Folger Fellows

Or else I’m a Jew | a series of abstractions
Artistic fellow Casey Carsel shares their process designing textile works in response to questions about the Early Modern Jewish experience

Discovering Paolo Bozi’s Rappresentatione Del Giudicio Vniuersale
Folger Fellow Ianick Takaes explores an early modern staging of heaven and hell.

The Curious Papers of the Curious Dr. Stukeley
A look at items in the Folger collection belonging to William Stukeley, an antiquarian with an interest in Robin Hood

Sweet Blood: A Play in Progress
Artistic Fellow Camille Thomas shares how research at the Folger helps inform her play, Sweet Blood.

Even them?! Loving the neighbour in Shakespeare and early modern England
Fellow Roberta Kwan discusses Shakespeare and loving thy neighbor

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

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

Drinking with Shakespeare: Early Modern Tavern Tokens
Artistic Fellow Leah Hampton showcases the Folger’s collection of Early Modern bar tokens

Folger Deep Dives: Memory, marginalia, and the art of reading, V.b.32 and beyond
Folger fellow Amy Cooper explores the relationship between memory and the doodles of faces, dragons, and people in the margins of books.

Making Meaning of Adapted Shakespeare: White Femininity in Re-Imaginings of Measure for Measure
Fellow Vanessa Corredera examines the use of color in adaptations of Measure for Measure

The Meaning of Mining from Agricola to Zárate
Fellow Anita Raychawdhuri explores how mining was imagined in the Early Modern world by examining images and tales of colonial Peru.