Buffy Scholar/Critic
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Van Gameren, Sophia. ‘That Boy Is Our Last Hope’: Andrew, Star Wars and the Figure of the Jedi in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, May 2004).
___. “‘Working for Redemption’: Angel as a Contemporary Tragic Hero.” Paper given at Staking a Claim: Exploring the Global Reach of Buffy. University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia (July 2003).
Sophia Van Gameren is currently completing her Master of Arts (Writing and Literature) at Deakin University, Melbourne. She completed her Bachelor of Arts with Honours at the University of Melbourne in 2001. Her Honours thesis was titled “From Anxiety to Sympathy: Following the Vampire from a Monstrous and Ethnic Threat to its Transformation into a Sympathetic ‘White’ Figure.” Sophia’s academic interests include Shakespearean literature, Classical Greek tragedies, the figure of the vampire, and most importantly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.