Slayage Archive

Stacey Abbott (Roehampton University) and Lorna Jowett (University College, Northampton). Buffy Hereafter: From the Whedonverse to the Whedonesque (Conference Report) (25)

Michael Adams (Indiana University). Introduction: Beyond Slayer Slang: Pragmatics, Discourse, and Style in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (20)

Richard S. Albright (Harrisburg Community College). “[B]reakaway pop hit or . . . book number?”: “Once More, with Feeling” and Genre (17)

Naomi Alderman and Annette Seidel-Arpacı, Imaginary Para-Sites of the Soul: Vampires and Representations of ‘Blackness’ and ‘Jewishness’ in the Buffy/Angelverse (10)

Jenny Alexander (University of Sussex, Fulmer). A Vampire is Being Beaten - De Sade Through the Looking Glass in Buffy and Angel (15)

Camille Bacon-Smith, The Color of the Dark (8)

Derik A. Badman, Academic Buffy Bibliography (7)

Holly G. Barbaccia (University of Pennsylvania). Buffy in the "Terrible House" (4)

Margaret Bates (Duke U), Emily M. Gustafson, Bryan C. Porterfield, Lawrence B. Rosenfeld (U North Carolina). "When Did Your Sister Get Unbelievably Scary?" Outsider Status and Dawn and Spike’s Relationship (16)

Jes Battis (Simon Fraser University). “She’s Not All Grown Yet”: Willow As Hybrid/Hero in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (8)

___. Demonic Maternities, Complex Motherhoods: Cordelia, Fred and the Puzzle of Illyra (18)

Jes Battis (CUNY). Captain Tightpants: Firefly and the Science Fiction Canon (25)

Katrina Blasingame (Columbia College, Chicago), “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 (20)

Cynthia Bowers (Kennesaw State University). Generation Lapse: The Problematic Parenting of Joyce Summers and Rupert Giles (2)

Michele Boyette (University of North Florida). The Comic Anti-hero in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Or Silly Villain: Spike is for Kicks (4)

Anthony Bradney (University of Leicester). “I Made a Promise to a Lady”: Law and Love in BtVS (10)

___ (University of Sheffield). The Politics and Ethics of Researching the Buffyverse (19)

Julie Sloan Brannon (Jacksonville University), "It's About Power": Buffy, Foucault, and the Quest for Self (24)

Rob Breton and Lindsey McMaster (University of British Columbia). Dissing the Age of Moo: Initiatives, Alternatives, and Rationality in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1)

Rebecca M. Brown (Swansea University). Orientalism in Firefly and Serenity (25)

Martin Buinicki and Anthony Enns (University of Iowa). Buffy the Vampire Disciplinarian: Institutional Excess, Spiritual Technologies, and the New Economy of Power (4)

Angie Burns. Passion, pain and ‘bad kissing decisions’: learning about intimate relationships from Buffy Season Six (21)

Vivien Burr (University of Huddersfield), Buffy and the BBC: Moral Questions and How to Avoid Them (8)

Jeffrey Bussolini (University of Staten Island). Los Alamos is the Hellmouth (18)

Lewis Call (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo), "Sounds Like Kinky Business to Me": Subtextual and Textual Representations of Erotic Power in the Buffyverse (24)

Michelle Callander (University of Melbourne). Bram Stoker's Buffy: Traditional Gothic and Contemporary Culture (3)

Bronwen Calvert (Sunderland University). Going Through the Motions: Robots in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (15)

Richard Campbell and Caitlin Campbell, Demons, Aliens, Teens and Television (from Television Quarterly) (2)

Marc Camron (University of Colorado, Boulder). Xander, Patriarchy, and the Presentation of Realistic Gender Politics in BtVS (23)

Holly Chandler, Slaying the Patriarchy: Transfusions of the Vampire Metaphor in BtVS (9)

Daniel A. Clark and P. Andrew Miller (Northern Kentucky University). Buffy, the Scooby Gang, and Monstrous Authory: BtVS and the Subversion of Authority (3)

Leigh Clemons (Louisiana State University). Real Vampires Don’t Wear Shorts: The Aesthetics of Fashion in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (22)

Carolyn Cocca (SUNY Old Westbury). "First Word 'Jail,' Second Word 'Bait'": Adolescent Sexuality, Feminist Theories, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (10)

Tanya R. Cochran (Union College) and Rhonda V. Wilcox (Gordon College), A New Frontier: Whedon Studies and Firefly/Serenity (25)

