Michael Dudley has been a librarian at the University of Winnipeg since 2012; prior to that he was a research associate at the University’s Institute of Urban Studies for 11 years. He is the author of the book The Shakespeare Authorship Question and Philosophy: Knowledge, Rhetoric, Identity from Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2023) as well as numerous contributions to The Oxfordian and The Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter, as well asthe De Vere Society Newsletter. He serves on the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship’s Data Preservation Committee, and has performed in Michael Delahoyde’s Shakespeare Illuminated productions and in Phoebe Nir’s Oxford’s Voices. Several of his talks on the Shakespeare Authorship Question are available on YouTube, including his 2018 TEDx talk, “Liberating Shakespeare” and “The Bard Identity: Becoming an Oxfordian” which has been viewed nearly 26,000 times.