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  • Contributors

MaryAnn K. Crawford, Professor of English and Director of the Basic Writing/Writing Center Programs at Central Michigan University, is co-general editor of the SHAW, was associate editor since 1999, and was one of the founding members of the International Shaw Society. In addition to SHAW, she researches, writes, and publishes on a variety of literary, linguistic, and literacy issues.

Peter Gahan, who lives in Los Angeles, is the author of Shaw Shadows: Rereading the Texts of Bernard Shaw (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004). He has written several articles and reviews for SHAW, and has served on the editorial board of the journal since 2004. His introduction to a reprinting by Penguin Classics of Shaw's Candida will be published in 2006.

Dorothy A. Hadfield teaches Drama and English at St. Jerome's University, Waterloo, Ontario, and at the University of Guelph. Her book on Canadian feminist theatre historiography, Re: Producing Women's Dramatic History is forthcoming, from Talonbooks. Although her primary research area is ostensibly Canadian drama and theatre, she frequently revisits her ongoing fascination with Shaw.

Desmond Harding is Assistant Professor of English at Central Michigan University. His publications include interdisciplinary articles on nationality and religion as well as articles on the interrelations between urban theory and literature. He is the author of Writing the City: Urban Visions and Literary Modernism.

Heidi J. Holder is Professor of English at Central Michigan University. She has published essays on British, Irish, and Canadian theater, including "The East End Theatre" in the Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre and "Outcast London on the Victorian and Edwardian Stage" in Theatre History Studies. Her current project is a book-length study of working-class theater in Victorian London.

Brad Kent is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellow at Concordia University in Montreal and co-Book Review [End Page 273] Editor of the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies. His thesis examines literary censorship in Ireland from 1923 to 1958 in the context of postcolonial national identity formation.

Robert P. Kirschmann graduated magna cum laude, with honors in English, from Fordham University, where he also received an M.A. in Philosophy. He is currently pursuing an M.S. in education from the University of Bridgeport. His interests are in Medieval and Early Modern British Literature, and in the interplay between philosophy and literature.

Lagretta Tallent Lenker serves as Academic Program Director at the University of South Florida and is co-director of the Center for Applied Humanities. She is the author of Fathers and Daughters in Shakespeare and Shaw and is the co-editor of 5 volumes. The sixth, War and Words, co-edited with Dr. Sara Deats, was published in fall, 2004. She teaches early modern and late Victorian drama at USF and is currently on the executive board of the Marlowe Society of America and the International Shaw Society.

Frank Manista, Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Michigan State University, is founder/managing editor of the online forum h-James Joyce. He is currently working on a book-length project, The Sacred in the Profane: Religious Doubt and Atheistic Faith in Modern and Contemporary Secular Narratives, and has written on contemporary Irish drama for The Current Debate about the Irish Literary Canon: Essays Reassessing "The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing." His book, tentatively tided Negotiating Identity: Voice and Boundary in the Works of James Joyce, will be published in the next year.

C. Brook Miller is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, Morris. He specializes in twentieth-century British literature, with an emphasis on the representation of Anglo-American relations and economic modernization.

Hisashi Morikawa is a Professor at Wakayama National College of Technology in Japan, where he teaches English. He is Secretary of the Bernard Shaw Society of Japan, and his main interest lies in Shaw and music, notably Wagner's influence on Shaw's plays and ideas.

Kathleen Ochshorn is an Associate Professor and Chair of English and Writing at The University of Tampa, where she also edits fiction for Tampa Review. She has published critical essays on writers such as Flannery O'Connor, Richard Wright, and Jean...

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