Books

• Davis, J. (2003). Farce. Piscataway NJ: Transaction Publishers.

Edited Books

• Davis, J. (2022). Humour in Asian Cultures: Tradition and Context. Singapore; London: Routledge. [More Information]
• Davis, J., Roach Anleu, S. (2018). Judges, Judging and Humour. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
• Davis, J. (2017). Satire and Politics: The Interplay of Heritage and Practice. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
• Davis, J., Chey, J. (2013). Humour in Chinese Life and Culture: Resistance and Control in Modern Times. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. [More Information]
• Chey, J., Davis, J. (2011). Humour in Chinese Life and Letters: Classical and Traditional Approaches. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. [More Information]
• Davis, J. (2006). Understanding Humor in Japan. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press. [More Information]

Book Chapters

• Davis, J., Fiadotava, A. (2024). Humor and Culture. In Thomas E. Ford , Władysław Chłopicki and Giselinde Kuipers (Eds.), De Gruyter Handbook of Humor Studies, (pp. 181-200). Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter. [More Information]
• Davis, J. (2024). Re-evaluating Comic Stereotypes - Dirty but Essential? In Benjamin Nickl & Mark Rolfe (Eds.), Moral Dimensions of Humour: Essays on Humans, Heroes and Monsters, (pp. 23-42). Tampere: Tampere University Press. [More Information]
• Davis, J. (2022). Humour and cultural context: Tradition and practice in six Asian cultures. In Jessica Milner Davis (Eds.), Humour in Asian Cultures: Tradition and Context, (pp. 1-18). Singapore; London: Routledge. [More Information]
• Davis, J. (2020). Bergson's Theory of the Comic and Its Applicability to Sixteenth-Century Japanese Comedy. In Daniel Derrin and Hannah Burrows (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Humour, History, and Methodology, (pp. 109-132). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
• Davis, J. (2020). Foreword: The Palgrave Handbook of Humour, History, and Methodology. In Daniel Derrin and Hannah Burrows (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Humour, History, and Methodology, (pp. v-viii). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Davis, J. (2019). Foreword: The intersection of humour studies and cultural history. In Vivienne Westbrook and Shun-Liang Chao (Eds.), Humour in the Arts: New Perspectives, (pp. viii-xii). New York: Routledge. [More Information]
• Davis, J., Roach Anleu, S. (2018). Editors' preface. In Jessica Milner Davis, Sharyn Roach Anleu (Eds.), Judges, Judging and Humour. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
• Davis, J. (2018). Justices on Stage: Comic Tradition in the European Theatre. In Jessica Milner Davis, Sharyn Roach Anleu (Eds.), Judges, Judging and Humour, (pp. 101-137). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
• Roach Anleu, S., Davis, J. (2018). Thinking About Judges, Judging and Humour: The Intersection of Opposites. In Jessica Milner Davis, Sharyn Roach Anleu (Eds.), Judges, Judging and Humour, (pp. 1-38). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
• Davis, J., Foyle, L. (2017). The Satirist, the Larrikin and the Politician: An Australian Perspective on Satire and Politics. In Jessica Milner Davis (Eds.), Satire and Politics: The Interplay of Heritage and Practice, (pp. 1-36). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
• Davis, J. (2014). Bergson and the Theory of the Comic. In Salvatore Attardo (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Humor Studies, (pp. 77-80). Los Angeles: Sage Publications.
• Davis, J., Parkin, J. (2014). Comedy. In Salvatore Attardo (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Humor Studies, (pp. 140-144). Los Angeles: Sage Publications.
• Davis, J. (2014). Farce. In Salvatore Attardo (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Humor Studies, (pp. 233-237). Los Angeles: Sage Publications.
• Davis, J. (2014). Genres and Styles of Comedy. In Salvatore Attardo (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Humor Studies, (pp. 263-267). Los Angeles: Sage Publications.
• Davis, J. (2014). High Comedy. In Salvatore Attardo (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Humor Studies, (pp. 285-288). Los Angeles: Sage Publications.
• Marks, R., Davis, J. (2014). Hoax and Prank. In Salvatore Attardo (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Humor Studies, (pp. 337-340). Los Angeles: Sage Publications.
• Davis, J., Noonan, W. (2014). Literature. In Salvatore Attardo (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Humor Studies, (pp. 459-464). Los Angeles: Sage Publications.
• Davis, J. (2014). Low Comedy. In Salvatore Attardo (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Humor Studies, (pp. 464-466). Los Angeles: Sage Publications.
• Davis, J. (2014). Traditional Comic Conflicts in Farce and Roles for Women. In Delia Chiaro, Raffaella Baccolini (Eds.), Gender and Humor: Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives, (pp. 30-52). New York: Routledge. [More Information]
• Davis, J. (2014). Tribute to Arvo Krikmann. In Anneli Baran, Liisi Laineste, Piret Voolaid (Eds.), Scala Naturae: Festschrift in Honour of Arvo Hrikmann, (pp. 11-12). Tartu, Estonia: ELM Scholarly Press.
• Davis, J. (2013). From the Romance Lands: Farce as Life-Blood of the Theatre. In Zenia Stacks DaSilva and Gregory M. Pell (Eds.), At Whom are We Laughing?: Humor in Romance Language Literatures, (pp. 3-18). Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• Davis, J. (2013). Humour and its cultural context: Introduction and overview. In Jessica Milner Davis, Jocelyn Chey (Eds.), Humour in Chinese Life and Culture: Resistance and Control in Modern Times, (pp. 1-21). Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. [More Information]
• Davis, J. (2011). The Fool and the Path to Spiritual Insight. In Geybels, H; Van Herck, W (Eds.), Humour and Religion: Challenges and Ambiguities, (pp. 218-247). London, UK: Continuum. [More Information]
• Davis, J. (2011). The Theory of Humours and Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Preamble to Chapter 3. In Chey, Jocelyn; Milner Davis, Jessica (Eds.), Humour in Chinese Life and Letters: Classical and Traditional Approaches, (pp. 31-35). Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
• Davis, J. (2009). 'Aussie' humour and laughter: Joking as an acculturating ritual. In Fran De Groen, Peter Kirkpatrick (Eds.), Serious Frolic: Essays on Australian Humour, (pp. 31-47). St Lucia, QLD: University of Queensland Press.
• Davis, J. (2006). Introduction. In Jessica Milner Davis (Eds.), Understanding Humor in Japan, (pp. 1-14). Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press.
• Davis, J., Wells, M. (2006). Kyogen as Comic Relief: Farce and Satire in the Japanese Classical Theatre. In Jessica Milner Davis (Eds.), Understanding Humor in Japan, (pp. 127-153). Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press.
• Davis, J., Simpson, T. (2001). Humour. In Michael Coper, Tony Blackshield, and George Williams (Eds.), The Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia, (pp. 238-239). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Davis, J. (1996). 'Down With Skool!': the Perspective of Youth in Contemporary Western Humour. In G.E.C. Paton, C. Powell, S. Wagg (Eds.), The Social Faces of Humour, (pp. 89-103). Aldershot: Arena Books.

