Heather Wolfe

Heather Ruth Wolfe FSA (born 1971[1]) is an American curator of manuscripts and archivist at the Folger Shakespeare Library.

[2] A "Shakespeare detective", she has been noted for her research into the history of the Shakespeare coat of arms.

[3][4][5] She headed "Shakespeare Documented", a project to make contemporary texts involving Shakespeare available online,[2][5] and is involved in the similar "Early Modern Manuscripts Online" (EMMO) project.

[6][7] At the Folger, her "Project Dustbunny" has yielded significant results from human cells gathered from 17th-century volumes.

[3][8] Wolfe was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 16 February 2023.