Program at a Glance

Welcome  to The Music City of Nashville, Tennessee and The Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. An international conference—Buffyologists from Great Britain, Scotland, Australia, Germany, France, Austria, Singapore, Canada, and thirty six states in the US are in The Renaissance this weekend—The SCBtVS is intended to be a post-mortem / wake / summing up for Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003), one of television’s greatest series, and we can use this occasion to say goodbye as well to Angel (1999-2004), which ended in the US on May 22^nd.

The first such gathering to be held in the United States,[1] the SCBtVS is sponsored by Middle Tennessee State University, MTSU’s College of Liberal Arts and College of Continuing Studies and Public Service, and Watkins College of Art and Design. Conference attendees will hear from four keynote speakers: James South, editor of Buffy and Philosophy: Fear and Loathing in Sunnydale, Nancy Holder, co-author of The Watcher Guides and of numerous Buffy novels, Sue Turnbull, author of Bite Me: Narrative Structures and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and David Bianculli, The New York Daily News television critic and Buffy advocate. Featured speakers include Michael Adams, Gerry Bloustien, David Lavery, John Pungente, S.J., Jana Riess, and Rhonda V. Wilcox.

In addition to three days of papers on the Buffyverse (over 190 presentations, 68 panels, 11 concurrent sessions), the SCBtVS offers an opening night reception on Thursday, a book launch (for new works by Jana Riess, Greg Stevenson, and Nancy Holder), a Friday night banquet (no, it’s not too late to purchase a ticket if you do it today) and karaoke sing-along of “Once More with Feeling,” presentation of the Mr. Pointy Awards for Buffy scholarship, and screening of Buffy fan videos. At the Renaissance, you will also find an All Things Buffy store run by Hastings Entertainment Superstores (http://www.gohastings.com/Catalog/).

Be sure to pick up a copy of “Come Out and Slay” poster, provided, thanks to Dr. James Brooks, by Watkins and designed by WCAD graphic design student Amy Mauk. A second poster, t-shirts, coffee mugs, and tote bags—all based on designs by SCBtVS presenter John Svatek—are also available for sale (though quantities are limited, you can order all of these for delivery by mail after the conference).

The vibrant city of Nashville is at your command, much of it near the hotel. The famous Ryman Auditorium is across the street, The Country Music Hall of Fame is only two blocks away, The Frist Center for the Arts is within walking distance. The conference conveners have also arranged a bus tour (on Monday, May 31st) to Memphis (about 230 miles away) which will include stops at Beale Street, The Civil Rights Museum, and, of course, Graceland. The bus will leave at 700 am outside the hotel.

There are so many people we need to thank for their invaluable help in making this conference possible. The short list would include Ann Webb, Jacque Thompson, and Jackie Stevens at The Renaissance; Dr. Kaylene Gebert, Dr. John McDaniel, Dr. Rosemary Owens, Val Avent, Cindy Cooper, Susan M. Jones, Jessica Heim, Cindy Womack, Dr. Bill Connelly at MTSU; Robert Cheatham and Marlin Adams (designers of the Mr. Pointy Award), Kim E. Taylor, Chris Driver, James Houk, John Svatek (whose brilliant design made possible one of our posters and our tote bag, t-shirt, and coffee mug. Special thanks to Roving Superchairs Tanya Krzywinska, Tamara Wilson, and Sue Turnbull.

KEYNOTE 1: DAVID BIANCULLI (NEW YORK DAILY NEWS): CONFESSIONS OF A TV CRITIC: MY NAME IS DAVID, AND I'M A BUFFY-HOLIC

"I'm a Rogue Demon Hunter": Wesley's Transformation from Fop to Hero on BtVS and Angel

Peggy Davis (Miami of Ohio)

"The Greatest Love of All": Cordelia's Journey of Self-Discovery

Janet Halfyard (Birmingham Conservatoire)

The Comic Stylings of Wesley Wyndham-Pryce

Stacey Abbott (University of Surrey, Roehampton)

Bringing Your Own Subtext: Individual Differences in Viewers' Responses to Buffy

Vivien Burr (University of Huddersfield)

Renegotiating Identity: Viewing the Post 9/11 Buffyverse in a Post 9/11 World

Jill Gorman (Rollins College)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Teen Television and the WB

Valerie Wee Su-Lin (National University of Singapore)

Monsters and Mean Streets: Angel and the Legacy of Noir

Caroline Fitzpatrick (Yale University)

