The Folger Shakespeare Library offers a limited number of residential fellowships for periods of six to nine months. Successful candidates will be advanced scholars who have made substantial contributions in their fields and whose research projects are appropriate to the collections of the Folger. Long-term fellowships are supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Folger. NEH Fellowships are restricted to United States citizens or to foreign nationals who have been living in the US for at least three years.
Fellowships are open to scholars from any country.
Three letters of reference should be sent under separate cover to the Fellowship Committee. Three letters of reference should be sent under separate cover to the Fellowship Committee. The Collections Preeminent in the world for its Shakespeare collection, the Folger Shakespeare Library is an independent research facility with about 300,000 books and manuscripts on British and European literary, cultural, political, religious, and social history from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. The manuscript collection, which numbers 55,000, is especially strong in early correspondence and commonplace books and is extended by such microfilm holdings as the State Papers Domestic from Edward VI through Charles I and papers from the Cecil, Loseley, Harleian, and Lansdowne collections. In secondary materials the Library holds approximately 85,000 titles.