Buffy Scholar/Critic

Dr. Michele Byers is an Assistant Professor at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on Buffy the Vam-pire Slayer and, though she continues to try, she can't seem to stop writing about Buffy. She has published articles in Signs, Higher Education Perspectives, and Studies in Popular Culture (forthcoming), and has forthcoming book chapters in Canadian Eh? and Surviving Sprawl. She has written about Beverly Hills, 90210, reality TV, Brandon Teena, suburbia, and the mediated city. Byers is involved in a project on Canadian identity and the youth-oriented TV series Degrassi; she also continues to look for more ways to actively study and promote the third wave. [Bio from Catching a Wave.)

Byers, Michele. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: the Insurgence of Television as a Performance Text" (Dissertation, University of Toronto, 2000).

___. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Next Generation of Television." Catching A Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century. Ed. Rory Dicker and Alison M. Piepmeier. Northeastern UP, 2003.