Agnes Curry (St. Joseph College). Is Joss Becoming a Thomist? (16)

Agnes B. Curry (St. Joseph’s College). “We don’t say ‘Indian’”: On the Paradoxical Construction of the Reavers (25)

Giada Da Ros (University of Trento). When, Where, and How Much is Buffy a Soap Opera? (13/14)

Robert A. Davis (University of Glasgow). Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Pedagogy of Fear (3)

Laura Diehl (Rutgers University). Why Drusilla is More Interesting Than Buffy (13/14)

Frances Early (Mount St. Vincent University). Staking Her Claim: Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Transgressive Woman Warrior (6)

Greg Erickson (Brooklyn Conservatory of Music). Revisiting Buffy’s (A)Theology: Religion: “Freaky” or just “A Bunch of Men Who Died” (13/14)

Aimee Fifarek (Louisiana State University). "Mind and Heart with Spirit Joined”: The Buffyverse as an Information System (3)

Claire Fossey, "Never Hurt the Feelings of a Brutal Killer": Spike and the Underground Man (8)

David Fritts (Henderson Community College). Warrior Heroes: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Beowulf (17)

Cynthia Fuchs (George Mason University), "Did Anyone Ever Explain to you What 'Secret Identity' Means?" Race and Displacement in Buffy and Dark Angel (from Undead TV: Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, edited by Elana Levine and Lisa Parks [Duke University Press, 2007]). (24)

Mark Gelineau (The Harker School). Coyote in the Black: The Evolution of Malcolm Reynolds the Trickster-Shaman (25)

Richard Greene and Wayne Yuen (San Jose State University). Why Can’t We Spike Spike?: Moral Themes in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2)

Janet K. Halfyard (Birmingham Conservatoire, University of Central England). Love, Death, Curses and Reverses (in F minor): Music, Gender and Identity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel (4)

___ (Birmingham Conservatoire, University of Central England). Singing Their Hearts Out: The Problem of Performance in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel (17)

Erin Hollis (California State University, Fullerton). Gorgonzola Sandwiches and Yellow Crayons: James Joyce, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Aesthetic of Minutiae (22)

Massimo Introvigne (CESNUR). Brainwashing the Working Class: Vampire Comics and Criticism from Dr. Occult to Buffy (7)

Christine Jarvis (Sheffield Hallam University) and Don Adams (Central Connecticut State University). Dressed to Kill: Fashion and Leadership in BtVS (21)

Linda Jean Jencson (Appalachian State University). “Aiming to Misbehave”: Role Modeling Political-Economic Conditions and Political Action in the Serenityverse (25)

Alice Jenkins and Susan Stuart (University of Glasgow). Extending Your Mind: Non-Standard Perlocutionary Acts in "Hush" (9)

Lorna Jowett (University College, Northampton). New Men: "Playing the Sensitive Lad" (13/14)

___. The Summers’ House as Domestic Space in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (18)

Roz Kaveney, A Sense of the Ending: Schödinger’s Angel (16)

Ewan Kirkland (University of Sussex). The Caucasian Persuasion of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (17)

___ (Buckingham Childterns University College). A Conference Report on "Bring Your Own Subtext": Social Life, Human Experience and the Works of Joss Whedon (18)

Jesse Saba Kirchner (University of California, Santa Cruz), And in Some Language That’s English? Slayer Slang and Artificial Computer Generation (20)

David Kociemba (Emerson College). “Over-identify much?”: Passion, "Passion," and the Author-Audience Feedback Loop in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (19)

____. ”Actually, it explains a lot”: Reading the Opening Title Sequences of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (22)

____. "Where's the fun?": The Comic Apocalypse in "The Wish" (23)

Kelly Kromer (Louisiana State University). Silence as Symptom: A Psychoanalytic Reading of "Hush" (19)

Tanya Krzywinska (Brunel University). Playing Buffy: Remediation, Occulted Meta-game-Physics and the Dynamics of Agency in the Videogame Version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (8)

David Lavery (Middle Tennessee State University). Apocalyptic Apocalypses: The Narrative Eschatology of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (9)

___. "Emotional Resonance and Rocket Launchers": Joss Whedon's Audio Commentaries on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVDs" (6)

___. "A Religion in Narrative": Joss Whedon and Television Creativity (7)

___. “I Wrote My Thesis on You": Buffy Studies as an Academic Cult (13/14)

Hilary M. Leon (Loyola University, Chicago). Why We Love the Monsters: How Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer Wound Up Dating the Enemy (1)

