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The author of more than sixty plays, George Bernard Shaw remains one of the best-known and most prolific Irish playwrights of the twentieth century. Known for his ability to blend social issues into his dramas, Shaw won both a Nobel Prize for Literature and an Oscar (for Pygmalion).

SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies is the official publication of the International Shaw Society, which seeks to “provide a means for those interested in the life, times, works, and career of Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw and his circle to organize their activities and interests, exchange information and ideas, and promote an interest in Shaw worldwide.”

Editor
Christopher Wixson, Eastern Illinois University, US

Associate Editor
Brigitte Bogar, York University, US

Bibliographer
Miguel Cisneros Perales, Universidad Pablo de Olavide

Editorial Board
Jennifer Buckley, University of Michigan, US
Mary Christian, Middle Georgia State University
Leonard Conolly, Trent University, US
Richard F. Dietrich, University of South Florida, US
Ellen Dolgin, Dominican College, US
Bernard Dukore, Virginia Tech, US
Peter Gahan, Film Editor, Los Angeles, US
Bob A. Gaines, Auburn University at Montgomery, US
Nicholas Grene, Trinity College, Dublin, IR
Dorothy A. Hadfield, University of Waterloo, CA
Brad Kent, Université Laval, CA
Lagretta Tallent Lenker, University of South Florida, US
Gustavo A. Rodríguez Martín, Universidad de Extremadura
Audrey McNamara, University College, Dublin, IR
Michael O'Hara, Ball State University, US
Sally Peters, Wesleyan University, US
John R. Pfeiffer, Central Michigan University, US
Michel W. Pharand, Queen's University, CA
Jean Reynolds, Polk State College, US
Nelson O'Ceallaigh Ritschel, emeritus, Massachusetts Maritime Academy, US
E. Ann Saddlemyer, University of Toronto, CA
Julie Sparks, San Jose State University, US
Tony Stafford, University of Texas, El Paso, US
Lawrence Switzky, University of Toronto, CA
J. P. Wearing, University of Arizona, US

To submit an article to SHAW, please visit http://www.editorialmanager.com/shaw and create an author profile. The online system will guide you through the steps to upload your article for submission to the editorial office.
Please view the submission guidelines here or view them on the submission site in the About section in the navigation bar before submitting your manuscript.

SHAW is currently accepting submissions for the following issues:

SHAW 46.2 (December 2026) and SHAW 47.2 (December 2027) will include articles on general topics. For inquiries about those issues or other information about SHAW, contact Christopher Wixson at .

SHAW 47.1 (June 2027): “Unpopular Shaw”

SHAW 47.1 will take as its subject the many controversial statements by Shaw that made him unpopular, even at times a pariah, during his lifetime. What were the repercussions, both socially (indignation? vilification? ostracization?) and personally (vexation? depression? retaliation?), of Shaw’s (often deliberately) provocative pronouncements in letters, speeches, broadcasts, and interviews, and of his polemical writings: articles, essays, reviews, prefaces? What was his perspective on popularity itself? What deeper insights emerge when we analyze the ways in which his unpopularity have been configured, construed, and protested since his death, especially in this century? Essays may dig in to (but are not limited to) the following topics: abortion, contraception, censorship, child rearing, education, crime and punishment, eugenics, dictators, warfare and nationalism, spelling reform, the medical profession, female suffrage, same-sex desire/unions, marriage and divorce, prostitution, race and nationality, religion, taxation, legislation, sanitation, vivisection, politics and government, publishers and publishing, actors and acting, the monarchy, the media, and works such as Common Sense About the War and The Political Madhouse in America and Nearer Home, among others. Inquiries and proposals should be directed to guest editor James Armstrong .

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