Journals

• Davis, J. (2023). Book review: MW Shores (2021). The Comic Storytelling of Western Japan: Satire and Social Mobility in Kamigata Rakugo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. European Journal of Humour Research, 11(2), 178-180. [More Information]
• Davis, J., Hofmann, J. (2023). The Humor Transaction Schema: A Conceptual Framework for Researching the Nature and Effects of Humor. Humor, 36(2), 323-353. [More Information]
• Davis, J. (2022). Afterword: on words and disciplines in studying humor. Humor, 35(3), 501-508. [More Information]
• Arab, R., Davis, J. (2022). Humour and belonging: a thematic review. European Journal of Humour Research, 10(2), 1-13. [More Information]
• Mellor, A., Davis, J. (2021). Book Review: Natalie Crohn Schmitt. 2019. 'Performing Commedia dell'Arte, 1570-1630'. Publishing House: Routledge, Abingdon, UK, and New York. RISU Rivista Italiana di Studi Sull'umorismo, 4(1), 172-173. [More Information]
• Davis, J. (2021). Taking humour and laughter seriously: The multi-disciplinary field of humour studies. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 154(part 2), 182-200. [More Information]
• Davis, J. (2020). Book Review, Don L. F. Nilsen and Alleen Pace Nilsen, 'The Language of Humor: An Introduction' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018). Humor, 33(4), 645-653. [More Information]
• Davis, J. (2019). A wry kind of grief: John Clark's satire and the bureaucracy of sport. Comedy Studies, 10(1), 56-70. [More Information]
• Phiddian, R., Davis, J. (2019). Introduction to Special Issue of Journal of Comedy Studies on John Clarke. Comedy Studies, 10(1), 2-7. [More Information]
• Davis, J. (2018). Review of Louise S. Peacock, Slapstick and Comic Performance: Comedy and Pain. Humor. [More Information]
• Davis, J. (2017). Unmasking Christie. European Journal of Humour Research, 5(4), 29-36. [More Information]
• Davis, J. (2016). Introduction. JOSA: The Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia, 48, 136-141. [More Information]
• Davis, J. (2016). Satire and its constraints: Case-studies from Australia, Japan and the People's Republic of China. Humor, 29(2), 197-221. [More Information]
• Davis, J. (2013). Book Review: Margaret Rose, "Pictorial Irony, Parody, and Pastiche: Comic Interpictoriality in the Arts of the 19th and 20th Centuries". British Journal of Aesthetics, 53(3), 365-367.
• Rawlings, D., Tham, T., Davis, J. (2010). Gelotophobia, personality and emotion ratings following emotion-inducing scenarios. Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling, 52(2), 161-170.
• Condren, C., Davis, J., McCausland, S., Phiddian, R. (2008). Defining parody and satire: Australian copyright law and its new exception: Part 2 - Advancing ordinary definitions. Media and Arts Law Review, 13(4), 1-21.
• Condren, C., Davis, J., McCausland, S., Phiddian, R. (2008). Defining parody and satire: Australian copyright law and its new exception: Part I - Why US law and dictionaries are unsound sources. Media and Arts Law Review, 13(3), 273-292.
• Moran, C., Thomas, P., Davis, J. (2008). Laughter, asthma and stress. Humor and Health Journal, XVII ((1) (Jan-Mar)), 1-9.
• Davis, J. (2001). Order and Disorder in Farce. Stylistyka Dzis, X, 327-350.

Edited Journals

• Arab, R., Davis, J. (2022). Humour and belonging. European Journal of Humour Research, 10(2). [More Information]
• Phiddian, R., Davis, J. (2019). Special Issue of Journal of Comedy Studies: 'Trans-Tasman Satirist: John Clarke and his Art'. Comedy Studies, 10(1). [More Information]

Exhibitions / Events

• Davis, J. (2023). Bringing the Laughter Home: Comic Stereographs in the Early 20th Century. Sydney, Australia: Chau Chak Wing Museum. [More Information]

Magazine / Newspaper Articles

• Davis, J. (2007). 'Taking the Mickey': a Brave Australian Tradition. The Fine Print, 4.

Other

• Davis, J. (2021), 'Taking humour and laughter seriously: Exploring the multi-disciplinary field of humour studies', Royal Society of New South Wales webinar, 02/09/2021. [More Information]