Todd Thompson
Biographic Data
| ID | 9541065 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Todd Thompson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Todd |
| FAMILY NAME | Thompson |
| SIGNATURE | THOMPSON T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Professor of English |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Year’s Work in Humor Studies, 2023
As we submit this essay in late October, 2024, we cannot help but be struck by the time of year, a time when our world is beset by ghoulish delight and terrifying creatures: election season. But fear not, gentle reader, your intrepid coauthors have weathered the slings and arrows of outrageous rhetoric to bring you the year’s work in humor studies for 2023. As always, delving into humor scholarship has been edifying, entertaining, and at times ch…
The Year’s Work in American Humor Studies, 2021
A funny thing happened on the way to this essay–we decided to eliminate over one hundred possible entries! Why would we do such a thing? Because, dear reader, the scholarship in humor studies published in 2021 is an embarrassment of riches. Across and within disciplines, scholars are exploring fascinating questions related to humor in diverse contexts. From discerning unique rhetorical features of a stand-up comic’s discourse to generating new hu…
Viral Jokes and Fugitive Humor in the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Reprinting
Too few humor scholars have taken advantage of new resources and research methodologies for studying humor as it circulated in newspapers and magazines in the nineteenth-century US. This article argues that tracing reprints of comic material in periodicals unearths popular nineteenth-century US humor. Such recovery is important because the jokes that readers and editors read and recycled reveal both their fascinations and fears. Additionally, sub…
On Second Thought
Editors:Had Kate Morris and Linda Morris published “Camping Out with Miss Chief: Kent Monkman's Ironic Journey” while I was still writing “American Humor and Matters of Empire,” I would certainly have cited their essay as an exemplar.1 Their discussion of how Monkman's paintings satirize the European invasion of North America through ironic and camp parodies of imperialist iconography illustrates how matters of empire—representational and express…
Norman Anderson and the Christian Mission to Modernize Islam
Western Christians in the twentieth century viewed Islam through a lens of social and political concerns that would have appeared novel to their medieval and early-modern predecessors. Concerns about the predicament of secular 'modernity' infused Christian discourse with distinct assumptions that shaped engagement with Islam in fundamentally new ways. J. N. D. (Norman) Anderson (1908-94), a highly influential British Christian scholar of Islam, e…
The Evangelical Alliance, Religious Liberty, and the Evangelical Conscience in Nineteenth‐Century Britain
This article explores the difficulties nineteenth‐century British evangelical ecumenists faced as they attempted to develop distinctive practical initiatives that could commend widespread support across the denominational spectrum. In particular, it focuses on the nascent Evangelical Alliance's growing concern to promote religious liberty overseas. By following the debates within the Alliance about the need to pursue religious liberty and attendi…
The Evangelical Alliance, Religious Liberty, and the Evangelical Conscience in Nineteenth‐Century Britain
This article explores the difficulties nineteenth‐century British evangelical ecumenists faced as they attempted to develop distinctive practical initiatives that could commend widespread support across the denominational spectrum. In particular, it focuses on the nascent Evangelical Alliance's growing concern to promote religious liberty overseas. By following the debates within the Alliance about the need to pursue religious liberty and attendi…
The Evangelical Alliance, Religious Liberty, and the Evangelical Conscience in Nineteenth‐Century Britain
This article explores the difficulties nineteenth‐century British evangelical ecumenists faced as they attempted to develop distinctive practical initiatives that could commend widespread support across the denominational spectrum. In particular, it focuses on the nascent Evangelical Alliance's growing concern to promote religious liberty overseas. By following the debates within the Alliance about the need to pursue religious liberty and attendi…
Norman Anderson and the Christian Mission to Modernize Islam
Western Christians in the twentieth century viewed Islam through a lens of social and political concerns that would have appeared novel to their medieval and early-modern predecessors. Concerns about the predicament of secular 'modernity' infused Christian discourse with distinct assumptions that shaped engagement with Islam in fundamentally new ways. J. N. D. (Norman) Anderson (1908-94), a highly influential British Christian scholar of Islam, e…
Viral Jokes and Fugitive Humor in the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Reprinting
Too few humor scholars have taken advantage of new resources and research methodologies for studying humor as it circulated in newspapers and magazines in the nineteenth-century US. This article argues that tracing reprints of comic material in periodicals unearths popular nineteenth-century US humor. Such recovery is important because the jokes that readers and editors read and recycled reveal both their fascinations and fears. Additionally, sub…
On Second Thought
Editors:Had Kate Morris and Linda Morris published “Camping Out with Miss Chief: Kent Monkman's Ironic Journey” while I was still writing “American Humor and Matters of Empire,” I would certainly have cited their essay as an exemplar.1 Their discussion of how Monkman's paintings satirize the European invasion of North America through ironic and camp parodies of imperialist iconography illustrates how matters of empire—representational and express…
The Year’s Work in American Humor Studies, 2021
A funny thing happened on the way to this essay–we decided to eliminate over one hundred possible entries! Why would we do such a thing? Because, dear reader, the scholarship in humor studies published in 2021 is an embarrassment of riches. Across and within disciplines, scholars are exploring fascinating questions related to humor in diverse contexts. From discerning unique rhetorical features of a stand-up comic’s discourse to generating new hu…
The Year’s Work in Humor Studies, 2023
As we submit this essay in late October, 2024, we cannot help but be struck by the time of year, a time when our world is beset by ghoulish delight and terrifying creatures: election season. But fear not, gentle reader, your intrepid coauthors have weathered the slings and arrows of outrageous rhetoric to bring you the year’s work in humor studies for 2023. As always, delving into humor scholarship has been edifying, entertaining, and at times ch…
Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · American Literature and Humor Studies (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Comics (3 works) · Humor Studies and Applications (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Politics (3 works)