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Announcement: 2017-2018 Long-Term Fellows
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Announcement: 2017-2018 Long-Term Fellows

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Amanda Herbert

The Folger Institute is pleased to announce our 2017-18 cohort of Long-Term Fellows. This year we will welcome seven long-term scholars to the Folger: James Bromley, Urvashi Chakravarty, Surekha Davies, Nicholas Popper, Nigel Smith, Julianne Werlin, and Jessica Wolfe. The…

What happens when actors, musicians, and scholars collaborate on a Restoration Shakespeare play
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What happens when actors, musicians, and scholars collaborate on a Restoration Shakespeare play

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Richard Schoch

Participants watch as directors Amanda Eubanks Winkler and Richard Schoch give preliminary stagings to the actors and dancers, for Gildon’s 1700 adaptation of “Measure for Measure.” Part of the November 2014 Folger Institute weekend workshop, “Performing Restoration Shakespeare.” Part of…

Q & A: Amanda Herbert, Assistant Director for Fellowships Program, Folger Institute
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Q & A: Amanda Herbert, Assistant Director for Fellowships Program, Folger Institute

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Amanda Herbert recently became an Assistant Director at the Folger Institute, where she directs each aspect of the Folger fellowships program, from managing the applications process to fostering a sense of scholarly community. As part of the Folger Institute team,…

The Amherst-Folger Fellows
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The Amherst-Folger Fellows

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Owen Williams

As readers of The Collation know, the Folger welcomes scholars on fellowship, Folger Institute program participants, and individual readers to our reading rooms. But what our readers may not know is that each January, we open our doors to a…

Peeking behind the locked door
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Peeking behind the locked door

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Kathleen Lynch

Another sede vacante has come and gone. With the wall-to-wall coverage of contemporary media, this one made witnesses of us all. Or at least, the coverage let us witness the events outside the conclave and to share our speculation about…

Teaching and collaborating
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Teaching and collaborating

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Sarah Werner

Last weekend, the Folger Institute and the Folger Undergraduate Program held a 3-day workshop on Teaching Book History. 50 librarians and faculty gathered from a wide range of institutions—small liberal arts colleges to regional schools to highly selective research universities—bringing…

Q & A: Carol Brobeck, Fellowships Administrator
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Q & A: Carol Brobeck, Fellowships Administrator

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title page of The Mariners Mirrour Anyone who has been a Fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library can attest to the central role that Carol Brobeck plays as the Fellowships Administrator in making their work possible. She has also worked…

Undergraduate reports from the Reading Room
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Undergraduate reports from the Reading Room

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Sarah Werner

Today’s post features two accounts from students at The George Washington University who are in this semester’s Folger Undergradaute Seminar. Lyssa Meddin When I first heard about the Folger Shakespeare Library Undergraduate Seminar I was finishing up my freshman year…

The KJV, Ben Franklin, and Noah Webster
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The KJV, Ben Franklin, and Noah Webster

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Adrienne Shevchuk

As part of the library’s celebration of the 400th anniversary of the King James Version of the Bible, the Folger Institute hosted a conference bringing together scholars from across the United States and the United Kingdom to discuss the effect…

Undergrads in the Library
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Undergrads in the Library

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Sarah Werner

Forty-five years ago, Folger Director Louis Wright used his annual report to describe the Library as a haven for student-weary faculty: The time has come when someone should give a word of commendation to long-suffering faculties, and provide them with…

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