Contributors
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mary christian is a Ph.D. candidate in the English department at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her dissertation, “Performing Marriages in Late Nineteenth-Century Theater,” studies changing attitudes toward marriage in late Victorian England, and the ways in which they were represented onstage in the plays of Shaw, Wilde, Henry Arthur Jones, and Arthur Wing Pinero, among others. Her article “Bought with Silver: Victor Hugo, George Bernard Shaw, and the Economics of Salvation” is forthcoming in Religion & Literature. She is also membership secretary of the International Shaw Society.
peter conolly-smith is an Associate Professor of American history and culture at CUNY–Queens College in New York City. He has written articles on war, immigration, ethnicity, film, and theater, including several articles on Shaw, and is the author of Translating America: An Ethnic Press Visualizes Popular American Culture (2004).
r. f. dietrich is Professor Emeritus at the University of South Florida, Series Editor of the University Press of Florida’s Shaw Series (upf.com/seriesresult.asp?ser=gbshaw), member of the Editorial Board of the SHAW, and author of Bernard Shaw’s Novels: Portraits of the Artist as Man and Superman and Modern British Drama: 1890 to 1950 (chuma.cas.usf. edu/~dietrich/britishdrama.htm). He was the Founding President of the International Shaw Society (www.shawsociety.org) and is its Treasurer and Webmaster.
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 [End Page 355] 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 “Environmental Shaw” in SHAW 34 (2014).
a. m. (tony) gibbs is an Emeritus Professor of English at Macquarie University, Sydney, and a graduate of the University of Melbourne and of Oxford University, where he was an Australian Rhodes Scholar. His publications include seven books on Shaw’s life and works. His Bernard Shaw: A Life (2005) was runner-up for the Robert Rhodes Prize for a book on literature awarded by the American Conference for Irish Studies; shortlisted for the Nettie Palmer Prize for nonfiction in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, and for the General History Prize in the NSW Premier’s History Awards; included in the US Choice list of outstanding academic titles of 2006; and highly commended in the 2007 Australian National Biography Award Competition.
d. a. hadfield is a lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo. She is author of Re: Producing Women’s Dramatic History (2007) and coeditor, with Jean Reynolds, of Shaw and Feminisms: On Stage and Off (2013) in the University of Florida Press Bernard Shaw series.
jesse m. hellman received an A.B. from Columbia University in 1964 and almost pursued graduate work in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English Literature, but instead went to medical school. He trained in psychiatry at the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital in Towson, Maryland, and received psychoanalytic training at the Baltimore-Washington Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is a psychiatrist in private practice in Towson. Interests include the classics, photography, Italian culture, and opera. His essay evolved from a talk he gave to a group of physicians on Puccini’s Tosca.
john m. mcinerney was a professor of English literature at the University of Scranton for more than forty-five years, and also worked in community and academic theater as an actor, writer, and director. He is a longtime member of the International Shaw Society, and his essay, “Shaw and Film,” will appear in Shaw in Context (Cambridge University Press).
john r. pfeiffer taught in the Department of English at Central Michigan University for forty-four years before retiring in 2015. His most [End Page 356] recent publications include his final iteration of “A Continuing Checklist of Shaviana” in SHAW 34 (2014), an article on Shaw and evolution in Shaw in Context (2015), and an article on “Fantasy and Science Fiction” (in the midwestern United States) in The Dictionary of Midwestern Literature (2015).
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