Buffy Scholar/Critic

Jeffrey Middents is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at American University, where he studies and teaches film and world literature, specifically focusing on Latin American narratives from the 1960s to the 1980s. He teaches a variety of film courses—national cinema, genre courses on the musical and horror—as well as a cultural studies seminar. Professor Middents' current research project examines the impact and influence of the Peruvian film journal Hablemos de cine on the development of national cinema in that country from 1965 to 1984.

Jeffrey Middents, "A Sweet Vamp: Critiquing the Treatment of Race in Buffy and the American Musical Once More (with Feeling). Slayage 18 (June 2005).