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Stacey Abbott. A Little Less Ritual and a Little More Fun: The Modern Vampire in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Stacey Abbott, Walking the Fine Line Between Angel and Angelus

Michael Adams, Introduction, Beyond Slayer Slang: Pragmatics, Discourse, and Style in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Naomi Alderman and Annette Seidel-Arpaci, Imaginary Para-Sites of the Soul: Vampires and Representations of 'Blackness' and 'Jewishness' in the Buffy/Angelverse

Jenny Alexander, A Vampire is Being Beaten - De Sade Through the Looking Glass in Buffy and Angel

Camille Bacon-Smith, The Color of the Dark 

Derik A. Badman, Academic Buffy Bibliography

Holly G. Barbaccia. Buffy in the "Terrible House"

Margaret Bates, Emily M. Gustafson, Bryan C. Porterfield, Lawrence B. Rosenfeld, "When Did Your Sister Get Unbelievably Scary?" Outsider Status and Dawn and Spike’s Relationship

Jes Battis, "She's Not All Grown Yet": Willow As Hybrid/Hero in Buffy the Vampire Slayer 

Katrina Blasingame, “I can’t believe I’m saying it twice in the same century . . . but ‘duh . .  .’” The Evolution of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Sub-Culture Language through the Medium of Fanfiction

Cynthia Bowers. Generation Lapse: The Problematic Parenting of Joyce Summers and Rupert Giles

Michele Boyette. The Comic Anti-hero in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Or Silly Villain: Spike is for Kicks

Anthony Bradney. "I Made a Promise to a Lady": Law and Love in BtVS

Rob Breton and Lindsey McMaster. Dissing the Age of Moo: Initiatives, Alternatives, and Rationality in Buffy the Vampire Slayer 

Martin Buinicki and Anthony Enns. Buffy the Vampire Disciplinarian: Institutional Excess, Spiritual Technologies, and the New Economy of Power 

Vivien Burr, Buffy and the BBC: Moral Questions and How to Avoid Them 

Michelle Callander. Bram Stoker's Buffy: Traditional Gothic and Contemporary Culture

Bronwen Calvert, "Going Through the Motions: Robots in BtVS

Richard Campbell and Caitlin Campbell, Demons, Aliens, Teens and Television (from Television Quarterly)

Holly Chandler, Slaying the Patriarchy: Transfusions of the Vampire Metaphor in BtVS (Slayage Number Nine)

Daniel A. Clark and P. Andrew Miller. Buffy, the Scooby Gang, and Monstrous Authory: BtVS and the Subversion of Authority

Carolyn Cocca. "First Word 'Jail,' Second Word 'Bait'": Adolescent Sexuality, Feminist Theories, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Agnes Curry, Is Joss Becoming a Thomist?

Giada Da Ros, When, Where, and How Much is Buffy a Soap Opera?

Robert A. Davis. Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Pedagogy of Fear

Laura Diehl, Why Drusilla is More Interesting Than Buffy

Frances Early. Staking Her Claim: Buffy the Vampire Slayer as  Transgressive Woman Warrior 

Greg Erickson, Revisiting Buffy's (A)Theology: Religion: "Freaky" or just "A Bunch of Men Who Died" 

Aimee Fifarek. "Mind and Heart with Spirit Joined": The Buffyverse as an Information System

Claire Fossey, "Never Hurt the Feelings of a Brutal Killer": Spike and the Underground Man

Richard Greene and Wayne Yuen. Why Can't We Spike Spike?: Moral Themes in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Janet K. Halfyard. Love, Death, Curses and Reverses (in F minor): Music, Gender and Identity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel

Janet K. Halfyard, Singing Their Hearts Out: The Problem of Performance in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel

Massimo Introvigne, Brainwashing the Working Class: Vampire Comics and Criticism from Dr. Occult to Buffy

Alice Jenkins and Susan Stuart, Extending Your Mind: Non-Standard Perlocutionary Acts in "Hush"

Lorna Jowett,  New Men: "Playing the Sensitive Lad" 

Roz Kaveney, A Sense of the Ending: Schödinger’s Angel

Jesse Saba Kirchner, And in Some Language That’s English? Slayer Slang and Artificial Computer Generation

