Michael Dudley is a librarian at the University of Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada and a member of the Board of Directors of the Shakespeare Authorship Coalition. With academic backgrounds in both library science and city planning, his research focuses on the epistemology of the Shakespeare Authorship Question and his writing have appeared in both Brief Chronicles and The Oxfordian. Most recently his chapter on academic freedom and the SAQ was published in the anthology Teaching and Learning Practices for Academic Freedom from Emerald Publishing. He is currently working on a book collecting his previously-published articles. He is also an experienced public speaker on the subject, and his talks have received thousands of views on YouTube: