Contributors

 

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Mark Anderson, MS, Northampton, MA
Mark Anderson holds a B.A. (physics, Carleton College) and an M.S. (astrophysics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst). He is the author of two books, the first of which (“ Shakespeare” by Another Name: The Life of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford the Man Who Was Shakespeare, Gotham Books, 2005) is widely regarded as the definitive literary biography of Edward de Vere. Anderson has given talks and readings about Edward de Vere and the “Shakespeare” authorship question for audiences of specialists and general public alike from the Netherlands and Taiwan to colleges and high schools throughout the US and Canada.

C.V. Berney, PhD, Watertown, MA
C. V. Berney is a retired physicist.   He has contributed frequently to Oxfordian journals, and in 2007 was the keynote speaker at the Dutch Shakespeare Authorship Conference in Utrecht. An article describing his breakthrough discovery concerning the play Cymbeline was published in the Fall 2015 issue of the Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter.

William Boyle, Librarian, Boston, MA
William Boyle is a librarian who is a graduate of Lake Forest College and SUNY at Albany. He has been involved in the Shakespeare authorship debate for more than thirty years. In the 1990s he founded and managed some of the earliest websites on the authorship question, organized several authorship conferences, and edited the newsletters for two Oxfordian societies from 1995-2005. Since 2005 Boyle has managed Shakespeare Online Authorship Resources (SOAR), a database of Shakespeare authorship related materials, and edits and publishes authorship related books through the Forever Press.

Christopher Carolan, Atlanta, GACY photo Carolan
Christopher Carolan holds an M.F.A. from Washington University in St Louis. He’s a former member of the Pacific Stock Exchange, and the author of the book The Spiral Calendar and its effect on financial markets and human events (New Classics Library, 1992). He is the recipient of the 1998 Charles H. Dow award presented by Dow Jones, Inc., and the Market Technicians Association for outstanding original research in technical analysis. He is currently Senior International Analyst for Elliott Wave International and he provides original research at spiralcalendar.com.

Katherine Chiljan
Katherine Chiljan wrote Shakespeare Suppressed: the Uncensored Truth about Shakespeare and his Works (Faire Editions, 2011), which earned her an award for distinguished scholarship at Concordia University in 2012. A former editor of the Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter, Chiljan has published two Oxfordian anthologies, Dedication Letters to the Earl of Oxford (1994) and Letters and Poems of Edward, Earl of Oxford (1998). Chiljan (B.A., history, U.C.L.A.) has debated professors on the authorship question at the Smithsonian Institution, The Mechanics’ Institute Library, and U.C. Berkeley.

Jan Cole, England
Jan Cole studied at Birkbeck College, University of London, where she received a B.A. Hons. (First Class) in English in 1984. She is an independent scholar and has had several articles published.

Michael Delahoyde, PhD, Pullman, WA
Michael Delahoyde, Ph.D., is a Professor of English at Washington State University where he has been teaching for twenty-three years, mostly Shakespeare and interdisciplinary humanities courses. He graduated from Vassar College with degrees in English, music, and education. After briefly teaching middle school, he fled shrieking to the University of Michigan, focusing on Chaucer in his doctoral dissertation. Delahoyde has published articles on Chaucer, dinosaur films, children’s toys, meat ads, and, mostly, Oxford as Shakespeare. He currently is managing editor of Brief Chronicles: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Authorship Studies and has published the Oxfordian edition of Shakespeare’s Anthony and Cleopatra. Thanks to a research grant from the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship in 2015, he and his colleague, Coleen Moriarty, made an Oxfordian discovery in the archives of northern Italy and were funded to return in 2016. While in Mantua he was also able to teach several sessions on the Shakespeare authorship question to Italian high school students. He is now an Aperol spritz addict.

