Beck Krefting is Professor of American Studies specializing in stand-up comedy studies and Director of the Center for Leadership, Teaching, and Learning at Skidmore College. She is the former vice-president and president of the American Humor Studies Association as well as a co-founder and co-President of the Critical Humor Studies Association. She has published a monograph titled: All Joking Aside: American Humor and Its Discontents and dozens of articles in edited collections, academic journals, and public forums, and she has been invited to present her scholarship nationally and internationally. Check out her work here. She has organized feminist arts festivals and queer comedy shows wherever she is allowed. In her downtime, you can find her reading, gardening, and canoodling with her wife and fur babies.