Buffy Scholar/Critic | Watcher Junior Board Member

Caroline Ruddell is a PhD candidate at Brunel University in Middlesex, UK. Her current research involves the use of psychoanalysis as a mode in film and television and the emergence or 'new myth' of split characters in many psychological horror-based texts.

Ruddell, Caroline. “Fragile identities and the problem of maintaining autonomy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel” (paper to be presented at Bring Your Own Subtext Conference to be held at Huddersfield University, UK, 29 June to 1 July 2005).

___. “Fragile identities and the problem of maintaining autonomy in popular film and tv” (paper to be presented at Meccsa Postgraduate Conference to be held at Cardiff University, UK, 23-24 June 2005).

___. “'I am the Law,' 'I am the Magics': Split characters, speech and power in Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, May 2004)