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The Handwritten Worlds of Early Modern England
From 20 June to 29 July 2005, Professor Steven W. May, Georgetown College, Kentucky, will direct “The Handwritten Worlds of Early Modern England,” an NEH-funded institute for college and university teachers. Professor May will work with a distinguished international visiting faculty including:
- Julia Boffey, Queen Mary, University of London
- Victoria Burke, University of Ottawa
- Susan Cerasano, Colgate University
- A. S. G. Edwards, University of Victoria
- Mary Erler, Fordham University
- Margaret J. M. Ezell, Texas A&M University
- Adam Fox, University of Edinburgh
- Laura Gowing, Kings College London
- Harold Love, Monash University
- Alan Stewart, Columbia University
- Paul Werstine, University of Western Ontario
- Henry Woudhuysen, University College London
Sixteen scholar-participants will produce fresh examinations of manuscript culture through such lenses as the controversies and contestations involving religious and legal manuscripts, the status of verse miscellanies and broadsheets, the relationship of manuscripts to early modern theatre, and the revelations to be found in non-literary writings, letters, and multi-generational “household” volumes. Drawing on a critical mass of recent scholarship, the institute aims to reinscribe the vibrancy of manuscript cultures into the literary, social, and cultural histories of early modern England.
The application deadline is 1 March 2005. Full program and application information is available on the Folger Institute website at www.folger.edu/institute. Or contact the Institute’s Program Assistant, Virginia Millington, at the following e-mail address, or at 202-675-0333.
You may also request application materials in writing at:
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