Steve Gimbel and Gwydion Suilebhan

Steve Gimbel is a Professor of Philosophy and the former Edwin T. and Cynthia Shearer Johnson Chair for Distinguished Teaching in the Humanities at Gettysburg College, holding a Ph.D. in philosophy from Johns Hopkins University. He is author of ten books including Isn't that Clever: A Philosophy of Humor and Comedy (Routledge), Einstein: His Space and Times (Yale), Einstein's Jewish Science: Physics at the Intersection of Politics and Religion (Johns Hopkins), Exploring the Scientific Method (Chicago), and Defending Einstein: Hans Reichenbach's Early Writings on Space, Time, and Motion (Cambridge). He has four lecture series in the Teaching Company's Great Courses: Redefining Reality: Intellectual Implications of Modern Science, Formal Logic, Take My Course...Please: The Philosophy of Humor, and The Great Questions of Philosophy and Physics. He is a frequent contributor with Gwydion Suilebhan to Salon where they write on comedy. Gwydion Suilebhan is the Executive Director of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and the Project Director of the New Play Exchange. With Steven Gimbel, he writes about comedy and culture for Salon, with recent profiles of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Ivan Reitman, Bob Saget, Ed Asner, and Jackie Mason, among others. A founding member of The Welders, a Helen Hayes Award-winning playwrights collective in DC, Suilebhan is the author of several plays, including The Butcher, Reals, Abstract Nude, Let X, The Faithkiller, and the Helen Hayes Award-nominated Transmission. His work has been produced by Centerstage, the Ensemble Studio Theatre, the Gulfshore Playhouse, and Theater J. He is also the author of Anthem, a short film directed by Hal Hartley. Email addresses: sgimbel@gettysburg.edu and suilebhan@gmail.com