Honors Program

James Caron, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Jim Caron is a Professor in the English department. From 1995 to 2006, he directed the Selected Studies and Honors Programs at UHM. He serves on the editorial board of "Studies in American Humor" and has published essays on the tall tale, antebellum American comic writers, laughter and evolution, Mark Twain, George Washington Harris, Frank Norris, Hunter S. Thompson, Charlie Chaplin, and Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes. Along with M. Thomas Inge, he edited "Sut Lovingood's Nat'ral Born Yarnspinner: Essays on George Washington Harris." His book "Mark Twain, Unsanctified Newspaper Reporter" was published in 2008.

Areas of Interest

• American Literature (19th century), Early 20th Century (Modernist) Literature, Realism and Naturalism, Any and All Comic Cultural Artifacts, e.g. Satire, Comedy, Cartoons, TV Sit-Coms, Stand-Up Comedy

Recent Theses Supervised

Contact Info

• Phone: 808-956-3067
• Email: caron@hawaii.edu
• Office Address: KUY 621
• Website: http://www.english.hawaii.edu/faculty/caron/caron.html