Institute for Travesty,
Comedy, and Humor Studies
WELCOME
to the Institute for Travesty, Comedy, and Humor Studies (ITCHS). ITCHS was established for the research and study of comedy as a dramatic form and of humor, the spice of comedy. ITCHS uses a variety of research methodologies from multiple disciplines, notably including literary criticism, rhetoric, and the empirical sciences.
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Special Publication
Stagecoach, John Ford, and Redemption Comedy
The Ukrainian crisis impels us to publish a first rough draft of an essay on John Ford’s Stagecoach which for the first time defines a non-humor-centered Redemption Comedy sub-genre. Everyone in Ukraine today needs redemption and our prayers in their support. Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer. Lord, in your grace, grant all those in Ukraine your redemption.
Winter Vitalism: Driving Miss Daisy
My Big Fat Greek Wedding: Reconciler Humor
Comedic Structure in Henry IV, Part 1
Recent Shooting Stars
The Irrepressibly Complex Falstaff
Humor and Aging: Studies of Humor in the Nursing Home
Full-length critical works published on this site include
Comedic Tenor, Comic Vehicle: Humor in American Film Comedy
December Comedy: Studies in Senior Comedy and Other Essays
Cheshire Smile: Humor Texture and Personality in Shakespeare's Comedies
Four Seasons: Variations in American Vitalist Film Comedy
Excerpts from Comedy in Space, Time, and the Imagination.
ITCHS is the home of the Humor Quotient Newsletter and the designer and administrator of the Humor Quotient Test and the Langerian/Bergsonian Vitalist Humor Test.
We hope that students of literature, psychology, sociology, and other disciplines will find useful sources in the e-volumes we publish here.
ITCHS is at its core a collaborative effort. We are proud of thousands of volunteer associates who have made our research discoveries possible. And we are constantly looking to increase the number of scholar affiliates with whom we continue our efforts. If you are a humor scholar, a comedy scholar, a scholar in a related field like travesty, satire, or tragedy and especially if you are a graduate student looking for a dissertation topic and institute affiliation, we want to hear from you. We are experts in research design and quantitative analysis, and we are anxious to consider possibilities for collaborative research and publication.
Queries of ITCHS should be directed to Paul Grawe, Project Director, ITCHS@hbci.com.