On Escherian Dualism and the Metaphysics of the Middle Way: Interpreting the Spatial Architecture of Angel the Series

Mara Schiffren

Setting up Shop in Hell: Angel in Season 5

Mary Alice Money (Gordon College)

"I May Be Dead, But I'm Still Pretty": Mutable Bodies and the Normalcy Fallacy in BtVS

Caitlin Delohery

Im/Material Girl: Abjection, Penetration, and the Postmodern Body on BtVS

Jasmine Hall (Elms College)

Bringing Buffy Back: Re-Animating the Body in/of Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Lisa K. Perdigao (Northeastern University)

"Size Doesn't Matter": The Disembodied Miniature in BtVS

Amy L. Montz (Texas A & M)

Postmodern Reflections on the Culture of the Consumption of Culture of Consumption: Multilayered Meanings of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the UK

Kate Blackmon (Oxford University)

Fonty Goodness: Authenticity Through Graphic Design on BtVS

John Svatek (Franklin & Marshall)

Safe Slash: Buffy and Spike's Romantic Journey

Sarah Adams

Extending the "Freak Show": Het Fic and the Buffyverse

Dawn Heinecken (University of Louisville)

The Representation of Evil in BtVS

Michelle Lam (Macquarie University)

"Because It's Naughty": Fidelity and Evil in BtVS

Kyle Schaeffer

The Bully Within and Without: Facing Intimidation in Buffy

Joanna Lehmann [read by Madeline Muntersbjorn]

"I Touch the Fire and it Freezes Me". Soul-Searching on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel

Philipp Kneis (Humboldt University)

Warrior Heroes: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Beowulf

David Fritts (Henderson Community College)

Buffy and Jame Sitting in a Tree: What Are Our Girl Heroes up to Now?

Tamara Wilson (Flagler College)

When Ontologies Collide: The Essential Confusion of Existence in the Buffyverse

Susan Stuart (University of Glasgow)

Buffy and (Bad) Faith: Existentialism, Buffy, and Choice in BtVS

Andrew Gienapp (University of Memphis)

Russian Existentialism and Vampire Slayage: A Shestovian Key to the Power and Popularity of BtVS

J. M. Richardson and J. D. Rabb (Lakehead University)

Passing On: Buffy Fanfiction and Reconciling Ends and Transitions in the Buffyverse

Ananya Mukherjea (CUNY)

"I Can't Believe I'm Saying This Twice in the Same Century . . . But Duh": The Evolution of BtVS Subculture Language Through the Medium of Fanfiction

Katrina Blasingame (Southern Illinois University)

"The Lies That Bind": Sadomasochism and Parental Betrayal in BtVS

Shannon McRae

Mummy, Possess'd: The Horror of Motherly Love in BtVS

Colbey Emmerson

"In Many a Scaly Fold": Maternal Love, Maternal Lust, and Temporal Transformation in BtVS

Tedra Osell (University of Guelph)

Greening the Buffyverse: Raising Environmental Awareness in the Fourth Season of BtVS

Kim Becnel and Jon C. Pope (University of South Carolina)

Los Alamos Is the Hellmouth

Jeffrey Bussolini (CUNY)

Spike, the Initiative, and the Substitution of the Technological for the Metaphysical

Jacob Grossman (University of Maryland)

Buffy's Literary Credentials: Dracula's Revealing Footprints

Elizabeth Miller (Memorial University), Distinguished Speaker

Buffy's Historical Credentials: Dracula to Forever Knight

Gordon Melton (University of California, Santa Barbara), Distinguished Speaker

Buffy's Cinematic Credentials: From Big Screen to Small Screen

James Holte (East Carolina University), Distinguished Speaker

Voicebox: Sex, Language, and Power in "Hush"

Natasja Worsley

"Screaming to Be Heard": Reminders and Insights on Community and Communication in "Hush"

Patrick Shade (Rhodes College)

"Il y a" the Vampire Slayer: Encountering Levinas Through "Hush"

Christopher Berry (Purdue University)

Buffy Goes to War: The Introduction of Military Genre Conventions in the Seventh Season of BtVS

Dennis Showalter, (Colorado College), Distinguished Speaker

The Use of Alternative Reality in BtVS

Bronwen Auty

"Breakaway Pop Hit Or . . . Book Number?": "Once More, with Feeling" and Genre

Richard S. Albright (Elizabethtown College)

Buffy, Angel, and the Creation of Virtual Communities

Mary Kirby Diaz (Farmingdale State University)

Buffy's Fantasies [Through Fanart]

Karin Lenzhofer (Universität Klagenfurt)

I've Got a Little List, or "You Guys Wanna Team Up and Take over SunnydaleU?"

