Slayage 7.1 [25], Winter 2008
Special Issue, Firefly and Serenity
Guest Edited by Tanya R. Cochran and Rhonda V. Wilcox

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Tanya R. Cochran (Union College) and Rhonda V. Wilcox (Gordon College)

• Introduction to Special Issue, "A New Frontier: Whedon Studies and Firefly/Serenity"
  
  

Jes Battis (CUNY)

• "Captain Tightpants:  Firefly and the Science Fiction Canon"
  
  

Rebecca M. Brown (Swansea University)

• "Orientalism in Firefly and Serenity"
  
  

Agnes B. Curry (St. Joseph's College)

• "'We don’t say "Indian"': On the Paradoxical Construction of the Reavers"
  
  

Mark Gelineau (The Harker School)

• "Coyote in the Black: The Evolution of Malcolm Reynolds the Trickster-Shaman"
  
  

Linda Jean Jencson (Appalachian State University)

• "'Aiming to Misbehave': Role Modeling Political-Economic Conditions and Political Action in the Serenityverse"

 
Report on The Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses
​"Stacey Abbott (Roehampton University) and Lorna Jowett (University College, Northampton)

• "Buffy Hereafter: From the Whedonverse to the Whedonesque"

Slayage 7.2 [26], Spring 2008
Edited by David Lavery and Rhonda V. Wilcox

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Wendy Olson (Washington State University Vancouver)

• "Enlightenment Rhetoric in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Ideological Implications of Worldviews in the Buffyverse"
  
  

Paul D. Shapiro (Georgia Southwestern)

• "Someone to Sink Your Teeth Into: Gendered Biting Patterns on Buffy the Vampire Slayer—A Quantitative Analysis"
  
  

Ananya Mukherjea (College of Staten Island, CUNY)

• "'When You Kiss Me, I want to Die': Gothic Relationships and Identity on Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
  
  

K. Dale Koontz (Cleveland State Community College)

• "The One That Almost Got Away: Doyle and the Fish Story"
  
  

George A. Dunn and Brian McDonald (Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis)

•  "'A Very Strong Urge to Hit You': Mimetic Violence and Scapegoating in Buffy the Vampire Slayer"

Slayage 7.3 [27], Winter 2009
Edited by David Lavery and Rhonda V. Wilcox

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Howard Harris (University of South Australia)

•  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the Business Ethics Classroom"
  
  

Christine Hoffmann (University of Arkansas)

•  "Happiness is a Warm Scythe: The Evolution of Villainy and Weaponry in the Buffyverse"
  
  

Christine Jarvis (University of Huddersfield)

• "'I run to Death': Renaissance Sensibilities in Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
  
  

J. Robert Loftis (Lorain County Community College)

•  "Moral Complexity in the Buffyverse"
  
  

Rhonda V. Wilcox (Gordon College)

•  "The Whedon Studies Association"

Slayage 7.4 [28], Summer 2009
Edited by David Lavery and Rhonda V. Wilcox

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Kevin K. Durand (Henderson State University)

• "'Are You Ready to Finish This?': The Battle against the Patriarchal Forces of Darkness" (From Buffy Meets the Academy: Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Texts © 2009,  Edited by Kevin K. Durand by permission of McFarland & Co., Inc. Box 611, Jefferson NC 28640)
  
  

J. Douglas Rabb and J. Michael Richardson (Lakehead University)

•  "Myth, Metaphor, Morality and Monsters: The Espenson Factor and Cognitive Science in Joss Whedon's Narrative Love Ethic"
  
  

Sören Nylin (Stockholm University)

• "Mad, Bad Scientists and Cute, Curious Magicians: The Quest for Knowledge in Buffy and the Whedonverse"
  
  

Malin Isaksson (Umeå University)

• "Buffy/Faith Adult Femslash: Queer Porn with a Plot"
  
  

Shiloh Carroll (Middle Tennessee State University)

• "Psychology of a 'Superstar': A Pyschological Analysis of Jonathan Levinson"