List of academic signatories by field

Current and former faculty: 903 verified.

Name, listed by field Position and affiliation, or personal comment Date signed
English Literature
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
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
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
Prof. B. J. Rahn, Ph.D.

Former Professor, Hunter College, New York City

02/18/11
Ms. Victoria Rego, M.S.

Soon obtaining Masters in Creative Writing; also English Teacher at University of Michigan

04/23/19
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
Mr. Murray Ronaghan, M.F.A.

Alberta

09/03/21
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
Prof. H. David Schleicher, M.A.

01/12/19
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
Prof. Jack M. Shuttleworth, Ph.D.

Professor of English, Emeritus, United States Air Force Academy; long time Oxfordian; editing the Oxfordian edition of Hamlet.

04/07/09
Ms. Deborah Ann Sica, M.L.S.

Branch Librarian-Archivist; double mastered in Library Science and Writing and Poetics

07/27/10
Kateryna Sinkevych, M.A.

12/17/07
Sarah Smith, Ph.D.

Novelist, author of CHASING SHAKESPEARES; Trustee, Shakespeare Fellowship.

05/17/07
James F. Soular, M.A.

M.A., M.F.A.: Flathead Valley Community College

05/28/07
Rosalie Revere Stafford, M.A.

Independent researcher, writer, publisher

05/13/17
Dr. Roger A Stritmatter, Ph.D.

Professor of English, Coppin State University

04/26/07
Mr. John Tanke, Ph.D.

Former Visiting Professor of English, Union College; Former Assistant Professor of English, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

01/06/11

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