Watcher Junior  8.1 [11], Spring 2015
Edited by Jodie A. Kreider and Meghan K. Winchell

Joseph Doherty Bailey (University of Warwick, U.K.)

• “Newly Human and Strangely Literal”: Embodiments of Haraway’s Simian, Cyborg, & Woman in Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
  

Emma Di Bernardo (University of Queensland, Australia)

• "Can the Buffy Comics Be Feminist? Transmedia Adaptation and Representation"
  

Michelle Hosogi (Emerson College, USA)

• "Tequila is My Lady: Is The Cabin in the Woods Nihilistically Half Full?"
  

Lyndsey Schley (Kent State University, USA)

• "River Tam: The Oracle of Serenity"
  

Jordyn Wear (Vancouver Island University, Canada)

• "Conversation, Reflection, and Shared Alienation: Forming Relationships with the Spaceship Serenity in Joss Whedon’s Firefly"
  

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Watcher Junior  8.2 [12] Fall 2015
Edited by Jodie A. Kreider and Meghan K. Winchell

Sarah Corsie (Vancouver Island University, B.C., Canada)

• “You Know, You Ain’t Quite Right”: Humanity and the Monstrous ‘Other’ in Joss Whedon’s Firefly"
  

Chelsea La Fortune (Vancouver Island University, B.C., Canada)

• “The Man They Call Jayne”: Emotional Development and the Family Structure in Joss Whedon’s Firefly"
  

Leah Lenk & Denise Lynch (California State University, Bakersfield, U.S.A.)

• “Yes Men”? Rape Myths and Gender Stereotypes in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
  
  

Aaron Livingstone (Vancouver Island University, B.C., Canada)

•  “Bits, Fluids, what am I?”:  Biopolitical Incursion and River’s Enduring Soul"
  
  

Rachel A. Melnyk (California State University, Bakersfield, U.S.A.)

• “I Only Have Eyes For You”: A Disobedient Reading of the Buffy/Angel Romance in Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
  

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