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Slayage 16.2 [48], Summer / Fall 2018
Special Issue: Buffy at 20
Guest Edited by Gerry Canavan and James B. South

BUFFY AT 20
Introduction: Buffy at Twentysomething
  — Gerry Canavan (Marquette University) and James South (Marquette University)
 
ARTICLES
 
The “Restless” Uncanny: Nomadic Affectivity and Apocalyptic Embodiments in the Anthropocene
  — Renée T. Coulombe (Independent Scholar)
 
“What if I’m still there? What if I never left that clinic?”: Faërian Drama in Buffy’s “Normal Again”
  -- Janet Brennan Croft (Rutgers University)
 
Not Gay Enough So You’d Notice: Poaching Fuffy
  — Jennifer DeRoss (Lane Community College)
 
“Spike Is Forgiven: The Sympathetic Vampire’s Resonance with Rape Culture”
  — Wendy Fall (Marquette University)
 
“The Hardest Thing in This World Is to Live in It”: Identity and Mental Health in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  — Alex Fixler (Independent Scholar)
 
“Once More, with Feeling”: Emotional Self-Discipline in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  — Gwynne Kennedy (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee) and Jennifer Dworschack-Kinter (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee)
 
Visions of the Soul: Looking Back on Buffy and Angel
  — Dean Kowalski (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee)
 
INTERVIEWS
The Past and Future of Buffy Studies: A Conversation with Rhonda Wilcox
  — James South
 
Whedon Studies after Whedon: A Conversation with Sherryl Vint
  — Gerry Canavan
 
REPORT
Report on SCW8: The Eighth Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses
  — Elizabeth Gilliland (Independent Scholar), Darrell J. Jordan (University of Washington), and Robin Robinson​​ (Watkins Film School)

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Slayage 16.1 [47], Winter / Spring 2018
Rhonda V. Wilcox, Editor  |  David Lavery, Founding Editor  |  Kristopher Karl Woofter, Associate Editor  |  Shiloh Carroll, Assistant Editor  |  Cody Walraven, Editorial Assistant

Ten on Twenty: Personal Reflections Upon Twenty Years into Buffy the Vampire Slayer
​Edited by Rhonda V. Wilcox
Contributors: Karrin Vasby Anderson, Jay Bamber, Lewis Call, Yehudit Hannah Cohn, David Kociemba, Rebecca Kumar, Casey McCormick, Doug Rabb and Mike Richardson, Joni ("Johnnie") Sager, Don Tresca 

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Rebecca I. M. Foley (University of Alberta)

• "Shoot 'Em ... Politely": Presentations of Gender, Violence, and Power in Firefly​

Elizabeth Gilliland (Louisiana State University)

• Double Trouble: Gothic Shadows and Self-Discovery in ​Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Jessica Hautsch (Stony Brook University)

• "One of your little pop culture references": Argument, Intertextuality, and Literary Affordance in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Fanfiction

Katarina O'Dette

• Heroic Mediocrity: Xander Harris and the Civil Heroism of the Ordinary

Elizabeth L. Rambo (Campbell University)

• Third-Culture Kid Identity Paradigms in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Episode "Lies My Parents Told Me"

K. Brenna Wardell (University of North Alabama)

• “Fully loaded, safety off. This here is a recipe for unpleasantness”: Joss Whedon, John Ford, and the Dark Side of the American Mythos

Darcy Mullen (University at Albany-SUNY), with Tirza L. Leader

• What to do About All The Number Thingies: Data on Violence and Verbal Complexity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer               (w/ Appendix, "Data Set on Violence and Verbal Complexity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer," compiled by Darcy Mullen and Tirza L. Leader [Georgia Gwinnett College])