| Jessica Milner Davis |
 Dr Milner Davis is an independent scholar, education consultant and speaker on tertiary education policy and gifted education development programs for schools and for parent-groups. She has worked with some 300 schools and educational organizations in New South Wales, across all school systems, and advised both State and Federal bodies on education issues. She was a long-serving Deputy Chancellor of the University of NSW and is currently an Honorary Associate in the School of Letters, Art and Media at the University of Sydney, where she convenes the Australasian Humour Scholars Network. She has twice served as President of the International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS) and is an Editorial Board member of leading international humour research journals and book series. She has been a Visiting Scholar at All Souls College, Oxford, and at the Universities of Bologna, Bristol, Oxford Brookes, Stanford and Hofstra. Her most recent book is Understanding Humor in Japan (Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2006), which won the 2008 AATH book prize for research into humour. Jessica is addicted to committees, which she says provide rich source material for studies in humour. |
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