List of academic signatories by field
Current and former faculty: 948 verified.
| Name, listed by field | Position and affiliation, or personal comment | Date signed |
|---|---|---|
| English Literature | ||
| 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 |
| Denise R. Keenaghan, M.A. | IB English Literature Teacher |
05/13/25 |
| Prof. Patricia Keeney, M.A. | Department of English, York University, Toronto |
11/23/20 |
| William C. Keep, Ph.D. | retired |
07/14/13 |
| Dr. Kevin Kiely, Ph.D. | Poet, Critic, Novelist; M.Phil.; Ph.D. in American Poetry; Fulbright Scholar; Professor, Boise State U, Idaho; Hon Writing Fellow, Iowa U; numerous other awards |
07/03/24 |
| Mr. Scott Joseph Kieserman, J.D. | M.A. Comparative Literature |
08/15/17 |
| Prof. Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou, Ph.D. | Professor, English Literature and Culture and Gender Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; General Editor, European Journal of English Studies |
02/12/23 |
| 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 |
| Mr. Carmen Joseph Latona | Pennsylvania |
11/26/19 |
| 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. Jennifer Matesa, M.F.A. | 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. |
08/07/17 |
| Ms. Nicole Matthiesen, M.A. | 09/10/07 | |
| Bob Mayberry, Ph.D. | Professor Emeritus, California State Univ. Channel Islands |
03/07/24 |
| Ms. Michelle Sue Maycock, M.A. | English Instructor, Virginia Tech, also former bookseller and publishers' representative. |
11/10/11 |
| Paula Hooper Mayhew, Ph.D. | Professor of English and Humanities (ret.) |
04/11/22 |
| Dr. Anne E. McFadden, Ph.D. | Former adjunct professor, Baruch College |
03/21/21 |
| Mr. Michael M. Mesnard, M.A. | Associate Professor of English, Lincoln, Nebraska |
12/07/16 |
| Alan Meyer, M.A. | Thomas Looney, in my opinion, has conclusively identified the real Shakespeare. |
04/20/20 |
| 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 |
| Dr. Craig C. Munro, Ph.D. | Formerly Publishing Manager, University of Queensland Press |
12/03/24 |
| Jane M. Mushinsky, M.A. | Professor, MiraCosta College Letters Department |
09/05/07 |
| Lucy Anne Newlyn, D. Phil. | Poet, academic; retired professor, English Language & Lit, University of Oxford; Emeritus Fellow in English, St Edmund Hall, Oxford; Fellow, English Association |
12/16/24 |
| 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 |
| Prof. George Frank Oatman Jr., M.A. | Taught comparative literature at Goddard College in VT for many years |
04/02/24 |
| Mr. Charles Brent Oliver, M.A. | 04/26/16 | |
| Dr. D'Anne Olsen, Ph.D. | A former Stratfordian, I drank the Kool-Aid--until I began to think for myself and read the many books published supporting the 17th Earl as the author! |
07/12/23 |
| 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 |
| Dr. Anthony J. Ouellette, Ph.D. | I earned my Ph.D. In Renaissance Studies at University of Warwick and previously taught at Dartmouth College. |
04/26/20 |
| 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 | |
| Prof. Kathleen Pick, M.A. | 03/23/19 | |
| 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 |