Tanya Krzywinska, Playing Buffy: Remediation, Occulted Meta-game-Physics and the Dynamics of Agency in the Videogame Version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer

David Lavery. Apocalyptic Apocalypses: The Narrative Eschatology of Buffy the Vampire Slayer  (Slayage Number Nine)

___. "Emotional Resonance and Rocket Launchers": Joss Whedon's Audio Commentaries on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVDs" 

___. "A Religion in Narrative": Joss Whedon and Television Creativity

___. "I Wrote My Thesis on You": Buffy Studies as an Academic Cult 

Hilary M. Leon. Why We Love the Monsters: How Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer Wound Up Dating the Enemy 

Reid B. Locklin. Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Domestic Church: Re-Visioning Family and the Common Good 

C. W. Marshall, Aeneas the Vampire Slayer: A Roman Model for Why Giles Kills Ben

Cynthea Masson, “Is that just a comforting way of not answering the question?”: Willow, Questions, and Affective Response in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Bruce McClelland, By Whose Authority? The Magical Tradition, Violence, and the Legitimation of the Vampire Slayer 

Kevin McNeilly, Sue Fisher (University of Alberta), and Christina Sylka (University of British Columbia). Kiss the Librarian, But Close the Hellmouth: "It's Like a Whole Big Sucking Thing"

J. Gordon Melton. Words from the Hellmouth: A Bibliography of Books on Buffy the Vampire

___. Images from the Hellmouth: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Comic Books 1998-2002 

Philip Mikozsch and Dana Och. Previously on Buffy the Vampire Slayer . . .

Gabrielle Moss, From the Valley to the Hellmouth: Buffy's Transition from Film to Television

Michele Paule, You're on my campus buddy!: Sovereign and disciplinary power at Sunnydale High

Mark Peters, Getting a Wiggins and Being a Bitca: How Two Items of Slayer Slang Survive on the Television Without Pity Message Boards

Zoë-Jane Playdon. "The Outsiders' Society": Religious Imagery in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Brett Rogers and Walter Scheidel, Driving Stakes, Driving Cars: California Car Culture, Sex, and Identity in BtVS Driving Stakes, Driving Cars: California Car Culture, Sex, and Identity in BtVS 

Lawrence B. Rosenfeld and Scarlet L. Wynns, Perceived Values and Social Support in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Caroline Ruddell, “I am the law” “I am the magics”: Speech, Power and the Split Identity of Willow in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

James South, On the Philosophical Consistency of Season 7 

Victoria Spah. Ain't Love Grand: Spike & Courtly Love

Arwen Spicer. "It’s Bloody Brilliant!" The Undermining of Metanarrative Feminism in the Season Seven Arc Narrative of Buffy

___. "Love's Bitch but Man Enough to Admit It": Spike's Hybridized Gender

Wendy A. F. G. Stengel (Georgetown). Synergy and Smut: The Brand in Official and Unofficial Buffy the Vampire Slayer Communities of Interest

Greg Stevenson, The End as Moral Guidepost

Gwyn Symonds, Playing More Soul Than is Written

Gwyn Symonds, "Solving Problems with Sharp Objects": Female Empowerment, Sex and Violence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Judith Tabron, Girl on Girl Politics: Willow/Tara and New Approaches to Media Fandom 

Sue Turnbull, "Not Just Another Buffy Paper": Towards an Aesthetics of Television | Power Point Version 

Sherryl Vint. "Killing us Softly"? A Feminist Search for the "Real" Buffy

William Wandless. Undead Letters: Searches and Researches in Buffy the Vampire Slayer 

J. Lawton Winslade. Teen Witches, Wiccans, and "Wanna-Blessed-Be's": Pop-Culture Magic in Buffy the Vampire Slayer 

Rhonda V. Wilcox. "Every Night I Save You": Buffy, Spike, Sex and Redemption

___. "T. S. Eliot Comes to Television: Buffy's 'Restless'"

___. "There Will Never Be a 'Very Special' Buffy": Buffy and the Monsters of Teen Life 

“Williams, Rebecca, "It’s About Power!” Executive Fans, Spoiler Whores and Capital in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer On-Line Fan Community

Gina Wisker. Vampires and School Girls: High School Highjinks on the Hellmouth in Buffy the Vampire Slayer