Michael Dudley, a librarian at the University of Winnipeg, delivered a public lecture to the Heterodox Academy, “Academic Freedom and the Shakespeare Authorship Question,” on May 7. The talk is now available for viewing here on the Heterodox Academy YouTube channel.
Dudley is an Oxfordian scholar who delivered a 2019 TEDx talk, “Liberating Shakespeare.” He serves as Community Outreach Librarian at the University of Winnipeg (Manitoba, Canada). He has previously lectured on his research into the lived experience of “Becoming an Oxfordian.”
The Heterodox Academy consists of more than 5,000 professors, K-12 educators, students, staff members, and administrators who believe diverse viewpoints and open inquiry are critical to research and learning. Respected intellectual leaders across the philosophical and political spectrum have joined the organization and serve on its Advisory Council.
Dudley gave a shorter version of this talk at the recent SOF Spring 2021 International Online Symposium. The lecture is based on Dudley’s chapter in a mainstream scholarly anthology, Teaching and Learning Practices for Academic Freedom (Enakshi Sengupta & Patrick Blessinger eds. 2020).
Dudley critiques the marginalizing rhetoric and practices of Stratfordians by subjecting them to criteria provided by the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education of the Association of College and Research Libraries. Analysis reveals that academia’s proscription against the SAQ is an unjustified infringement of academic freedom.
You can read here how Dudley himself became an Oxfordian.
[news about this talk published on SOF website, April 27, 2021; update published June 9, 2021]
