TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR ABSTRACTS

 

Below is an alphabetical listing of the scheduled speakers at the Shaw Conference

at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, June 8-11, 2006. 

Only the abstracts of those submitted after the conference (in blue or red font) can be accessed.  

This is followed by a list of relevant email addresses.

 

Berst, Charles: “Relativity Shaw”

Bertolni, John: "Shakespeare's Shadow and Wilde's Art in Shaw's You Never Can Tell"

Conolly, Leonard: “GBS Televised”

Dehnert, Amanda: “Staging Shaw” panel

Dailey, Jeff: "Opposite Ends of the Spectrum:  Shaw and Sullivan (with a little bit of Gilbert)"

Del Dotto: Charles Joseph: “Beyond Shakes Versus Shav:  Shaw’s Medievalism and the Great War”

Doody, Noreen: "When George met Oscar: Wilde, Women and Shaw.”  (not delivered)

Emigh, John: "Undershaft's Ancestry: A Connecticut Yankee on the Court Theatre's Stage"

Fountain, Michael: "Shaw's Vision of a National Theatre: Reading the Cultural Politics of the Location of the National Theatre in London (1909-1942) "

Gahan, Peter: "Set Design in Shaw's Poetic Structures"

Gaines, Robert: "Shaw and Barker After Their Divorce"

Gibbs, Anthony: “GBS and ‘The Law of Change’: A Birthday Salute” (entire paper online)

Grene, Nicholas: —“Shaw and Conversion,”

Hadfield, Dorothy: "Shaw and the Women in His/story"

Harding, Desmond: “‘Tightening Hearts’: Heartbreak House and the Trauma of War”

Jahan, Husne: “Colonial Control of Irish Land:  Unromancing the Romantic Irish Scenery in  John Bull's Other Island

Jenckes, Norma: "Red Faces, Green Masks; A Fanonian Reading of John Bull’s Other Island"

Kable, Gregory: “Terminating the Twenties: Predicting Posthumanism in Shaw’s ‘Metabiological Pentateuch’”

Kubly, Jenna: "Idyll in the Garden: The Great War and Heartbreak House"

Largess, Bill: "Editing Shaw for Performance: Passion, Pragmatism, and Peril"

Largess, Bill: “Staging Shaw” panel

Leahey, Kristin: Making Shaw Accessible to Young Audiences"

Li, Kay: “The Pygmalion Effect: China With A Mind Of Its Own”  

Luber, Steve: “'Bizarre' Major Barbara: Shaw, Kabuki, and Language"

MacDonald, John: “Staging Shaw” panel

Macki, Adrienne: "Bernard Shaw and the Modern 'New Woman':  Transgressing Types and Staging Gender"

McCarty, Megan: "The Answer to Irish Identity: Androgyny in the Works of Shaw and Joyce"

Meier, Inga: Heartbreak House as a Template for Framing 9/11 Discourse in Rebeck’s and Gersten-VassilarosOmnium Gatherum"

Meisel, Martin: “Passing the Word: Shaw, Stoppard, and ‘Audible Intelligibility’

Merriman, Victor: "Prophetic Metadramatist and Public Intellectual: A Postcolonial Reading of John Bull’s Other Island(not delivered)

Metz, Allison: "Bernard Shaw’s Child Alliance: Victorian Ideology and Youth Culture in 'A Treatise on Parents and Children'”

Miller, Brook: "Shaw’s Newsreel 'Greeting' and the Paradoxes of Critique"

Papreck, Annie: "Shakespeare's Cleopatra: More Shavian than Shaw's Cleopatra?"

Pharand, Michel: 'My Familiar Green Volumes¹: Bernard Shaw¹s Publishing (Ad)ventures"

Pfeifer, Barbara: "A Dramatist for All Seasons: Shaw in Vienna 1934-1945"

Price, Ted: "Shaw's & Shakespear's Dark Lady of the Sonnets"

Ritschel, Nelson: Shaw, Connolly, and the Irish Citizen Army"

Ryan, Vanessa: 'Considering the Alternatives . . . ': Shaw and the Death of the Intellectual"

Saddlemyer, Ann: "Shaw's (Un)finished Symphonies"

Saslav, Isidor: Shaw's Letters in Other People's Books: A Survey"

Senelick, Laurence: “`More Looked at Than Listened to': Shaw on the Pre-Revolutionary Russian Stage”

Smith, Susan Harris: Everybody’s Shaw”

Sri, P. S.: “Shaw, Gandhi, and Vegetarianism"

Stafford, Tony: 'Mad About Reading' and the Glassed-Framed Garden: The Presentation of Higher Consciousness in Misalliance"

Switzky, Larry: "The Last Word on Last Words: Shaw and the Catastrophic Drama" (not delivered)

