With Humor for All: Toward a New Anthology of American Humor
Organized by the American Humor Studies Association
Chair: David E. E. Sloane, University of New Haven
John Bird, Winthrop University
Shelly Marie Combs, Saint Louis University
Catherine Keyser, University of South Carolina
Peter Kunze, Florida State University
Sharon D. McCoy, University of Georgia
Linda A. Morris, University of California-Davis
Liam Purdon, Doane College
Daniel Royot, Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle
A Humor and the Great Divide
Organized by the American Humor Studies Association
Chair: Sharon D. McCoy, University of Georgia
1. “Critic v. Text: Dancing Over or Spitting Into the Abyss?” Gregg Camfield, University of California-Merced
2. “Finding White Voice: Linguistic Elasticity in Black Comedic Performance,” Michelle D. Taylor, Wayne State University
3. “Modes of Exhibition Conducive to Subversion in the Cable TV Show It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” Carlos Jimenez, University of California-Santa Barbara
4. “‘All We Americans Come to Europe to Look At’: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Travel Satire,” Catherine Keyser, University of South Carolina
Humor and Ethnicity
Organized by MELUS
Chair: Wenxin Li, Suffolk Community College, SUNY
1. “‘Call Me Zits’: Using Humor to Interrogate Identity and Enable Survival in Sherman Alexie’s Flight,” Jennifer C. Rossi, St. John Fisher College
2. “Louis Owens and the Comedy of Survivance,” Linda Lizut Helstern, North Dakota State University
3. “Sherman Laughs (and Cries) With You,” Lara Narcisi, Regis University
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