Davies, Professor Christie

Humour

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Christie Davies M.A. PhD (Cantab) was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge where he was a senior scholar of the college and Wrenbury scholar in political economy. He obtained first class honours in both parts of the Economics Tripos, was president of the Union, acted in the annual Footlights Review and was a member of a British debating team that toured the United States. On leaving Cambridge he was a radio producer on the BBC Third Programme before becoming a lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leeds and later moving to Reading where he was in turn Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, Personal Professor, established Professor and Professor Emeritus. He is now a regular lecturer at summer schools (Universities of Belfast, Bologna, Cork, Edinburgh, IES and the Liberalni Institute in the Czech Republic ) and has recently given papers at universities in Germany, Poland, Maine, Malaysia, and Norway ; he is always open to offers.

Professor Davies is the co-author of Wrongful Imprisonment (1973), author of Permissive Britain (1975), co-editor of Censorship and Obscenity (1978), author of Ethnic Humor Around the World: a Comparative Analysis (1990 and 1997) and of Jokes and their Relation to Society (1998) and co-author of The Corporation under Siege (1998), author of The Mirth of Nations (2002) co-author of Etuniku Joku (2003) and author of The Strange Death of Moral Britain (2004). He is currently at work on a new book Bastards and preparing a second edition of Ethnic Humor for Indiana UP. Christie Davies's academic articles have been and continue to be published in leading refereed journals (he has four in press) and he has long been a regular contributor to national and international newspapers and appears frequently on radio and television. This side of his work has increased since he gave up full time teaching and he also has in press a volume of Welsh science fiction stories for children called Dewi the Dragon Finds a Wife. He is looking for a producer for The Nuclear Family, a play he wrote with his colleague Evgenios Trivizas.