Elizabeth Rambo (Campbell University)

Metatextual Buffy: Text Surpasses Mr. Pointy

Kerry Hillis (University of Memphis)

"Don't Speak Latin in Front of the Books": Knowledge, Power, and History in BtVS

Jennifer Welsh (Duke University)

When "Until the End of the World" Really Means It: Friendship, Love, and Spiritual Warfare in the Buffyverse and Garth Ennis' and Steve Dillon's Preacher

Stephen Rauch

If a Vampire Bites a Lawyer, Is It Cannibalism? The Demonization of Lawyers in Angel

Sharon Sutherland and Sarah Swan (University of British Columbia)

Images of Law in BtVS

Anthony Bradney (University of Leicester)

Due Process for Demons? Law and Justice in the Buffyverse

Tanya Marsh

The Faust Paradigm: Soul-Having in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Marlowe's Doctor Faustus

Erma Petrova [read by Russ Jackson] (University of Ottawa)

The Nature of the Beast: A Modernist Reading of Spike the Vampire and Faulkner's Joe Christmas

Kirk Fontenot (South Louisiana Community College)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Monstrous Within and Without

"A Little More Soul Than Is Written": Acting Spike and the Ambiguity of Evil in Sunnydale

Gwyn Symonds (University of Sydney)

The Dangerous Edge of Things: Spike's Characterization on BtVS and Angel

Randi Eldevik (Oklahoma State University)

Magic, Classical Physics, and the Conservation of Energy and Matter

Scott Speakman (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

"You're on My Campus, Buddy!": Sovereign and Disciplinary Power at Sunnydale High

Michele Paule and Laura Davison (Oxford Brookes University)

Buffy and Its Religious Consequences in Germany: Slayage, Teenagers, and Supernatural Powerwomen

Oliver Krüger (Universität Heidelberg)

Community from Hell

Asim Ali (University of Maryland)

Bronzers Still, Online and Off? The Changing Basis of Bronzer Identity After Buffy

Sarah N. Gatson (Texas A & M University) and Amanda Zweerink

Screening of "IRL (In Real Life)": The Bronze Documentary Project

"IRL (In Real Life)": The Bronze Documentary Project

Stephanie Tuszynski (Bowling Green State University)

Shakespeare in Sunnydale: Buffy and the Henriad

Jessica Maerz (University of Georgia)

"Now Could I Drink Hot Blood": Buffy Summers as a Modern-Day Hamlet

Thomas DiMaggio

"Oh Stay! You Are So Beautiful": Angel the Vampire Faust

Angela Lin

Giving Them the Axe: Witches, Slayers, and a Final Feminist Enchantment

Anthony Lioi (MIT)

My Art Belongs to Daddy: Rupert Giles as Magical Mentor, Indulgent Father, "Book Man"

Peg Aloi

"It's Inside You Now, This Magic": Magickal Embodiment and Occult Ethics in the Buffyverse

J. Lawton Winslade (DePaul University)

Buffy Lives: An Angian Examination of Buffy Watchers

Heather M. Porter

Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Age of McLuhan

Lisa Hale (University of British Columbia)

Buffy Slays Walt Disney

Katia McClain (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Constructions of Whiteness

Ewan Kirkland (University of Sussex)

A Sweet Vamp: Critiquing the Treatment of Race in Buffy and the American Musical: "Once More, with Feeling"

Jeffrey Middents (American University)

Performing the Imaginative Variation: Using Buffy to Teach Sartre

Vivien Burr (University of Huddersfield)

Buffy's Contribution to Anti-Oppressive Practice

Christine Jarvis (University of Huddersfield)

"Here Endeth the Lesson": Teaching Buffy in a Liberal Arts Institution

Lynne Edwards (Ursinus College)

Sacred Twins, Evil Twins, and Hidden Twins: Doubling and Power in the Buffyverse

Misty Bastian (Franklin & Marshall)

Going Through the Motions: Robots in BtVS

Bronwen Calvert

Examining the "Girl Question": The Use of Doubles in BtVS

Julie D. O'Reilly (Bowling Green State University)

Buffy's Choice: The Meta-Narrative of Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Anita Rose (Converse College)

"Textual Promiscuity," Corporate Authorship, and the Autobiography of Buffy

Laura Faye Daniel (Middle Tennessee State University)

