David Lavery and Rhonda V. Wilcox

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)
Rhonda V. Wilcox is Professor of English at Gordon College in Barnesville, GA. The author of numerous essays on popular culture, including "'There Will Never Be a Very Special Buffy": Buffy and the Monsters of Teen Life" in The Journal of Popular Film and Television [1999]), she wrote the chapter on television for The Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture and is completing a book to be entitled Unreal TV. With David Lavery, she is the editor of Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002) and is a member as well of the editorial board of Studies in Popular Culture and Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media. She delivered keynote addresses at the Blood, Text and Fears conference on BtVS in Norwich England, October 2002, at Sonic Synergies/Creative Cultures, and at
Staking a Claim: Global Buffy and Local Identities. Next April she will be a keynote speaker at the Contemporary American Quality Television International Conference at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. She, too, is a member of the editorial board of Studies in Popular Culture, Refractory, and Intensities. Her e-mail address is rhonda_w@gdn.edu.