Richard M. Waugaman, M.D. is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine. He is also Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences; and Training and Supervising Analyst, Emeritus at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute. He received his A.B. from Princeton, where his senior thesis on Nietzsche's influence on Freud was supervised by the Nietzsche scholar Walter Kaufmann, and led to his first article, in 1973. He received his M.D. from Duke. He then did his psychiatric residency at Sheppard-Pratt Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, and his psychoanalytic training at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute.

Shakespeare and the Shakespeare authorship question became one of his major research interests since 2002. His 200 publications include 100 articles, book chapters, and book reviews on Shakespeare and the psychology of pseudonymous authorship. 70 of his Shakespeare publications appear in the World Shakespeare Bibliography. He was named 2021 Oxfordian of the Year by the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship.

Most of his Shakespeare publications are available at his websites-- http://www.oxfreudian.com; and https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RkZiAAK/richard-waugaman