Announcements
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Abject Comedy at MLA
Division: Film
Exploring abjection in screen comedy. Are comedies of embarrassment, excess, or awkwardness a new development toward the abject, or a continuation of comedy’s traditional relationship to the body? 300-word abstract by 15 March 2013; Nicholas Sammond (nic.sammond@utoronto.ca) and Paul Young (paul.d.young@vanderbilt.edu).
http://www.mla.org/cfp_detail_6157
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The 2012 ISHS Conference was held from June 25-29, 2012 at Jagiellonian University in Poland. We hope you were able to attend.
The 2013 ISHS Conference is scheduled for July 2-6, 2013 at William and Mary University in Virginia. You can register for the conference at the following link: http://www.cvent.com/events/25th-international-society-for-humor-studies-conference-2013/event-summary-e7aefa94dc5b4a4b9acd4eb8c0aaf548.aspx .
Contact Larry Ventis: wlveng@wm.edu .
The 2014 ISHS Conference is scheduled for July 7-11, 2014 in Utrecht, Netherlands. Contact Sibe Doosje: S.Doosje@fss.uu.nl .
In the following web site you will find PowerPoints related to “Linguistic Humor and Language Play,” and also PowerPoints related to “Linguistic Humor Across the Disciplines”: http://www.public.asu.edu/~dnilsen .
If you are a member of ISHS, you can obtain information about past and future ISHS conferences in Martin Lampert’s ISHS web site:www.humorstudies.org .
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The Mark Twain Circle has the following calls for papers for MLA 2014
(Chicago, January 2014):
1. Mark Twain’s Style(s)–Analysis of Twain’s style, in either fiction or
nonfiction. Preference will be given to papers that break new ground or
challenge old assumptions.
2. Beyond Huck and Puddn’head: Mark Twain and Race–Examinations of Mark
Twain and racial issues in works other than the two most commonly analyzed
texts, Huckleberry Finn and Puddn’head Wilson.
Send 300-word abstracts to me at the address below by March 15, 2013.
Presenters must be members of both MLA and the Mark Twain Circle (can join
after paper is accepted.) Further details will be posted soon to the
circle’s new website: http://marktwaincircle.org/
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The AHSA has issued a call for papers for sessions at the Modern Language Association Convention in Chicago, January 9-12, 2014. MLA and AHSA membership are required for participation in these sessions.
1) The Tyranny of Irony and Irony’s Edge
300-word abstracts welcome on interpretive practice in the wake of insights from David Foster Wallace, Linda Hutcheon, and others on literary irony. 300-word abstracts. by 4 March 2013; Bruce F. Michelson (brucem@illinois.edu).
2) Wit, Humor, and ‘Serious’ Texts
Abstracts welcome on any subject related to comic dimensions in literary works not normally classified as ‘comic.’. 300 word abstracts by 4 March 2013; Bruce F. Michelson (brucem@illinois.edu).
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CALL FOR PAPERS/STS
Mark Twain Panel
Ms. Jules A. Hojnowski
October 10-12, 2013
Vancouver, WASHINGTON<http://www.visitvancouverusa.com/> (across the Columb=
ia River from Portland, Oregon – fly into PDX!) at the Hilton Vancouver Was=
hington<http://www1.hilton.com/en_US/hi/hotel/PDXVAHH-Hilton-Vancouver-Wash=
ington-Washington/index.do>
Mark Twain
The Western Residences of Mark Twain: Found in Fact or Fiction
This panel is focusing on Mark Twain’s “Residences” out west, converging on=
experiences or relationships while in that residence. Residences could in=
clude a friend’s home, an apartment, a room in a hotel or even a tent. Thi=
s could include works written by Mark Twain, or other authors writing about=
him.
This session invites academic papers, multi-media, or digital pieces on any=
aspect of Mark Twain’s “home” while he was in the west. By March 1, 2013,=
email or regular mail 300-word abstracts with the requisite information as=
noted in the RMMLA call for papers guidelines, http://rmmla.wsu.edu/confe=
rences/presenters.asp
to Mrs. Jules A. Hojnowski, at JAH11@cornell.edu<mailto:JAH11@cornell.edu> =
or 1690 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850
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The 7th International Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies
One of the best conferences out there.
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TEACHING POPULAR CULTURE
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
*The editors of /Transformations/ seek submissions that explore popular
culture from all pedagogical contexts and interdisciplinary
perspectives. We accept *articles* (5,000-10,000 words), *media essays*
(overviews on books, film, video, performance, art, music, websites,
etc. 3,000 to 5,000 words) and* items for an occasional feature, “The
Material Culture of Teaching.” */Note extended deadline: Submissions for
this special issue on Teaching Popular Culture are now due Feb. 15,
2013. /We welcome jargon-free submissions that explore strategies for
teaching about popular culture in the classroom and in non-traditional
spaces (such as the media, museums, and in public discourse).
*/Transformations/ publishes only essays that focus on teaching.*
For submission guidelines, please go to
http://web.njcu.edu/sites/transformations/Content/default.asp
<https://webmail.exchange.njcu.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=7f7a69afa69a4a3298abff14647e4b3b&URL=http%3a%2f%2fweb.njcu.edu%2fsites%2ftransformations%2fContent%2fdefault.asp>
Send submissions or inquiries in MLA format (7th ed.) as attachments in
MS Word or Rich Text format to: Jacqueline Ellis and Ellen Gruber
Garvey, Editors, transformations@njcu.edu
<https://webmail.exchange.njcu.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=7f7a69afa69a4a3298abff14647e4b3b&URL=mailto%3atransformations%40njcu.edu>
Author(s) name and contact information
should be included on a SEPARATE page.
For submission guidelines go to
http://web.njcu.edu/sites/transformations/Content/default.asp
<https://webmail.exchange.njcu.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=7f7a69afa69a4a3298abff14647e4b3b&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.njcu.edu%2fassoc%2ftransformations>
Possible topics for articles:
* Defining popular culture
* Popular culture as a pedagogical tool
* Popular culture and technology
* History and popular culture
* Popular culture, memory, and nostalgia
* Media literacy
* Representations of race, class, and gender in popular culture
* Popular culture in K-12 classrooms
* Popular culture and the corporatization of education
* Subculture, handmade culture, independent culture
* Popular culture and sexuality
* Erasures and omissions in popular culture
* Popular culture and “normality”
* Reading popular culture
* Fandom and style
* Controversies in popular culture: pornography, violence
* Popular culture in national, transnational, and global contexts
* Consumption of popular culture, reading and using popular culture
Past issues of /Transformations/ include: Teaching Feelings, Teaching
Digital Media, Teaching Sex, Teaching Earth, Teaching Nation, and
Teaching Performance. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with the
journal before submitting. Please visit our website to order previous
issues.
