Booking and details
Dates Thu, Mar 13, 2025, 4:30pm
Venue Great Hall
Tickets Free
Folger Salon
Learn about research happening at the Folger in real time! Each month, Folger Institute scholar and artist fellows will share their most exciting finds and thought-provoking challenges, followed by casual open conversation. Arrive early to purchase food and drink from the Folger’s new cafe, Quill & Crumb!
This is a free event. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Speakers
Beatrice Bradley
Beatrice Bradley is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. Her research brings together early modern literature, critical theory, and the health humanities to rethink both the materiality and psychology of embodiment. She is currently a long-term fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library, where she is working on a book project that charts the literary aftermath of an early modern plague known as the Sweating Sickness. Recent publications have appeared or are forthcoming in English Literary Renaissance, Milton Studies, Shakespeare Studies, and the edited-collection The Kinky Renaissance (ACMRS Press).
Sara Pennell
About Folger Institute
The Folger Institute is a center for early modern research at the Folger Shakespeare Library that brings public audiences together with researchers to explore the cultures and legacies of the early modern world. Learn more.
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