Andrew Bricker
  |
Andrew Bricker is Associate Professor of English Literature in the Department of Literary Studies at Ghent University in Belgium and a Senior Fellow at the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography at the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia. He serves as Principal Investigator for DELIAH: Democratic Literacy and Humour, which is funded by the Horizon Europe Framework Programme for Research and Innovation. He is the author of Libel and Lampoon: Satire in the Courts, 1670-1792 (Oxford University Press, 2022); and, with Eric Smith, of We the Raptors: Thirty Players, Thirty Stories, Thirty Years (Simon & Schuster, 2025).
Andrew Bricker joins the Paris IAS in September-October 2025 for a group research stay as part of the CAT collaborative program, in collaboration with the researchers Vicky Breemen, Alberto Godioli, Ana Pedrazzini et Tjeerd Royaards.
Research topics
Satire; humor ; law ; literature.
Cartoons in Court: Towards a Forensic Analysis of Visual Humor
Key publications
Andrew Bricker. Libel and Lampoon: Satire in the Courts, 1670–1792. Oxford University Press, 2022.
Andrew Bricker. “‘Every Common Reader’: Satire, Libel Law and the Emergence of Objective Interpretive Procedures”. In British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century. Ed. Melissa Ganz. Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Brigitte Adriaensen, Andrew Bricker, Alberto Godioli, Ted Laros. “Humor and the Law: Laughter as Critique/The Limits of Laughter.” Journal of Law, Culture and the Humanities, 21.2 : 163 – 174, 2025.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/17438721231177647
|
|
|
|
|
|