David Lavery (Editor)
David Lavery is
Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University. The author of over
sixty essays in journals ranging from Parabola to Georgia Review, he
is the author / editor-co-editor of Late for the Sky: The Mentality of the
Space Age (Southern Illinois University Press, 1992), Full of Secrets:
Critical Approaches to Twin Peaks (Wayne State University Press,
1994), "Deny All Knowledge": Reading The X-Files
(Syracuse University Press, 1996), Teleparody: Predicting/Preventing the TV
Discourse of Tomorrow (Wallflower Press, 2002, co-edited with Jill Hague); Fighting
the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Rowman and
Littlefield, 2002, co-edited with Rhonda Wilcox), and This Thing of Ours:
Investigating The Sopranos (Wallflower Press, Columbia University
Press, 2002). Work-in-progress includes the
recently completed "Part of Popular
Culture": Exploring the Sitcosmos of Seinfeld (co-edited
with Sara Lewis Dunne), Fake News: The Daily Show, The Onion,
and News Parody (co-edited with Richard Campbell), Northern Exposure:
Quirky Quality TV (co-edited with Jimmie Cain and John Zubizaretta), and “Dear
Angela:” Remembering My So-Called Life (co-edited with Michele
Byers),
He is the co-editor of the e-journal Slayage:
The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies, the organizer of a
major international conference on Buffy to be held in
Nashville in May 2004, and is a member of the editorial boards of Studies
in Popular Culture, Refractory:
A Journal of Entertainment Media, and Intensities:
The Journal of Cult Media. In
the summer of 2003 he was a keynote speaker at the Sonic Synergies and Creative
Cultures and Staking a Claim: Exploring the Global Reach of Buffy
conferences at the University of South Australia in Adelaide. In April 2004
he will be a
keynote speaker at the Contemporary American Quality Television International
Conference at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. To learn more about him,
visit his home page at http://www.mtsu.edu/~dlavery/.
His e-mail address is dlavery@mtsu.edu.
Rhonda V. Wilcox (co-editor