Shaun May
Biographic Data
| ID | 6873670 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shaun May |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shaun |
| FAMILY NAME | May |
| SIGNATURE | MAY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5275-8399 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Enhancing relaxed performance
‘Relaxed performances’ allow theatre spectators to experience a non-judgmental environment, featuring adjustments to make them more accessible to a range of audiences. The Autism Arts Festival attempted to develop the idea of relaxed performances further to create an entirely autism-friendly festival in Canterbury. The organisers developed a suite of features to make the festival more accessible, and the suite as a whole was effective at increasi…
Autism and comedy
This paper discusses a project that used comedy workshops to explore the humour of autistic teenagers, focusing the discussion around three traits often – and negatively – associated with autism. The paper will then point to ways of rethinking these traits, and argue that doing so opens up a space for considering the aesthetics of comedy on the spectrum. In this way, I suggest that we can understand autistic humour on a model of difference rather…
Take my gag, please! Joke theft and copyright in stand-up comedy
Modern comedians are very protective of their material, and those comedians that gain a reputation for using others' gags are liable to find themselves shunned both socially and professionally. Although comedians in the United Kingdom have threatened each other with legal action for joke theft, perhaps the most notable recent case being Jimmy Carr threatening Jim Davison in 2004, there is no precedent of such an incident going to trial in the Uni…
Comedy on the spectrum
In this interview I talk with Noah Britton, Jack Hanke and Ethan Finlan, three members of Asperger's Are Us, a comedy troupe based in Massachusetts comprised of four individuals with Asperger's. The fourth member, ‘New’ Michael Ingemi, joined the interview just as we were wrapping up. Since its first description by Hans Asperger, many clinicians have suggested that Asperger's is characterized by deficits in humour comprehension.1 This view has be…
Embodiment, Transparency and the Disclosiveness of Failure
In this paper, I want to argue that embodiment is characterised by a plasticity which entails that it can include both the biological limb and the ‘artificial’ tool, as evidenced by recent research in cognitive science. Moreover, I want to claim that it is only in failure that the embodied limb and tool are phenomenologically distinct. I will go on to argue that this claim is essential for understanding the phenomenon of failed embodiment, such a…
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Embodiment, Transparency and the Disclosiveness of Failure
In this paper, I want to argue that embodiment is characterised by a plasticity which entails that it can include both the biological limb and the ‘artificial’ tool, as evidenced by recent research in cognitive science. Moreover, I want to claim that it is only in failure that the embodied limb and tool are phenomenologically distinct. I will go on to argue that this claim is essential for understanding the phenomenon of failed embodiment, such a…
Take my gag, please! Joke theft and copyright in stand-up comedy
Modern comedians are very protective of their material, and those comedians that gain a reputation for using others' gags are liable to find themselves shunned both socially and professionally. Although comedians in the United Kingdom have threatened each other with legal action for joke theft, perhaps the most notable recent case being Jimmy Carr threatening Jim Davison in 2004, there is no precedent of such an incident going to trial in the Uni…
Comedy on the spectrum
In this interview I talk with Noah Britton, Jack Hanke and Ethan Finlan, three members of Asperger's Are Us, a comedy troupe based in Massachusetts comprised of four individuals with Asperger's. The fourth member, ‘New’ Michael Ingemi, joined the interview just as we were wrapping up. Since its first description by Hans Asperger, many clinicians have suggested that Asperger's is characterized by deficits in humour comprehension.1 This view has be…
Autism and comedy
This paper discusses a project that used comedy workshops to explore the humour of autistic teenagers, focusing the discussion around three traits often – and negatively – associated with autism. The paper will then point to ways of rethinking these traits, and argue that doing so opens up a space for considering the aesthetics of comedy on the spectrum. In this way, I suggest that we can understand autistic humour on a model of difference rather…
Enhancing relaxed performance
‘Relaxed performances’ allow theatre spectators to experience a non-judgmental environment, featuring adjustments to make them more accessible to a range of audiences. The Autism Arts Festival attempted to develop the idea of relaxed performances further to create an entirely autism-friendly festival in Canterbury. The organisers developed a suite of features to make the festival more accessible, and the suite as a whole was effective at increasi…
Art (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Autism (3 works) · Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (3 works) · Child Development and Digital Technology (3 works) · Comedy (3 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Humor Studies and Applications (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)