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The Humor Studies Caucus of the American Studies Association is seeking papers for the 2012 ASA Conference:
American Studies Association Annual Meeting:
“Beyond the Logic of Debt, Toward an Ethics of Collective Dissent,”
November 21-24, 2013: Hilton Washington, DC
http://www.theasa.net/annual_meeting/page/submit_a_proposal/
Proposals on any aspect of American Humor will be welcome, including, but not limited to:
Stand-Up Comedy Jokes Wit Merriment
Literary Humor (both high- and low-brow) Richard Pryor
Film Satire Will Rogers
Comedy Jokes Risibility Sitcoms
Laughter
Mark Twain Dirty Jokes Lenny Bruce
Ventriloquism the Circus Marietta Holley
subtle humor broad humor
Margaret Cho regional humor
transnational humor ethnic humor
and even puns…
Proposals due by: January 11th
Panels will be assembled for submission by the January 26 deadline.
Proposals should be no more than 500 words and should include a brief CV (1 page). Please include current ASA membership status.
Proposals (and questions) should be sent to Tracy Wuster and Jennifer Hughes: wustert@gmail.com & jahughes@yhc.edu
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Mark Twain Panel
Ms. Jules A. Hojnowski
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference
October 10-12, 2013=20
Vancouver, WASHINGTON (across the Columbia River from Portland, Oregon – fl=
y into PDX!) at the Hilton Vancouver Washington
Mark Twain
The Western Residences of Mark Twain: Found in Fact or Fiction
This panel is focusing on Mark Twain’s “Residences” out west, converging on=
experiences or relationships while in that residence. Residences could in=
clude a friend’s home, an apartment, a room in a hotel or even a tent. Thi=
s could include works written by Mark Twain, or other authors writing about=
him.
This session invites academic papers, multi-media, or digital pieces on any=
aspect of Mark Twain’s “home” while he was in the west. =20
By March 1, 2013, email or regular mail 300-word abstracts with the requisi=
te information as noted in the RMMLA call for papers guidelines, http://rm=
mla.wsu.edu/conferences/presenters.asp
to Mrs. Jules A. Hojnowski, at JAH11@cornell.edu or 1690 Trumansburg Rd, It=
haca, NY 14850
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SAMLA 2013: Humor in the Digital Age
The American Humor Studies Association seeks papers for a panel, “Humor in the Digital Age,” for the 2013 South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Conference at the Marriott Atlanta from November 8-10. This panel will examine how the rise of new media (including social media, content-sharing sites, and blogs) has created new contexts for the production, distribution, and exhibition of humor. We welcome papers on humor and comedy as it is employed in viral videos, blogs or vlogs, web series, webisodes, parodies, participatory culture online, memes, or remixes. Papers may cover individual talents Andy Borowitz of The Borowitz Report, Grace Helbig of DailyGrace, Jenna Marbles, Khyan Mansley, Maddox, Tucker Max; groups Derrick Comedy and the Gregory Brothers (“Auto-Tune the News”); sites College Humor, Funny or Die, The Onion, and Stuff White People Like; social media Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter; and other “genres” like mommy blogs, movie trailer recuts, trending hashtags (#firstworldproblems, #drunknatesilver).Prospective panelists could also consider how humorists and comedians/comediennes use websites and social media to connect with their audiences, attract new fans, and disseminate their brand of humor. The overall goal is to examine how digital media technologies either democratize or restrict the creation and distribution of innovative comedy, examining key problems and possibilities posed by new media for the tradition of American humor. Please send inquiries and proposals of 250 words to Pete Kunze atpkunze@lsu.edu by May 1, 2013.
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The AHSA plans to sponsor two sessions at the 2013 national meeting. We seek cogent, provocative, well-researched papers on the following subjects:
1. “Humor in Periodicals: From Punch to Mad”—Abstracts (300 words max.) are encouraged on the role of humorous literature in American periodicals from the early national period to the present. Subject adaptable to both humorous periodicals and humor in serious periodicals across a wide time range; thus, title will change to reflect composition of panel.
2. “Reading Humorous Texts”–Abstracts (300 words max.) are encouraged on the interpretation, recovery, or pedagogy of humorous texts from novels and poems to plays and stand-up. Some focus on the act of interpretation of humor in its historical, performative, formal, or other cultural context is encouraged.
Please e-mail abstracts no later than January 15, 2013 to Tracy Wuster (wustert@gmail.com) with the subject line: “AHSA session, 2013 ALA.” Notifications will go out no later than January 20, 2013.
American Literature Association
Boston, May 23-26, 2013The Mark Twain Circle of America invites proposals for individual papers (15-20 minutes) for sessions it will sponsor at the 2013 ALA conference in Boston, May 23-26, 2013.1.“ Mark Twain and History.” This topic may be broadly considered including, but not limited to, Mark Twain’s writings about historical events, his writing set in earlier historical periods, his place in history, or his works in relation to other historical figures.2. Open topic: The topics are entirely open, provided they are Twain related.Send your proposal (1-2 page abstract) to Linda Morris no later than January 15, 2013: lamorris@ucdavis.edu
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Studies in American Humor is now considering essays for our spring 2013 issue. Deadline for submission November 30, 2012. Since this will be an open issue, submissions may be on an topic pertinent to American literary humor or the humor of American popular culture.
Our Fall Issue is a special issue dedicated to Kurt Vonnegut.
