Buffy Scholar/Critic

Lana Zannettino (University of South Australia) completed a Bachelor of Social Work Degree with Honours in 1994 and worked as a Social Worker in various settings for several years. She recently earned her Doctoral Degree from the School of Education, University of South Australia. Her doctoral study focused on the discursive construction of girls’ feminine identities and examined the ways in which filmic and literary texts resonate intra-psychically to create and fashion girls’ constructions of their mature adult selves. She has taught various courses across Schools within the Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences and she is currently a Researcher in the Research and Education Unit on Gendered Violence (School of Social Work and Social Policy). Her scholarly work engages with post-structural feminism and psychoanalysis and is largely concerned with the discursive and psychological choreography of subjectivity and gender.

 

Zannettino, Lana and Kristina Birchmore. “Collapsing the Binaries: ‘Reading’ our ‘Readings’ of Buffy as the archetypal, stoic feminine subject.” Paper given at Staking a Claim: Exploring the Global Reach of Buffy. University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia (July 2003).