Publications
- All
- Book Chapters
- Books
- Refereed Articles
- Review Essays/Editorial Remarks
- Reprinted Articles
- Other Writings
"Toward a Critical Humor Studies Praxis"
Co-authored with J Finley, Viveca Greene, and Raúl Pérez. In Cultural Critique Online 125, frame 10 (Fall 2024).
"Die gefährliche Ambivalenz humoristischer Invektivität in der Stand-up Comedy"
In An den Grenzen der Invektivität
Herabsetzungspotentiale von Humor, Kritik und Gewalt, edited by Silke Fehlemann et al., 93-112. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2024.
“Foreword"
In Politics of Recognition and Representation in Indian Stand-Up, edited by Richa Chilana and Rashi Bhargava, v-x. NY, NY: Palgrave Mcmillan, 2024.
“Hannah Gadsby: Emotional Capital and Affective Economies in Stand-Up."
in European Journal of American Studies. Special Issue: Funny Women: Perspectives on Women in/and the Comedy Scene. 19.3 (fall 2024): Online. Invited to contribute.
All Joking Aside: American Humor and Its Discontents
Rebecca Krefting
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins UP, 2014.
"The History of Moroccan Stand-Up Comedy: From Storytelling to Charged Humor"
Co-authored with Mohamed Bassou. In Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy: Speaking Truth to Power, e
"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.”
“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. Invited to contribute.
"Her Gifts"
“Her Gifts.” In Fast Funny Women: 75 Essays of Flash Nonfiction, edited by Gina Barreca. Norwalk, CT: Woodhall Press, 2021.
Recipient of the Gold Award for Humor (Adult Nonfiction) in the 24th annual Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards
"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. Invited to contribute.
"Hannah Gadsby: On the Limitations of Satire."
In Studies in American Humor. Special Issue: Satire Vol. 5, no. 1 (Spring 2019): 93-102. Invited to contribute.
"Hannah Gadsby Stands Down: Feminist Comedy Studies."
“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. Invited to contribute.
"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. Invited to contribute.
“‘We Are the Baddest Motherfuckers on the Block’: Recruiting Margaret Cho’s Army.”
“‘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. Invited to contribute.
Recipient of the Susan Koppelman Award for the Best Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Book in Feminist Studies in Popular and American Culture
“Dueling Discourses: The Female Comic’s Double-Bind in the New Media Age.”
“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. Invited to contribute.
“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. *denotes student
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.
When Comedy Kills: Racialized and Gendered Violence in the Wake of Laughter
Monograph in progress
“Tribal Tendencies: Technologies Mediating the Art of Stand-Up Comedy”
In The Oxford Handbook of Screen Comedy, edited by Peter Kunze and William Costanzo. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2025. Invited to contribute.
“Comics, Jesters, Satirists, and Hacks: A History of Stand-Up Comedy in the US”
In Cambridge Companion to Stand-up Comedy, edited by Oliver Double, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2025. Invited to contribute.
“On Second Thought"
Studies in American Humor 4, 6 (2020): 250-251.
“A New Economy of Jokes?: #Socialmedia #Comedy”
Krefting, Rebecca and Rebecca Baruc*.The Routledge Comedy Studies Reader, edited by Ian Wilke. NY, NY: Routledge, 2019. *denotes student
- All
- Book Chapters
- Books
- Refereed Articles
- Review Essays/Editorial Remarks
- Reprinted Articles
- Other Writings
"Die gefährliche Ambivalenz humoristischer Invektivität in der Stand-up Comedy"
In An den Grenzen der Invektivität Herabsetzungspotentiale von Humor,
Kritik und Gewalt, edited by Silke Fehlemann et al., 93-112. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2024.
“Foreword"
In Politics of Recognition and Representation in Indian Stand-Up, edited by Richa Chilana and Rashi Bhargava, v-x. NY, NY: Palgrave Mcmillan, 2024.
“Hannah Gadsby: Emotional Capital and Affective Economies in Stand-Up."
in European Journal of American Studies. Special Issue: Funny Women: Perspectives on Women in/and the Comedy Scene. 19.3 (fall 2024): Online. Invited to contribute.
All Joking Aside: American Humor and Its Discontents
Rebecca Krefting
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins UP, 2014.
"The History of Moroccan Stand-Up Comedy: From Storytelling to Charged Humor"
Co-authored with Mohamed Bassou. In Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy: Speaking Truth to Power, e
"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.”
“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. Invited to contribute.
"Her Gifts"
“Her Gifts.” In Fast Funny Women: 75 Essays of Flash Nonfiction, edited by Gina Barreca. Norwalk, CT: Woodhall Press, 2021.
Recipient of the Gold Award for Humor (Adult Nonfiction) in the 24th annual Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards
"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. Invited to contribute.
"Hannah Gadsby: On the Limitations of Satire."
In Studies in American Humor. Special Issue: Satire Vol. 5, no. 1 (Spring 2019): 93-102. Invited to contribute.
"Hannah Gadsby Stands Down: Feminist Comedy Studies."
“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. Invited to contribute.
"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. Invited to contribute.
“‘We Are the Baddest Motherfuckers on the Block’: Recruiting Margaret Cho’s Army.”
“‘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. Invited to contribute.
Recipient of the Susan Koppelman Award for the Best Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Book in Feminist Studies in Popular and American Culture
“Dueling Discourses: The Female Comic’s Double-Bind in the New Media Age.”
“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. Invited to contribute.
“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. *denotes student
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.
When Comedy Kills: Racialized and Gendered Violence in the Wake of Laughter
Monograph in progress
“Tribal Tendencies: Technologies Mediating the Art of Stand-Up Comedy”
In The Oxford Handbook of Screen Comedy, edited by Peter Kunze and William Costanzo. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2024. Invited to contribute.
“Comics, Jesters, Satirists, and Hacks: A History of Stand-Up Comedy in the US”
In Cambridge Companion to Stand-up Comedy, edited by Oliver Double, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2023. Invited to contribute.
“On Second Thought"
Studies in American Humor 4, 6 (2020): 250-251.
“A New Economy of Jokes?: #Socialmedia #Comedy”
Krefting, Rebecca and Rebecca Baruc*.The Routledge Comedy Studies Reader, edited by Ian Wilke. NY, NY: Routledge, 2019. *denotes student