Folger’s collection of Early Modern bar tokens

Folger fellow Amy Cooper explores the relationship between memory and the doodles of faces, dragons, and people in the margins of books.

Fellow Vanessa Corredera examines the use of color in adaptations of Measure for Measure

Fellow Anita Raychawdhuri explores how mining was imagined in the Early Modern world by examining images and tales of colonial Peru.

We take a look at how research happens at the Folger, from Folger Institute fellowships to the chairs in our Reading Room.