Mary Ann Rishel, Professor Emerita, Writing, recently served on a Ph.D. dissertation committee for Deakin University, Victoria, Australia.
Mary Ann Rishel, Professor Emerita, Writing, recently served on a Ph.D. dissertation committee for Deakin University, Victoria, Australia. The candidate’s subject, What’s so funny: humour as a subversive technique in contemporary feminist literature, challenges patriarchal humour by using dialogic subtexts as a feminist political voice. The dissertation replaces patriarchal critical theory with subversive feminist humour to establish a new literary aesthetic.
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