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Call for Papers: Reimagining the American Dream
Panel discussions: Friday, April 5, 2013Keynote Speaker: Claire Jean Kim, Associate Professor, Political Science and Asian American Studies at the University of California – Irvine.The graduate students of the American Studies Department at the University of Texas at Austin invite submissions for our 2013 Graduate Conference. We encourage submissions that relate to our theme, “Reimagining the American Dream.”In the early 20th century, historian James Truslow Adams wrote that the American Dream was “that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller,” and yet time and again this promise of opportunity has fallen short: opportunity and prosperity are not demonstrably available to all, and yet this promise, this dream, continues to circulate in the personal and political imagination. After Adams’ early statements on the dream, there emerged a particular vision of dream-status in American postwar prosperity that was countered by global revolutionary and post-colonial movements. Yet the dream bore on into the cocaine-fueled 80s, only to be brought into question once more by a succession of bursting economic bubbles.Given its historical weight, we hope to interrogate and reimagine the American Dream through a series of conversations. To what extent is the American Dream a myth rather than a real possibility? Who has access to its promises? What are the limits of prosperity? How have people leveraged the dream myth? What does the “American Dream” even mean in the 21st century, as the country is in the midst of vast demographic and technological changes? If we have an American dream, what is the American nightmare, and how might American dreams and nightmares coexist or be mutually constitutive?We welcome both individual paper submissions and panel submissions on a wide range of topics related to the conference theme, including but not limited to the following:
§ Dreams and archetypes in American literature
§ Technological determinism and utopianism
§ The religious imagination and the future of the nation/world
§ American dystopias
§ Socioeonomic mobility and education
§ Historical and contemporary explorations of immigration to America
§ Psychoanalysis and the subconscious
§ Spaces real and imagined—historically, nostalgically, culturally, fictitiously or materially constructed
§ The DREAM Act
§ Dream Teams
§ Literary, filmic, artistic, or other representations of ideas pertaining to the American Dream
§ The position of “The American Dream” trope in political campaigns
§ Consumerism and advertising
JOB ANNOUNCEMENT
MARK TWAIN PAPERS
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We are just a year away from Elmira 2013: The Seventh International
Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies. The Call for Papers has
been posted on the web. Google Elmira 2013 Call for Papers for
information about submitting a Developed Abstract of 700 words — due
Monday, February 4th, 2013. Final papers must be suitable for a
20-minute presentation. Please send your attached abstract, via
electronic submission, to bsnedecor@elmira.edu. Provide your name,
mailing address, and email address. Developed abstracts will be
reviewed anonymously for acceptance by selected panel chairs.
We look forward to greeting you in Elmira on August 1 through 4, 2013.
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Title: CALL FOR PAPERS on the topic Religion and the Politics of
Humor
Date: 2012-07-01
Description: CALL FOR PAPERS on the topic Religion and the
Politics of Humor The Bulletin for the Study of Religion is
accepting submissions for a special issue on humor and
religion. Articles engaging any aspect of the theme are
welcome, especially the politics of parody, but including in
general studies of rel …
Contact: philip.tite@mail.mcgill.ca
URL: www.equinoxpub.com/bulletin/
Announcement ID: 187896
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=187896
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Call for Papers, Hawthorne’s Humor
A special issue of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Review is being planned on Hawthorne’s humor, to be published in fall, 2013. Essays (no longer than 9,000 words, WORD doc files) are invited for consideration on the following topics, although the list is not meant to be exhaustive:
1) Hawthorne’s humor compared to that of other nineteenth-century writers (e.g., Irving, Poe, Fanny Fern, Twain)
2) Hawthorne’s self-deprecating humor, especially of his work (in his introductions to his fiction; his notebooks; his letters)
3) Humor in his children’s stories; humorous depictions of his own children.
4) Hawthorne’s dark, macabre, or acerbic humor; Hawthorne’s Gothic humor
5) Hawthorne’s comic characters; Hawthorne’s caricatures
6) Hawthorne’s romance theory and comic excursions enacting that theory
7) Hawthorne’s philosophy of life and humor
8) Hawthorne’s injection of humor in his formulation of Puritan history
9) Hawthorne’s sketches and the humor of the everyday
10) Hawthorne’s humorous assessments of European life during his travels abroad
11) Hawthorne’s theory of writing (or his attacks on the marketplace) and humor
12) Hawthorne’s humor and its relationship to psychoanalytic, philosophical, and aesthetic theories of humor
13) Hawthorne’s humor and its relationship to nineteenth-century gender roles
14) Parodies and uses of Hawthorne and his works in comic strips, cartoons, and graphic narratives and how they reflect on his reputation as a great American author
Deadline for submission of completed papers is Nov. 15, 2012. Deadline for final revised submissions (of accepted essays) is April 30, 2013. Queries are welcome. Send essays to the guest editor, Prof. M. Thomas Inge at tinge@rmc.edu and to Prof. Monika Elbert, Editor of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, atelbertm@mail.montclair.edu
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STANDING CALLS FOR PAPERS:
Studies in American Humor
Information and Submission Guidelines
- Founded in 1974, Studies in American Humor (ISSN 0095-280X) publishes essays, review essays, and book reviews on all aspects of American humor. Submissions of essay manuscripts of between 5000 and 8000 words are welcome. The journal also invites individuals to send books for review; books and essays for our feature, “The Year’s Work in American Humor Studies”; and primary texts with short analytical essays for “The Recovery Room.”
- One electronic copy of a manuscript should be submitted via email. Chicago style will be accepted only for the initial readers’ reviews of manuscripts; all submissions must be converted to MLA if accepted for publication. Because the journal practices blind submission, the author’s name should appear only on the title page of the manuscript. Contributors must be members in good standing of the AHSA.
- Essay submissions, materials for “The Year’s Work” and “The Recovery Room,” books and inquiries about book reviews, and other publication queries should be addressed to Ed Piacentino, Editor, Studies in American Humor, at epiacent@highpoint.edu.
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Humor: The International Journal of Humor Research
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
Contributors are invited to submit articles pertaining to humor research to the editor
Editor-in-chief
Giselinde Kuipers
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
University of Amsterdam
OZ Achterburgwal 185
1012DK Amsterdam
The Netherlands
email: humorjournal@gmail.com
See website for more information.
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Comedy Studies
Comedy plays a more important role today than ever before: it is a multi-billion dollar global industry, with Hollywood comedies taking major profits each year and comedians commanding huge salaries and audiences worldwide. Yet there is currently no academic journal dedicated to these cultural phenomena.
Comedy Studies is a response to this glaring absence. The journal will cover multiple aspects of comedy, with articles about both contemporary and historical comedy, interviews with practicing comedians and writers, reviews, letters and editorials. The journal seeks to be instrumental in creating interdisciplinary discourse about the nature and practice of comedy and provide a forum for the disparate voices of comedians, academics and writers. In this way, the journal aims to be the first step in the creation of a community committed to the promotion, documentation and expansion of the field of comedy studies.
