Heather Wolfe

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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]

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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. [9]

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