Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Online and Internet Humor in, editor(s)Salvatore Attardo , Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor, London and New York, Routledge, 2017, [Eric Weitz]
European Journal of Humour Research, 4, 4, (2016), Eric Weitz, [Editor and Introduction], Special Issue
Eric Weitz, Theatre & Laughter, Palgrave Macmillan , 2016
Eric Weitz, Review of Poking a Dead Frog: Conversations with Today's Top Comedy Writers, by Mike Sacks , Humorous Times, 28, (1), 2015, p7-8
'When the Mirror Laughs: Face to Face With Three Recent Irish Stage Worlds' in, editor(s)D.E. Morse , Irish Theatre in Transition from the Late Nineteenth- to the Early Twenty-first Century, Palsgrave Macmillan, 2015, pp122 - 136, [Eric Weitz]
Eric Weitz, For the Sake of Sanity: Doing things with humour in Irish performance, Dublin, Carysfort Press, 2014
Trickster and Fool entries, Salvatore Attardo, Encyclopedia of Humor Studies, Sage, 2014, [Eric Weitz]
'The Gravity of Humour in Samuel Beckett's Endgame and Conor McPherson's The Seafarer' in, editor(s)Lilian Chambers and Eamonn Jordan , The Theatre of Conor McPherson: 'Right beside the Beyond', Dublin, Carysfort Press, 2012, pp215 - 229, [Eric Weitz]
Eric Weitz, Failure as Success: On clowns and laughing bodies, Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts, 17, (1), 2012, p79 - 87
Sleight of Frame: Exploitations of Comic Feeling by Two Irish Playwrights in, editor(s)Rhona Trench , Staging Thought: Essays on Irish Theatre, Scholarship and Practice, Oxford, Peter Lang Publishing, 2011, pp139 - 151, [Eric Weitz]
Eric Weitz, Fabulous Mischief: Trickster spirits and comic bodies, International Society for Humor Studies (Boston 2011), Boston, USA, July 5-9, 2011, 2011
Eric Weitz, 'Playing with the Rules: Thoughts on a Trickster Spirit and the Soul of Comedy', Americana: E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary, 7, (2), 2011
Eric Weitz, Moving Target: Comic Calculation and Affective Persuasion in Edward Albee's The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, 15, (1), 2010, p155 - 168
Comedy, Dennis Kennedy, Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance, 2010, pp130-1 - [Eric Weitz]
Who's Laughing Now?: Comic Currents for a New Irish Audience in, editor(s)Sara Brady and Fintan Walsh , Crossroads: Performance Studies and Irish Culture,, Palgrave, 2009, pp225 - 236, [Eric Weitz]
Eric Weitz, The Cambridge Introduction to Comedy, Cambridge Unviverstiy Press, 2009, 243pp
Eric Weitz, Lady Gregory's Humour of Character: A Commedia Approach to Spreading the News, Irish University Review, 34, (No. 1), 2004, p144 - 156
Eric Weitz (ed), The power of laughter: comedy and contemporary Irish theatre, Dublin, Carysfort Press, 2004, 192pp
Research Expertise
Recognition
Memberships
Irish Society for Theatre Research, President
International Society for Humor Studies, Executive Committee
Hungarian Association for American Studies
Smashing Times Theatre Company, Board and Chair