Folger Institute Programs

Organized by Simone Chess, Nick Jones, Will Fisher, Colby Gordon, and Melissa E. Sanchez

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Organizers: Simone Chess is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program at Wayne State University. Will Fisher is Associate Professor of English at Lehman College and The CUNY Graduate Center. Colby Gordon is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Literatures in English at Bryn Mawr College. Nicholas R. Jones, Yale Department of Spanish and Portuguese, is the former King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center’s 2021-2022 Scholar-in-Residence at New York University. Melissa E. Sanchez is Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Director of the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies; and Director of the Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Invited Speakers: Kim F. Hall (Barnard College), Marquis Bey (Northwestern University), and Jules Gill-Peterson (John Hopkins University) will deliver a plenary conversation on Thursday evening to open the symposium. Over the following Friday and Saturday, speakers including Cecilio M. Cooper (University of Michigan), Esteban Crespo-Jaramillo (Yale University), Leah DeVun(Rutgers University), Carla Freccero (University of California, Santa Cruz), Miles Grier (City University of New York), Sawyer Kemp(Queen’s College, City University of New York),Greta LaFleur(Yale University), and Zeb Tortorici (New York University) will open up a range of relevant themes for extended conversation. Abdulhamit Arvas (University of Pennsylvania) and Howard Chiang (University of California, Davis) will serve as respondents.

Anticipated Schedule: Thursday evening, Friday, and Saturday, 18 – 20 May 2023, in Washington, D.C.

Apply:6 March 2023 for admission and grants-in-aid.

Directed by Heather Wolfe

Co-sponsored with the Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Director:Heather Wolfe is Curator of Manuscripts and Associate Librarian at the Folger Shakespeare Library, co-director of the recently concluded multi-year research project Before ‘Farm to Table’: Early Modern Foodways and Cultures, and principal investigator of Early Modern Manuscripts Online. Author of numerous articles on early modern manuscripts, Dr. Wolfe has edited The Literary Career and Legacy of Elizabeth Cary, 1613–1680 (2007), The Trevelyon Miscellany of 1608: A Facsimile Edition of Folger Shakespeare Library MS V.b.232 (2007), Letterwriting in Renaissance England (2004) (with Alan Stewart), and Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland: Life and Letters (2001). She is currently working on a book on early modern writing paper in England.

Anticipated Schedule: Monday through Friday, 5-9 June 2023, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies.

Apply:6 March 2023 for admission and grants-in-aid forFolger Institute Consortium affiliates.

Directed by Marcy North, Claire M. L. Bourne, and Whitney Trettien

Co-sponsored with the University of Pennsylvania

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Anticipated Schedule: Monday through Friday, 22-26 May 2023, at the University of Pennsylvania’s Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts.

Apply:  6 March 2023 for admission and grants-in-aid for Folger Institute Consortium affiliates.