Cautionary Tales: Censorship and Irish Writers' Organizations

Brad Kent is Professor of British and Irish Literatures at Université Laval. He has been a visiting professor at Trinity College Dublin, twice a visiting fellow at the University of Texas's Harry Ransom Centre, and a visiting fellow at Brasenose College and St Catherine's College, both at the University of Oxford. His publications include George Bernard Shaw in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2015), The Selected Essays of Sean O’Faolain (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016), and, as general editor, the Oxford George Bernard Shaw, an eight-volume series of Shaw’s writings published by Oxford University Press in 2021. With David Kornhaber, he is the co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 2025) and, most recently, he is the author of Censorship and the Irish Writer, which was published by University of Toronto Press this past spring.