This course is meant to study the relationship between comedy and power in the United States.
Settler colonialism is the context here—the place that the comedy and comedians we will be studying maneuver, produce within, and, at times, directly talk up to. Students in this class will watch comedy specials, unpack their own humor, and analyze how aspects of race, gender, and social difference factor in how jokes are made, what makes them funny (or not), and why studying them matters.
L98 330C Topics in AMCS: Comedy in the Settler Colony
Eman Ghanayem is a postdoctoral fellow in Indigenous studies primarily focused on Palestine and Indigenous North America. Dr. Ghanayem earned her doctorate in English, with graduate minors in American Indian Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She writes and teaches within the areas of Indigenous literary theory, comparative ethnic studies, and feminist and queer perspectives.
