Cultural Leadership Breakfast: Farah Karim-Cooper

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New Folger Shakespeare Library Director Dr. Farah Karim-Cooper will speak at The Georgetowner's Dec. 12 Cultural Leadership Breakfast

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Professor of Shakespeare studies at King’s College London, Farah Karim-Cooper was born in Karachi, Pakistan, and raised in Houston. She earned her bachelor’s degree at California State University, Fullerton, and her doctorate at Royal Holloway, University of London. Before joining the Folger — home of the world’s largest collection of works by and about William Shakespeare — in October, she held research, education, collections and public programming positions at Shakespeare’s Globe, the reconstruction of the 17th-century playhouse near its original site on the south bank of the Thames.Books authored by Karim-Cooper include: “Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance Drama,” “The Hand on the Shakespearean Stage: Gesture, Touch and the Spectacle of Dismemberment” and, published last year, “The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race.”At the Dec. 12 breakfast, she will discuss how the Folger, which reopened in June after a major renovation and expansion, is enhancing its engagement with a variety of audiences to demonstrate how Shakespeare’s work speaks to the current moment. A gift to the American people from Standard Oil executive Henry Clay Folger and his wife Emily, the Folger opened adjacent to the Library of Congress in 1932.

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