Reid B. Locklin (Boston University). Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Domestic Church: Re-Visioning Family and the Common Good (6)

Barbara Maio (University Roma Tre). Buffy the Vampire Slayer (23)

C. W. Marshall (University of British Columbia). Aeneas the Vampire Slayer: A Roman Model for Why Giles Kills Ben (9)

Cynthea Masson (Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo, British Columbia), “Is that just a comforting way of not answering the question?”: Willow, Questions, and Affective Response in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (20)

___ and Marni Stanley. Queer Eye of that Vampire Guy: Spike and the Aesthetics of Camp (22)

Em McAvan (Murdoch University), “I Think I’m Kinda Gay”: Willow Rosenberg and the Absent/Present Bisexual in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (24)

Bruce McClelland. By Whose Authority? The Magical Tradition, Violence, and the Legitimation of the Vampire Slayer (1)

Scott McLaren (York University). The Evolution of Joss Whedon’s Vampire Mythology and the Ontology of the Soul (18)

Kevin McNeilly (University of British Columbia), 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” (2)

J. Gordon Melton (University of California, Santa Barbara). Words from the Hellmouth: A Bibliography of Books on Buffy the Vampire (4)

___. Images from the Hellmouth: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Comic Books 1998-2002 (6)

Jeffrey Middents (American University). A Sweet Vamp: Critiquing the Treatment of Race in Buffy and the American Musical Once More (with Feeling) (17)

Philip Mikozsch and Dana Och (University of Pittsburgh). Previously on Buffy the Vampire Slayer . . . (5)

Gabrielle Moss, From the Valley to the Hellmouth: Buffy’s Transition from Film to Television (2)

Matthew Pateman (University of Hull). "Restless" Readings--Involution, Aesthetics, and Buffy (19)

___. Introduction (22)

Michele Paule (Oxford Brookes University). You're on my campus, buddy!: Sovereign and disciplinary power at Sunnydale High (15)

Patricia Pender (Pace University). "Where Do We Go From Here?”: Buffy Studies and Slayage 2006 (21)

Mark Peters (Empire State College). Getting a Wiggins and Being a Bitca: How Two Items of Slayer Slang Survive on the Television Without Pity Message Boards (20)

Zoë-Jane Playdon (University of London). “The Outsiders' Society”: Religious Imagery in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (5)

Elizabeth Rambo (Campbell University). "Queen C" Goes to Boys' Town: Killing the Angel in Angel's House (23)

J. Michael Richardson and J. Douglas Rabb (Lakehead University). Buffy, Faith and Bad Faith: Choosing to be the Chosen One (23)

Brett M. Rogers (University of Georgia). The Whedonverses and the Sociology of Academe, or A Report on SC2: The Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, May 26-28, 2006 (21)

Brett Rogers and Walter Scheidel (Stanford University). Driving Stakes, Driving Cars: California Car Culture, Sex, and Identity in BtVS Driving Stakes, Driving Cars: California Car Culture, Sex, and Identity in BtVS (13/14)

Rod Romesburg (Ohio State University). Regeneration through Vampirism: Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s New Frontier (19)

Lawrence B. Rosenfeld and Scarlet L. Wynns (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). Perceived Values and Social Support in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (10)

Caroline Ruddell (Brunel University, Middlesex, UK), “I am the law” “I am the magics”: Speech, Power and the Split Identity of Willow in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (20)

Patrick Shade (Rhodes College), Screaming to be Heard: Community and Communication in "Hush" (21)

James South (Marquette University). On the Philosophical Consistency of Season 7 (13/14)

Victoria Spah (The Buffy Data Base). Ain't Love Grand: Spike & Courtly Love (5)

Arwen Spicer (University of Oregon). "It’s Bloody Brilliant!" The Undermining of Metanarrative Feminism in the Season Seven Arc Narrative of Buffy (15)

Arwen Spicer (University of Oregon). "Love’s Bitch but Man Enough to Admit It": Spike’s Hybridized Gender (7)

Wendy A. F. G. Stengel (Georgetown). Synergy and Smut: The Brand in Official and Unofficial Buffy the Vampire Slayer Communities of Interest (4)

Greg Stevenson (Rochester College). The End as Moral Guidepost (15)

Gwyn Symonds (University of Sydney). Playing More Soul Than is Written (16)

___. "Solving Problems with Sharp Objects": Female Empowerment, Sex and Violence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (11-12)

Judith Tabron (Hofstra University). Girl on Girl Politics: Willow/Tara and New Approaches to Media Fandom (13/14)