George Bernard Shaw scholar Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel has authored three books on Shaw: Bernard Shaw, Sean O’Casey, and the Dead James Connolly (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), Bernard Shaw, W. T. Stead, and the New Journalism (Palgrave Macmillan 2017), and Shaw, Synge, Connolly, and Socialist Provocation (University Press of Florida 2011). His latest book, The 1920s London-Irish Theatre: A History, will be published this year by Routledge. Nelson is also on the Editorial Board of SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies and retired from Massachusetts Maritime in 2023, where he chaired Humanities for nine years. He holds a Ph.D. from Brown University.