Sample themes might include Ancient Greek theatre, the relation of comedy and food and comedy and gender. Another interest would be the role of comedy in therapy; in medical circles comedy is being incorporated into the healing process and professionals are beginning to develop methods of using laughter to deal with physical and psychological problems. The journal is also intent on investigating historical attempts to analyse comedy, from Aristotle to Freud. Finally, it aims to create links between the growing number of university departments who offer specialist units or courses in comedy in the UK and abroad.
Comedy Studies invites contributions from researchers and practitioners throughout the world seeking to analyse all aspects of comedy, laughter and joking. Some proposed topics are:
• Contemporary performance aspects in comedy
• Comedy and gender
• Comedy and therapy
• The comedy foreigner
• Comedy in political life
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A Weekend Symposium
Friday, October 19th and Saturday, October 20th, 2012
The Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies, in conjunction with
the Mark Twain Circle of America, will host a symposium honoring the
work of Dr. Michael Kiskis on the weekend of October 19th-20th, 2012.
The symposium, entitled Complicating Twain: Biography, Autobiography,
and the Personal Scholar: Remembering Michael J. Kiskis, will be held on
the campus of Elmira College and at Quarry Farm. The keynote speaker
will be Dr. Laura Skandera Trombley, the president of Pitzer College; in
addition to formal panels, we have scheduled opportunities for more
informal discussions, as well as a dinner honoring Dr. Kiskis.
We invite submissions on topics relating to the biographical and
autobiographical narratives that Twain both inspired and produced, on
domesticity and Twain, including Twain’s representations of the child
and of women, on the subject of the sometimes fraught relationship
between Twain and his biographers, editors, and his reading public; and
on the ways in which scholarly writing is often at odds with the call to
authenticity that underlies so much of Twain’s work. In other words, we
invite submissions that reflect not only upon the scholarly legacy of
Michael Kiskis, but that consider the wonderfully skeptical, ironic,
playful, and original voice of Michael Kiskis as well.
Please send abstracts to Dr. Kerry Driscoll at kdriscoll@sjc.edu and to
Dr. Ann M. Ryan at ryanam@lemoyne.edu. Papers will be considered for
inclusion in an edition of The Mark Twain Annual dedicated to Michael
Kiskis.
Due Date for Abstracts: June 1, 2012
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Mark your calendar for The Seventh International Conference on the State
of Mark Twain Studies to be held at Elmira College on August 1-3, 2013.
Join with us as we commemorate the Sesquicentennial of the Pen name -
“Yours, dreamily, MARK TWAIN.” Developed abstracts will be due Monday,
February 2nd, 2013. The Call for Papers is available on the web.
Google Elmira 2013 Call for Papers, or use the following link:
http://www.elmira.edu/resources/shared/pdf/academics/distinctive_program
s/twain_center/Elmira2013CallforPapers.pdf
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Call for papers on any topic pertaining to humor in American
literature and culture for the Rocky Mountain MLA. Please send 250-
word abstracts to Julie Wilhelm at jawilh…@my.lamar.edu by March
1st. The RMMLA meets this year in Boulder, Colorado on October 11-13.
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The Mark Twain Circle has posted two calls for papers for the 2013 MLA
convention (Boston, MA; January 3-6, 2013), as follows:
1. Open call for papers on any topic related to Mark Twain and his
work. Brief abstracts by 10 March 2012; James S. Leonard
(leonardj@citadel.edu).=20
2. Papers on global versus provincial perspectives in the works of Mark
Twain and/or Henry James. Comparisons of modern and late-modern or
postmodern globalization especially welcomed. Brief abstracts by 10
March 2012; James S. Leonard (leonardj@citadel.edu).
Session 2 is jointly sponsored by the Henry James Society–a sequel to
the Mark Twain and Henry James session planned for the 2012 ALA meeting
in San Francisco. –Jim Leonard=20
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Call for Papers
“Laughing to Keep from Crying”
American Humor Studies Association panel
at the
Modern Language Convention 2013 in Boston, 3-6 January 2013
This panel will explore the complex relationships between pain and humor. Productive readings that avoid reductive binaries or discuss the topic in relation to specific cultural/ethnic/racial groups are particularly encouraged. Theoretical submissions are encouraged so long as they are thoroughly grounded in primary texts or performances.
Some possible questions to explore: How does humor function in regard to the painful topic? Does finding humor in a painful situation confer any sort of responsibility on the part of the humorist? Is it possible to go too far, and how do we draw those lines? Does laughter generated in this way make us part of a community of shared experience or mark our distance from it? Is it an act of hopelessness or aggression or a defense mechanism against these? Do we, as a Robert Heinlein character once asserted, “laugh . . . because it’s the only thing that will make it stop hurting?” Or is this a naïve perspective? Does explaining the joke, or delineating the pain behind it, spoil the joke or make it more powerful? Are there productive ways to avoid binaries when thinking about pain and humor?
250-500-word abstract by 15 March 2012
Contact: sdmccoy@uga.edu or sdmccoy@bellsouth.net
Teaching the Humor of Race: (CFP–ASA)
Sponsored by the Humor Studies Caucus, this roundtable will explore the practices, possibilities, and pitfalls of the pedagogy of race and humor. Most, if not all, American humor contains some element of racial meaning—from the central question of black laughter in representations of both ante- and post-bellum America to the complicated intersections of racial categories in 21st century stand-up. Teaching about race through humor, and teaching the racial dimensions of humor, presents unique benefits and challenges.
For this roundtable, participants will present (in 8-10 minutes) a theoretical quandary, insight, question, or inquiry into the connection between humor and race in the classroom. Each presentation should be grounded in one main text—a novel, a stand-up performance, a movie or television show, a joke, a cartoon, etc. We are especially interested in pieces that connect the study of humor and race to other categories of analysis, such as gender, region, sexuality, religion, class, and especially (given the conference theme) nation, empire, and transnationalism.
If you are interested, please contact Tracy Wuster at wustert@gmail.com as soon as possible, but by January 13 at the latest. Provide a general idea of your subject and your current ASA membership status.
