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  • Contributors

SIDNEY P. ALBERT was professor emeritus of philosophy at California State University, Los Angeles, and author of Shaw, Plato, and Euripides: Classical Currents in “Major Barbara” (2012). He was a founding member of the International Shaw Society, a former member of the Shaw Review editorial board, and a frequent contributor to the SHAW.

ALAN ANDREWS’s review article of the correspondence between Shaw and Sidney and Beatrice Webb appeared in SHAW 24.

GLENN CLIFTON holds a PhD (2012) from the University of Toronto and is currently a lecturer at West Virginia University. His work has appeared in Journal of Beckett Studies and Henry James Review. He is a faculty member at Sheridan College, Canada.

R. F. DIETRICH is professor emeritus at the University of South Florida, president emeritus of the International Shaw Society, and ought to be retired.

ELLEN DOLGIN is professor/chair of English at Dominican College in Orangeburg, New York, and teaches drama and multicultural courses across genres. She is vice president of the International Shaw Society, and past president of NeMLA. Under contract with McFarland, her manuscript, “Tandem Stages: Bernard Shaw & the Actresses Franchise League,” examines Shaw’s dialogic relationship among activists of the early twentieth century. Her other publications include Modernizing Joan of Arc (2008), “The Landscape of Beyond: Barbara’s Disillusionment and Transformation in [End Page 254] Bernard Shaw’s Major Barbara” in UpStage 2 (2011), and “History Plays” in Shaw in Context (forthcoming from Cambridge University Press).

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, mostly on Shaw. His most recent production was Arms and the Man (2001); his most recent book was Bernard Shaw: Slaves of Duty and Tricks of the Governing Class (2012); and his most recent article was “To Laugh or Not to Laugh: Shaw’s Comedy on Stage” in ELT: English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 57, no. 3 (2014).

HOWARD IRA EINSOHN is an adjunct instructor in English at Middlesex Community College in Middletown, Connecticut, where he has worked in various capacities since 1974. He is also a past contributor to the SHAW and enjoys writing about Shaw in relation to one of his favorite philosophers, Paul Ricoeur. He is presently contemplating a new Shaw project.

D. A. HADFIELD is faculty lecturer in English at the University of Waterloo, Ontario. She is the author of Re: Producing Women’s Dramatic History (2007) and coeditor, with Jean Reynolds, of Shaw and Feminisms: On Stage and Off (2013), published in the University Press of Florida Bernard Shaw series.

SONYA FREEMAN LOFTIS is an assistant professor at Morehouse College, where she specializes in Shakespeare and disability studies. She is the author of Shakespeare’s Surrogates (2013), and her work has appeared in journals such as Shakespeare Bulletin, Brecht Yearbook, the SHAW, South Atlantic Review, Text & Presentation, and Renaissance Papers.

ALICE MCEWAN is a doctoral candidate at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, where she is completing a PhD on the history of the collections and interiors at Shaw’s Corner. Her thesis, “Towards a Biography of Bernard Shaw at Shaw’s Corner: Artifacts, Interiors, and Self-fashioning,” argues that Shaw’s engagement with visual and material culture significantly enhances our understanding of his life and work. Her project is funded by the National Trust and by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

JOHN R. PFEIFFER is professor of English at Central Michigan University and bibliographer of the SHAW. He has written on Günter Grass, John Stuart Mill, Sir Richard Francis Burton, John Christopher, [End Page 255] John Brunner, Etheridge Knight, Ray Bradbury, Aldous Huxley, Margaret Walker, George Eliot, Octavia Butler, and nineteenth-century science fiction. His recent publications include reviews of Avrom Fleishmann’s George Eliot’s Intellectual Life, Ian Morris’s Why the West Rules . . . For Now, and Sven Wagner’s The Scientist as God: A Typological Study of a Literary Motif 1818 to the Present.

MICHEL W. PHARAND, general editor of the SHAW, is the author of Bernard Shaw and the French (2000), and editor of Robert Graves’s The Greek Myths (2001) and of Bernard Shaw and...

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