Central Square Theatre Welcomes Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel

Join us after the 7:30pm show on Thursday, February 7, 2019 for a lively conversation with a scholar about their work and thoughts on the production.

Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel is the author of Bernard Shaw, W. T. Stead, and the New Journalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and Shaw, Synge, Connolly, and Socialist Provocation (University Press of Florida, 2011). He is on the Editorial Board of SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies and is Co-Editor of Palgrave Macmillan’s Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries series. In 2017, he was interviewed for the ‘The Point’ on NPR-WCAI, titled ‘George Bernard Shaw and the Freedom of the Press’. He is a Professor at Massachusetts Maritime, where he chaired Humanities for five years. His Ph.D. is from Brown University.

Click here to listen to NPR interview with Ritschel on Shaw’s works.