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Postmodern Structures of Humor in America (CFP–ASA)
The Humor Studies Caucus is assembling a panel that explores the postmodern turn in comedy and humor. While scholars have considered at length the postmodern content of literature, art, history, drama, and other cultural areas, there is a space for considering how postmodernism has manifested in humor in our contemporary moment. As we can see from television shows like 30 Rock and Community, self-referential, intertextual, absurd narratives are increasingly common in television and film. This panel will not only explore how postmodernism has manifested in comedy, but also what this development suggests about American cultural and political life.
Potential topics include self-referential comedy shows, the “mockumentary” medium, the politics of televisual satire, shifting forms of media consumption evidenced by cable-cutting, the cultural role of the stand-up comedian, the blending of comedy and news, do-it-yourself web series and podcasts, transnational comparative studies of postmodern humor, absurdist fiction and theater. Ideally, the conversation will address humor as expressed in a variety of forms and through a variety of media.
Please send proposals and inquiries to Carrie Andersen at candersen@utexas.edu by January 8, 2011. Please also include current ASA membership status.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
American Literature Association
23rd Annual Conference
May 24-27, 2012
San Francisco, CA
American Humor Studies Association
The AHSA hopes to sponsor two sessions at the 2012 national meeting. We seek cogent, provocative, well-researched papers on the following subjects:
1. “Humor, comedy, wit: what can these words mean now?” Abstracts (300 words max.) are encouraged which seek to refresh and clarify fundamental terminology in humor studies, or to shed light on the recent history of those terms.
2. “Humor as American Cultural Practice.” Abstracts (300 words max.) are encouraged on how the history of comic discourses can and should figure into broader constructions of literary, political, and cultural history.
Please e-mail abstracts no later than January 15, 2012 to Bruce Michelson (brucem@illinois.edu<mailto:brucem@illinois.edu> ) with the subject line: “AHSA session, 2012 ALA.” Notifications will go out no later than January 20, 2012.
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The Humor Studies Caucus of the American Studies Association is seeking papers for the 2012 ASA Conference:
“Dimensions of Empire and Resistance:
Past, Present, and Future”
November 15-18, 2012: Puerto Rico Convention Center, San Juan, Puerto Rico
http://www.theasa.net/annual_meeting/page/submitting_a_proposal/
Proposals on any aspect of American Humor will be welcome, including, but not limited to:
Stand-Up Comedy
Jokes
Wit
Merriment
Literary Humor
(both high- and low-brow)
Richard Pryor
Film
Satire
Will Rogers
Comedy Jokes
Risibility
Sitcoms
Laughter
Mark Twain
Dirty Jokes
Lenny Bruce
Ventriloquism
the Circus
Marietta Holley
subtle humor
broad humor
Margaret Cho
regional humor
transnational humor
ethnic humor
and even puns…
Proposals due by: January 13th
Panels will be assembled for submission by the January 26 deadline.
Proposals should be no more than 500 words and should include a brief CV. Please include current ASA membership status.
Proposals should be sent to Tracy Wuster: wustert@gmail.com
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Call for Papers
Mark Twain Circle Sessions
American Literature Association Conference
San Francisco, CA
May 24-27, 2012
The Mark Twain Circle of America invites proposals forconference sessions (80 minutes per session) or individual papers (15-20 minutes) for the 2012 ALA conference (San Francisco; May 24-27). The topics are entirely open, provided that they’re Twain-related. Send your proposal (abstract, 1-2 pages) to Jim Leonard by January 7, 2012, at the following address: jim.leonard@citadel.edu.
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Call for Papers
Special Joint Session: Henry James and Mark Twain
American Literature Association Conference
San Francisco, CA
May 24-27, 2012
The Mark Twain Circle and the Henry James Society invite proposals for a conference session tentatively titled “Getting Real: Henry James and Mark Twain,” at the 2012 ALA conference (San Francisco; May24-27). Papers may focus on James-as-Realist, Twain-as-Realist, or both James and Twain; or they may address American Realism in general. Send your abstract (1-2 pages) to Jim Leonard by January 7, 2012, at the following address: jim.leonard@citadel.edu. John Carlos Rowe (johnrowe@usc.edu), 2012 President of the Henry James Society, will serve as contact person for the session on the Henry James side.
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CFP: Mad Magazine at ALA 2012
I am organizing a special panel on Mad Magazine for the American Literature Association conference in San Francisco, May 24-27, 2012. I have two papers lined up, and can accept one or two more. So far, we have papers on the music of Mad and on Dave Berg’s satire. I am seeking proposals on any topic related to Mad Magazine, its humor, its cultural and historical importance, etc. Please send a proposal, a title, and your affiliation to me:
birdj@winthrop.edu
I am asking for a firm commitment to attend ALA, if our special session is selected.
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ASA 2012!
The Humor Studies Caucus of the American Studies Association is gauging people’s interest in working on panels for ASA next year–November 15-18–in San Juan, Puerto Rico. CFP is pasted below.
In the past, we have sought individuals who wanted to propose individual panel topics, which allows/requires you to write a short CFP, choose papers, find a chair, write the abstract, and submit. In order to submit, you must be a current member of the ASA.
Once we have any individual panel ideas, we will send out both the specific CFPs and a general call.
