Dr. Roger Stritmatter Ph.D.

Roger Stritmatter is a Professor of Humanities and Literature at Coppin State University with numerous publications in peer reviewed journals of literary studies, psychoanalysis, anthropology and forensic studies. His 2001 University of Massachusetts Ph.D. dissertation on the de Vere Geneva Bible, owned by the Folger Shakespeare library, was featured in a February 10, 2002 N.Y. Times article by William S. Niederkorn. The 2017 fourth edition of the Index to Oxfordian Publications identifies 116 articles by him, more than twenty in peer reviewed academic journals, including The Shakespeare Yearbook, Review of English Studies, Notes and Queries, and the Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review. He is the author, with award-winning young adult novelist Lynne Kositsky, of On the Date, Sources, and Design of Shakespeare’s The Tempest (McFarland 2013) and, with Alexander Waugh, A New Shakespeare Allusion Book: Literary Allusions to Shakespeare, 1584-1786 from Historical Principles (forthcoming, 2020). He has appeared in two Shakespeare authorship documentaries, Last Will. and Testament (2012) and Nothing is Truer than Truth (2018).