Maggie Hennefeld

Maggie Hennefeld

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Film and Media Studies

hennefem@ias.edu

Statement: I am writing a book about the history of women who allegedly died from laughing too hard alongside theories of laughter as a clinical symptom of female hysteria. I focus on the relationship between female madness and hysterical laughter through archival research on cinema and mass media culture from the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.

While at IAS: Office: W-214 Phone: 609-734-8347

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