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Artist Research Fellow Alexander D’Agostino uses ChatCPT to help imagine what the fourteen missing pages of a magical Folger manuscript could be like.

In the first of a new series, members of the Race Before Race Mentorship Network discuss what they’re reading and thinking about in their monthly Reading Group.

When is a Hollar not a Hollar? When his name is being used in 19th century depictions of early modern women. Folger Fellow Alicia Meyer looks at sexualization, economic power, and the manipulation of the past.

Folger Fellow Nora Epstein explores the work of the copier Thomas Trevelyon.

Folger Fellow Renée Bricker uses the senses as a way to explore life during the reign of Elizabeth I.

Folger Fellow Javier Patiño Loira explores early modern concerns about nature and extinction.

Simon Newman examines the use of the name “Othello” given to enslaved people on both sides of the Atlantic.

Folger Fellow Désha Osborne looks at Horace Twiss’s early 19th century play The Carib Chief.

Folger Fellow Injela Zaini examines Ophelia’s death and the purpose it serves.

In the past decade, seventy-five different Guest Authors have published over one hundred posts in The Collation. Roughly half of these contributors wrote posts about their experiences working with the Folger collections and researcher community through Institute-sponsored programming. Many fellows…

A guest post by Breanne Weber and Tamara Mahadin In the midst of a pandemic, participants of the Folger Institute’s “Orientation to Research Methods and Agendas” gathered in a virtual seminar space this summer. The co-directors and some of the…

The Folger Institute is pleased to announce the 2021-2022 cohort of Folger Institute Research Fellows! With the Folger Shakespeare Library building renovation project well and truly underway, the Folger collections remain unavailable for in-person consultation. However, the Folger Institute is…