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While many of our scholarly friends are preparing for the spring semester, we at the Folger Institute are also starting a busy New Year! Along with colleagues from across the Folger, we welcomed and supported six Amherst Undergraduate Fellows with sessions ranging from refining keyword searches to careers in the humanities and the philosophy of special collections. Our Fellowships team is assembling committees to select long-term fellows and short-term residential, virtual, and artistic fellows who will leverage Folger support to advance their research projects in 2023-24. Scholarly Programs is also looking ahead to our onsite return by planning an exciting slate of spring workshops to explore regional American Shakespeares, co-hosted with our Consortium universities. 

Owen Williams, Ph.D.

Interim Executive Director, Folger Institute

Early modern handwriting next to a red, stamped wax seal

Two of the Institute's late-spring 2023 Scholarly Programs will focus on developing participants' research skills. Submit your application by March 6 to learn how to decipher the intricacies of early modern handwriting or how to navigate special collections as a graduate student.

Entrance to the Folger's Haskell Center

In May 2023, the Global Early Modern Trans Studies symposium will convene onsite at the Folger's Haskell Center to consider the intersections of early modern gendered embodiment in relation to the emergence of modern racial hierarchies. Applications are due March 6. 

Cover of Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race by Ian Smith

Dr. Ian Smith returns to Shakespeare Unlimited to discuss his new book, Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race. Listen to the podcast now and join us in-person in April 2023 when Dr. Smith will deliver the annual Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture!

The cover of Shakespeare Quarterly with the words Shakespeare Quarterly on a blue background above an early modern print

The newest double issue of Shakespeare Quarterly (Fall/Winter 2022) was published in December 2022. Read essays by Jade Standing, Meghan C. Andrews, Bradley J. Irish, Gary Taylor, Laurence Publicover, and Kenneth J. E. Graham. 

4x4 grid of early modern shields with descriptions beneath

Learn what our current Folger Institute fellows are up to on The Collation! Lehua Yim discusses "Interpreting Systems that Make Place," and artist fellow Hannah Baker Saltmarsh gives an overview of her work with the Folger's recipe book collection.

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You have a story to tell—and learning how to tell that story might just set you on course towards history. The Folger’s brand new “Works in Progress” program pairs you with expert mentors to learn the crafts of playwriting, poetry, or songwriting. Limited registration is available for both virtual and in-person sessions.

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Image Credits: Detail of Letter from Jane (Skipwith), Lady Throckmorton, to Lewis Bagot, Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Image File Name 5776; Photo of the Folger Shakespeare Library Haskell Center, courtesy Anice Hoachlander Hoachlander Davis; Cover of Ian Smith, Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race (Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 2022); Cover of Shakespeare Quarterly 73:3-4 with Jacob Cats (1577–1660), “Kunst voor kracht” from Proteus ofte Minnebeelden verandert in Sinne-beelden door [1627], p. 14, call no. STC 4863.5. Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Image File Name: 063922; Sample table organizing principal families of Ireland, their arms, from Folger MS V.b.182, 345r; Detail of A nevv booke, containing all sorts of hands vsually written at this day in Christendome, as the English and French Secretary, the Roman, Italian, French, Spanish, high and low Dutch, court and chancerie hands: with examples of each of them in their prope, 1611, Digital Image File Name 064132. Design by LINK.