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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
Artist Dominick Porras Reconstructs Classical Narratives of the Americas
Porras, a Folger Artist Fellow, shares what inspired him, from the Folger collection to Indigenous futurism, in the creation of his new media work, de Bry’s Slipstream.
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“Greetings from Jamaica”
Seventeenth century resonances in a twentieth century postcard sent from Jamaica.
How to be a true widow in early modern England
“Do not seek pleasure in music and singing” and other advice for widows from an early 17th-century manuscript.
Third Time’s a Charm: W. Blount Reads Sidney’s Arcadia
An examination of marginalia in the Folger’s 1593 The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia