List of academic signatories by field
Current and former faculty: 655 verified.
| Name, listed by field | Position and affiliation, or personal comment | Date signed |
|---|---|---|
| English Literature | ||
| 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 |
| Kent Johnson, Ph.D. | Instructor of English and Spanish, Highland Community College, Freeport, Illinois |
06/01/10 |
| Ms. E. M. Jolly, B. A. | 08/29/07 | |
| Mr. Evan Owen Jones, M.Sc. | Educator |
03/01/13 |
| Dr. Louise Conley Jones, Ph.D. | I am a Marlowe scholar and taught and directed "Shakespeare" for over three decades. |
03/27/12 |
| Glenn Joshua, M.F.A. | Assistant Professor of English, Elgin Community College |
01/01/16 |
| 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 |
| William C. Keep, Ph.D. | retired |
07/14/13 |
| Prof. Kathryn Leslie Kramer, M.F.A. | Film Director |
07/01/10 |
| Mr. Sergio Nicholas Lalli, M.A. | Newspaperman, reporter, editor, college teacher, author: "Man of Honor" |
03/13/10 |
| Mr. Frank Landsman, M.A. | Academic advisor in the Foreign Language Section at Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia |
05/13/17 |
| Dr. William Leahy, Ph.D. | Head of English, Brunel University, West London, U.K. |
04/07/07 |
| Dr. Christopher Lee, Ph.D. | University of Western Ontario |
08/05/16 |
| 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 |
| Linda N. Mashburn, M.A. | M.A. in English Literature, writer, editor, and former English professor |
09/27/13 |
| Ms. Nicole Matthiesen, M.A. | 09/10/07 | |
| Ms. Michelle Sue Maycock, M.A. | English Instructor, Virginia Tech, also former bookseller and publishers' representative. |
11/10/11 |
| Mr. Michael M. Mesnard, M.A. | Associate Professor of English, Lincoln, Nebraska |
12/07/16 |
| Mr. Joseph W. Miller, M.A. | Lecturer in Film, University of Maryland |
04/27/16 |
| 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. Nicholas Martin Nolan, M.A. | English Literature teacher |
07/01/13 |
| 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 |
| Mr. Charles Brent Oliver, M.A. | 04/26/16 | |
| 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 |
| Nic Panagopoulos, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor of English Literature & Culture, University of Athens, Greece |
05/23/14 |
| Mr. Roger Nyle Parisious | Distinguished Alumnus, Ashland University |
04/24/07 |
| Ann Pasternak Slater, Ph.D. | Former Fellow, St. Anne's College, Oxford; author, “Shakespeare the Director”; daughter of Eliot Slater, granddaughter of Gilbert Slater, also notable doubters |
11/03/14 |
| Miss Maja Evanger Pedersen | 08/19/13 | |
| Mrs. Karen Hathaway Pittman, M.A. | Writer |
04/08/13 |
| 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 |
| Prof. B. J. Rahn, Ph.D. | Former Professor, Hunter College, New York City |
02/18/11 |
| 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 |
| Katharine Sands | Katharine Sands, Literary Agent, Sarah Jane Freymann Literary Agency |
04/20/16 |
| Ms. Cora Schauer | More than one collaborating, including or not W.S. |
12/01/12 |
| 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 |