List of academic signatories by field

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

Collegiate Professor, University of Maryland University College, Asian Division

Writer, College Professor, Humanitas Prize nominee

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

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

Lecturer, UCLA

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

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

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

I am a Marlowe scholar and taught and directed "Shakespeare" for over three decades.

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

Former Assistant Professor of English, United States Air Force Academy

M.A. Comparative Literature

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

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

Adjunct Professor, Fairfield University

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

I am a writer of four books, and I have always found it incredible that the Stratford man with the mediocre education crafted the plays and sonnets.

English Instructor, Virginia Tech, also former bookseller and publishers' representative.

Lecturer in Film, University of Maryland

Professor, MiraCosta College Letters Department