Leigh Clemons is Associate Professor of  Theatre at Louisiana State University, where she teaches history, literature and criticism to undergraduates and PhDs.  She also teaches in the university’s Women and Gender Studies program, focusing on gender constructions in popular media (including BTVS). She has published articles and reviews in Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey, Theatre Research International, Modern Drama, Theatre History Studies, and Intelligent Agent magazine.   Her first book, Lone Stars:  Theatre, Performance and Texan Cultural Identity, is forthcoming from the University of Texas Press.