Amherst
College Undergraduate
Folger Fellowships
All Amherst College seniors and juniors majoring in the Humanities and Social Sciences are eligible for the Amherst College Undergraduate Folger Fellowships, sponsored in part by the Friends of the Amherst College Library. These two fellowships will be held for two weeks in January at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. The Folger is the premier research library in the country, and possibly the world, for the study of Shakespeare and the English Renaissance. But it also possesses collections both broad and deep for research in European culture and history from the early fifteenth century to the end of the eighteenth century—with sizable resources pertaining also to the New World in the latter half of that period.
The fellowships will be awarded—all expenses paid—to two students whose academic work can most profit from two weeks of intensive research in the Folger Shakespeare Library. Because the fellowships are scheduled for Interterm, "all expenses paid" includes travel costs from wherever in the United States you spend Christmas break to Washington, and then from Washington to Amherst. Other expenses covered include housing, all meals, and photocopying.
If you are interested in applying for an Amherst College Undergraduate Folger Fellowship, speak to the faculty member who can best help you formulate a project that would benefit from your residence at the Folger. Compose an application in no more than two pages, and submit it at the latest by noon on Monday, Nov. 27, to the Folger Fellowships Committee, c/o Professor Rebecca Sinos, AC #2257, Amherst College or to the Classics Department office, 15 Grosvenor House. The faculty member you talk with should also send a brief supporting letter to the committee by that same date.
The Committee will review the applications and interview students whose projects seem promising. These interviews are tentatively scheduled for late November or early December. Successful applicants will be notified shortly after the interviews.
Folger Undergraduate Fellowships Committee for 2006/2007:
Professor Rebecca Sinos, Chair, Department of Classics
Professor John Cameron, Department of English
Professor Natasha Staller, Department of Fine Arts
Sherre Harrington, Librarian of the College, ex officio
Richard J. Kuhta, Librarian, Folger Shakespeare Library, ex officio
Samuel Ellenport, Chair emeritus, Council of the Friends of the Amherst College Library, ex officio
Folger Fellows
| 1996 | Greg McHugh
1996, "Milton's God" Lauren Whitehurst 1996, "The Trickster Figure in Shakespeare" |
| 1997 | Michael Giannelli
1997, "Thematic and Stylistic Relationships between Ariosto's
Orlando Furioso and Cervantes' Don Quixote" Bob Reeder 1997, "John Dryden" |
| 1998 | David Kim 1999,
"Catesby, Linnaeus, and the Languages of Representation in Natural
History" Rachel Slaughter 1998, "Reflexivity in Shakespeare's Plays" |
| 1999 | David Goldstein
2000E, "The Reception of Pindaric Odes in the Renaissance" Justin Snider 1999, "Milton's Satan" Christine Wong 1999, "Countess of Shrewsbury: English Women and the Courts, 1500-1850" |
| 2000 | Jenna Owens
2001, "The Renaissance Masque: An Invocation of a Utopian Society" Suzanne Feigelson 2001, "The Evolution of Twelfth Night in Performance" |
| 2001 | Umit Dhuga 2001,
"Catullus in the Renaissance" Stacy Kitsis 2001, "English Origins of Russian Children's Literature" |
| 2002 | Daniel Shore
2002, "Milton and his Antinomian Contemporaries" Rikita Tyson 2002, "Staging Practices in Twelfth Night and As You Like It" Ema Vyroubalova 2002, "Lyricism, Performativity, and Theatricality in Richard II and Richard III" |
| 2003 |
Benjamin Baum 2003, "The English Succession Crisis, 1553" |
| 2004 | Nick Pederson 2004, "Shapes of Metaphysical Poetry: Structure
and Meaning in 17th-Century Verse" Mihailis Diamantis 2004, "George Herbert and Renaissance Wit" |
| 2006 |
Sarah Courtney 2006 "Fairy Tales in the Literary and Didactic Traditions" |
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