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 WVUCOLL@MAIL.WVU.EDU

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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