Folger Salon with Douglas Clark, Jamie Gemmell, and Patricia A. Matthew

Douglas Clark is a researcher currently based in St Peter’s College, University of Oxford. His work on early modern English drama and poetry has recently appeared in the journals Renaissance Drama, Studies in Philology, and Women’s Writing. His first book, The Will in English Renaissance Drama, will be published with Cambridge University Press in 2025.

Jamie Gemmell is a historian of early modern England and the Atlantic World. Currently,  he is an AHRC-funded doctoral researcher in History at King’s College London. His doctoral thesis is a social history of London that examines how race was practiced and navigated between 1655 and 1730. Jamie is also the administrator for KCL’s Centre for Early Modern Studies.

Patricia A. Matthew is Associate Professor of English at Montclair State University where she teaches courses on the History of the Novel and Romantic abolitionist culture.  She writes about Regency-era literature and culture for scholars and the public in journals and publications including Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Women’s Writing, Lapham’s Quarterly, The Times Literary Supplement, and Slate. She co-edits the Oxford University Press book series Race in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture. She is also director of the Race and Regency Lab and editor of Penguin Random House’s 250th anniversary editions of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Northanger Abbey.  Winner of fellowships from the National Humanities Center and the British Association for Romanticism Studies, she is currently writing a book about abolition, material culture, and gender for Princeton University Press. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.