The Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Nashville, TN / 2004

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Host and Host Site

• Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN
• The Renaissance Hotel, Nashville, TN

Conveners

• David Lavery
• Rhonda V. Wilcox

Local Arrangements Chair

• David Lavery

Keynote Speakers

• David Bianculli
• Nancy Holder
• Sue Turnbull
• James B. South

Program

Archived Presentations*

• Alderman, Naomi. "'Those Whom the Powers Wish to Destroy, They Must First Make Mad': Gods, Prophecy and Death: The Classical Roots of Madness in Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
• Blanco, Thèrése A. "'You're Beneath Me': The Stigma of Vampirism in the Buffyverse"
• Bloustien, Geraldine. "Carpe Diem or 'Fish of the Day?': Time as Leitmotif in Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
• Bradney, Anthony. "Images of Law in BtVS"
• Burdolski, Lauren. "Reflections of Society in the Buffyverse"
• Burr, Vivien. "Bringing Your Own Subtext: Individual Differences in Viewers' Responses to Buffy"
• Burr, Vivien. "Performing the Imaginative Variation: Using Buffy to Teach Sartre"
• Burr, Vivien and Christine Jarvis. "'Friends Are the Family We Choose for Ourselves': Young People and Families in Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
• Comeford, AmiJo. "Structural Identity, or Saussure Visits Buffy/Angel's World: An Oppositional View of Angel"
• Donaruma, William. "Once More With Feeling: The Hellmouth in Postmodern Heaven"
• Duricy, Michael P. "Marian Symbols in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Television Series on the WB"
• Francis, Jr., James. "'Selfless': Locating Female Identity in Anya/Anyanka through Prostitution"
• Grossman, Jacob. "Spike, the Initiative, and the Substitution of the Technological for the Metaphysical"
• Halfyard, Janet K. "The Greatest Love of All: Cordelia's Journey of Self-Discovery"
• Hall, Jasmine. "Im/Material Girl: Abjection, Penetration, and the Postmodern Body on Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
• Held, Jacob. "The Stuff We're Made Of"
• Hill, Kathryn. "Music, Subtexts and Foreshadowings: Contextual Roles of Popular Music in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 1997-2003"
• Jowett, Lorna. "The Problem of Romance and the Representation of Gender in Buffy and Angel"
• Krzywinska, Tanya. "Demon Power Girl: Regimes of Form and Force in Videogames Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Primal"
• Lehmann, Joanna. "The Bully Within and Without: Facing Intimidation in Buffy"
• Montz, Amy L. "'Size Doesn't Matter?': The Disembodied Miniature in Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
• Peeling, Caitlin, and Meaghan Scanlon. "'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"
• Pender, Patricia. "Whose Revolution Has Been Televised?: Buffy's Transnational Sisterhood of Slayers"
• Porter, Heather M. "Buffy Lives: An Angian Examination of Buffy Watchers"
• Rauch, Stephen. "When 'Until the End of the World' Really Means It: Friendship, Love, and Spiritual Warfare in the Buffyverse and in Garth Ennis' and Steve Dillon's Preacher"
• Rosenfeld, Lawrence B. "Interpersonal Relationships in the Buffyverse: The Connection with Everyday Life"
• Schiffren, Mara. "On Escherian Dualism and the Metaphysics of the Middle Way: Interpreting the Spatial Architecture of Angel the Series"
• Showalter, Dennis. "Buffy Goes to War: Military Themes and Images in Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
• Stokes, Jennifer. "'Who Died and Made You John Wayne?' or, Why Riley Finn Could Never Be a Scooby"
• Stuart, Susan. "When Ontologies Collide: The Essential Confusion of Existence in the Buffyverse"
• Van Dyke, Trudi. "'At Midnight Drain the Stream of Life': Vampires and the New Woman"
• van Gameren, Sophia. "'That Boy Is Our Last Hope': Andrew, Star Wars, and the Figure of the Jedi in Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
• Williams, Todd. "The Threat to the Subject in 'Once More, with Feeling'"
• Wilts, Alissa. "Lesbian-Type Lovers: Heterosexual Writer Bias and the Evil/Dead Lesbian Cliché in the Representation of the Willow/Tara Relationship"

* Following the conference, presenters were invited at their discretion to share digital copies of their presentations.