Booking and details
Dates Thu, May 15, 2025 at 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
Zainab Cheema
Dr. Zainab Cheema is Assistant Professor of Early World Literature at Florida Gulf Coast University. Her teaching and research focus on contact zones in early globalizations, early modern race studies, translation movements, Anglo-Iberian cultural exchanges in early modern theatre, and contemporary film and television adaptations of medieval and early modern literature. Zainab is a member of the #ShakeRace and #RaceB4Race scholarly communities, as well as the Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva. Zainab’s work has been supported by fellowships from the Fulbright Scholarship Program, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Newberry Library, and the Huntington Library. She is currently working on her first book monograph supported by a Folger Long Term Fellowship for 2024-2025.
Kate Doubler
Kate Doubler earned her PhD in English from Emory University and is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Instruction at the University of South Florida. Her research interests include early modern culture and the history of knowledge. She is currently working on a biography of Delia Salter Bacon, a nineteenth-century American historian and one of the first people to develop a Shakespeare authorship conspiracy theory. This biography explores the relevance of conspiracism to the American intellectual tradition.
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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