Beschreibung: | Anca Parvulescu is assistant professor at WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis, where she teaches in the Department of Englishand the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities. She is the authorof Laughter: Notes on a Passion (2010).. - I would like to thank the members of the Women, Gender, and SexualityStudies workshop at Washington University for conversations on themargins of an earlier version of this essay. Katherine Fama, Joe Loewenstein,Steven Meyer, Julia Musha, and Eric Oberle also read and offered generouscomments |