The 2009 American Studies Annual Meeting

The Humor Studies Caucus will hold an open “Business Meeting” to discuss future conference plans on Thursday November 5 (from 6:00-7:45 in meeting room 6). All are welcome.

Panel Descriptions:
Humor Studies as American Studies: A Roundtable (Sponsored Panel)
Friday, November 6--2:00-3:45
Meeting Room 10

Chair and Commentary: Judith Yaross Lee

Presentations:
Nerissa Blace--Race, Laughter and Governmentality: Notes on Racial Violence and Postcolonial Humor

Raul Rubio--Ethnic Humor: Queer Stand-up Comedy and American Studies.

Amy Ware-- “‘I Don’t Get It’: Incorporating Humorous History into American Studies”

Janice McIntire--Brave New World: Teaching Humor in Academe

“The Assault of Laughter”:
The Meanings of Humor in Mark Twain’s America
Friday, November 6--4:00-5:45
Meeting Room 10

Chair: Bruce Michelson

Presenters:

Tracy Wuster--“The Plague of Jocularity”: Mark Twain and the American Humorous Character

Jennifer Hughes--Mark Twain, History, and the Legacies of Laughter

The 2010 American Studies Annual Meeting

will be held in San Antonio, Texas from November 18-21, 2010. The caucus will be planning a number of paper panels and roundtables for the event. Possible topics include:

--Children’s Humor
--Latina/o Humor and Borderlands Humor
--Cross-ethnic/multi-ethnic humors; Transnational/transcultural humors
--Pedagogy of Humor
--Mark Twain and his connections with other humorists
--Stand Up Comedy
--Political Satires

We are open to providing assistance with organizing panels on any humor-related subject. We will begin discussions of the process in November in advance January 26, 2010 deadline for proposals.

For more information, see our Caucus webpage: http://www.theasa.net/caucus_humor_studies/

Please contact Tracy Wuster with questions: wustert@gmail.com