The Encyclopedia of Buffy Studies: Scholar/Critic

Buffy Scholar/Critic

Dr. J. D. Rabb teaches Philosophy at Lakehead University (Canada).

J.D. Rabb, and J.M. Richardson. 2008. “Reavers and Redskins: Creating the Frontier Savage.” Forthcoming in Rhonda Wilcox and Tanya Cochrane, eds., Investigating “Firefly” and “Serenity”: Science Fiction on the Frontier. I.B. Tauris.

J.D. Rabb, and J.M. Richardson. 2008. “Cognitive Science in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly and Serenity: The Espenson Factor.” National Conference, Popular Culture and American Culture Associations, San Francisco, CA, March 19-22.

J.D. Rabb and J. M. Richardson. 2008. “Demons, Reavers and Radial Categories: The Cognitive Science Behind the Whedonverse.” Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations Albuquerque, NM, February 13-18th,

J. Michael Richardson, and J. Douglas Rabb. 2007. The Existential Joss Whedon: Evil and Human Freedom in“Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Angel,” “Firefly,” and “Serenity.” Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers.

J. D. Rabb and J. M. Richardson. 2007. “The Existential Joss Whedon: A Post-Christian Love Ethics.” Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations Albuquerque, NM, February 14-17th, 2007.

J. D. Rabb and J. M. Richardson 2007. “Existential Freedom in the Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly and Serenity.” National Conference, Popular Culture and American Culture Associations, Boston, April 4-7th, 2007.

J. D. Rabb and J. M. Richardson. 2006. “The Point of Faith’s Dagger: A Cutting Edge Interpretation of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations Albuquerque, NM, February 8-12^th, 2006.

J. D. Rabb and J. M. Richardson. 2006. “Conflicting Concepts of Freedom and Choice in the Whedonverse.” Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, May 25th-28th, 2006.

J.D. Rabb and J.M. Richardson. 2005. “Moral Choice in Buffy, Angel, and Firefly: Ethics in the Buffyverse.” Presented at the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association 26th Annual Conference in Albuquerque, NM, Feb., 9-12th, 2005.

J.D. Rabb and J.M. Richardson. 2004. “Russian Existentialism and Vampire Slayage: A Shestovian Key to the Power and Popularity of Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” Presented at the Slayage Buffy Conference, Nashville, May 28-31, 2004.