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"Maria Bamford: A/Way with Words."
In Taking a Stand: American Stand-up Comedians as Public Intellectuals, edited by Peter Kunze and Jared Champion. Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press, 2021.
“Comedy’s Ideological Kerfuffles: From #MeToo to Black Lives Matter.”
Contemporary Political Thought. Special Issue: The Political Force of the Comedic. Vol. 20, no. 2 (June 2021): 419-446.
All Joking Aside: American Humor and Its Discontents
Rebecca Krefting
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins UP, 2014.
"Her Gifts"
In Fast Funny Women: 75 Essays of Flash Nonfiction, edited by Gina Barreca. Norwalk, CT: Woodhall Press, 2021.
"Minority Report: Joking About the Other."
In Ethics in Comedy: Essays on Crossing the Line, edited by Steven A. Benko. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2020.
"Hannah Gadsby: On the Limitations of Satire."
In Studies in American Humor. Special Issue: Satire Vol. 5, no. 1 (Spring 2019): 93-102.
"Hannah Gadsby Stands Down: Feminist Comedy Studies."
In Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. Special Issue – In Focus: Comedy/Humor Studies Vol. 58, No. 2 (Spring 2019): 165-170.
"Beck Krefting on Empathetic Looking"
In Accelerate: Access and Inclusion at the Tang Museum 3 (2019): 26-29.
“Savage New Media: Discursive Campaigns For/Against Political Correctness.”
In The Joke’s On Us: Political Comedy Encounters Neoliberalism, edited by Julie Webber-Collins. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018.
“‘We Are the Baddest Motherfuckers on the Block’: Recruiting Margaret Cho’s Army.”
In Hysterical! Women in American Comedy, edited by Linda Mizejewski and Victoria Sturtevant. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2017.
“Dueling Discourses: The Female Comic’s Double-Bind in the New Media Age.”
In Transgressive Humor of American Women Writers, edited by Sabrina Fuchs Abrams. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
“A New Economy of Jokes?: #Socialmedia #Comedy.”
Comedy Studies Journal. Co-authored by Rebecca Krefting and Rebecca Baruc (Class of 2015). Accepted, projected publication for Autumn/Winter Issue, 2015.
We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy
Studies in American Humor 3, 28 (2014): 68-70.
“Laughter in the Final Instance: The Cultural Economy of Humor.”
In The Laughing Stalk: Live Comedy and Its Audiences, edited by Judith Batalion. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, 2012.
“Placing Space: Architecture, Action, Dimension—Pedagogy and Practice”
In Feminist Practices: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Women in Architecture, edited by Lori A. Brown. England: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2011.
“Hardly News: The State of Infotainment”
Studies in American Humor 3, 19 (2009): 147-157.
Publication year: 2009
“‘The Taming of the Sun’: Finding the Joke in the Cancer Narrative of a Pedagogue.”
In Disability and the Teaching of Writing: A Critical Sourcebook, edited by Brenda Brueggemann and Cindy Lewiecki-Wilson. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 2008.
“Who Knew Public Scholarship was so Fun(ny)?: Practical Applications Within and Beyond the Academy.”
Reflections: A Journal of Writing, Service-Learning and Community Literacy 7, 3 (2008): http://www.reflectionsjournal.org/catalog/toc.html.
"Looming Subjectivities and/in Disability Memoir: A Dialogic Review Tapestry."
Prose Studies. 27, 1-2 (2005). Co-authored by Elizabeth Miglin, Jill Khoury, Rita Rich, Alana Kumbier and Rebecca Krefting.
“Collective Mistrust of Alarms.”
Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting. 46, 17 (2002): 1584-1588.