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Stacey
Abbott. A Little Less Ritual and a Little More Fun: The Modern Vampire in Buffy
the Vampire Slayer
Stacey
Abbott, Walking the Fine Line Between Angel and Angelus
Michael Adams, Introduction, Beyond
Slayer Slang: Pragmatics, Discourse, and Style in
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Naomi
Alderman and Annette Seidel-Arpaci, Imaginary Para-Sites of the Soul: Vampires
and Representations of 'Blackness' and 'Jewishness' in the Buffy/Angelverse
Jenny
Alexander, A Vampire is Being Beaten - De Sade Through the Looking Glass in Buffy
and Angel
Camille
Bacon-Smith, The Color of the Dark
Derik
A. Badman, Academic Buffy Bibliography
Holly
G. Barbaccia. Buffy in the "Terrible House"
Margaret
Bates, Emily M. Gustafson, Bryan C. Porterfield, Lawrence B. Rosenfeld,
"When Did Your Sister Get Unbelievably Scary?" Outsider Status and
Dawn and Spike’s Relationship
Jes
Battis, "She's Not All Grown Yet": Willow As Hybrid/Hero in Buffy the
Vampire Slayer
Katrina Blasingame, “I can’t believe I’m saying
it twice in the same century . . . but ‘duh . . .’” The Evolution of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Sub-Culture Language through the Medium of
Fanfiction
Cynthia
Bowers. Generation Lapse: The Problematic Parenting of Joyce Summers and Rupert
Giles
Michele
Boyette. The Comic Anti-hero in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Or Silly Villain:
Spike is for Kicks
Anthony
Bradney. "I Made a Promise to a Lady": Law and Love in BtVS
___, The Politics and Ethics of Researching the
Buffyverse
Julie
Sloan Brannon, "It's About
Power": Buffy, Foucault, and the Quest for Self
Rob
Breton and Lindsey McMaster. Dissing the Age of Moo: Initiatives, Alternatives,
and Rationality in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Martin
Buinicki and Anthony Enns. Buffy the Vampire Disciplinarian: Institutional
Excess, Spiritual Technologies, and the New Economy of Power
Angie
Burns, Passion, pain and ‘bad kissing decisions’: learning about intimate
relationships from Buffy Season Six
Vivien
Burr, Buffy and the BBC: Moral Questions and How to Avoid Them
Lewis Call,
"Sounds Like Kinky Business to Me": Subtextual and Textual
Representations of Erotic Power in the Buffyverse
Michelle
Callander. Bram Stoker's Buffy: Traditional Gothic and Contemporary Culture
Bronwen Calvert,
"Going Through the Motions: Robots in BtVS
Richard
Campbell and Caitlin Campbell, Demons, Aliens, Teens and Television (from
Television Quarterly)
Marc Camron, Xander, Patriarchy, and the
Presentation of Realistic Gender Politics in BtVS
Holly
Chandler, Slaying the Patriarchy: Transfusions of the Vampire Metaphor in BtVS
(Slayage
Number Nine)
Daniel
A. Clark and P. Andrew Miller. Buffy, the Scooby Gang, and Monstrous Authory:
BtVS and the Subversion of Authority
Leigh Clemons, Real Vampires
Don’t Wear Shorts: The Aesthetics of Fashion in Buffy the Vampire
Slayer
Carolyn
Cocca. "First Word 'Jail,' Second Word 'Bait'": Adolescent Sexuality,
Feminist Theories, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Agnes
Curry,
Is Joss Becoming a Thomist?
Giada
Da Ros, When, Where, and How Much is Buffy a Soap Opera?