Please let us know as soon as possible if you would like to propose a panel idea. Please contact Tracy Wuster at wustert@gmail.com
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Dimensions of Empire and Resistance: Past, Present, and Future
The Caribe Hilton Hotel, San Juan, Puerto Rico. The site of the 2012 conference calls on us to continue thinking deeply about the conceptual and methodological demands of a truly transnational American Studies. From Christopher Columbus’s second voyage in the late fifteenth century to the irony of an African American president’s state visit to Puerto Rico in the early twenty-first, the long history of this island and its peoples evokes many crucial themes regarding the transnational traffics generated by imperialism and anti-imperialism: indigeneity, conquest, and resistance; the administrative and juridical structures of empire; slavery and emancipation; migrations and diasporas; the mutually constitutive relationship between gender and sexuality on the one hand and imperial practice, subjugation, resistance, or citizenship on the other; the politics of inclusion and exclusion; militarism; local, national, and transnational feminisms; the footprints of corporate capitalism, from extraction to tourism; globalization and neoliberalism; the circuits of slavery and escape, political exile, and cultural production that link Puerto Rico with the larger Caribbean and the Americas; the travel and syncretism of circum-Atlantic arts and musics; the aesthetic traditions of a transnational imaginary; drug traffic; environmental degradation; appalling inequities and the endurance of genius and spirit. Equally important for a transnational American Studies is Puerto Rico’s unique relationship to the United States. From the perverse imperial logic of the Insular Cases, whereby the Supreme Court could define Puerto Rico as “foreign in a domestic sense” — that is, somehow “in” the United States but not “of” it — to Sonia Sotomayor’s ascendance to that very bench (amid dissenting characterizations of her as perhaps more “foreign” than “domestic”) a century later, the history of Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans sheds a very particular light on the ongoing contradictions of the United States: the limits of U.S. citizenship, the displacements stimulated by neoliberal capitalism, the culture and politics of migration and diaspora. Finally, the simultaneously local and transnational specificities of Puerto Rican history and culture — from the Taíno revival movement to the Young Lords and the Nuyorican Poets Café, from bomba and plena to Salsa and Reggaeton, from the island’s rich journalistic tradition to the alternative political movements of squatters, students, and anti-military activists — remind us that a transnational American studies must also be a truly interdisciplinary inquiry into how the material and symbolic are imbricated, how “culture” encompasses the imaginary and the everyday, how big political events and ideologies, are lived in intensely translocal ways.
Dimensions of Empire and Resistance. Since the publication of Donald Pease and Amy Kaplan’s Cultures of United States Imperialism in 1994, empire has come to hold a central place in American Studies scholarship, resulting in a rich and varied literature devoted to the topic in direct, unblinking, and sophisticated ways. The current call goes out to the many scholars working on US empire and its “others,” to be sure, whether focusing on Manifest Destiny, the Philippines, Vietnam, or the Middle East, for instance. But by the word dimensions we also seek to broaden the conversation significantly, to set the Hilton Hotel alongside the Baghdad Green Zone, so to say — to consider the vast spectrum of political and cultural practices running from colonial administration and military occupation; to tourism; to the history of sugar or rum or baseball; to the power dynamics either fostered or legitimated by educational practices and institutions — in places like Puerto Rico, for instance — or by “knowledge” and the disciplines themselves; to the quotidian imperialist slanders carried in US popular culture — and equally, the constant articulations of dissent; to metaphorical usages, like “media empire,” which are nonetheless embedded in histories of empire proper; to the transnational logic of a canonical “national treasure” like Moby-Dick; to the thick traces of the imperial past and the anti-imperialist present in a text like Empire of Dreams, by Puerto Rican poet Giannina Braschi.
Past, Present, and Future. Although “past” in this context is likely to concentrate the mind on the “splendid little war” of 1898 or on the cartography of US interventionism across ensuing generations, here we also mean to invoke the deep past and its most enduring trajectories, beginning with “encounter” and with conquests now many centuries distant. If European exploration and conquest continue to cast a long shadow across the lands currently under the purview of American Studies, so was the struggle among contending empires a crucible for the political culture of what eventually became the United States. It is one of the great intellectual losses to American Studies in recent years that so many specialists in the colonial and early national periods have withdrawn, as the field itself has gravitated toward the more recent past and the present. The ASA ought to be a natural locus for the rich conversation among specialists in many periods and many social science and humanities disciplines around conceptions like the “extended Caribbean,” or reckoning the stakes of “the global South” for the study of the United States. We seek to re-engage the insight and energy of early Americanists across the disciplines. A high value will be placed on papers and sessions that touch upon aspects of pre-1865 history and culture, panels that span different periods in thematic or comparative perspective, and panels that challenge standard categories of periodization — colonial, early national, antebellum — in the light of a truly transnational perspective.
In recent years, “empire” has become an increasingly complicated word in the US political lexicon — openly and quite positively embraced in some quarters in the early years of the Iraq War, and now increasingly discussed — also openly, even amid ongoing wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya — as something that is quite evidently at its end, as in “the fall of the American empire” or “the end of the American Century.” Even Time magazine recently announced on its cover, “Yes, America Is in Decline.” Both meanings seem to be integrally embedded within and conveyed by a text like The Wire, for instance, and there is much to explore here from an interdisciplinary perspective. By “present and future,” then, we mean to provoke discussion of these complexities as they affect the peoples both within and without the United States. The behaviors of neoliberal states are crucial here — the shift, as Phillip Bobbitt puts it, from the “nation-state” to the “market-state” — as are the ways in which the corporation has displaced the state as the most significant aggregation of power in many hemispheric or regional contests and has displaced the citizen in many local ones. These developments, though traceable to the longer trajectories of “empire,” have begun to unite the working people of Michigan and Wisconsin with the working people of San Juan in new and unforeseen ways. The Caribbean vantage point of the 2012 conference is also a compelling invitation to rethink or reinterpret the United States’ geopolitical strategies and discourses, both historically and in the future, and to reckon with artistic and literary work that has been devoted to reimagining the boundaries of utopianism and futurity.
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The topic is open, and we welcome papers on any aspect of Kurt Vonnegut’s life, work, and legacy. Presenters may focus on a particular text or cover a range of Vonnegut’s writings. We are always interested in papers that look at ways of teaching Vonnegut, and we encourage participation from graduate students, independent scholars, emerging critics, and interdisciplinary researchers. Of course, we also welcome contributions from experienced Vonnegut scholars and literary critics. Please address queries to Robert Tally at robert.tally@txstate.edu.
In addition to this open topic panel, the Kurt Vonnegut Society will host a roundtable on Charles Shields’s new biography, And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut, A Life. The roundtable will feature Charles Shields himself, along with a number of current Vonnegut scholars to be announced later.
Also, whether you plan to participate in or attend either the panel or the roundtable, please join members of the Society at our annual “Timequake Clambake,” a pay-as-you-go dinner-and-drink event (details to be determined).
*** Ted Gournelos, editor of the essay collection, A Decade of Dark Humor, is looking for people to review the book for a number of possible publications. If you are interested, please contact Ted at: tgournelos@rollins.edu The book looks excellent. http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/1391
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ASA!
One time only….
Such an assembly of scholarship is only seen
ONCE PER YEAR!
