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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Paul Lewis is
professor of English in Boston College, Massachusetts, USA, specializing
in humor, American literature and Gothic fiction. He has an A.B. from
the City College of New York, a M.A.: University of Manitoba, Ph.D.:
University of New Hampshire. Professor Lewis is on the editorial board
of Humor: The International Journal of Humor Research.He is also a
freelance writer, who invented the neologism "frankenfood", critical of
genetically modified food, in a letter he wrote to the New York Times in
response to the decision of the US Food and Drug Administration to allow
companies to market genetically modified food. The term "Frankenfood"
has become a battle cry of the European side in the US-EU agricultural
trade war.