[csaa-forum] CFP: Comedy Studies (The Comic Audience/ The State of Political Comedy)

[Nick Holm]

Dear Colleagues,


Since 2010, Comedy Studies has been publishing leading scholarship on comedy, with an emphasis on theatre, performance, and stand-up comedy. However, given the growing importance of comedy across a range of media and cultural forms, the increasing implication of comedy in a range of social and political conflicts, as well as the accompanying growth of scholarship addressing comedy and humour, the journal is now actively broadening its scope to address the role of comedy as a cultural, social, performative, economic and political form, with a particular emphasis on cultural, critical, textual, and interpretive perspectives.

Comedy Studies defines comedy broadly and inclusively, and we welcome original research on comedy, humour, laughter, entertainment, amusement, fun, and related topics. The journal is committed to developing interdisciplinary conversations around comedy and publishes work that emerges from a range of disciplines including theatre, media studies, cultural studies, philosophy, sociology, history, geography, literary studies, communication and politics.
We invite submissions that address all aspects of comedy and humour, and particularly welcome research that seeks to understand and explain how comedy as a cultural form can intervene in wider social, cultural, philosophical, political and economic conversations.
In addition to this general call for papers, the journal also currently has calls for two forthcoming special sections:

Call for Proposals: The Comic Audience
For more information, see https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/the-comic-audience/<https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/the-comic-audience/https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/the-comic-audience/>

This special section of Comedy Studies will focus on the comic audience, working from the premise that the audience is integral to the form and meaning of the comic event. The discipline of theatre and performance studies has developed robust if varied frameworks for studying audiences as performers and interpreters in their own right.  Building on this scholarship (but welcoming approaches from other disciplines), this special section invites papers that examine specific rather than idealised comic audiences.
Topics might include (but are not limited to):

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Historical, cultural, or generational shifts in the comic audience;
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Live, mediatised, and/or digital audiences for comedy;
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Majoritarian and/or minoritarian comic audiences;
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Audience behaviour and/or sociality;
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Conventions of comic spectatorship: laughter, applause, “clapter,” heckling, etc.;
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Methodological reflections on researching the comic audience;
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Challenges to traditional comic license, such as debates about cancel culture or freedom of speech;
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Caring for the comic audience: for example, content warnings, accessibility, cultural safety, mental health

Please submit proposals (250-300 words) to Sarah Balkin <sarah.balkin at unimelb.edu.au> by Friday 7 June 2024. Selected proposals will be invited to prepare articles of 6000-8000 words which will be due in November 2024 and will be peer reviewed.

Call for Proposals: The State of Political Comedy
For more information, see https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/the-state-of-political-comedy/
This special section of Comedy Studies invites contributors to reflect on the current state of political comedy: What role does comedy serve in the political environment of the 2020s? Is there still a belief that comedy can inform meaningful and/or responsible interventions in political conversations? How has political comedy responded to changes in the economic and technological infrastructure of media? Can politics still be funny?
Topics might include (but are not limited to):

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The Legacy of The Daily Show and its contemporaries;
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Comic responses to new political formations, including populism, nationalism and the far right;
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The relation between political comedy, ‘cancel culture,’ and ‘wokeness’;
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The efficacy of political comedy as a form of intervention;
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The international and global status of political comedy;
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Political comedy in online and digital media;
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The future of political comedy.

Please submit proposals (250-300 words) to Nicholas Holm <nhfholm at massey.ac.nz>  by Friday 7 June 2024. Selected proposals will be invited to prepare original research articles of 6000-8000 words which will be due in November 2024 and will be peer reviewed.

All best,
Nicholas Holm, Editor Comedy Studies


Dr Nicholas Holm<http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=990001> |Associate Professor in Media Studies|Editor, Comedy Studies | Book Reviews Editor, Humor

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https://nicholasholm.wordpress.com/

Recent Publications
Holm, N. (2023) Everyone’s a Critic (So what comes next?)<https://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/article/view/200> Media Theory 7.1.

Holm, N. and E. Tilley. (2023) The Aesthetics of Creative Activism<https://academic.oup.com/jaac/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jaac/kpad015/7185629> Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 81.2.

Holm, N. (2023) The Limits of Satire, or the Reification of Cultural Politics<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/07255136231154266> Thesis Eleven 174.1.

Holm, N. (2023) Advertising and Consumer Society: A Critical Introduction<https://www.routledge.com/Advertising-and-Consumer-Society-A-Critical-Introduction/Holm/p/book/9781032181363> (2nd Ed), Routledge.
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