FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2003

TRENT PROFESSOR APPOINTED TO SHAW FESTIVAL POSITION

Professor Leonard Conolly, a member of the English Literature Department at Trent University and the interim director of the Trent International Program, has been appointed to a new three-year term as a corresponding scholar of the Shaw Festival.

One of only four North American scholars appointed to the position, Prof. Conolly advises the Festival on a variety of issues related to its mandate of producing plays by Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries.

Prof. Conolly also lectures periodically at the Shaw Festival seminars, and is a frequent essayist for the Festival’s celebrated theatre programs.

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For more information contact:
Prof. Leonard Conolly, Trent University, (705) 748-1280