Comedy and Humor
Popular Culture Assn/American Culture Assn 2010 National Conference St. Louis, MO, 3/31 to 4/4/10
Call for Papers—Comedy and Humor Area
We’re seeking paper or panel discussion proposals examining comedy and the nature of humor wherever we find it in popular culture:
Possible topics include (although we’re very open to any others you might want to explore) comedy in/and/of:
- pedagogy—we’re particularly interested in this topic as a panel discussion
- media and advertising
- film, literature, television…
- political discourse
- the classics
- social justice and/or comedy as a means of social change
- religion
- consumer culture
- the internet
- globalization
- censorship
- music and/or the visual arts
- cultural boundary crossing
- race and ethnicity
- graphic novels and comics
- the tragic
- gender
- the family
- obscenity and transgression
Please send 400-500 word abstracts and a brief CV in a .doc or .pdf format by October 15, 2009 to the Area Chair (final panel submissions will be due December 15, 2009):
Dr. Lori Lipoma llipoma@westga.edu Sr Lecturer in English; Dir. of Arts and Sciences Discipline-Specific Writing Program University of West Georgia