Marti Noxon: Buffy's Other Genius

David Perry

"But You're Just a Girl": Representations of the New Woman in Buffy and Dracula

Rebecca Sparling (Marywood University)

The New Man, Fitting Mate for the New Woman: Buffy and the Boys via Postfeminist Ethics

Margaret Toye (Wilfrd Laurier University)

"At Midnight Drain the Stream of Life": Vampires and the New Woman

Trudi Van Dyke

"Once More, with Feeling": The Hellmouth in Postmodern Heaven

William Donaruma (University of Notre Dame)

The Threat to the Subject in "Once More, with Feeling"

Todd Williams (Kent State University)

Vampires Rock, Heads Roll: Tone Painting, Characterization via Musical Style, and Other Musical Symbolism in "Once More, with Feeling"

Chris Neal (McMurray University)

Postmodernism and Buffy: Challenging Mass Media's Ideological Grip on the Simulacra

J. J. Sylvia, IV (Mississippi State University)

The Stuff We're Made Of

Jacob Held (Marquette University)

"Insane Troll Logic": Popular Culture as Philosophical Heuristic

Andrew Aberdein (Florida Institute of Technology)

Structural Identity, or Saussure Visits Buffy/Angel's World: What's the Difference?

AmiJo Comeford (University of Nevada at Las Vegas)

Why Are the White Hats So White? Self-Identity and Problems of Ethnic Non-Diversity in BtVS

DeNara Hill (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

Mirror, Mirror: Creation of Self-Identity Through Chosen Associations in BtVS

Tamy L. Burnett (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)

BtVS and the Orderliness of Series Television

David Alexander

"People Have a Tendency to Rationalize What They Can": Continuity, Pleasure, and Pain in the Buffyverse

Annalisa Castaldo (Widener University)

Slayer Soul: Suffering, Survival, and Strength

"In the Plus Column": The Timeliness of Faith

Dawn Shepherd (North Carolina State University)

Spanking the Inner Moppet: The Expression of Women's Anger in the Good-vs.-Evil Universe of BtVS

Joanne E. Staudacher (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

Buffy in the Underworld - Representations of Greek Mythology in Postmodern Demon Dimensions

Sascha Seiler

Buffy's Golden Bough: Myth and Political Structure from Ariccia to Sunnydale

Charles Edward Lincoln (Austin Community College)

"No Wonder You Died": Buffy as Death Myth Goddess

Lynne Edwards (Ursinus College)

Buffy's Shadows or, Not Quite Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Scooby Gang

Don Keller

Blood Sisters: Sisterhood, Sacrifice, and Self-Harm in BtVS, Season Five

Naomi Hetherington (University of Cambridge)

Why Drusilla Is More Interesting than Buffy

Laura Diehl (Rutgers University)

A Vampire Is Being Beaten: De Sade Through the Looking Glass in Buffy and Angel

Lesbian-Type Lovers: Heterosexual Writer Bias and the Evil/Dead Lesbian Cliché in the Representation of the Willow/Tara Relationship

Alissa Wilts (University of Manitoba)

"It's Complicated . . . Because of Tara": History, Identity Politics, and the Straight White Male Author of BtVS

Brandy Ryan (University of Toronto)

Buffy the U.N. Slayer

Olaf Kruithoff (Universität Hamburg)

"Burn It Down and Salt the Earth": Regeneration Through Violence in the Buffyverse

Ronald Schmidt (University of Southern Maine)

"Why don't you just go back where you came from?" Aspects of Post-Colonial Theory in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Russ Jackson

My Name's Buffy and Your History: The Myth/Misquotation of History

Matthew Pateman (University of Hull)

Romance and the Representation of Gender in Buffy and Angel

Lorna Jowett (University College Northampton)

Vampires and Slayers: Powers, Patriarchy, and Feminism

Kevin K. J. Durand and Ashli Dykes (Henderson State University)

"One Girl" No More: Female Jealousy in BtVS

Shelley Rees (Rose State College)

"Wow, They're All So Identical": Choosing Conformity or Death as an Adult Learner in the Buffyverse

Christine Jarvis (University of Huddersfield)

Between Anarchy and Slavery

Don Adams (Central Connecticut State University)

Buffy, Levinas, and the Other

Michelle Katchuck (University of Regina)

Your Own Personal Savior . . . I Mean Slayer: Buffy and Religion, Buffy as Religion

