Philip Scepanski is Assistant Professor of Film and Television at Marist College whose research focuses on television history, cultural theory, comedy, and trauma. His book project, “Tragedy Plus Time: National Trauma and Television Comedy,” explores the ways in which American television comedy responds to events like the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the 1992 Los Angeles riots, and 9/11. His work has also appeared in numerous journals and collections, most recently Television and New Media and The Comedy Studies Reader.