Whedonology: Currently Unpublished and Unavailable Materials

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Nadkarni, Samira S. "'In a World This Vulnerable': Tony Stark's In/Visible Corporate Militarism and Drone Warfare." Paper presented at EuroSlayage [SCW7]: The 7th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK, 7-10 July 2016.

___. "'This Isn't a Book Club... This Is the Herd': Embodiment and Sexuality in Dollhouse." Paper presented at the 33rd Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 8-11 February 2012.

___. "'Your heart's desire made flesh': Figuring the Modern Golem in Dollhouse." Paper presented at the 32nd Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, San Antonio, TX, 20-23 April 2011.

___, Mary Ellen Iatropoulos, and Jessica Hautsch. "Empowerment or Empire?: Troubling the Whedon Trope of Fighting the Good Fight." Panel discussion at EuroSlayage [SCW7]: The 7th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK, 7-10 July 2016.

Nakagawa, Chiho. "The Future Echo—Fantasy Self in Dollhouse." Paper presented at SCW6: Much Ado About Whedon: The 6th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, California State University – Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, 19-22 June 2014.

Ndalianis, Angela. "Buffy, Angel and the Palimpsest Apocalypse." Paper presented at Staking a Claim: Exploring the Global Reach of Buffy, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, 22 July 2003.

Neal, Christopher. "Technology and Humanity in the Whedonverse." Paper presented at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

___. "Vampires Rock, Heads Roll: Tone Painting, Characterization via Musical Style, and Other Musical Symbolism in 'Once More, with Feeling'." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Neal, Courtney. "'I Kill Because I Care': Joss Whedon and Character Death." Paper presented at the 2013 Midwest PCA/ACA Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO, 11-13 October 2013.

Neetz, Dakota. "Into the Mind of Joss Whedon." Paper presented at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association 37th Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 10-13 February 2016.

Nelson, Katie. "'I'll Be in My Bunk': Joss Whedon, Sexuality and Female Power; an Analysis of Sexuality and the Female Character in Firefly and Serenity." Paper presented at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

Neuwirth, Jessica. "Joss Whedon: Born into Feminism." Paper presented as keynote address at SCW6: Much Ado About Whedon: The 6th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, California State University – Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, 19-22 June 2014.

Nichols, Tamara. "Hero Unveiled: Transformation of Myth in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at Psyche and Imagination: a Multidisciplinary Academic Conference of Jungian and Post-Jungian Studies; The International Association for Jungian Studies & University of Greenwich, London, UK, July 2006.

Nicholson, Sarah. "Buffy the Philistine Slayer: Echoes of Samson in the Buffyverse." Paper presented at Buffy and the Bible, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, 4-5 July 2019.

Neilson, Sarah M. "The Truest Souls Among Us: Dollhouse and Evolving Identities of the Fairy Tale Princess." Paper presented at the 31st Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 10-13 February 2010.

Nelson, Betsy. "'To Find What is Shrouded in Shadow': BDSM, Buffy, and the Rejection of the Binary." Paper presented at the 2012 PCA/ACA National Conference, Boston, MA, 11-14 April 2012. Also presented at Rated X: Perversion and Exclusion, Brandeis University English Department 6th Annual Graduate Student Conference, 30 March 2012.

Norris, Amber. "'What I Do is Evil,' But It's For Your Own Good: Aspects of Villainy and Heroism in Whedon's Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog and Serenity."Paper presented at the 31st Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 10-13 February 2010.

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Ober, Wade. "From Seggri to the Buffy-verse: Science Fiction's Attack on Heteronormativity." Paper presented at the 2006 PCA/ACA National Conference, Atlanta, GA, 12-15 April 2006.

___. "I Don't Bruise Easily: Buffy and Evil Father Figures." Paper presented at the 2006 Midwest PCA/ACA Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN, 27-29 October 2006.

Oberlin, Kevin. "Patrolling the Border: American Imperial Structures in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the 26th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 9-12 February 2005.

___. "Winning at Dolls: Dollhouse as a Zero-Sum Game." Paper presented at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

Oberlin, Molly. "Writing Echoes: Dollhouse in the Composition Classroom." