Leaderboards/American Literature and Humor Studies

American Literature and Humor Studies

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Dennis Austin Britton
University of British Columbia
2
Constance Bailey
University of Missouri
3
Zari A. Taylor
New York University
4
Brian Bockelman
Ripon College
5
Judith Yaross Lee
Unknown
6
Kelly Hoffer
Unknown
7
Benjamin J. M. Johnson
Rice University
8
Marcy J. Dinius
University of Delaware
9
Hamada Kassam
Unknown
10
Nicole Graham
University of South Florida

Rising Stars Papers

1
Where are all the Black girls on TikTok?: Exploring in-group community and (in)visibility through #BlackGirlTikTok
International Journal of Cultural Studies|2024
18 cit.
2
Patrons of commerce: asymmetrical reciprocity and moral economies of platform power
Information Communication & Society|2024
10 cit.
3
Unraveling the seriousness fallacy: a case for (the study of) humor and religion
Humor - International Journal of Humor Research|2024
5 cit.
4
Algorithms, affordances and the ambiguity of credit on TikTok
Continuum|2025
4 cit.
5
Where are all the Black girls on TikTok?: Exploring in-group community and (in)visibility through #BlackGirlTikTok
UNC Libraries|2024
1 cit.
6
Branding black womanhood: media citizenship from black power to black girl magic <b>Branding black womanhood: media citizenship from black power to black girl magic</b> , by Timeka N. Tounsel, New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 2022, 182 pages, $24.95(Paperback), 9781978829909
Critical Studies in Media Communication|2024
0 cit.
7
Preface
English Literary Renaissance|2024
0 cit.
8
Patrons of commerce: asymmetrical reciprocity and moral economies of platform power
UNC Libraries|2025
0 cit.
9
“You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?”: Kamala Harris, controlling images, and political memes
Critical Studies in Media Communication|2026
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Kimberly Anne Coles
University of Maryland, College Park
2
Laura Hawkins
University of Birmingham
3
Erin Morton
University of New Brunswick
4
Rhaíssa Mix Porto
Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
5
Akak Ekanem Etim
University of Calabar
6
Regina COHEN
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
7
Deani Thomas
Iowa State University
8
Xiang Xin
Huanggang Normal University
9
Amy J. Petersen
University of California, San Francisco
10
R. MUÑOZ
Unknown

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Psychoeducational Group Activity to Optimize Nursing Student Learning in a Nonpsychiatric Clinical Setting
Nurse Educator|2023
0 cit.
2
<i>Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference: Race and Conduct in the Early Modern World</i>. By <scp>Patricia Akhimie</scp>
Shakespeare Quarterly|2023
0 cit.
3
<i>White People in Shakespeare: Essays on Race, Culture and the Elite</i>, Arden Shakespeare. Edited by <scp>Arthur L. Little, Jr</scp>
Shakespeare Quarterly|2024
0 cit.
4
Using practice development to recruit and retain forensic mental health nurses: a preceptorship support project
Mental Health Practice|2024
0 cit.
5
Noémie Ndiaye. Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race RaceB4Race: Critical Race Studies of the Premodern. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. Pp. 358. $64.95 (cloth).
Journal of British Studies|2024
0 cit.
6
On Burnout and Recovery: Academic Life, Lately
RACAR Revue d art canadienne|2024
0 cit.
7
Research on the Application of AIGC Technology in Digital Arts Education in Colleges and Universities
Journal of Exploration of Vocational Education|2025
0 cit.
8
Seeing Like a Settler: Taylor Swift’s folklore and the White Visualization of Settler Colonialism
RACAR Revue d art canadienne|2025
0 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
David Glen Mick
University of Virginia
2
David S. Reynolds
BioCryst Pharmaceuticals (United States)
3
Harvey J. Graff
The University of Texas at Dallas
4
James M. Cox
Capella University
5
Joel Myerson
Washington University in St. Louis
6
Jonathan Arac
University of Illinois Chicago
7
Salvatore Attardo
Mitchell Institute
8
Ronald E. Chennault
DePaul University
9
Sandra Young
Alberta Health Services
10
Philip A. Fisher
Stanford Medicine

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
AREA UNDER THE CURVE AS A MEASURE OF DISCOUNTING
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior|2001
1.5k cit.
2
Paradoxes of Technology: Consumer Cognizance, Emotions, and Coping Strategies
Journal of Consumer Research|1998
1.3k cit.
3
Discounting of Delayed Rewards: A Life-Span Comparison
Psychological Science|1994
1.2k cit.
4
The Interface between the Written and the Oral
The American Historical Review|1989
1.1k cit.
5
Script theory revis(it)ed: joke similarity and joke representation model
Humor - International Journal of Humor Research|1991
1.1k cit.
6
DISCOUNTING OF DELAYED REWARDS: MODELS OF INDIVIDUAL CHOICE
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior|1995
853 cit.
7
Consumer Research and Semiotics: Exploring the Morphology of Signs, Symbols, and Significance
Journal of Consumer Research|1986
738 cit.
8
Figures of Rhetoric in Advertising Language
Journal of Consumer Research|1996
689 cit.
9
Preventing the premature death of relationship marketing.
PubMed|1998
674 cit.
10
Visual Rhetoric in Advertising: Text‐Interpretive, Experimental, and Reader‐Response Analyses
Journal of Consumer Research|1999
650 cit.

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