Weintraub, Stanley: "King Magnus and King Minus: A Play and a Playlet"

Webb, Eric: ““Styles in Shavian Sainthood: The Gendered and Ungendered Transfigurations of Barbara and Joan” (not delivered)

Weintraub, Rodelle: "Cunninghame Graham: The Real Black Paquito"

Wilde, Lisa: "Absent Fathers, Headstrong Daughters"

Williams, Walter: "Setting the World on Fire Merely to see it Burn? The Censoring of Shaw’s Testimony in the 1909 Parliamentary Hearings on the Censoring of Stage Plays”

Wilmeth, Don: “Staging Shaw” panel

 

Email Addresses of Speakers and Featured Speakers:

 

"Tony Gibbs" <tony.gibbs@mq.edu.au>, <gibbston@gmail.com>, "Martin Meisel" <mm28@columbia.edu>, "Ann Saddlemyer" <saddlemy@uvic.ca>, "Nick Grene" <ngrene@tcd.ie>, "Michel Pharand" <michelpharand@yahoo.com>, <ncrff848@yahoo.co.jp>, "John Bertolini" <bertolin@middlebury.edu>, "Jacqueline E Brown" <jebrow03@louisville.edu>, "Leonard Conolly" <lconolly@trentu.ca>, "Jeff S. Dailey" <DrJSDailey@aol.com>, "Charles Joseph Del Dotto" <cjd@duke.edu>, <charles.deldotto@duke.edu>, "Noreen Doody" <noreen.doody@spd.dcu.ie>, "John Emigh" <John_Emigh@brown.edu>, "Micheal Fountain" <micheal.fountain@gmail.com>, "Peter Gahan" <pgahan@aaahawk.com>, <PeteJonG@gmail.com>, "Bob Gaines" <rgaines@mail.aum.edu>, "Dorothy Hadfield" <dhadfiel@uoguelph.ca>, "Des Harding" <Hardi1d@cmich.edu>, "Husne Jahan" <hjahan@sbcglobal.net>, "Norma Jenckes" <norma.jenckes@uc.edu>, <jencken@email.uc.edu>, "Gregory Kable" <gkable@email.unc.edu>, "Jenna Kubly" <Jenna.Kubly@tufts.edu>;, <kittyvanderkleve@yahoo.com>, "Bill Largess" <Largitas@aol.com>, "Kristin Leahey" <Kristinleahey@hotmail.com>, "Kay Li" <kay.li@utoronto.ca>, <wli@yorku.ca>, <kaywkli@yahoo.com>, "Steve Luber" <sluber@gc.cuny.edu >, "John MacDonald" <stageguild@msn.com>, <jmacdonald@stageguild.org>, "Adrienne Macki" <Adrienne.Macki@tufts.edu>, <adrienne_macki@yahoo.com>, "Megan McCarty" <mlm_viola@yahoo.com>, <mlmccarty@gmail.com>, "Inga Meier" <imeier76@yahoo.com>, "Victor Merriman" <victor.merriman@dkit.ie>, <vmerriman@wit.ie>, ALLISON M METZ <manville@wisc.edu>, "Brook Miller" <brookmiller@charter.net>, <millercb@montevallo.edu>, "Radmila Nastic" <rnastic@EUnet.yu>, "Annie Papreck" <paprecka@slu.edu>, "Barbara Pfeifer" <barbara.pfeifer@mail.austria.com>, "Ted Price" <pricet@mail.montclair.edu>, "Nelson Ritschel" <nritschel@mma.mass.edu>, <nocrsc@aol.com>, <nritschel@maritime.edu>, "Vanessa Ryan" <vryan@fas.harvard.edu>, "Isidor Saslav" <isaslav@awesomenet.net>, <isaslav@aol.com>, "Peter Schelden" <pschelden@gmail.com>, "Laurence Senelick" <laurence.senelick@tufts.edu>, "Gautam Sengupta" <JoyComs@yahoo.com>, <gautam_sengupta2002@yahoo.co.in>, "Susan Harris Smith" <shs1@pitt.edu>, "Dr. P. S. Sri" <sri-p@rmc.ca>, "Tony Stafford" <tnyorzb@yahoo.com>, <tnyorzb@sbcglobal.net>, "Nicole E. Stodard" <prepwrite@hotmail.com>, "Larry Switzky" <switzky@fas.harvard.edu>, "Eric C. Webb" <ewebb@ic.sunysb.edu>, "Rodelle Weintraub" <rodellew@earthlink.net>, "Stanley Weintraub" <sqw4@comcast.net>, "Lisa Wilde" <LWilde@howardcc.edu>, "Edwin S. Williams" <williams.1562@osu.edu>, "Walter Williams" <WalterWilliams@ptloma.edu>