Contributors
- Contributors
Benjamin Aspray is a PhD candidate at Northwestern University and an adjunct professor at DePaul University. He has written for Studies in American Humor and elsewhere, and presented at Screen, SCMS, and the Chicago Film Seminar. His dissertation addresses disgust, spectacle, and transgression in contemporary film and TV comedy.
Annie Berke is an assistant professor of film at Hollins University. She is currently at work on a book manuscript titled You Just Type: Women Television Writers in 1950s America (University of California Press).
Maggie Hennefeld is an assistant professor of cultural studies and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She is author of Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes (Columbia University Press, 2018) and coeditor of Abjection Incorporated (Duke University Press, 2019) and Unwatchable (Rutgers University Press, 2019).
Rob King is an associate professor at Columbia University's School of the Arts. He is the author of Hokum! The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture (University of California Press, 2017) and The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture (University of California Press, 2009).
Rebecca Krefting is chair and associate professor in the American Studies Department at Skidmore College. She is author of All Joking Aside: American Humor and Its Discontents (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014) and contributor to many edited collections, including Hysterical! Women in American Comedy and Transgressive Humor of American Women Writers.
Alfred L. Martin Jr. is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa. Martin has published in Communication, Culture & Critique, Feminist Media Studies, Popular Communication, Television and New Media, and Spectator.
Kriszta Pozsonyi is a PhD candidate in performing and media arts at Cornell University. She completed her MA in gender studies at Central European University. Her research focuses on American television and stand-up comedy. She has presented her work at SCMS, Consoleing Passions, and Screen.
Michael Rennett is a lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin. His work has been published in Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Velvet Light Trap, Journal of Popular Culture, and International Journal of Baudrillard Studies.
Seth Soulstein is a PhD candidate in performing and media arts at Cornell University. He teaches film and media studies at Wells College. He has published essays in alt.theatre and Scope, and has a forthcoming chapter on cult comedy in Routledge's Cult Companion.
