Buffy Scholar/Critic

Sara Buttsworth is currently finishing her PhD in Women’s Studies and History at the University of Western Australia. Her Thesis, Body Count: The Politics of Representing the Gendered Body in Combat in the Late Twentieth Century, explores the representational nexus between women in the military and the emergence of the female warrior hero in popular culture. Her article “‘Bite Me’: Buffy and the Penetration of the Gendered Warrior Hero” was published in Continuum last year. She has been teaching in women’s studies and media studies for the last few years and enjoying every minute of it – although trying to say all the things she thinks are pertinent about BtVS in two lectures has been a great challenge. As she keeps telling her students: there is a BtVS quote to fit all occasions.

Buttsworth, Sara. " 'Bite Me': Buffy and the Penetration of the Gendered Warrior-hero." Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 16.2 (2002): 185-99.

___. “It’s A Ritual Sacrifice. With Pie.' Regeneration Through Violence, Moral Ambiguities, Military Masculinities, and Frontier Pangs." Staking a Claim. Adelaide, Austalia, July 2003.