Buffy Scholar/Critic
| Robert A. Davis is Director of Inservice Education and Senior Lecturer in Curriculum Studies in the Faculty of Education of the University of Glasgow. He was educated at the Universities of Strathclyde and Stirling, where he completed his doctoral studies in Literarture and Anthropology. He worked for several years as a teacher of English in a number of secondary schools across Scotland, entering the Faculty of Education in 1991. He has been a visiting lecturer in several institutions of higher education, including Fordham University, Australian Catholic University, Copenhagen University, and St Patrick’s College, Dublin. In addition to ongoing research in critical theory and media education he has lectured, written and broadcast widely on literature and myth, literature and religion, early education, and the cultural history of childhood. He is a consultant to children’s television, and serves on the editorial boards of several academic journals. His recent publications include studies of the poetry of Robert Graves, the uses of fear in childhood, and approaches to the teaching of literature and values education in multicultural contexts. He is also preparing a full length critical history of the English lullaby. |
Davis, Robert A. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Pedagogy of Fear." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 3 (2001) [http://www.slayage.tv/essays/slayage3/davis.htm].