- Maker: Cailin Rolph
- Genre: Academic Journal Professional Project
- Level: Graduate
- Program: Composition, Rhetoric, and Digital Media
- Course: WRIT 5340: Studies in Multimodality and Digital Media
- Instructor: Dr. Eric Mason
- Semester Created: Winter 2023
Description
For my final project, I wanted to create a publication that served as a sort of imaginary academic journal. As I’ve stated in other projects, female laughter and feminist comedy were my main interests but they were also areas of study that tend to lack scholarship. My goal here was to envisage what filling that gap would look like. For that reason, I included my own work that I believe addresses some of the questions in the field, while also including scholarship that is doing the same kind of work. In general, this journals purpose is to advocate for a platform.
Reflection
For my final project, I created a publication that is meant to operate like an academic journal. In this program thus far we’ve worked heavily with such publications, using them to inform our research and our opinions on niche subjects we wouldn’t otherwise be exposed to. The topic of a feminist comedy, falling into the genre of ‘niche’ doesn’t come with a plethora of research. My goal was to envision a future where that gap in research is actively being filled. For that reason I used my own work, referencing pieces that I felt added to the foundation of this conversation. “Have Women A Sense of Humor” by Kristen Anderson Wagner was used in this context to provide a history of this relationship, and give context to the broader conversation. I used Recovering Our Sense of Humor again here to build that foundational conversation, this piece was used in a lot of my own writing as the background knowledge for many of my own arguments. “Lemony Liz and Liekable Leslie”, a study done by Robyn Swink was also used as data evidence for the argument against the success of feminist comedy.
Wagner, K. A. (2012). Have Women a Sense of Humor? Comedy and Femininity In Early Twentieth-Century Film. Velvet Light Trap, no 68.
Swink, R. (2017) Lemony Liz and likable Leslie: Audience Understandings Of Feminism, Comedy, and Gender In Women-led Television Comedies, Feminist Media Studies, 17:1, 14-28, DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2017.1261832
