List of academic signatories by field

Current and former faculty: 903 verified.

Name, listed by field Position and affiliation, or personal comment Date signed
Other / Unspecified
Mr. Philip E. Crowley

10/23/12
Sarah Ellem

07/31/19
Dr. Leigh Dawes Farrell, Ph.D.

Ph.D in Comparative Literature

04/25/16
Stephen Fleming

Vice Provost, Georgia Institute of Technology

04/15/09
Mr. Tom Patrick Haddigan, M.Sc.

Edward de Vere wrote the Shakespeare canon of works.

08/29/21
Prof. Kimberly S. Hall, M.A.

Associate Professor of English, Harrisburg Area Community College

04/04/17
Mr. Øyvind Hansen

All in all, I find it incredible that Mr. Shakspere was alone behind the lyrics.

08/16/13
Mr. Henning Hornnæss

08/19/13
Dr. Richard F Huff, Ph.D.

09/09/07
Wade Keller, M.P.A.

A strong cases by Tom Regnier, several posted on YouTube

05/31/16
Mr. Allyne Knox

12/18/14
Dr. Johannes Kuechler

Former Professor, Theory and History of Landscape Development, Technische Universität Berlin

10/19/07
Mr. John C. Meeks, M.A.

Former faculty member of Emerson College, Sussex, England.

07/26/12
Mr. Alexander Nitzberg, M.A.

Austrian poet and translator of literature from Russian and English into German (e.g. the complete sonnets of Edmund Spenser, works of Anna Akhmatova etc.)

12/14/12
Prof. Emily Grace Nolan III, Ph.D.

Trust no one.

05/25/22
Mr. Eoghain W. Ormiston

English Language Teacher, University of Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire

01/11/16
Mr. Constantin Cristian Petrache

Just a curious mind.

03/22/20
Mr. Marcus V. Renner, M.S.

04/08/07
Mrs. Sandra Reynolds, M.S.

Senior chemistry teacher at The University of South Australia, and at University Senior College, Adelaide.

09/16/07
Mr. Amiel Moshe Schotz, M.F.A.

Retired teacher, author and poet, actor, student of theatre arts

07/23/19
Richard Toth

NY

08/02/09
Mr. William Turner

09/03/16
Mrs. Estelle Van Zyl, M.A.

Teacher and sceptic.

03/07/22
Karl P. Wiberg

I suppose there's no "smoking gun" (de Vere's Geneva Bible?); but the Everest of circumstantial evidence for Oxford is decisive -- freelance journalist.

11/16/10
Mr. Jinglin Zuo, M.A.

There is "room for doubt", and other reasonable scenarios are possible.

11/19/07
Other Humanities
Mr. Antonio Acuna, M.A.

Keeping Shakespeare's identity as it is only benefits those who make money off of it.

09/09/07
Prof. Peter Atterton, Ph.D.

Professor of Philosophy, San Diego State University; Ph.D. from University of Essex, England.

04/09/18
Prof. Babette Babich, Ph.D.

Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University, NYC

08/19/12
Nancy Jean Beach, M.A.

I harbor a reasonable doubt that the man from Stratford is the sole author of the sonnets and plays attributed to Mr. William Shakespeare.

04/23/22
Dr. Sandy Berkovski

Bilkent University

09/09/07
Mr. Robin Arthur Blick

Historian

03/20/21
Mr. John Kenyon Blossom, M.B.A.

Former Instructor of English, Western New England College; son of John E. Blossom, author of English textbooks and Shakespeare authorship agnostic

10/17/09
Mr. Rodney Morgan Brown, M.M.

Composer

06/02/16
Dr. Karen S. Buzzard, Ph.D.

Professor and former director, School of Art and Media Studies, Fairleigh Dickinson University; expert in media audiences, esp. history of the ratings industry

11/16/19
Grant Christison, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Woosong University, South Korea

05/20/23
Mr. Steven Robert Cohen

Philosophy was my field, curiosity my passion.

03/28/20
Dr. Virginia Lyle Jennings Colombo, Ph.D.

Adjunct Lecturer, Philosophy, Tulane University

09/27/22
Dr. George M. Cornecelli, D. Phil.

Philosopher

07/28/20
Mr. Lanny Cotler

Director/writer, film/theater; Tutor in Classics, St. Johns College, Santa Fe, NM

10/24/17
Prof. Lee Davis, Ph.D.

Emerita Professor of Anthropology

05/27/16
David Deane, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Theology, Atlantic School of Theology, Halifax, Nova Scotia

09/09/07
Prof. Gerard Dunnhaupt, Ph.D.

Fellow, Royal Society of Canada

09/03/09
Dr. Garnier Eliane

Psychologist, Doctor of human engineering

04/28/16
Ms. Jaye Ella-Ruth, M.A.

For me, ‘Shakspere’ of Stratford couldn’t be the ‘Spear Shaker’ responsible for creating what was to become the foundational narrative of his country and race.

09/21/18
Nancy E. Emery, M.A.

Organized readthroughs of all Shakespeare's plays (most twice) over several years. Most intrigued by Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke.

02/15/22
Mr. Javier Espejo Surós, Ph.D.

Maître de conférences. Université Catholique de l'Ouest

04/27/14
Eduardo Odella Fernandez

Musician, classical guitarist and composer, researcher in music at UDELAR, Uruguay.

04/01/24
Ms. Mary Kathleen Galante, M.A.

Master's degree in Italian laguage and literatures

10/22/14
James de Balliol-Cavendish of Buittle

Publisher, historian, clergyman

05/08/21
Mrs. Sandra de Oliveira

Norge

08/19/13

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