Encyclopedia of Humor Studies

The academic field of humour studies can trace its origins to the late 1970s when the first scholarly conferences on the topic were held. Print resources devoted to humour studies emerged a decade later with the publication of conference proceedings and the founding of journals dedicated to the field. With the publication of The Encyclopedia of Humor Studies humor researchers can now easily access information related to this interesting and complex field of study. In the work’s introduction, the editor, Salvatore Attardo, states that a goal of the project was to provide “a comprehensive, broad-based introduction to the entire field”...