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Dates Thurs, Oct 17 at 4:30pm ET
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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. Tea and coffee will be provided.
This is a free event. No registration required.
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.
Speakers
Tiffany Bragg
Tiffany Bragg is a PhD candidate researching early modern England, with emphasis on Anglo-Spanish diplomacy, at the University of California, Riverside.
Alex Lewis
Alex Lewis is a Long-term Fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library working in Shakespeare Studies, comparative early modern literature, and the history of sexuality. His current book project looks at one of early modern literature’s most notorious but critically neglected characters: the cuckold. It asks why this figure became the object of such potent fascination for authors and audiences from the fifteenth to seventeenth century. His articles have been published in Shakespeare Quarterly, Modern Philology, Comparative Literature, and Milton Studies. He received his Ph.D. in English from Johns Hopkins University in 2022.
Simon Smith
Simon Smith is Associate Professor at the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Jennifer Wu
Jennifer Wu is an Adjunct Professorial Lecturer in art history at American University in Washington, DC.
See what our fellows are researching
“A smale remembrance”: Elizabethan Posy Rings
A closer look at 17th century engraved rings in the Folger’s collection
North Africa Through the Eyes of England
A look at some of the colonial sources that informed the understanding that 17th century English people had of North Africa.
What of Shakespeare?
Findings from a 1945 survey asking patrons of a library about their experiences reading, watching, and performing Shakespeare.
“I have lately been promoted to the ‘big douche’”
Through her correspondence, Delia Salter Bacon reveals what it was like to undergo a 19th century “water-cure”
Performing Race in the London Lord Mayors’ Show, 1660-1708
Fellow Jamie Gemmell explores how race was performed in the annual London Lord Mayor’s Show