Studies in American Humor (SAH)

Studies in American Humor publishes articles on topics, themes, practices, practitioners, and media across the wide spectrum of American humor, past and present, for an audience made up primarily of scholars and students in the humanities, especially literary and cultural studies. StAH values new transnational and interdisciplinary approaches as well as traditional critical and historical humanities scholarship. Call for Papers Studies in American Humor Special Issue: "AI and Humor" - See Submissions tab for details. Studies in American Humor, the journal of the American Humor Studies Association, invites submission of scholarly papers on the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) and humor for a special issue of the journal appearing in the fall of 2026, edited by Rob King (Columbia University). See the Submissions tab for additional information. Published continuously since 1982, Studies in American Humor is the official journal of the American Humor Studies Association. The journal is particularly interested in receiving essays on what is laughable and culturally significant in the following topics: * literary humor * graphic humor (e.g., print comics, animated cartoons, editorial and gag cartoons, etc.) * stand-up comedians (as humorists or satirists) * sketch comedy * tv comedians (e.g.,performers from Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, and Flip Wilson through Lily Tomlin, the Smothers Brothers, and Dick Cavett to Bill Maher, Larry Wilmore, and Samantha Bee) * tv and radio sitcoms * humors of race, gender, ethnicity, religion, national origin (including humor in American languages other than English) * film comedy * Gilded Age humorists other than Mark Twain * Civil War humor * high-brow humorists (e.g., James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes)

Studies in American Humor (SAH) is :-

• International, Peer-Reviewed, Open Access, Refereed, Language & Literature, History, American Studies, Area Studies, Humanities, American Literature, Humor Studies, Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Film Studies, Television Studies, Gender Studies, Ethnic Studies, Communication Studies , Online or Print , Bi-Annual Journal

• UGC Approved, ISSN Approved: P-ISSN P-ISSN: 0095-280X, E-ISSN: 2333-9934, Established: 1974,
• Provides Crossref DOI

• Not indexed in Scopus, WoS, DOAJ, PubMed, UGC CARE