Tanya Cochran (Georgia State University)

Marian Symbols in BtVS

Michael Duricy (University of Dayton)

Revisiting Buffy's (A)Theology: Religion "Freaky" or Just "A Bunch of Men Who Died"

Greg Erickson (Medgar Evers College)

Buffy as Pedagogical Tool in the Composition Classroom

Heather Haner (Cascadia Community College)

Raising the Unconscious or the Dead? The Uncanny Pedagogy of Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Trish Salah (Concordia College)

Caged and Tied: The Performative Nature of Violence in BtVS

Phil Gutierrez and Jorge Rodriguez (Branson School)

"A Very Strong Urge to Hit You": Mimetic Rivalry and Scapegoating in BtVS

George A. Dunn and Brian McDonald (IUPUI)

"Guns Don't Kill Vampires; People Kill Vampires"—The Weapons of BtVS, or The Search for WMD—Weapons of Monster Destruction in BtVS

Jim Riser (University of North Alabama)

Absent Fathers and Multiplying Christs in BtVS

Louie Stowell (Oxford University)

Another Family Show: BtVS and the Motherless Maternal Body

William R. Feathers (Fairmont State College)

" Friends Are the Family We Choose for Ourselves": Young People and Families in BtVS

Vivien Burr and Christine Jarvis (University of Huddersfield)

It Really Is a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: Recognition, Articulation and Acceptance of Abnormal Psychological Behavior in BtVS

Andrea N. Collins (Dalhousie University)

Psychotic Narration and Institutionalization in "Normal Again"

Chris Flor

"What's More Real? A Sick Girl in an Institution . . . Or Some Kind of Supergirl? . . .": The Question of Madness in "Normal Again," a Feminist Reading

Caitlin Peeling and Meaghan Scanlon

"What If I'm Still There?": Reality and Schizophrenic Psychosis in "Normal Again"

Selma Amina Purac (University of Western Ontario)

Fate and the Knowledge of Future Contingents: What Did Cassie Know?

Paul Lachance [read by Reid B. Locklin] (Saint Anselm College)

Self Becoming or Becoming Self? A Comparative Study of Buffy and the Hindu Saint Antal on Identity and Self-Realization

Tracy Tiemeier (Boston College)

Gosh, Joss Is a Thomist?

Agnes Curry (Saint Joseph College)

Respondent

Maxine Phillips (Dissent Magazine)

TEACHING THE VAMPIRE SLAYER: PEDAGOGY AND PROJECTS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA'S BUFFY CLASS

Jesse Saba Kirchner

Kristen Warner

Nerd, Witch, and Lesbian: Aspects of Willow Rosenberg's Continual Coming Out Process

Deanie M. Cheramie (Xavier University)

From Metaphor to Reality: Resurrection as Rape in the Buffyverse

Jennifer Levy

The Painful Knowning Process: Willow Rosenberg, Transformational Language, and the Logic of Human Evil

Devlin Grunloh

Appreciating the Zeppo: The Gender Flexibility of Xander Harris in BtVS

John McGuire (Oklahoma State University)

"This Carpenter Can Drywall You Into the Next Century": Xander's "Superpower" and the Problem of Female Masculinities in Buffy

Jes Battis (Simon Frazier University)

"Who Died and Made You John Wayne?" or Why Riley Could Never Be a Scoobie

Jennifer Stokes (University of South Australia)

"All I Can Say Is, Buffy, I've Changed": The Redemption of Spike and Anya Modeling the Reeducation of the Spectator in BtVS

Catherine Keyser (Harvard University)

Intercultural Communicative Competence and BtVS: How Anya Learned To Be Less Aud

Laura Hills (The Open University)

"Selfless": Locating Female Identity in Anya/Anyanka Through Prostitution

James Francis, Jr. (Texas A & M University)

Spike the Vampire, the Vampire Slayer, or Buffy's Preoccupation With “New" Masculinity

Shawna Ferris (McMaster University)

Evolution of a Big Bad: Marginalization of Spike as Prelude to Transformation

Mark Gelineau (The Harker School)

The Male Hero in Feminist Society: Comparisons of Buffy's Spike and the Iroquois' Hiawatha

Linda Jencson (Appalachian State University)

Out of the Basement, Into the Background: Xander's Masculinity and Marginalization

Sue Tjardes

Alexander Harris: Buttmonkey No More

Paul Shapiro (Georgia Southwestern State University)