Robert
A. Davis. Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Pedagogy of Fear
Laura
Diehl, Why Drusilla is More Interesting Than Buffy
Frances
Early. Staking Her Claim: Buffy the Vampire Slayer as
Transgressive Woman Warrior
Greg
Erickson, Revisiting Buffy's (A)Theology: Religion: "Freaky" or just
"A Bunch of Men Who Died"
Aimee
Fifarek. "Mind and Heart with Spirit Joined": The Buffyverse as an
Information System
Claire
Fossey, "Never Hurt the Feelings of a Brutal Killer": Spike and the
Underground Man
Cynthia
Fuchs, "Did
Anyone Ever Explain to you What 'Secret Identity' Means?" Race
and Displacement in Buffy and Dark Angel
Richard
Greene and Wayne Yuen. Why Can't We Spike Spike?: Moral Themes in Buffy the
Vampire Slayer
Janet
K. Halfyard. Love, Death, Curses and Reverses (in F minor): Music, Gender and
Identity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel
Janet K. Halfyard, Singing Their Hearts Out: The
Problem of Performance in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel
Erin Hollis, Gorgonzola Sandwiches and Yellow Crayons: James Joyce, Buffy the
Vampire Slayer and the Aesthetic of Minutiae
Massimo
Introvigne, Brainwashing the Working Class: Vampire Comics and Criticism from
Dr. Occult to Buffy
Christine Jarvis and Don
Adams, Dressed to Kill: Fashion and Leadership in BtVS
Alice
Jenkins and Susan Stuart, Extending Your Mind: Non-Standard Perlocutionary Acts
in "Hush"
Lorna
Jowett, New Men: "Playing the
Sensitive Lad"
Roz Kaveney, A Sense of the Ending: Schödinger’s
Angel
Jesse Saba Kirchner, And in Some Language That’s
English? Slayer Slang and Artificial Computer Generation
David Kociemba, ”Actually, it explains a lot”: Reading the
Opening Title Sequences of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
___, “Over-identify much?”: Passion,
"Passion," and the Author-Audience Feedback Loop in Buffy
the Vampire Slayer
___,
"Where's the fun?": The Comic Apocalypse in "The Wish"
Kelly Kromer, Silence as Symptom: A Psychoanalytic Reading
of "Hush"
Tanya
Krzywinska, Playing Buffy: Remediation, Occulted Meta-game-Physics and the
Dynamics of Agency in the Videogame Version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
David
Lavery. Apocalyptic Apocalypses: The Narrative Eschatology of Buffy the Vampire
Slayer (Slayage Number Nine)
___.
"Emotional
Resonance and Rocket Launchers": Joss Whedon's Audio Commentaries on the
Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVDs"
___.
"A
Religion in Narrative": Joss Whedon and Television Creativity
___.
"I
Wrote My Thesis on You": Buffy Studies as an Academic Cult
Hilary
M. Leon. Why We Love the Monsters: How Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, and Buffy
the Vampire Slayer Wound Up Dating the Enemy
Reid
B. Locklin. Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Domestic Church: Re-Visioning
Family and the Common Good
Barbara Maio,
Buffy the
Vampire Slayer
C.
W. Marshall, Aeneas the Vampire Slayer: A Roman Model for Why Giles Kills Ben
Cynthea Masson,
“Is that just a comforting way of not answering the question?”: Willow,
Questions, and Affective Response in Buffy
the Vampire Slayer
Cynthea
Masson and Marni Stanley, Queer Eye of that Vampire Guy: Spike and the
Aesthetics of Camp
Em
McAvan, “I
Think I’m Kinda Gay”: Willow Rosenberg and the Absent/Present
Bisexual in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Bruce
McClelland, By Whose Authority? The Magical Tradition, Violence, and the
Legitimation of the Vampire Slayer
Kevin
McNeilly, Sue Fisher (University of Alberta), and Christina Sylka (University of
British Columbia). Kiss the Librarian, But Close the Hellmouth: "It's Like
a Whole Big Sucking Thing"
J.
Gordon Melton. Words from the Hellmouth: A Bibliography of Books on Buffy the
Vampire
___.
Images from the Hellmouth: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Comic Books 1998-2002
Philip
Mikozsch and Dana Och. Previously on Buffy the Vampire Slayer . . .