Featuring:
Panels on HUMOR
Sponsored by
The Humor Studies Caucus
HUMOR AS REPARATION AND REPRESENTATION
Schedule Information:
Scheduled Time: Sat, Oct 22
10:00am – 11:45am
Building/Room: Hilton
Baltimore, Key Ballroom 09
Session Participants:
Chair: Leah Dilworth (Long Island University, Brooklyn (NY))
Against All Odds: Imagination, Transformation, and Humor after the
Dred Scott Decision
Ellen J. Goldner (City University of New York, College of Staten
Island (NY))
Stop Addressing Us as ‘Sir’: Women, Imagination, and the Humor of the
World Wars
Scott Hamilton Suter (Bridgewater College (VA))
Supreme Laughter: The Reparative Function of Laughter in the American
Courtroom
Fran McDonald (Duke University (NC))
Comment: Thomas Ferraro (Duke University (NC))
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ETHNIC HUMOR: PLEASURES AND PROBLEMS
Scheduled Time: Sun, Oct 23
10:00am – 11:45am
Building/Room: Hilton
Baltimore / Key Ballroom 10
Participants:
Chair: Holger Kersten (Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg,
Germany)
Claiming an Asian American Comedic Tradition: The Case of Harold &
Kumar Go to White Castle
Caroline Kyungah Hong (City University of New York, Queens College
(NY))
Listening to Change: Radio, Humor, and the Future of Cuban Miami
Albert Sergio Laguna (Columbia College (IL))
Beyond a Cutout World: Ethnic Humor and Discursive Integration in
South Park
Nick Marx (University of Wisconsin, Madison (WI)), Matt Sienkiewicz
(University of Wisconsin, Madison (WI))
Comment: Holger Kersten (Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg,
Germany)
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Modern Language Association Annual Convention
Boston, 3-6 January 2013
“Laughing to Keep from Crying”
The American Humor Studies Association invites papers addressing the complex relationships between pain and humor. Theoretical submissions are encouraged so long as they are thoroughly grounded in primary texts or performances.
Some possible questions to explore: How does humor function in regard to the painful topic? Does finding humor in a painful situation confer any sort of responsibility on the part of the humorist? Is it possible to go too far, and how do we draw those lines? Does laughter generated in this way make us part of a community of shared experience or mark our distance from it? Is it an act of hopelessness or aggression or a defense mechanism against these? Do we, as a Robert Heinlein character once asserted, “laugh . . . because it’s the only thing that will make it stop hurting?” Or is this a naïve perspective? Does explaining the joke, or delineating the pain behind it, spoil the joke or make it more powerful? Are there productive ways to avoid binaries when thinking about pain and humor?
250-500 word abstract by 15 March 2012
Sharon D. McCoy
sdmccoy@uga.edu
sdmccoy@bellsouth.net
posted 29 September 2012
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If you’re going to be at the Modern Language Association Meeting this year, please join us at the American Humor Studies Association panel:
MLA 2012, Seattle
January 5-8, 2012
177. “Satire’s Double-Edged Irony: Self-Satire and the Control of the Satirical Object”
Friday, January 6, 8:30–9:45 a.m.
304, Washington State Convention Center
Program arranged by the American Humor Studies Association
Presiding: Sharon D. McCoy, Univ. of Georgia
1. “‘The National Joker’ and the ‘Stealing Back and Forth of Symbols,’”
Todd Nathan Thompson, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
2. “The Cubies’ ABC and the Modernist Debt to Antimodernist Satire,”
Eric Rettberg, University of Virginia
3. “Marianne Moore’s Empathetic Satires,”
Rachel V. Trousdale, Agnes Scott College
posted 29 September 2011
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February at the Red Lion Inn (Stockbridge Mass.)
The Weekend before Valentines Day
The AHSA is considering throwing a “For Publication” mini-conference at the Red Lion Inn. we would invite the Mark Twain Circle also. The Red Lion is the grand-daddy of New England Inns, but with gorgeous up-dated rooms and an outdoor all-year round hot-tub. This is Norman Rockwell and ski country, also.
The conference would be for Thursday Friday Saturday of February (9th-11th). Everyone coming would have a place on the program as chair/responder or presenter and the sole object of the mini-conference would be to help advance publication plans for books and articles by advice from other scholars. Presenters could bring questions, pages, chapters, or anything else and receiveprofessional feedback.
Sessions would be held from 9 to noon to allow for skiing and wintering in the Berkshires. Room rates would be around $159 plus tax for rooms that usually go in the high $200-350 range. Registration $25.
Would people who are interested or willing to commit relatively soon please email Dave Sloane at dsloane@newhaven.edu at once so that we can tell if we have enough positive interest to go to stage 2 planning. Thanks everyone.
Posted 9/20/11
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Title: Vonnegut and Humor: special issue of *Studies in American
Humor* (proposals due Nov. 1, 2011)
Date: 2011-11-01
Description: Vonnegut and Humor: special issue of *Studies in
American Humor* (proposals due Nov. 1, 2011) 2011 may well be
called The Year of Kurt Vonnegut. In April the Library of
America issued a volume including his novels from 1963 to 1973,
effectively canonizing Vonnegut. A school board of Republic,
Missou …
Contact: robert.tally@txstate.edu
Announcement ID: 187889
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=187889
Posted 9/20/11
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Title: CALL FOR PAPERS on the topic Religion and the Politics of
Humor
Date: 2012-07-01
Description: CALL FOR PAPERS on the topic Religion and the
Politics of Humor The Bulletin for the Study of Religion is
accepting submissions for a special issue on humor and
religion. Articles engaging any aspect of the theme are
welcome, especially the politics of parody, but including in
general studies of rel …
Contact: philip.tite@mail.mcgill.ca
URL: www.equinoxpub.com/bulletin/
Announcement ID: 187896
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=187896
Posted 9/20/11
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CFP: Humour and the Fantastic
Humour has been a recognisable part of literature ever since antiquity. The ‘Homeric laughter’ has become proverbial and Lucian dazzled the readers of his Vera Historia with a firework of comic (and absurd) ideas. Nevertheless, the co-existence or even symbiosis of humorous and fantastic elements is the exception rather than the rule. Lucian’s work points the way for most of the later instances, and we find elements of the fantastic and the humorous co-existing most often in texts that show a self-reflexive genre awareness; in consequence the ‘funny’ fantastic results from parodistic exaggeration of certain traits.
