List of academic signatories by field

Current and former faculty: 311. Notable signatories are shown in bold.

Name, listed by field Position and affiliation, or personal comment Date signed
English Literature
Dr. Rebecca Luttrell Briley, Ph.D.

09/10/08
Dr. James F. Broderick, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of English, and co-author of "Web of Conspiracy," a book which addresses the Authorship Question

08/06/08
Dr. Patrick J Buckridge, Ph.D.

Professor of English, Griffith University, Australia

04/10/07
Prof. Dario Calimani

Professor of English, Ca' Foscari, University of Venice, Italy

05/31/09
Mr. Marvin A. Cohen, M.A.

Playwright: "Why Not Marlowe?"

09/09/07
Prof. Isagani R Cruz, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines; multi-awarded playwright & critic

09/09/07
Dr. Michael Delahoyde, Ph.D.

Clinical Associate Professor of English, Washington State University

04/04/07
Paul Wilson Dowell, Ph.D.

09/09/07
Ren Draya, Ph.D.

Professor of British and American Literature, Blackburn College, Carlinville, Illinois

04/07/07
Dr. Michael E. Egan, Ph.D.

Author/Editor of The Tragedy of Richard II, Part One: A Newly Authenticated Play by William Shakespeare

03/03/08
Mr. Muhammad Elsaffani

I support this coalition. I've always wondered why there's little or no documented evidence that Shakespeare is the author of his works.

09/09/07
Mr. R. Scott Evans, M.A.

Full-time Instructor of Writing, University of the Pacific; editor, the Blue Moon Literary & Art Review; author of Tragic Flaws, a "literary" murder mystery.

11/12/09
Prof. J. E. Fure, M.A.

04/21/09
Dr. Helen Heightsman Gordon, Ed.D.

Professor Emeritus, Bakersfield College, author of book "The Secret Love Story in Shakespeare's Sonnets"

06/29/07
Dr. Michael Barry Greer, Ph.D.

02/20/09
Shawn E. Hamilton, M.F.A.

M.A. in English Literature; college teacher; Baconian

01/19/10
Warren T Hope, Ph.D.

Visiting Assistant Professor of English, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

04/04/07
Dr. Raymond Thom Hunter, Ph.D.

Independent Researcher

04/20/07
Michael W. Hyde, Ph.D.

Former researcher and sub-editor of the Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals; working with Walter and Esther Houghton on 19th C. British authorship issues

12/28/09
Joseph D. Iverson, M.A.

I have more than doubt about the identity of Shakespeare. I am convinced that Edward de Vere was Shakespeare.

08/09/09
Ms. E. M. Jolly, B. A.

08/29/07
Prof. Cynthia Lee Katona

Professor of Shakespeare, Ohlone College. We have believers in the authorship question to thank for some of the closest readings of the works.

09/10/07
Ms. Tamara M. Kaupp, M.A.

09/09/07
Donald A Keal, M.A.

Former Assistant Professor of English, United States Air Force Academy

04/22/09
Mr. Sergio Nicholas Lalli, M.A.

Newspaperman, reporter, editor, college teacher, author: "Man of Honor"

03/13/10
Dr. William Leahy, Ph.D.

Head of English, Brunel University, West London, U.K.

04/07/07
Dr. Robert Alan Liftig, Ed.D.

Adjunct Professor, Fairfield University

09/09/07
Linda Lipkin, M.A.

Director of Curriculum, Assessment and Placement, Social Justice Academy High School, Boston, MA

09/09/07
Ms. Samantha Martin, M.A.

English Literature degree. I have always considered his ascription ludicrous.

08/28/08
Ms. Nicole Matthiesen, M.A.

09/10/07
Darby K. Mitchell, M.A.

Author of "'And thereby hangs a tail'--the Memoirs of an Arse Poetica", English professor, creative writer, student of Marlowe-Shakespeare imagery.

09/10/07
Jane M. Mushinsky, M.A.

Professor, MiraCosta College Letters Department

09/05/07
Dr. George Howard Nilsen, Ph.D.

09/09/07
Mr. David O'Connor

An apathetic disregard for knowledge, no matter how inconsequential one may deem that knowledge to be, is little more than conscious ignorance.

09/09/07
Paula Orlando, M.F.A.

Anyone who seriously researches the issue & approaches it with an open mind and intellectual honesty will see that there is more than reasonable doubt.

04/26/07
Ms. Pamela Lynn Palmer, M.A.

Author of "Eclipse of the Sun: A Play in Two Acts," based on Edward de Vere as the "very" author of the works attributed to William Shakespeare.

09/11/07
Mr. Roger Nyle Parisious

Distinguished Alumnus, Ashland University

04/24/07
Dr. Wayne Edward Pounds, Ph.D.

Prof. of American Literature, Aoyama Gakuin U., Tokyo

09/14/07
Mr. Gregory J. Pruden, M.A.

Proud sixteen year veteran of the English trenches at both the high school and community college level.

12/01/07
Elaine McFarland Radney, M.A.

Author of "Two Stars in One Sphere, A Student Guide to the Authorship of Shake-sphere"

08/02/07
Dr. Joseph E Riehl, Ph.D.

Professor of English, University of Louisiana

04/12/07
Ms. Claire J. Robinson, M.A.

Writer, editor, and teacher

11/24/07
Mr. Orlando Jose Rodriguez, M.B.A.

Professor of English, Chelsea Language Center, Venezuela

09/09/07
Charles Humphrey Semple III, M.A.

Teacher of English, Actor: Shakespeare in Central Park, Louisville, KY

09/09/07
Rosemary Shahan, M.A.

For many years, I've had doubts about whether the Stratfordian could possibly have been the author of the works attributed to Shakespeare.

04/10/07
Prof. Jack M. Shuttleworth, Ph.D.

Professor of English, Emeritus, United States Air Force Academy; long time Oxfordian; editing the Oxfordian edition of Hamlet.

04/07/09
Kateryna Sinkevych, M.A.

12/17/07
Sarah Smith, Ph.D.

Novelist, author of CHASING SHAKESPEARES; Trustee, Shakespeare Fellowship.

05/17/07
James F. Soular, M.A.

M.A., M.F.A.: Flathead Valley Community College

05/28/07
Dr. Roger A Stritmatter, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Coppin State University

04/26/07

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