Buffy Scholar/Critic| Founding Co-Editor of Slayage

 Rhonda V. Wilcox is Professor of English at Gordon College in Barnesville, GA. The author of numerous essays on popular culture, including "'There Will Never Be a Very Special Buffy": Buffy and the Monsters of Teen Life" in The Journal of Popular Film and Television [1999]), she wrote the chapter on television for The Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture and is editor/co-editor/author of several books: Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (I. B. Tauris, 2005); Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, co-edited with David Lavery (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002); a forthcoming (in Tauris’ Investigating Cult Television series); a collection on Firefly and Serenity (co-edited with Tanya Cochran); an in-development collection on Veronica Mars (co-edited with Sue Turnbull). She edits the journal Studies in Popular Culture, co-edits Slayage, was one of the founding editors of Critical Studies in Television, and serves on the editorial board of Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media.

 

Wilcox, Rhonda V. "A Complex of Echoes: Once More, with Textual Feeling." Sounds of the Slayer: Music and Silence in Buffy and Angel (forthcoming).

___. "'Every Night I Save You': Buffy, Spike, Sex and Redemption." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 5 (2002) [http://www.slayage.tv/essays/slayage5/wilcox.htm].

___. “‘Pain as Bright as Steel’: The Monomyth and Light as Pain in BtVS.” Blood, Text and Fears: Reading Around Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ed. Claire Thomson, Scott Mackenzie, Carol O'Sullivan, and Catherine Fuller (forthcoming).

___. "Television." Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture, Vol. IV.  Ed. M. Thomas Inge and Dennis Hall. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing, 2002: 1755-96.

 ___. "'There Will Never Be a "Very Special" Buffy': Buffy and the Monsters of Teen Life." Journal of Popular Film & Television 27.2 (Summer 1999): 16-23. Rpt. in Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 2 (2001) [http://www.slayage.tv/essays/slayage2/wilcox.htm].

___. ‘They're Going to Find a Body’: Quality Television and the Supernatural in Buffy’s ‘The Body.’” American Quality Television Conference, Dublin, Ireland, April 2004.

___. "T. S. Eliot Comes to Television: Buffy’s ‘Restless.'" Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 7 (2002) [http://www.slayage.tv/essays/slayage7/Wilcox.htm]. Originally presented at Popular Culture Association in the South, Charlotte, NC (October 2002).

___. "When Harry Met Buffy: Buffy Summers, Harry Potter, and Heroism at the Turn of the Century." Monsters and Metaphors: Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ed. Christopher Weimer (forthcoming).

___. "'Who Died and Made Her the Boss?' Patterns of Mortality in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ed. Rhonda V. Wilcox and David Lavery. Lanham, MD: Rowman Littlefield, 2002. 3-17.

___. Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. London: I. B. Tauris, 2005.

___ and David Lavery. "Introduction." Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Lanham, MD: Rowman Littlefield, 2002. xvii-xxix.

___ and David Lavery, eds. Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Lanham, MD: Rowman Littlefield, 2002.