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ProfessorA.B., City College of New York Carney Hall 468 Phone: 617-552-3710 |
Academic Profile
Academic specializations: American Humor Since 1980; American Literature: 1790-1860; Gothic Fiction.
Current Project
THE RAVEN IN THE FROG POND: Edgar Allan Poe and the City of Boston
Boston Public Library
Copley Square
December 17, 2009 - March 31, 2010.
Courses
- EN010.19 - First Year Writing Seminar
- EN141.01 - American Literary History I
- EN412.12 - Writing Workshop: Creative Nonfiction
- EN478.01 - Poe and the Gothic
Publications (selected)
- Cracking Up: American Humor in a Time of Conflict, The University of Chicago Press, 2006.
- Comic Effects: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Humor in Literature, State University of New York Press, 1989.
- Editor, “The Muhammad Cartoons and Humor Research” in HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research 21-1 (2008): 1-46.
- "Painful Laughter: The Collapse of Humor in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories," reprinted in Charles L. P. Silet, ed., The Films of Woody Allen: Critical Essays, Scarecrow Press, 2006.
- "A 'Wild' and 'Homely' Narrative: Resisting Argument in 'The Black Cat'" Poe Studies/Dark Romanticism," 35 (2002):1-14; and in POEtic Effect and Cultural Discourses, Ed. Hermann Josef Schnackertz (Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag, 2003),
61-84. - Great Poe Debate, Free Library of Philadelphia, January 13, 2009 [Podcast]
- "Evermore: The Enduring Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe," Boston Globe, January 11, 2009.
- "(Mis)reading Borat: The Risks of Irony in the Digital Age, Electronic Journal of Communication 18:2, 3, & 4 (2008).
- "What's So Funny About a Dead Terrorist?" Tikkun, July-August, 2008, 70.
- "Take this President ... Somebody Please," Tikkun, November-December, 2007, 60-62; with a response essay by Michael Nagler: 63-64.
- "Stephen Colbert, Character and Candidate" (op-ed), Providence Journal, October 31, 2007.
- "Beyond Empathy: Sarah Silverman and the Limits of Comedy," Tikkun, September-October, 2007, 88-89.
- "And divided we laugh: the year in humor," Boston Globe, December 29, 2006.
- "Meanwhile: Laughing all the way to the war," International Herald Tribune, December 8, 2006.
- "Funny Thing About Elections," Philadelphia Inquirer, September 8, 2006.
- "Hamlet: A Mature Reading," Washington Post, February 26, 1997.
- "The Sweet Cycle: From Blossom to Berry to Jam," New York Times, September 23, 1992.
Additional Professional Information
Lewis is a member of the editorial board of HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research, a freelance writer, the organizer of the Poe bicentennial program in Boston, and the neologist who coined the word Frankenfood.