Gabrielle
Moss, From the Valley to the Hellmouth: Buffy's Transition from Film to
Television
Matthew Pateman, Introduction (special
issue on aesthetics)
___, "Restless" Readings--Involution,
Aesthetics, and Buffy
Michele
Paule,
You're on my campus buddy!: Sovereign and disciplinary power at Sunnydale
High
Patricia
Pender, "Where
Do We Go From Here?”: Buffy Studies
and Slayage 2006
Mark Peters, Getting a Wiggins
and Being a Bitca: How Two Items of Slayer Slang Survive on the Television Without Pity Message Boards
Zoë-Jane
Playdon. "The Outsiders' Society": Religious Imagery in Buffy the
Vampire Slayer
Elizabeth Rambo,
"Lessons" for Season Seven of
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
___. "Queen C" Goes to Boys' Town: Killing the Angel in Angel's
House
J. Michael Richardson and J. Douglas Rabb, Buffy, Faith and Bad Faith: Choosing
to be the Chosen One
Brett
M. Rogers, The Whedonverses and the Sociology of
Academe, or A Report on SC2: The Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon
College, May 26-28, 2006
Brett
Rogers and Walter Scheidel, Driving Stakes, Driving Cars: California Car
Culture, Sex, and Identity in BtVS Driving Stakes, Driving Cars: California Car
Culture, Sex, and Identity in BtVS
Rod Romesburg, Regeneration through Vampirism: Buffy
the Vampire Slayer’s New Frontier
Lawrence
B. Rosenfeld and Scarlet L. Wynns, Perceived Values and Social Support in Buffy
the Vampire Slayer
Caroline Ruddell, “I
am the law” “I am the magics”: Speech, Power and the Split Identity of
Willow in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Patrick Shade, Screaming to be Heard: Community and
Communication in "Hush"
James
South, On the Philosophical Consistency of Season 7
Victoria
Spah. Ain't Love Grand: Spike & Courtly Love
Arwen Spicer. "It’s
Bloody Brilliant!" The Undermining of Metanarrative Feminism in the Season
Seven Arc Narrative of Buffy
___.
"Love's
Bitch but Man Enough to Admit It": Spike's Hybridized Gender
Wendy
A. F. G. Stengel (Georgetown). Synergy and Smut: The Brand in Official and
Unofficial Buffy the Vampire Slayer Communities of Interest
Greg
Stevenson, The End as Moral Guidepost
Gwyn
Symonds, Playing More Soul Than is Written
Gwyn
Symonds, "Solving
Problems with Sharp Objects": Female Empowerment, Sex and Violence in Buffy
the Vampire Slayer
Judith
Tabron, Girl on Girl Politics: Willow/Tara and New Approaches to Media Fandom
Sue
Turnbull, "Not Just Another Buffy Paper": Towards an Aesthetics of
Television | Power Point Version
Sherryl
Vint. "Killing us Softly"? A Feminist Search for the "Real"
Buffy
William
Wandless. Undead Letters: Searches and Researches in Buffy the Vampire
Slayer
Rhonda
V. Wilcox. "Every Night I Save You": Buffy, Spike, Sex and Redemption
___,
In "The Demon Section of the Card Catalog": Buffy
Studies and Television Studies
___. "T.
S. Eliot Comes to Television: Buffy's 'Restless'"
___.
"There
Will Never Be a 'Very Special' Buffy": Buffy
and the Monsters of Teen Life
“Williams,
Rebecca, "It’s About Power!” Executive Fans, Spoiler Whores and Capital
in the Buffy
the Vampire Slayer On-Line
Fan Community
J.
Lawton Winslade. Teen Witches, Wiccans, and "Wanna-Blessed-Be's":
Pop-Culture Magic in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Gina
Wisker. Vampires and School Girls: High School Highjinks on the Hellmouth in
Buffy the Vampire Slayer