Michael Witmore

Michael Witmore is a renowned scholar of Shakespeare and rhetoric, a digital humanist, and the former director of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., where he served from 2011 to June 2024. During his tenure, he oversaw an $81.5 million renovation of the library and now consults on digital preservation and cultural accessibility, including projects like 'Digital Vellum' with Vint Cerf. He is also the founder of LiterAIry, a DAO community connecting humans and AI agents with literary texts on the blockchain.