Demon Power Girl: Regimes of Form and Force in Videogame Versions of BtVS

Tanya Krzywinska (Brunel University)

The Martial Is the Message, or Why Buffy Can't Fight

Peter Lorge (Vanderbilt University)

Slayers, Pre-Slayers, Preachers, and Hellraisers: Comic Influences on the Buffyverse

Brendan Heidenfels (New York University)

Christophe Beck and Buffy's First Romances: Paradoxes of Musical Scoring in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Neil Lerner (Davidson College)

Be My Buffy: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Girl Group Music-Cultural Representations of the Teenage Girl

Robin Pruter (College of DuPage)

Music, Subtexts, and Foreshadowing: The Contextual Role of "Source" Music in BtVS

Kathryn Hill (University of Sydney Conservatorium of Music)

Reflections of Society in the Buffyverse

Lauren Burdolski

On Using Buffy (and Other Genre TV Shows) in the Classroom

Lisa LoCicero

On Teaching Buffy: Interpersonal Relationships in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (UNC, Spring 2004)

Lawrence Rosenfeld (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Distinguished Speaker

David Bianculli (New York Daily News); Mary Alice Money (Gordon College), Tammy Kinsey (University of Toledo), Stacey Abbott (University of Surrey Roehampton)

Davidson B (Level Three)

The Nah-Nah-Nah-Nah-Nah Approach to Naming: A Slice of Slayer Slang

Mark Peters (Empire State College)

"I Am the Law," "I Am the Magics": Split Characters, Speech and Power in BtVS

Caroline Ruddell (Brunel University)

Buffyspeak and Newspeak: Contrapositive Paradigms of Speech

Vaughn Linscott (Simon’s Rock College)

Archetypal Articulations of the Dream World in the Buffyverse

Melissa Milavec (John Carroll University)

Patterns of Revelation in BtVS and Angel

Radha O'Meara (University of Melbourne)

"Those Whom the Powers Wish to Destroy, They Must First Make Mad": Gods, Prophecy, and Death: The Classical Roots of Madness in BtVS

Naomi Alderman

Perspective by Incongruity and the Tao of Cordelia: Dramatistic Considerations of Vampires, Technology, and the Technological Society

Cynthia Jenéy (Missouri Western State College)

"You're Beneath Me": The Stigma of Vampirism in Buffy and Angel

Theresa Blanco (Portland State University)

The Real and Its Vampiric Vicissitudes: Watching Buffy with Slavoj Zizek

Lauren Todd Taylor (University of Tennessee)

Men, Watching, Buffy: Questing for the Unattainable

Mimi Marinucci and Gary J. Krug (Eastern Washington University)

Sacrificing the Boys: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Chestina Turner (Hazard Community College)

"Actually, No Wheeling Is More My Specialty": Why Buffy Doesn't Drive

Brett Rogers and Walter Scheidel (Stanford University), Distinguished Speaker

Whose Revolution Has Been Televised? The Transnational Sisterhood of Slayers

Patricia Pender (Stanford University)

"It's Bloody Brilliant!": The Undermining of Metanarrative Feminism in the Season Seven Arc Narrative of Buffy

Arwen Spicer

A screening of a rough cut of Stephanie Tuszynski’s "IRL (In Real Life)": The Bronze Documentary Project and a discussion with the filmmaker.

11B. VISUAL MEANING, VISIBLE SIGNS

"I Wish I Had the Blue": Cinematic Language in "The Body"

Tammy Kinsey (University of Toledo)

The Poetics of Space in BtVS

Elena Moreno (University of London)

"What's with the Makeover of the Damned?": Buffy, Goth, and Sartorial Evil

Catherine Spooner (University of Reading)

The Candide of Sunnydale: Andrew as Satire of Pop Culture and Marketing Trends in BtVS

Ira Shull (Franklin Pierce College)

"In My Plan, We Are Beltless": Andrew's Fannish Practices in "Storyteller"

Linda Rust (Adelaide University)

"That Boy is Our Last Hope": Andrew, Star Wars, and the Figure of the Jedi in BtVS

Sophia van Gameren

"This Is How Many Apocalypses for Us Now?": The Buffyverse Apocalyptic and Premillenialist Christianity

Lisa Roy Vox (Emory University)

"What Else Are We Gonna Do?": Finding "The Courage to Be" with Angel and Buffy

Lori C. Patton (Vanderbilt University)

"The Amazing Mr. Cross": Recreating Symbols of Religion in BtVS

Jonathan J. Edwards

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