Paul Lewis (professor)
Paul Lewis is Professor of English in Boston College, Massachusetts, USA, specializing in humor, American literature and Gothic fiction. He has an A.B. from the City College of New York, a M.A.: University of Manitoba, Ph.D.: University of New Hampshire
Professor Lewis is on the editorial board of Humor: The International Journal of Humor Research.
He is also a freelance writer, who invented the neologism "frankenfood", critical of genetically modified food, in a letter he wrote to the New York Times in response to the decision of the US Food and Drug Administration to allow companies to market genetically modified food. The term "Frankenfood" has become a battle cry of the European side in the US-EU agricultural trade war.
Read more about Paul Lewis (professor): Humor Research, Bibliography
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“Commitment, by its nature, frees us from ourselves and, while it stands us in opposition to some, it joins us with others similarly committed. Commitment moves us from the mirror trap of the self absorbed with the self to the freedom of a community of shared values.”
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