Alleen pace nilsen biography of martin
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Alleen Pace Nilsen
American literary scholar, linguist
Alleen Pace Nilsen is an American literary scholar, linguist, and one of the pioneers of both humor studies and children's literature studies.
She is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at Arizona State University, where she was previously the director of the English Education Program.[1] Together with her husband Don Nilsen, she co-founded the International Society for Humor Studies.
Academic career
Alleen Pace Nilsen was originally trained as an English teacher, receiving a degree from Brigham Young University,[2] and worked as a First Class teacher at Malcolm Price Laboratory School, University of Northern Iowa.[3] In , she received her PhD in English Education from the University of Iowa.[4][2] Her dissertation dealt with occurrences of sexist language in school materials.[5]
In , Nilsen and Kenneth L.
Donelson co-authored Literature for Tod