Talk by Brad Kent (Université Laval) : "Equivocal Values: PEN, Literary Censorship, and Freedom of Expression in Ireland"

Brad Kent is Professor of British and Irish Literatures at Université Laval (Quebec City). In 2013-14, he was Visiting Professor in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin, and in 2018, he was the C.P. Snow research fellow at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas. His recent publications include George Bernard Shaw in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and The Selected Essays of Sean O'Faolain (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016). He is currently general editor of an eight-volume series of Shaw’s writings that will be published by Oxford World’s Classics in 2021.