Episode hosts: Ben Nickl and Rodney Taveira
About our guest on this episode:
Will is a lecturer in English studies and translation at the University of Burgundy, where he is assigned to the Interlanguage Centre - Text, Image, Language (UR 4812) laboratory. Originally from Australia, he began his research career by studying the relationship between Francophone and Anglophone humour before gradually turning to issues related to the translation, adaptation and accessibility of audiovisual and digital products.
About the episode hosts:
Ben is a Senior Lecturer in The University of Sydney’sDepartment of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies. He works on popular technologies of mediation like humour and laughter and is the research coordinator for the Australasian Humour Studies Network. His latest book iscalled Moral Dimensions of Humour (Tampere University Press, open access, 2024).
Rodney is the AcademicDirector, Undergraduate Coordinator, and a Senior Lecturer in American Studies at the United States Studies Centre. At The University of Sydney, he teaches across the American Studies program and his research areas include contemporary American fiction, film and television, the interrelation of literature and visual culture, humour, and post-World War II American cultural politics.
Acknowledgement of Country:
We would like to acknowledge and pay respect to the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the traditional owners and custodians of the lands on which the University of Sydney has been built, and which were taken from them without their consent, treaty or compensation. Most episodes of this podcast were recorded on this land.
This land has always been a learning space for many Aboriginal nations, and as teachers and students, and people of all kinds of origins, we can draw strength and guidance from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge, one of the oldest knowledge systems in the world.
Want to come on as a guest or co-host, or get in touch aboutsomething else? Simply email benjamin.nickl@sydney.edu.au(AHSN research coordinator and ‘Cutting Edge’ host), visit the AHSN website https://ahsnhumourstudies.org/ and follow/subscribe to us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/AHSNHumour/, YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@ahsnconference or Twitter/X @AHSN_Humour.
Special thanks and all credit for editing and sound engineering goes to Jacob Craig/USYD FASS media room studios.
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