List of academic signatories by field

Current and former faculty: 952 verified.

Name, listed by field Position and affiliation, or personal comment Date signed
Other Humanities
Dr. Michael E. Habicht, D. Phil.

Senior Research Fellow, University of Flinders, Adelaide SA Australia

07/19/21
Mr. Will Christy Harris

09/09/07
Joan Loyd Hernandez, Ph.D.

I'm a retired university professor of Spanish and French, and believe that the Shakespeare authorship debate should be open for discussion in academic settings.

07/23/18
Gisela Ellen Horvath

Very interesting discussion. I agree that there is room for reasonable doubt about the identity of W.S.

05/13/11
Dan L. Inman, Ph.D.

I have carefully studied the topic for more than 20 years and am convinced that the author was not the Stratford Man but Edward de Vere.

11/18/18
Mrs. Sherry L. Jordan

LCC International University

05/01/11
Prof. Jürg Kesselring, M.D.

Head of Department of Neurology Emeritus, Valens, Switzerland

11/29/22
Mr. Michael J. Kleindl, M.A.

Senior Lecturer at International Christian University. Writing teacher and poet for 30 years.

04/28/16
Mr. Jon Korvald

The work of Norwegian Petter Amundsen got me intereseted.

05/02/11
Dr. Michael J. Langford, Ph.D.

Professor emeritus (retired), philosophy and medical ethics, Memorial University of Newfoundland; lecturer, Cambridge University; author, "The De Vere Papers"

10/31/08
Dr. Stephen J. Matthews, Ph.D.

Associate Professor in Linguistics, University of Hong Kong.

02/12/09
Antonino Mazza, M.A.

Poet. Only a "migratory sensibility" might account for the trans-individual nature of Shakespeare’s Latinized opus.

09/10/07
Prof. Julius McCarter, Ph.D.

01/29/11
Mr. Mark McEwen

Boston Symphony Orchestra

05/20/15
Joseph Medranus, Ph.D.

08/06/08
Myrna Shirley Michell, M.A.

11/22/17
Dr. Marie-José Minassian, D. Phil.

No trace of Ilya Gililov's book (2001)?

05/17/16
Mr. Malik Mubashshir, M.A.

04/28/18
Mrs. Donna J. Ohlson, M.A.

07/21/09
Prof. Claude Pavur, Ph.D.

Veteran academic / author. It matters for interpretation: an insider writing about what he knew intimately or an outsider guessing at what it must be like?

05/13/17
Prof. Claudio Pierantoni, Ph.D.

Professor of Latin and Italian Literature, Universidad de los Andes, Santiago de Chile

06/19/18
Dr. Jordi Pigem

Writer and critic

06/18/08
Dr. Matthew Pires

Lecturer in English, University of Franche-Comté, France

02/08/12
Mr. Alan Ponikvar, Ph.D.

09/07/17
Dr. Eryl Price-Davies

Former Head of Co Curricular Studies, Imperial College London

03/18/16
Mr. John K. Probst, M.A.

Professor Emeritus

05/28/16
Joëlle Proust, Ph.D.

Director of Research, Institut Jean-Nicod, Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris

09/11/17
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

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