Owen Williams Email & Phone Number

Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, Dc

Following promotion from Assistant Director for Scholarly ProgramsWelcome some two hundred advanced scholars annually to twelve advanced seminars, workshops, and conferences for the Research Division of the Folger Shakespeare LibraryPosition entails international program promotion, application review of advanced graduate student and faculty participants, and extensive faculty director coordination and correspondence Project and oversee the annual budget for the InstituteWrite and submit grant proposals for academic gatherings: Coordinate preparation and submission of proposals for summer institutes, including budget projections, and produce subsequent performance reports for the National Endowment for the Humanities and major grant-making foundations Participate on Library-wide Online Strategies Council, which considers performance enhancing technology adoption, social media channel optimization, and strategic partnerships Serve as liaison to faculty representatives of over forty member universities and produce biannual reports for executive committee meetings Serve as ex officio member of the Center for the History of British Political Thought's Steering CommitteeSupervise one full-time Program Assistant and one part-time Program Intern

Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, Dc

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Served as primary administrator for this major NEH initiative to convene the leading scholars in early modern digital humanitiesJuly 2013 Institute: Introduced scholars to the robust set of digital tools with period-specific challenges and limitations that early modern literary scholars of English then had at handJune 2015 Institute: Reprised a more advanced iteration to teach a second cohort of scholars advanced techniques in statistical analysis, visualization, and corpus creation and interoperabilityJuly 2017 Institute: A third iteration took up the field of network analysis, with a focus on Actor-Network Theory and other advanced subfields

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Welcome some two hundred advanced scholars annually to twelve advanced seminars, workshops, and conferences for the Research Division of the Folger Shakespeare LibraryPosition entails international program promotion, application review of advanced graduate student and faculty participants, and extensive faculty director coordination and correspondence Project and oversee the annual budget for the InstituteWrite and submit grant proposals for academic gatherings: Coordinate preparation and submission of proposals for summer institutes, including budget projections, and produce subsequent performance reports for the National Endowment for the Humanities and major grant-making foundations Participate on Library-wide Online Strategies Council, which considers performance enhancing technology adoption, social media channel optimization, and strategic partnerships Serve as liaison to faculty representatives of over forty member universities and produce biannual reports for executive committee meetings Serve as ex officio member of the Center for the History of British Political Thought's Steering CommitteeSupervise one full-time Program Assistant and one part-time Program Intern

Edited Foliomania! Stories Behind Shakespeare’s Most Famous Book (June 2011, reprinted 2016 for Shakespeare Anniversary). Collection of nine essays published in conjunction with Folger Shakespeare Library’s Exhibition, “Fame, Fortune, and Theft: The Shakespeare First Folio,” which was favorably reviewed in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and several academic and bibliographic blogs and featured in an interview with WAMU, Washington, DC’s NPR affiliate.

Position entailed program promotion, application review of advanced graduate student and faculty participants, and extensive faculty director coordination and correspondenceProjected and reconciled the annual budget for the InstituteProduced biannual reports for executive committee meetings and performance reports for National Endowment for the Humanities’ awardsServed as liaison to faculty representatives from over forty member universities

Assisted Curator of Printed Books Lynne Farrington of the University of Pennsylvania’s Special Collections as co-curator of “Fancy’s Images,” an exhibition featuring Boydell’s Shakespeare illustrationsOversaw reclassification of Penn’s Furness (Shakespeare) CollectionProvided orientations to Shakespearean holdings for undergraduate classesOrganized stack maintenance (cleaning and shelf-reading)Implemented preservation project for rare books collection

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), English

Activities and Societies: Assistant to the Curator, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania (1996 to 1998); Research.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Classics, Greek

Activities and Societies: Stanford Rugby Club Honors Thesis: "The Barbarian Redefined: Euripides' Critique of Greek Society Through Tragedy"

M.S., Instructional Systems And Learning Technologies (Islt) With A Focus On Open And Distance Learning, Gpa 4.0

Activities and Societies: Gagné-Briggs Outstanding Distance Learning Student, 2015; Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Instructional Systems.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), English Literature

Activities and Societies: Textual Consultant, The New Variorum Hamlet (1994 to 1996) Assisted General Editor Eric Rasmussen with intensive.