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Roger Stritmatter is a Professor of Humanities and Literary Studies at Coppin State State University, where he has taught since 2003. His 2002 University of Massachusetts PhD dissertation was the subject of a major New York Times story by William Niederkorn and was widely covered as well by newspapers and literary journals in Germany, Italy, and elsewhere. Since then he has continued to contribute on a regular basis to the popular inquiry regarding the identity of the author of the plays, most recently having published major articles on Francis Meres, Michael Drayton, and Ben Jonson, showing that all three early writers knew the identity of the true author of the plays. Currently he is studying the marginal annotations found in several books at Audley End in Essex, determined in a 2023 forensic study to be in the handwriting of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604).
Roger Stritmatter is a Professor of Humanities and Literary Studies at Coppin State State University, where he has taught since 2003. His 2002 University of Massachusetts PhD dissertation was the subject of a major New York Times story by William Niederkorn and was widely covered as well by newspapers and literary journals in Germany, Italy, and elsewhere. Since then he has continued to contribute on a regular basis to the popular inquiry regarding the identity of the author of the plays, most recently having published major articles on Francis Meres, Michael Drayton, and Ben Jonson, showing that all three early writers knew the identity of the true author of the plays. Currently he is studying the marginal annotations found in several books at Audley End in Essex, determined in a 2023 forensic study to be in the handwriting of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604).
Vice-President, Outreach and Education, and Webmaster, The Shakespeare Fellowship (2001-2006); Coordinator of Freshman Composition (2006-2009); Founder and General Editor, Brief Chronicles (2009-2016); Service on University Faculty and College Committees (Ongoing).
BA, Anthropology, Psychology and Journalism, Evergreen State College
MA with honors Anthropology, The New School for Social Research
PhD, Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Vice-President & Trustee, The Shakespeare Fellowship (2001-2006)
Editorial Board, The Oxfordian (2021-present)
General editor, Brief Chronicles Annual Book Series of volumes on Shakespeare, Edward De Vere, and the Authorship Question (2018-present)
Shakespeare, Shakespeare Authorship Studies, Edward de Vere, Literary Code-Talking, History of Rhetoric, Ben Jonson, Michael Drayton, Francis Meres, Herman Melville, Applications of Forensic Methods in literary studies.
Oxfordian of the Year, 2013
Tom Regnier Veritas Award, 2024
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