Jonathan P Rossing

Biographic Data

ID6276883
NAMEJonathan P Rossing
GIVEN NAMESJonathan P
FAMILY NAMERossing
SIGNATUREROSSING J P
AFFILIATIONSIndiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN, USA
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS6
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • The Year’s Work in American Humor Studies, 2024

    Heidi M Hanrahan, Jonathan P RossingARTICLEStudies in American Humor2026

    Each year, Studies in American Humor devotes this feature to surveying the scholarship on American humor published in the previous twelve months. The field, however, has expanded so widely that a straightforward inventory of “everything” now risks overwhelming both writer and reader. This abundance is good news for the study of humor, but it has also invited us to rethink how we present the year’s work. For this year’s review, we are experimentin…

  • The Year’s Work in American Humor Studies, 2022

    Jonathan P Rossing, Jonathan Rossing et al.ARTICLEStudies in American Humor2024

    The pieces included in the 2022 “Year’s Work in American Humor” are wide ranging in perspective, covering everything from literature to stand-up, political rhetoric, memes, and podcasts, and raise questions of identity, gender, class, race, ethnicity, and power. Each piece reveals its own richness as it engages with the dynamic field of humor studies and refuses easy answers and sweeping “one-size-fits all” generalizations. Humor, like all rhetor…

  • The Year’s Work in American Humor Studies, 2020

    Gretchen Martin, Jonathan P Rossing et al.ARTICLEStudies in American Humor2022

    The “Year’s Work in American Humor Studies,” an annual feature of Studies in American Humor since 1999, reviews humor scholarship and related materials, including humor theory, published during the specified year from many disciplinary perspectives. The review gives special emphasis to studies of humor in American culture, broadly conceived

  • Black Panther in widescreen

    Rachel Alicia Griffin, Rachel Griffin et al.ARTICLEReview of Communication2020

    Critics and scholars alike hail Black Panther (2018) as a celebratory cinematic response to decades of racial injustice in Hollywood while also calling attention to popular culture's limited means to transform structural oppressions. Our Introduction to this themed issue explores the provocative tensions—between jubilation/disappointment, progress/retrogression, and reality/fantasy—that surround Black Panther. These tensions have animated the Bla…

  • No Joke

    Jonathan P RossingARTICLERhetoric and Public Affairs2017Cited by: 2

    Other| September 01 2017 No Joke: Silent Jesters and Comedic Refusals Jonathan P. Rossing Jonathan P. Rossing Jonathan P. Rossing is Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Chair at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2017) 20 (3): 545–556. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.3.0545 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn…

  • Dog Whistle Politics

    Jonathan P RossingARTICLERhetoric and Public Affairs2017Cited by: 1

    Book Review| March 01 2017 Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class. By Ian Haney López. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2014; pp. xx + 277. $24.95 cloth; $17.95 paper. Jonathan P. Rossing Jonathan P. Rossing Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis Search for other works by …

  • What Can You Say? America’s National Conversation on Race

    Jonathan P RossingARTICLERhetoric and Public Affairs2012

    Book Review| March 01 2012 What Can You Say? America’s National Conversation on Race What Can You Say? America’s National Conversation on Race. John Hartigan Jr. Jonathan P. Rossing Jonathan P. Rossing Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2012) 15 (1): 190–193. https://doi.org/10.2307/41955616 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jonath…

  • Deconstructing Postracialism

    Open AccessJonathan P RossingARTICLEJournal of Communication Inquiry2012Cited by: 3References: 29

    Postracialism pervades public discourse and positions race and racism as ancient history with little bearing on contemporary culture. This orientation impedes discourse on race in education, politics, media, and the workplace. As a consequence, postracialism thwarts the articulation of a successful politics of race and prevents movement toward racial justice. This essay identifies racial humor as an important site that might disrupt the impasse c…