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Text, Body, Technology: Individualism in Science Fiction. Before his career in academia, he was a mental health social worker in Seattle, WA. That joke is typical of Hart’s wry, self-deprecating showmanship, which will be on display when his What Now tour stops for two shows at KeyArena Saturday (Sept. He teaches courses on rhetoric and the history of the humanities, critical theory in literary studies, ancient and modern forms of comedy in literature, popular genre fiction (science fiction, detective fiction), and modernist and postmodernist literature.īefore joining Fulbright, he held a position as a visiting lecturer at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ho Chi Minh City. He also studies the process of auto-translation in authors writing in more than one language, such as Samuel Beckett and Vladimir Nabokov. He has written on the literary reception of theories of criminology, urban and poverty studies, lexicography, language standardization, and speech act theory, as well as modernist architectural theory and Jungian psychoanalytic theory. Kevin Hart’s research centers on twentieth-century and contemporary fiction in its engagements with theories in the social sciences. 2018, University of California, San Diego, USAĭr. What it do.the homie was in the town last week!!! #MuchRespect #ComicHustle #MyTimeToShine : kevin.hart of Interest: Literary Modernism and the Twentieth-Century Novel Comparative Literature Cultural Studies Victorian Studies Narrative Theory Translation TheoryĮducation: Ph.D. While Seattle isn't exactly known as a great comedy town, Jackson tells the Tribune Hart's Tacoma trip helps get the city out of its northern neighbor's shadow. and Seattle, West Seattle's Bo Johnson and Manny Martin, who regularly appears at Bellevue's Parlour Live, performed their acts at Keys on Main as the cameras rolled and Hart watched from the crowd. While in town, Hart–a notorious fitness nut–was spotted noshing catfish at soul-food staple Southern Kitchen Restaurant.įour comics who at least spend part of their time in the Seattle-Tacoma area will appear on the episode, which will air in October or November, Jackson tells the Tribune. Apparently Jackson does some writing for TruTV and knows Hart and the show's producers. The Tacoma taping was arranged by Los Angeles-based comic Nate Jackson, who hosts his monthly “Super Funny Comedy Show” at Tacoma's Keys on Main, the Tacoma News Tribune reports. The show highlights up-and-coming comics from cities around the country. 
Last week Hart was in Grit City shooting an episode of his Comedy Central show Hart of the City. Last year the Ride Along 2 star became the highest paid comedian, pulling down $87.5 million–more than double Jerry Seinfeld's earnings–on the strength of his “What Now?” tour.īut apparently the arena-filling funnyman still has time to hang out in tiny Tacoma clubs.
Kevin Hart is one of the few comics in the game capable of packing arenas (if not stadiums) across the U.S.
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