List of academic signatories by field

Current and former faculty: 969 verified.

Name, listed by field Position and affiliation, or personal comment Date signed
English Literature
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
Jane A. Sanders, M.A.

My students loved the discussion of authorship doubts when we studied Shakespeare.

07/09/24
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
Mr. Luiz Alberto Silva Sr., D. Phil.

Wrote books about Shakespeare

10/02/25
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
Prof. Lynne A. Suo, M.A.

Professor of English (retired)

10/24/25
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
Mr. Catalin Taranu

09/09/07
Mr. Lewis C Tate, M.S.

Professor of English, Savannah College of Art and Design

05/01/07
Prof. Marilyn DeVere Robson Tiedemann

Edward de Vere was my great uncle!

08/28/13
Mr. Peter F. Tittl, M.F.A.

English Instructor, Liberty High School, Bakersfield, CA

06/01/10
Prof. Daniel W. Toomey, M.A.

06/21/22
Ms. Arabelle Lee Trichel, M.A.

Former instructor, LSU English Dept.

09/26/07
Ms. Lee H. Trichel, M.A.

Former English instructor Louisiana State University

12/12/21
Prof. Madelyn Clare Troxclair, Ph.D.

College English professor (retired)

01/23/19
Ellen Tucker, Ph.D.

Writer and editor for educational nonprofit

03/19/22
Miss Abbie Tyler

I believe in John Florio.

06/24/21
Jacquelaine Denise Vest, M.F.A.

12/14/09
Dr. Laurie Vickroy, Ph.D.

Professor of English, Bradley University

09/15/16
Prof. Antonio Javier Villar Balaguer

English Philologist. ESL teacher.

11/09/19
Mr. John Bruce Walsh, M.A.

06/26/19
Dr. Thomas D. Walsh

09/18/07
William R Warner, Ph.D.

VP, Strategic Communications, VTM, Inc. Evidence strongly indicates that the man from Stratford did not write the works.

04/17/07
Dr. Timothy Burns Watson

I'm a prolific author of fiction and non-fiction books and articles.

02/11/26
John Howard Wilson Jr., Ph.D.

Associate Professor of English, Lock Haven University, Pennsylvania

08/13/14
Dr. Mary Ann Wimsatt, Ph.D.

02/24/10
Daniel L Wright, Ph.D.

Director, The Shakespeare Authorship Research Centre, Concordia University, Portland, Oregon; Professor of English

04/07/07
History
Mr. Thomas John Benton II, M.A.

After reading the Jew of Malta, I had serious doubt that William wrote the Merchant of Venice.

09/09/07
Mr. Amaury P. Betancourt Jr., M.A.

Wrote "Hamlet's Plot" (unpublished), a study of Fortinbras' conspiracy to become King of Denmark

02/18/11
Vera Billing, M.B.A.

Solidarity to ideas, that is searching for truth, is what is important. This is more often camouflaged and overrun with group loyalty and self interest

12/01/21
Dr. Gregory B. Bodwell, Ph.D.

Attorney

08/26/16
Dr. Sergio Boffa, Ph.D.

Head curator of Musée communal de Nivelles

09/20/16
Janice Marie Boville, M.A.

As a historian, I find the Declaration to be well-composed, cogent and worthy of scholarly discussion.

07/01/22

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