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Jewish humor will be topic at UNCW

Ben Steelman StarNews Staff
Towson University assistant professor Jennifer Caplan will speak Feb. 5 at UNCW's Randall Library. [Towson University]

“Working Blue: Obscenity, Pornography, and Jewish Humor” will be the topic of a lecture by guest scholar Jennifer Caplan, 5 p.m. Feb. 5 in the Randall Library auditorium, on the campus of the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Admission is free and the public is invited.

Caplan is an assistant professor of philosophy and religion at Towson University in Towson, Md. She received her Ph.D. in religious studies from Syracuse University in 2015. She has a forthcoming essay on post-war American Jewish masculinity in the humor of Lenny Bruce and Woody Allen, and she is editing a special issue of The Journal of Modern Jewish Studies about the TV show "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend," which will appear in the fall of 2019.

Her appearance is sponsored by the UNCW department of history. For more information, call 910-962-7580.