The Encyclopedia of Buffy Studies

Buffy Scholar/ Critic

Sue Tjardes is an independent scholar in Tacoma, Washington. She is interested in the rhetorical dimensions of humor and in the ways audiences of all kinds function as communities.

Tjardes, Sue. "'If You're Not Enjoying It, You're Doing Something Wrong': Textual and Viewer Constructions of Faith, the Vampire Slayer." Athena’s Daughters: Television’s New Women Warriors. Ed. Frances Early and Kathleen Kennedy. The Television Series. Syracuse: Syracuse U P, 2003. 66-77.

___. Out of the Basement, into the Background: Xander's Masculinity and Marginalization. (paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, May 2004).