Mr. Pointy Awards / 2014
For Works Published in 2013

Short-Form Award
  • Masson, Cynthea. “‘Break Out the Champagne Pinocchio’: Angel and the Puppet Paradox.” Studies in Popular Culture 35.2 (Spring 2013): 43-67. Print.

Long-Form Award
  • Lavery, David. Joss Whedon, A Creative Portrait: From Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Marvel’s The Avengers. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2013. Print.

Paper Award for the 6th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses (2014)*
  • Call, Lewis. "'A Very Specific Skill Set': Joss Whedon's Black Widow as Radical Icon of Third Wave Feminism"
  • Graves, Stephanie A. "'You Really Think I’m Pretty?': The Problem of Gender Representation in The Avengers"
*For the first time in the history of the Paper Award, two individuals tied for first place by vote of conference attendees. More interestingly, the papers reflect opposing views, a sign of the health of the organization.
Short-Form Finalists
  • Boulware, Taylor. “‘I Made Me’: Queer Theory, Subjection, and Identity in Dollhouse.”  Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 10.1 (Winter 2013): n. pag. Web.
  • Bussolini, Jeffrey. “Television Intertextuality After Buffy: Intertextuality of Casting and Constitutive Intertextuality.” Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 10.1 (Winter 2013): n. pag. Web.
  • Fernandez, Charmaine. “Déjà New in Joss Whedon's Marvel's The Avengers” Special Issue of Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies  (Jan. 2013): n. pag. Web.
  • Lee, Tiffany Kristin. “The Justice Systems of Slayers and Vengeance Demons: Prosecutorial Discretion in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 10.1 (Winter 2013): n. pag. Web.

Long-Form Finalists
  • Mills, Anthony R., John W. Morehead, and J. Ryan Parker, eds. Joss Whedon and Religion: Essays on an Angry Atheist's Explorations of the Sacred. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013. Print.
  • Stuller, Jennifer K., ed. Fan Phenomena: Buffy the Vampire Slayer. London: Intellect, 2013. Print.