Coleman is now working on a new book project, tentatively entitled Reading Archipelagos: Italian Humanism and Renaissance Books of Islands. The project, supported by a 2019-2020 residential fellowship at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, focuses on the category of books known as the isolari (Books of Islands). This genre, which emerged in 15th-century Italy and remained popular well into the 17th century, offered a shifting combination of visual and textual representations of islands, maps and navigational aids, travel narratives and advice for wayfarers, archaeology and epigraphy, poetry and mythology, ancient history and current events, natural history and ethnography.