Robert Detobel, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Robert Detobel, of Frankfurt, Germany, is a translator, publicist and co-editor (with Dr. Uwe Laugwitz) of the Oxfordian Neues Shake-speare Journal, to which he has contributed several articles. The journal, started in 1997, is the only Oxfordian publication in continental Europe. Author of the book Wie aus William Shaxsper William Shakespeare wurde (How William Shaxsper became William Shakespeare) (2005), he has also contributed articles to The Elizabethan Review, The Oxfordian, the Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter, Shakespeare Matters,   and the De Vere Society Newsletter. Together with the late K.C. Ligon, he wrote   Shakespeare and the Concealed Poet, a book that can be viewed at  www.elizabethanauthors.com. He is also a contributor to Hanno Wember’s German website www.shake-speare-today.de, launched in October 2009.

Wally Hurst, JD,  MA, Warrenton, NCCY photo Hurst
Walter Hurst is the Director of the Norris Theatre at Louisburg College, where he has instructed courses in drama, acting, public speaking, political science and business law. Wally is responsible for the programming and utilization of the intimate Norris Theatre, which hosts student productions, classes, and professional and community productions. He has extensive experience producing, directing and teaching theatre, and has directed over 100 productions on all levels of theatre, including many in the Shakespeare canon. Wally received a B.A. from Duke University and a J.D. from the University of the Pacific; in 2012 he received his M.A. in Shakespeare Authorship Studies from Brunel University in London; he is one of three Americans with this advanced degree. Wally lectures internationally on Shakespeare and the authorship question, specializing in the evaluation of the evidence surrounding the Shakespeare authorship controversy. He is also a trained bibliographer and paleographer, and a Reader at The British Library in London and The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.

Lynne Kositsky, MA Lincoln, ONTkositskyLynne Kositsky is an award-winning poet, author, and independent researcher whose honors include the E.J. Pratt medal and award for poetry, the White Raven Award of the International Youth Library in Munich, given to books which “contribute to an international understanding of a culture and people,” and the Canadian Jewish Book Award for Youth. Her articles with Roger Stritmatter on the dating and sources of The Tempest have appeared in The Shakespeare Yearbook, The Oxfordian, and Critical Survey, among other journals of note. Their latest work together is a scholarly book, On the Date, Sources and Design of Shakespeare’s The Tempest (McFarland, 2013) and an article, “The Pattern of Parody in Eastward Ho, and a New Date for King Lear” (Critical Survey, 2014).

John D. Lavendoski
John Lavendoski is an engineer and businessman whose deep and lifelong interest in Shakespeare began at the age of seven, when he managed to sneak into a production of The Tempest at the Folger Theatre in Washington D.C.   His college-age sisters were both attending the show, and John wanted to see what all the fuss was about. John has written on a wide range of technical and non-technical topics over the past twenty years, including pieces on some of the more obscure details of William Shakespeare’s life and the lives of his family members. John’s most recent item on Shakespeare appeared in Oxford University Press’s Notes & Queries in 2015.

Richard Malim, London, England
Richard Malim has been the Secretary of The De Vere Society for some twelve years. In 2005 he edited Great Oxford (Parapress), a collection of essays to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Oxford’s death. He is also the author of The Earl of Oxford and the Making of “Shakespeare”: The Literary Life of Edward de Vere in Context (McFarland, 2011).

Alex McNeil, JD, Newton, MA
Alex McNeil holds a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D., cum laude, from Boston College Law School.  His professional career was in public service, where he served for thirty-seven years as Court Administrator of the Massachusetts Appeals Court.  He became interested in the Shakespeare authorship question in 1992 and was a founding trustee of the Shakespeare Fellowship in 2001. He currently serves as editor of the Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter, published quarterly by the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship.   His reference book on American television programming, Total Television, was published by Penguin Books in four editions between 1980 and 1996.   Currently, he is the Friday host of “Lost and Found” on WMBR-FM in Cambridge, MA (wmbr.org), a show which features music of the 1960s and 1970s.

Jennifer Newton, Seattle WA
Jennifer Newton works in digital media and design in Seattle, WA. She has been fascinated by the authorship question ever since stumbling upon a musty copy of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence’s 1910 book, Bacon is Shake-Speare.