Non-parodistic fantastic literature is, at least in the Western tradition, mostly free of humour. A cursory glance at the ‘canon’ of the fantastic affirms this impression, though we can also note attempts at combining the Gothic with the humorous, as in Oscar Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost(1887), or the absurd (as another category of the humorous) with the fantastic, as in Nicolai Gogol’s The Nose (1835), or the fantastique with the French humour tinged with bitter irony, as in Honoré de Balzac’s L’Élixir de longue vie (1846) or Gérard de Nerval’s Le Monstre vert (1852). It is only at the end of the 20th century that the subcategory of ‘the humorous fantasy’ makes an appearance, most notably in the works of Terry Pratchett and his highly successful parodies of the genre.
Fastitocalon is pleased to solicit proposals for papers for its third volume, which explore the relationship between Humour and the Fantastic. Contributions may focus on individual works or protagonists, discuss the historical development and transformations, or explore the literary-theoretical aspects connected with these aspects. Even though the language of publication is English, we would like to encourage the contributors to include works in other languages in their discussion of the phenomenon.
Deadline for abstracts (issue 1): 30 November 2011
Deadline for full papers (issue 1): 29 February 2012
Deadline for abstracts (issue 2): 31 January 2012
Deadline for full papers (issue 2): 30 June 2012
Fastitocalon is a peer-reviewed journal. Abstracts and/or full papers submitted will be reviewed by the editors and members of the board of advisors.
Abstracts (c. 600 words or 3,000 characters) or full papers (up to c. 8,000 words or 40,000 characters), together with a brief biographical sketch, are to be sent to either of the following addresses:
Prof. Dr. Fanfan Chen
Email: ffchen@mail.ndhu.edu.tw / chenfantasticism@gmail.com
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Call for Papers, Hawthorne’s Humor
A special issue of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Review is being planned on Hawthorne’s humor, to be published in fall, 2013. Essays (no longer than 9,000 words, WORD doc files) are invited for consideration on the following topics, although the list is not meant to be exhaustive:
1) Hawthorne’s humor compared to that of other nineteenth-century writers (e.g., Irving, Poe, Fanny Fern, Twain)
2) Hawthorne’s self-deprecating humor, especially of his work (in his introductions to his fiction; his notebooks; his letters)
3) Humor in his children’s stories; humorous depictions of his own children.
4) Hawthorne’s dark, macabre, or acerbic humor; Hawthorne’s Gothic humor
5) Hawthorne’s comic characters; Hawthorne’s caricatures
6) Hawthorne’s romance theory and comic excursions enacting that theory
7) Hawthorne’s philosophy of life and humor
8) Hawthorne’s injection of humor in his formulation of Puritan history
9) Hawthorne’s sketches and the humor of the everyday
10) Hawthorne’s humorous assessments of European life during his travels abroad
11) Hawthorne’s theory of writing (or his attacks on the marketplace) and humor
12) Hawthorne’s humor and its relationship to psychoanalytic, philosophical, and aesthetic theories of humor
13) Hawthorne’s humor and its relationship to nineteenth-century gender roles
14) Parodies and uses of Hawthorne and his works in comic strips, cartoons, and graphic narratives and how they reflect on his reputation as a great American author
Deadline for submission of completed papers is Nov. 15, 2012. Deadline for final revised submissions (of accepted essays) is April 30, 2013. Queries are welcome. Send essays to the guest editor, Prof. M. Thomas Inge at tinge@rmc.edu and to Prof. Monika Elbert, Editor of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, atelbertm@mail.montclair.edu
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MARK TWAIN’S HANNIBAL: The Clemens Conference
August 11-13, 2011
The Mark Twain Museum in Hannibal, Missouri, announces its first Mark Twain Conference to be held in Hannibal August 11-13.
Details and a registration form are on the Museum’s web site at
http://www.marktwainmuseum.org/index.php/conference
Make plans now to attend this inspiring and educational three days experience in Hannibal, Missouri – inspiration for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and many other episodes in Mark Twain’s writings.
Henry Sweets, Curator
Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum
henry.sweets@marktwainmuseum.org
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AHSA at the Modern Language Association
Seattle, WA January 5-8, 2012
Satire’s Double-Edged Irony
The American Humor Studies Association is seeking papers that explore the often ambiguous nature of satire’s object, the lines that blur between satire and celebration, and the difficulty of predicting or controlling audience response.
Recent studies, such as “The Irony of Satire,” suggest that perception of satire’s object often rests in the reader’s or viewer’s own biases. This panel is interested in exploring the implications of this ambiguity in the production, deployment, and teaching of satire. How does this affect satire’s admittedly subversive purpose? Is this satire’s power, its limitation, or both?
250-word abstract by 15 March 2011 to Sharon D. McCoy at sdmccoy@uga.edu
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AHSA at the Rocky Mountain MLA
Scottsdale, AZ October 6-8, 2011
Abstracts are being solicited for a panel on American Humor for the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Assn. meeting in Scottsdale, AZ, October 6-8, 2011. Any area of American humor studies is welcome, including teaching American humor in the college classroom. Please submit any questions or your abstractsby March 1 to Dr. Judy Sneller, SD School of Mines & Technology at jsneller@sdsmt.edu. Applicants will be advised within 3 weeks of acceptance status. Additional information can be found at the RMMLA website: http://rmmla.wsu.edu/call/.
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AHSA Call for Papers
American Literature Association Conference
Boston, MA May 26-29, 2011
Session 1: Exploring distinctions between wit and humor. Admittedly some of the distinctions between and definitions of humor and wit are often less than helpful. AHSA invites papers that look at “historical” definitions, attempt to create and sustain new distinctions, or demonstrate shifts in how humor scholars think about and negotiate humor and wit. Email abstracts (250 words) to Bruce Michelson by1/10/2011.
Session 2: Humoring Genre. From classic films such as Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein to more modern examples like Scream and Scary Movie, humor has been used as commentary on various genres. AHSA invites papers concerning film, literature, or other media that use pastiche to comment on genre conventions. Abstracts of 250 words should be sent to Jan McIntire-Strasburg by January 10, 2011.
Copyright © 2000-2011 American Humor Studies Association
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Bonnie Applebeet
Mark L.
Beza Merid
Brykman (steve)
Carrie Andersen
David B. Olsen
Joe Faina
Jeffrey Melton
Matt Powell
Matthew Daube
Caroline Zarlengo Sposto
Philip Scepanski
Sharon McCoy
selfdeprecate
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