Contributors
- Contributors
Charles A. Carpenter is Emeritus Professor of English at Binghamton University. His publications on Shaw stretch over forty-five years, including Bernard Shaw & the Art of Destroying Ideals: The Early Plays and Bernard Shaw as Artist-Fabian: Educate, Permeate, Irritate. He also maintains a continuing bibliography of Shaw on his Web site. He is a founding member of the International Shaw Society.
Peter Conolly-Smith received his Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University in 1996 and teaches American history at CUNY–Queens College in New York. He has published articles on war, immigration, ethnicity, film, and theater. His book, Translating America: An Ethnic Press Visualizes Popular American Culture, 1895–1918, was published by the Smithsonian Press in 2004.
Nicole Coonradt is a Ph.D. candidate and teaching fellow at the University of Denver. She has published on Morrison's Beloved, Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, and Woolf's The Years. She also writes book reviews and serves as the co-editor to Jessica Munns for Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research.
R. F. Dietrich, Emeritus Professor at the University of South Florida, has been chained to his computer, from which he presides over the International Shaw Society as its president and over the University Press of Florida Shaw Series as its series editor. You may visit him online at www.shawsociety.org or sign up for his very informative and entertaining Pshaw-Mail by joining the ISS. You can also Blog him at http://gbs.shawsociety.org/ and Skype him at 813-920-2986. You may not be able to Google him, however, because he uses many pseudonyms ("GBS Lurking," etc.).
Bernard F. Dukore, University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Theatre Arts and Humanities at Virginia Tech, has directed plays and written numerous books and articles on modern drama and theater. His most recent production was Arms and the Man (2001) and his books include Sam Peckinpah's Feature Films (1999) and Shaw's Theater (2000). His [End Page 274] "Make War, Not Love" will be published in a collection of original essays entitled Peckinpah Today (2010).
Evelyn Ellis, a Shavian by marriage, joined the Shaw Society with her husband, Anthony, in 1991, in time to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Society. Anthony took over the Newsletter and Evelyn, who had been head of public relations for one of the UK's leading wine companies, offered her PR skills to improve membership facilities. As nobody else seemed interested in collecting money, she also became treasurer and now handles most of the society's administration, correspondence, archive preservation, and Web site.
Peter Gahan, who lives in Los Angeles, is the author of Shaw Shadows: Rereading the Texts of Bernard Shaw (2004) and of the introduction to a reprinting by Penguin Classics of Shaw's Candida (2006). He has served on the editorial board of SHAW since 2004 and will be guest editor of SHAW 30: Shaw and the Irish Literary Tradition (2010).
Dorothy Hadfield teaches English, drama, and theater studies at the University of Guelph and St. Jerome's University (Waterloo). She is the author of Re: Producing Women's Dramatic History: The Politics of Playing in Toronto (2007) and has published articles on Canadian theater and on Shaw. She is currently co-editing, with Jean Reynolds, a collection of essays on Shaw and contemporary feminism.
Desmond Harding is Assistant Professor at Central Michigan University, where he teaches courses in modern and contemporary British and Irish literatures and cultures. He is the author of Writing the City: Urban Visions and Literary Modernism (2003) and will be guest editor of SHAW 32: Shaw and the City (2012).
John H. B. Irving is the great-grandson of Henry Irving and the son of artist, designer, and author Laurence Irving, who moved his family to Hollywood in 1928 and designed the sets of Douglas Fairbanks's film The Iron Mask. He joined the Royal Air Force in 1943, trained as a pilot in Canada, and in 1945 flew to a base in India. After the war, he took a history degree at Oxford and in 1950 joined the BBC as a radio and television producer. After a stint in Boston with...
