Dr Ewan Kirkland recently completed his PhD thesis on
children’s cinema. Teaching media studies at the University of Sussex, his main interests include the
construction of childhood in children’s culture, the representation of majority or central identities, and
video games and gaming culture.
Kirkland,
Ewan. Buffy the Vampire Slayer and
Constructions of Whiteness (paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, May 2004)