L.W. Conolly is Professor Emeritus of English, Trent University; Honorary Fellow, Robinson College, Cambridge; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada; and Senior Fellow, Massey College, Toronto. He is the editor of the Broadview Editions of G.B. Shaw's Mrs Warren's Profession (2005) and The Philanderer (2015), as well as a General Editor of The Broadview Anthology of British Literature. He has published widely on Canadian and British theatre, especially Shaw and his period, most recently Bernard Shaw on the American Stage (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).