Editing Folger Shakespeare Library (section)

==Leadership==
To date, seven directors and three acting directors have overseen Library affairs. [[Michael Witmore]], a scholar with particular interest in the digital analysis of Shakespeare's texts, became the Folger's seventh director on July 1, 2011.<ref>{{cite web|title=Meet the Director|url=http://www.folger.edu/Content/About-Us/Meet-the-Director.cfm|publisher=Folger.edu|access-date=10 February 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140115050026/http://www.folger.edu/Content/About-Us/Meet-the-Director.cfm|archive-date=15 January 2014}}</ref>

# William A. Slade (1931–1934)
# [[Joseph Quincy Adams]] (1934–1936, acting; 1936–1946, director)
# James McManaway (1946–1948, acting)
# [[Louis Booker Wright]] (1948–1968)
# Philip A. Knachel (1968–1969, acting)
# O.B. Hardison Jr. (1969–1983)
# Philip A. Knachel (1983–1984, acting)
# Werner Gundersheimer (1984–2002)
# Gail Kern Paster (2002–2011)
# [[Michael Witmore]] (2011–2024)
# Dr. Farah Karim Cooper (2024- )