Education:
Ph.D. University of South Florida
M.A. San Diego State
B.A. Indiana University

Research (Areas of interest):
Cultural studies, rhetoric, the role of humor in popular culture

Research Publications

Shouse, Eric & Timberg, Bernard (in press). “A Festivus for the Restivus: Jewish-American Comedians Respond to Christmas as the National American Holiday.” HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research.

Shouse, Eric & Thomson, Deborah (in press). "Pleasure Play and Affirmation: Notes on the Aesthetics of Improvisation" Carolinas Communication Annual.

Shouse, Eric (2008). "A Politically Unbiased Report on the Satirization of 'Jesus Freak' Sarah Palin and Her Hillbilly Family," FlowTV, October 16, 2008, available: http://flowtv.org/?p=2025

Shouse, Eric (2007). "Suicide: or the Future of Medicine (A 'Satire by Entelechy' of Biotechnology)," KB Journal (Kenneth Burke Journal), Fall 2007, available:

http://www.kbjournal.org/shouse

Shouse, Eric (2007). "The Role of Affect in the Performance of Stand-Up Comedy: Theorizing the Mind-Body Connection in Humor Studies." Journal of the Northwest Communication Association, Spring 2007.

Shouse, Eric & Fraley, Todd (2007). “Vote for Pedro: Film Comedy, Youth and Electoral Politics,” in Jody C. Baumgartner and Jonathan S. Morris, eds. Laughing Matters: Humor and American Politics in the Media Age. New York: Routeledge.

Shouse, Eric (2005). “Feeling, Emotion, Affect,” M/C Journal: A Journal of Media and Culture, December 2005, available: http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0512/03-shouse.php 

Shouse, Eric (2002). “Stand-up Comedy: A Theory?” [review of Stand-up Comedy in Theory, or, Abjection in America by John Limon (Durham: Duke University Press, 2000)], Cultural Studies, 16, 2002, pp. 328-329.

In addition to the above publications, Dr. Shouse has presented papers at the International Communication Association, the International Society for Humor Studies, the National Communication Association, the Southern States Communication Association, the Western Communication Association, and the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Couch/Stone Symposium.

Courses Taught:

Introduction to Communication (Communication Theory)
Public Speaking
Small Group Communication
Media, Culture and Society
Persuasion
Business and Professional Communication

Awards
Honorary Member, Golden Key International Honour Society