Prof. Maggie Hennefeld on Satire in the Age of Trump

Published: Dec. 4, 2017, 7:47 p.m.

November 30, 2017 marked the 350th anniversary of the birth of one the world's great satirists, Jonathan Swift. To honour the occasion I thought it would be fitting to interview an expert on humour, in this, the age of Trump. So I met recently with Maggie Hennefeld, Assistant Professor of\xa0Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, in Minneapolis.

We discuss her article\xa0Laughter in the Age of Trump\xa0that appeared in\xa0Flow\xa0an online journal of television and media studies.\xa0