Buffy Scholar/Critic
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Cynthea Masson—Papers on the Whedonverses
“Concealing
Truths: Rhetorical Questions in ‘Once
More, with Feeling.’” Buffy, Ballands,
and Bad Guys Who Sing: Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon. Ed. Kendra
Preston Leonard. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2010. 127-147. Print. [scheduled
for publication in November 2010]
“‘Evil’s
Spreading Sir . . . And It’s Not Just Over There’: Nazism in Buffy
and Angel.” Monsters in the Mirror: Representations of Nazism in Post-War Popular
Culture. Ed. Maartje Abbenhuis and Sara Buttsworth. Westport, CT: Praeger
Publishers. Print. [scheduled for publication in Fall 2010]
“‘It’s
a Thing We Do’: Crying with Buffy
and Angel.” On
the Verge of Tears: Why the Movies, Television, Music, and Literature Make Us
Cry. Ed. David Lavery and Michele Byers. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
Scholars Publishing. Print. [scheduled for publication in 2011]
“‘It’s
a play on perspective’: A Reading of Whedon’s Illyria through Sartre’s Nausea.”
The
Literary Angel:
Essays on Influences and Traditions Reflected in the Joss Whedon Series.
Ed. AmiJo Comeford and Tamy Burnett. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company,
Inc., Publishers, 2010. 159-172. Print.
“Who
Painted the Lion?—A Gloss on Dollhouse’s
‘Belle Chose.’” Fantasy Is Not Their
Purpose: Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse. Ed. Cynthea Masson and Rhonda V. Wilcox.
Special Double Issue of Slayage: The
Journal of the Whedon Studies Association. 8.2 & 8.3 [30 & 31]
(2010): n. pag. Web.
[First presented as
a featured paper at SCW4: Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, St. Augustine, Florida, June 3-6,
2010.]
“What the Hell: The Girl in Question.” Paper presented at SCW3: Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson College, Arkadelphia AR, June 5-8, 2008. [Awarded the Conference Mr. Pointy.]
“‘But She Was Naked! And All Articulate!’: The Rhetoric of Seduction in Firefly.” Investigating Firefly and Serenity: Science Fiction on the Frontier. Ed. Rhonda Wilcox and Tanya Cochran. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2008. 19-30. Print.
“‘Can You Just Be Kissing Me Now?’: The Question(s) of Willow in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Televising Queer Women. Ed. Rebecca Beirne. New York and Houndmills, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 65-81. Print.
“Queer
Eye of that Vampire Guy: Spike and the Aesthetics of Camp.” Co-authored with
Marni Stanley. Buffy and Aesthetics.
Ed. Matthew Pateman. Special Issue of Slayage:
The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 6.2 [22] (2006): 23 pars.
Web. <http://www.slayageonline.com/essays/slayage22/Masson_Stanley.htm>.
“‘What Did You Sing About?’: Acts of Questioning in ‘Once More, with Feeling.’” Paper presented at SCW 2: Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville GA, May 26-28, 2006.
“‘Is That Just a Comforting Way of Not Answering the Question?’: Willow, Questions, and Affective Response in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Beyond Slayer Slang: Pragmatics, Discourse, and Style in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ed. Michael Adams. Special Issue of Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 5.4 [20] (2006): 30 pars. Web. <http://www.slayageonline.com/essays/slayage20/Masson.htm>.
Dr.
Cynthea Masson teaches English composition and literature at Vancouver
Island University in Nanaimo, British Columbia.