Long Mr. Pointy: 

Koontz, Dale K. Faith and Choice in the Works of Joss Whedon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008.

Wilcox, Rhonda V., and Tanya R. Cochran, eds. Investigating Firefly and Serenity : Science Fiction on the Frontier. New York: I. B. Tauris, 2008.

Short Mr. Pointy:

Beadling, Laura L. “The Threat of the ‘Good Wife’: Feminism, Postfeminism, and Third-Wave Feminism in Firefly.” Investigating Firefly and Serenity: Science Fiction on the Frontier. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya R. Cochran. New York: I. B. Tauris, 2008.

Cochran, Tanya R. "Complicating the Open Closet: The Visual Rhetoric of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Sapphic Lovers." Televising Queer Women. Ed. Rebecca Beirne. New York: Palgrave, 2008.

Erickson, Gregory. “Humanity in a ‘Place of Nothin’’: Morality, Religion, Atheism, and Possibility in Firefly.” Investigating Firefly and Serenity: Science Fiction on the Frontier. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya R. Cochran. New York: I. B. Tauris, 2008.

Jencson, Linda Jean. " 'Aiming to Misbehave': Role Modeling Political-Economic Conditions and Political Action in the Serenityverse." Slayage 7.1 (Winter 2008). http://slayageonline.com/essays/slayage25/Jencson.htm.

Mukherjea, Ananya. " 'When You Kiss Me, I Want to Die': Gothic Relationships and Identity on Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage 7.2 (Spring 2008). http://slayageonline.com/essays/slayage26/Mukherjea.htm.

Pateman, Matthew. "Deathly Serious: Mortality, Morality, and the Mise-en-Scene in Firefly and Serenity." Investigating Firefly and Serenity: Science Fiction on the Frontier. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya R. Cochran. New York: I. B. Tauris, 2008.

Mr. Pointy Paper:

Cynthea Masson. "What the Hell? Angel's 'The Girl in Question'" ( awarded for the best paper at SC3)