Tom Regnier, JD, LLM, Miami. FLCY photo Regnier
Tom Regnier is a practicing attorney in the Miami, Florida, area. He received his J.D., summa cum laude, from the University of Miami School of Law, and his LL.M. from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan F. Stone Scholar. He has taught a course on “Shakespeare and the Law” at the University of Miami School of Law and he has also taught at Chicago’s John Marshall Law School. He has written two articles on the law in Hamlet, and in June 2014 he delivered a presentation at the Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C., entitled, “Hamlet and the Law of Homicide: the Life of the Mind in Law and Art.”

John Shahan, MS, Claremont, CA
John Shahan is chairman of the Shakespeare Authorship Coalition and principal author of the “Declaration of Reasonable Doubt About the Identity of William Shakespeare”. He is an independent scholar with a background in the behavioral sciences and health services research. He has a B.S. degree in psychology and an M.S.P.H. in health services, both from U.C.L.A. His areas of interest in the authorship debate are strategic planning and advocacy, how paradigm shifts take place, and the nature of creativity and genius. He was co-editor, with Alexander Waugh, of the book Shakespeare Beyond Doubt?— Exposing an Industry in Denial, written in response to a similarly-titled book published by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. He conceived and implemented the strategy of challenging the Trust to a mock trial and offering ₤ 40,000 if it could prove “beyond doubt” that Mr. Shakspere was the author Shakespeare.

Earl Showerman, MD, Applegate, OR
Earl Showerman graduated from Harvard College and the University of Michigan Medical School and practiced emergency medicine in Oregon for more than thirty years. A longtime patron of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, after retiring from medicine in 2003 he enrolled at Southern Oregon University to study Shakespeare and begin his research on the authorship question. Over the past decade Earl has presented a series of papers at conferences and published on the topic of Shakespeare’s “greater Greek.” He is the executive producer of Lord of Oxenford’s Maske, and contributed the chapter on Shakespeare’s medical knowledge in Shakespeare Beyond Doubt? (2014) and several topics in the 30-Second Shakespeare (Ivy Press, 2015). He is an honorary trustee of the Shakespearean Authorship Trust and past president of the Shakespeare Fellowship.

Steve Steinburg, Bavaria, Germany
Steven Steinburg, author of I Come To Bury Shakspere and The Shakespeare Puzzles, was born in Pasadena, California, in 1947 and now resides in northern Bavaria. He is a retired U.S. Army civilian who served many years as a Director of Morale, Welfare, and Recreation and later as a Director of Plans, Analysis, and Integration.

Roger Stritmatter, PhD, Gaithersburg, MD rstritmatter (1)
Roger Stritmatter, Ph.D., is a professor of Humanities and Literary Studies at Coppin State University, Baltimore MD. Professor Stritmatter holds a Master’s Degree in anthropology from the New School for Social Research and a Ph.D. in comparative literature with a concentration in early modern studies from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His 2001 dissertation, “The Marginal Annotations of Edward de Vere’s Geneva Bible”, was nominated for the Bernheimer Award for the best dissertation in comparative literature. Stritmatter has published in a wide range of academic and popular contexts, including the Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, Notes and Queries, University of Tennessee Law Review and (with Lynne Kositsky) Review of English Studies, The Shakespeare Yearbook, and On the Date, Sources and Design of Shakespeare’s The Tempest (2013). He is founding trustee of the Shakespeare Fellowship and former editor of Shakespeare Matters. Currently he serves as general editor of Brief Chronicles: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Authorship Studies.

Alexander Waugh, London, England
Alexander Waugh is Senior Visiting Fellow at the University of Leicester, General Editor of a 42-volume scholarly edition of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh for the Oxford University Press; author of several critically acclaimed books including Time (1999), God (2002), Fathers and Sons (2004), House of Wittgenstein (2008) and Shakespeare in Court (2015); co-editor (with John Shahan) of Shakespeare Beyond Doubt? (2013) and Honorary President of the Shakespeare Authorship Coalition.