The Language of Humor in Literature and Film

WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY Thirty-Fifth Colloquium on Literature and Film

September 13-15,2012 

FEATURED SPEAKERS

"Humor in Documentaries? You've Got to be Joking!"
Keynote talk by Ross McElwee, Documentary Filmmaker and Professor of the Practice of Filmmaking, Harvard University

"Comedy in the Making: A Conversation with Anne Harris of Comedy Central" Featuring Anne Harris, Director of Talent, Comedy Central, and Jay Malarcher, Theater Professor and Humor Scholar, WVU

Call for Papers

We are seeking submissions about the many ways that authors and filmmakers use humor in their works. Analyses may be about works in any language and time period, and may be presented in English, French, German, or Spanish. Topics include but are not limited to the following:

Irony
Parody
Comedy
Political Satire
Great National Humorists and Their Works
Theories of Humor and Laughter
Challenges of Translating Humor
History of Humor
Humor in Minority Literatures
Humor as Resistance or Subversion
Humor of Ethnic and National Identities
Countering Xenophobia and Prejudice through Humor
Comics, Cartoons and Graphic Novels
Gendered Approaches to Humor
Humor in Popular Culture
The Semiotics of Humor
Stylistics of Humor
Conversation Analysis
Dialect, Stereotype and Humor
The Actor's Contribution: Body Language, Delivery and Inflection
Puns and Word-Play: Linguistic Ambiguity in
Humorous Literature
Pedagogical Approaches to Humor in Literature and Film

Please submit 300-word proposals for papers and/or panels by May 15, 2012 to [email protected]

Department of World Languages, Literatures, and
Linguistics/205 Chitwood Hall/Morgantown, WV 26506/304/293-5121

Website: http://worldlang.wvu.edu/home/colloquium
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