List of academic signatories by field

Current and former faculty: 920 verified.

Name, listed by field Position and affiliation, or personal comment Date signed
Other Humanities
Dr. Ziggy Quinete, Ph.D.

I do not believe there's enough evidence to conclude who is the author of these plays and sonnets.

01/08/13
Dr. Ernest Rehder, Ph.D.

01/17/09
Mr. Matthew Ripley, M. Phil.

Fascinatingly dubious.

02/27/17
Dr. Richard Ritter von Weber-Hahnsberg, Ph.D.

Latin and Greek Master, the Highlands School

09/09/07
Mr. David Lea Robbins, J.D.

Author of 15 novels and 4 plays; Writer in Residence, College of William & Mary, 2007-2009; Visiting Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2010-present

08/16/19
Theresa Rodriguez

M.M., author, "Jesus and Eros: Sonnets, Poems and Songs"

04/27/16
Dr. Kelley L. Ross, Ph.D.

Retired, Dept of Philosophy, Los Angeles Valley College, Publisher, The Proceedings of the Friesian School philosophy website.

10/21/21
Christine Tsutsui Saldana

17th Earl of Oxford, Edward De Vere; a poet and playwrite for the ages

02/26/21
Mr. Robert J. Sauerbrey, M.A.

Teacher of HS English for 40 yrs. and college theology for 20 years

10/20/17
Nichole Sharpe, M.A.

WA

12/07/21
Mr. David Malcolm Shein, M.A.

Monroe Community College & The Rochester Institute of Technology

04/01/11
David A. Shepherd, Ph.D.

German teacher, actor, writer, musician, and linguist

04/25/07
Ronald Smith, M.A.

Professor of English at 3 community colleges and 1 university

06/05/23
Jean Stearns

Twenty years of reading about this have convinced me that the author wasn't the Stratford man and was probably De Vere (Oxford).

02/01/15
Howard M. Swartz, D. Phil.

My father introduced me to the authorship question many years ago, and ever since I've been fascinated with the issue. I think Edward De Vere wrote the plays.

09/09/07
Lamberto Tassinari

Former Italian literature professor-Université de Montréal-Author- www.johnflorio-is shakespeare

11/03/08
Dr. Kirk Templeton, Ph.D.

Author

10/27/21
Ms. Ana Traversa, M.A.

A collaborative hypothesis is both intellectually and historically more satisfying than any single-author hypothesis. It also places the text above authorship.

07/24/11
Mr. Terje Tønnessen

Editor, publisher, Kulturforlaget BRAK

04/18/16
Dr. Elisabeth Pearson Waugaman, Ph.D.

Recipient of the Alberto Santos-Dumont medal for "Follow Your Dreams: The Story of Alberto Santos-Dumont."

05/21/07
Ms. Sarah Weinstein, M. Phil.

09/02/17
Dr. Don Whittemore

04/23/16
Prof. Philip F. Williams, Ph.D.

Montana State University

03/11/15
Prof. Eleanore Sarah Wootton

College humanities educator who has deeply explored best case evidence and concluded that Edward de Vere is the most likely author of the Shakespearean corpus

02/06/13
Charlotte K. Younger, Ph.D.

03/10/22
Amanda Zamuner, M.A.

Former Senior Lecturer of Cultural Studies at FaHCE, UNLP. Literary translator (Sp-It.-Eng) and English literature researcher.

05/22/20
Mr. Claudio Zimmermann, M.A.

Teacher of English literature with doubts about the authorship of William Shakespeare

02/01/20
Psychology
Mrs. Sharon Alperovitz, M.S.W.

07/28/14
Dr. G.A. Bradshaw, Ph.D.

Director, The Kerulos Center

11/04/08
Dr. Mary Louise Brown, Ph.D.

Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour - originally a Classicist from Oxford. I've always thought Shakespeare was a fabrication ever since childhood!

02/24/09
Andrew Crider, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology Emeritus, Williams College, Williamstown, MA

07/06/16
Miriam DeFant, Ph.D.

02/09/12
Dr. John Nathan Ignatius Dieter, Ph.D.

Former faculty, Emory University; current faculty, Texas A&M-CT; nearly 100 published papers and conference presentations

12/17/15
Dr. Danille S. Drake, Ph.D.

Clinical Professor Georgetown School of Medicine and George Washington University School of Professional Psychology; Former President, BW Society Psychoanalysis

07/28/14
Debbra A Ford, Ph.D.

Debbra A. Ford, PsyD, LP: clinical psychologist who thinks Robin P. Williams is right.

09/09/07
Richard C. Fritsch, Ph.D.

Washington Center for Psychoanalysis

08/18/14
Dr. Penelope Jane Goldsbrough, Ph.D.

Author

04/13/19
Dr. Clemens Hausmann

Psychologist, author

12/15/13
Dr. Charles F. Herr, Ph.D.

NY

06/01/18
Dr. James Houran, Ph.D.

Noted researcher on the psychology of celebrity

03/27/12
Dr. Bruce Hutchison, Ph.D.

Ph.D. Psychologist, Former Forensic Evaluator, author of "Love's Labor Lost, The Man Who Was Shakepeaere"

08/22/13
Prof. Lucia F. Jacobs, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of California, Berkeley

11/06/21
Dr. D. W. Kreger, Ph.D.

Psychologist, Author, and Scholar at the MacLauren Institute

11/12/11
Dr. Kerry Leddy Malawista

Psychoanalyst and author

07/30/14
Mr. Arseniy M. Maximov, Ph.D.

Psychoanalyst, Teacher, Translator

12/10/13
Mr. David J. Muskera, M.A.

Retired Psychologist

08/10/12
Mr. Chris James Reed, M.S.

07/18/16
Prof. Sandra Schruijer, Ph.D.

Professor of Organization Sciences at Utrecht University

10/29/07
C. Wayne Shore, Ph.D.

Scientist, Operational Technologies Corp

09/20/07
Dr. Ann-Louise Schlesinger Silver, M.D.

Founding President of ISPS-US (www.isps-us.org)

07/28/14

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