Don L.F. Nilsen

Don L.F. Nilsen earned his doctorate in linguistics from the University of Michigan. He studies humor to illustrate the complexities of everyday language. In the 1980s, he organized six April Fools' Day Humor Conferences at ASU, which laid the foundation for the founding of the International Society of Humor Studies. In 2000, he and his wife, Alleen Pace Nilsen, wrote “The Encyclopedia of 20th Century American Humor.”

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