The East Carolina Humor Festival & Conference
November 1 - 3, 2007 - Greenville, NC

PROGRAM DETAILS

• "Whiteness, Satire, and Themes of Racial Passing in Mark Twain, Toni Morrison, and Julie Dash" - Joyce Irene Middleton, East Carolina University
• "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Harvard Law School: A Satirical Look at Legally Blonde" - Christine Russell, East Carolina University
• "The Americanization of Jackie Chan: Racial Passing, American West and the Hood" - Su-Ching Huang, East Carolina University

• "'...better to die laughing...': Humor from Nostalgia in Robert Ruark's The Old Man's Boy and The Old Man's Boy Grows Older" - John Childrey, Florida Atlantic University
• "Rash Choices: Using Humor to Deal with Life's Crises in Ron Rash's Short Fiction" - William M. Teem IV, Chattanooga State University
• "The Laughing Season: The Importance of Agriculture and Nature in Native Appalachian's Women's Humor" - Ellen Rainy Summer Brake, Western Carolina University

• "Nationalism and Humor in Auden's Light Verse" - Rachel Trousdale, Agnes Scott College
• "From the Uncanny to the Comical: Reinterpreting the Past in Hans Deppe's Heimatfilm Green is the Heath" - Lisa Haegele, Washington University
• "Humor and the Mediation of American Identity" - Larry Mintz, American Studies, University of Maryland, emeritus; Founder, Art Gliner Center for Humor Studies

• "King and Queens of Comedy: Using the Strategy of Identification to Elicit Laughter" - George Gaetano, Hamline University
• "Diana Abu-Jaber: Myth, Family, and Humor Arab American Style" - Kay Ostberg, Northern Illinois University
• "Why Jews Laugh at Themselves: The Case of Sacha Baron Cohen" - Bernard Timberg, East Carolina University

• "Southwest Humor's Frontier Preacher: Hardin E. Taliaferro and Sketches from Fisher's River" - Gretchen Martin, University of Virginia's College at Wise
• "Fisher's River Revisited: H. E. Taliaferro's Experiment in Antebellum Humor" - Pamela Horn, Auburn University
• "Hardin E. Taliaferro: Southwestern Humor, Northwestern North Carolina" - Jennings Mace, Eastern Kentucky University

• "An Early Encounter with Dark Humor: Second-Semester Freshmen Meet Flannery O'Connor's 'A Late Encounter with the Enemy'" - Leanne E. Smith, East Carolina University
• "All this fuss over a lost pair of underpants: The Pedagogical Success of One Comparison of Carl Sternheim's Die Hose with Steve Martin's Revision, The Underpants" - Eva-Maria Russo, Washington University
• "Scatological Science and Poetry in the College Classroom" - Hal Daniel, East Carolina University

• "Humor, Satire, and Identity: Eastern German Literature in the 1990s" - Jill Twark, East Carolina University
• "Finding New Enemies While Keeping Old Friends? Unification and East German Political Cabaret" - Michele Ricci Bell, Union College
• "Spectres of Humor: The Satire of Michel Houellebecq" - Hélène Taillefer, Université du Québec à Montréal
• "Italian Political Theatre as a Strategy for Theatre Policy: The Monologues of Dario Fo" - Giuliano Campo, University of Kent (England)

• "British Comedy Changes from Somerset Maugham to Caryl Churchill" - Marie Farr, East Carolina University
• "Notes on Wit: Susan Sontag's 1964 essay 'Notes on Camp'" - Brian D. Holcomb, Michigan State University
• "The Politics of Midnight: Political Satire through Fragmented Time in Rushdie's Midnight's Children" - Courtney Strickland, East Carolina University

• "The Same but Different: Davy Crockett and Encounters with the Other" - Rebekah Greene, Rochester University
• "'I spect you gwan to make a show of me': Cain, Crow, and the Comedy of Fratricide" - Tiffany Yecke Brooks, Florida State University
• "Self-Deprecation, Satire and Renewal in Bill Bryson" - Lisa Wenger Bro, Middle Georgia College

• "Funny Business: Humor at Work" - John Morreall, College of William & Mary
• "The Effect of Simulated Laughter on Self-Reported Pain and Mood" - Mark L. Iberg, CEO, Laughtercize Services
• "Humor in Psychotherapy" - Joshua Gregson, Vanderbilt University

• "Drawing Fire: The Bush Administration vs. Editorial Cartoonists" - Chris Lamb and Mark Long, College of Charleston
• "'Noises and Laftah': Presidential Impersonation and the Negotiation of Political Identity in Twentieth Century Mass Media" - Peter M. Robinson, College of Mount St. Joseph
• "A Museum Exhibit Explores the 'Cartoon South'" - Tom Hanchett

• "One Hell of a Comedy: The Frame in Ben Johnson's 'The Devil is an Ass'" - Daniella Newland, North Carolina State University
• "Mary and the Angel Gabriela Get it On: Obscene Comedy in the Medieval Cycle Drama Pageants of the Annunciation" - Nicole Nolan Sidhu, East Carolina University
• "Humor as Political Subversion in the Icelandic Outlaw Sagas of Gisli and Grettir" - Lisa Brewer, Wake Forest University

• "Signifying on God: Hurston's Goosing of Southern Religion(s)" - John Lowe, Louisiana State University
• "The Final Frontier: Women and Scatological Humor" - Barbara Bennett, North Carolina State University
• "A Love of Hopeless Comedy: The Humor of Personal and Cultural Crisis in Allan Gurganus's Plays Well with Others" - Gary Richards, University of New Orleans
• "Taboo for Who(m)?: Southern Humor as a Class Act" - Anne Goodwyn Jones, University of Mississippi

• "Political Satire in Monty Python's Music: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974)" - Olga Sanz Escudero, University of Zaragoza (Spain)
• "Woody Allen's Postmodern Slapstick" - David Gillota, University of Miami
• "Countering and Perpetuating Woman's Role in the West: The Devil Wears Prada, Bridget Jones's Diary, and Miss Congeniality" - Elizabeth Howland, University of North Carolina at Greensboro