Introduction - A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to This Issue: Comedy and Life Narratives
Laurie McNeill and John David Zuern
1. Generous Laughs: The Comedic Plentitude of Maria Bamford
Shannon Herbert
2. Confronting Apartheid’s Revenants: Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime and/as Traumedy
Nick Mdika Tembo
3. No Joke, This Actually Happened: A Not Unfunny Interview with Danielle Seid
Danielle Seid
4. Okay to Laugh? Trauma, Memoir, and Teaching the Podcast Mum Says My Memoir Is a Lie
Kylie Cardell and Kate Douglas
5. Getting the Joke: Self -Deprecating Humor in Anh Do’s The Happiest Refugee
Jacqui Dickin
6. Consequences of Laughter: Reflections on Performing Comedic Self-Deprecation and Reacting to Deprecation in General
Su Heng (Michael) Yi
Biography
Laurie McNeill is Professor of Teaching in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia. She is co-author (with Sonja Boon, Candida Rifkind, and Julie Rak) of The Routledge Introduction to Auto/biography in Canada (2022), and co-editor, with Kate Douglas, of Teaching Lives: Contemporary Pedagogies of Life Narratives (Routledge, 2017), and, with John David Zuern, Online Lives 2.0, a special issue of the journal Biography (2015).
John David Zuern is Professor of English at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and a co-editor of Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly. His work on auto/biography has appeared in a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, European Journal of Life Writing, and Life Writing. With Laurie McNeill, he is co-editor of Online Lives 2.0, a special issue of Biography.
