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Debra Aarons currently specializes in linguistic analysis of humor, focusing on formal grammatical properties and pragmatics. Her interests include jokes that reveal tacit knowledge about language and play with language that taps into this knowledge. She has previously conducted research in signed language linguistics and syntactic sociolinguistic perspectives, examining cryptic crosswords and referential peculiarity in humorous utterances. Her recent work includes a focus on socially critical stand-up comedy. Some of her recent publications include 'Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: An Alternate History of Stand-Up' (2021, co-authored with Marc Mierowsky), 'Public Conscience and “The Chosen People”: Sarah Silverman and the Wake of Lenny Bruce' (2017), and 'Obscenity, Dirtiness, and License in Jewish Comedy' (2014/2020) in the journal Comedy Studies. She has also published 'The Things Jokes Do: Speech Acts in Stand-Up Comedy' (2017) in the European Journal of Humour Research. Currently, she is writing a monograph with Taylor Francis, co-authored with Delia Chiaro, titled 'Playing with Food: Language, Eating, and Joking about Disgust.'
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