American Literature Association, San Francisco
Friday, May 25, 2012
American Mass Culture: Humor, Satire, Gender, Politics
Chair: Joe Alvarez
1. “How Disney Founded the Corporate Welfare State; or, Never Trust a Humorous Homily,” Gregg Camfield, University of California, Merced
2. “Cartooning Strong-Willed Women in Antebellum America,” Teresa Prados-Torreira, Columbia College, Chicago
3. “It’s only brains that count”: The Slippery Semiotics of Intellect in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” Abby Goode, Rice University
Mad About Mad: Humor, Satire, and Culture in Mad Magazine
Organized by: John Bird, Winthrop University
Chair: Judith Yaross Lee, Ohio University
Session 14-B Teaching Hawthorne
Organized by the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society Chair: Rasmus Simonsen, University of Western Ontario
1. “Poisoning our Students with Hawthorne: Teaching Rappaccini’s Daughter as a Frame Story,” Gabriela Serrano, Angelo State University 2. “’Docile Bodies’: Hawthorne’s House of Corrections for Women,” Angela Rabin, University of Missouri- Kansas City
3. “’This is from the Bible?’: Biblical Background and Teaching Hawthorne’s Tales,” Fay Ellwood, Independent Scholar
Audio-Visual Equipment required: None
Session 14-C Mad About Mad: Humor, Satire, and Culture in Mad Magazine Organized by: John Bird, Winthrop University Chair: Judith Yaross Lee, Ohio University
1. “Dave Berg: Chronicling American Dystopia,” Joseph A. Alvarez, Independent Scholar
2. “Joseph Orlando: His Mad Encounters,” Jules A. Hojnowski, Independent Scholar
3. “Sing Along With Alfred: Humor, Satire, and Culture in the Music of Mad,” John Bird, Winthrop University
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Theorizing American Humor and Wit: New Directions
Organized by the American Humor Studies Association
Chair: Gregg Camfield, University of California, Merced
1. “American Humor: General Theory and Inconvenient Truth,” Daniel Royot, Universite de Paris, Sorbonne
2. “The Humorist as a Category of Cultural Analysis,” Tracy Wuster, University of Texas, Austin
3. “American Humor Studies for a Post-Nationalist Age: A Manifesto,” Judith Yaross Lee, Ohio University
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