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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

Stacey Abbott and Lorna Jowett, Buffy Hereafter: From the Whedonverse to the Whedonesque (Conference Report)

Michael Adams, Introduction, Beyond Slayer Slang: Pragmatics, Discourse, and Style in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Richard S. Albright , “[B]reakaway pop hit or . . . book number?”: “Once More, with Feeling” and Genre

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, Captain Tightpants:  Firefly and the Science Fiction Canon

___. Demonic Maternities, Complex Motherhoods: Cordelia, Fred and the Puzzle of Illyra

___. "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

Rebecca M. Brown, Orientalism in Firefly and Serenity

Alyson Buckman, "Go ahead! Run away! Say it was Horrible": Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog as Resistant Text

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 

Jeffrey Bussolini, Los Alamos is the Hellmouth

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

Shiloh Carroll, Psychology of a "Superstar": A Pyschological Analysis of Jonathan Levinson

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

Tanya R. Cochran and Rhonda V. Wilcox, A New Frontier: Whedon Studies and Serenity/Serenity

Agnes Curry, Is Joss Becoming a Thomist?

___. “We don’t say ‘Indian’”: On the Paradoxical Construction of the Reavers

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

George A. Dunn and Brian McDonald,  “A Very Strong Urge to Hit You”: Mimetic Violence and Scapegoating in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Kevin K. Durand, "Are You Ready to Finish This?": The Battle against the Patriarchal Forces of Darkness

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

David Fritts, Warrior Heroes: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Beowulf

Cynthia Fuchs, "Did Anyone Ever Explain to you What 'Secret Identity' Means?" Race and Displacement in Buffy and Dark Angel

Mark Gelineau, Coyote in the Black: The Evolution of Malcolm Reynolds the Trickster-Shaman

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

 Howard Harris, Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the Business Ethics Classroom

Dawn Heinecken, Fan Readings of Sex and Violence on Buffy the Vampire Slayer

  Christine Hoffmann, Happiness is a Warm Scythe: The Evolution of Villainy and Weaponry in the Buffyverse

  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

Malin Isaksson, Buffy/Faith Adult Femslash: Queer Porn with a Plot

  Christine Jarvis, "I run to Death”: Renaissance Sensibilities in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Christine Jarvis and Don Adams, Dressed to Kill: Fashion and Leadership in BtVS

Linda Jean Jencson, “Aiming to Misbehave”: Role Modeling Political-Economic Conditions and Political Action in the Serenityverse

Alice Jenkins and Susan Stuart, Extending Your Mind: Non-Standard Perlocutionary Acts in "Hush"

Lorna Jowett,  New Men: "Playing the Sensitive Lad" 

Lorna Jowett, The Summers’ House as Domestic Space in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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

Ewan Kirkland, The Caucasian Persuasion of Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Ewan Kirkland, A Conference Report on "Bring Your Own Subtext": Social Life, Human Experience and the Works of Joss Whedon

A. Abby Knoblauch, From Burke to Buffy and Back Again

  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"

K. Dale Koontz, The One That Almost Got Away: Doyle and the Fish Story

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

  J. Robert loftis, Moral Complexity in the Buffyverse

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

Scott McLaren, The Evolution of Joss Whedon’s Vampire Mythology and the Ontology of the Soul

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 

Jeffrey Middents, A Sweet Vamp: Critiquing the Treatment of Race in Buffy and the American Musical Once More (with Feeling)

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

Ananya Mukherjea, “When You Kiss Me, I want to Die”: Gothic Relationships and Identity on Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Sören Nylin, Mad, Bad Scientists and Cute, Curious Magicians: The Quest for Knowledge in Buffyand the Whedonvers

Wendy Olson, Enlightenment Rhetoric in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Ideological Implications of Worldviews in the Buffyverse

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. Douglas Rabb and J. Michael Richardson, Myth, Metaphor, Morality and Monsters: The Espenson Factor and Cognitive Science in Joss Whedon's Narrative Love Ethic

Jana Riess, The Monster Inside: Taming the Darkness within Ourselves

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

Renee St. Louis and Miriam Riggs, "And Yet": The Limits of Buffy Feminism

Patrick Shade, Screaming to be Heard: Community and Communication in "Hush"

Paul D. Shapiro, Someone to Sink Your Teeth Into: Gendered Biting Patterns on Buffy the Vampire Slayer—A Quantitative Analysis

Stevie Simkin, "You Hold Your Gun Like A Sissy Girl": Firearms and Anxious Masculinity in BtVS

___. "Who died and made you John Wayne?” – Anxious Masculinity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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

Kirsten Stevens, Meet the Cullens

Greg Stevenson, The End as Moral Guidepost

Jesse James Stommel, I'm Not a Dead Body; I Just Play One on TV

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 

___. The Whedon Studies Association

“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