May I ask that this call for papers be sent to the list?
Thanks.

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*Special Issues*

Call for Papers: “Is American Satire Still in a Postmodern Condition?”

Special issue on contemporary satire for *Studies in American Humor* (Fall
2016), James E. Caron (University of Hawaii—Manoa), Guest Editor; Judith
Yaross Lee (Ohio University, Editor).

In response to the torrent of satiric materials that has been and continues
to be produced in recent years, *Studies in American Humor *invites
proposals for 20-page essays using the rubric of “the postmodern condition”
as an analytical gambit for demarcating a poetics of American comic art
forms that use ridicule to enable critique and promote the possibility of
social change. Proposals might focus on aspects of the following issues.

What problems are associated with defining satire as a comic mode, and how
do recent examples fit into such debates? How useful is the term
*postmodern* to characterize satire—i.e. does it refer to a period or an
operation? How useful for understanding recent and contemporary satire are
terms designed to indicate we have moved into something other than
postmodernism:
e.g. *trans-* or *post-humanism, cosmodernism, digimodernism, post-theory*?
In accounts of satire as a mode of comic presentation of social issues,
what differences arise from varied technologies and platforms, not just
print but also TV sitcoms (live-action or animated), movies, comic strips,
stand-up formats, or the sit-down presentation of Jon Stewart and Stephen
Colbert? Do significant differences emerge from satires on *YouTube* (or
the video-sharing service, *Vines*) and various Internet sites (e.g., *Funny
or Die*) and social media? If ridicule, broadly speaking, is the engine of
satiric critique, what ethical concerns are entailed in its use?

Various disciplinary perspectives and methods are welcome. *StAH* values
new transnational and interdisciplinary approaches as well as traditional
critical and historical humanities scholarship. Submit proposals of 500-750
words to *StAH*’s editorial portal <http://www.editorialmanager.com/sah/>
by June 15, 2015, for full consideration. Authors will be notified of the
editors’ decisions in early July. Completed essays will be due by January
15, 2016.  For complete information on *Studies in American Humor *and full
submission guidelines see <http://studiesinamericanhumor.org/
<http://studiesinamericanhumor.org/%20>>. At the time of publication all
authors are expected to be members of the American Humor Studies
Association, which began publishing *StAH* (now produced in association
with the Penn State University Press) in 1974. Queries may be addressed to
the editors at <[log in to unmask]>.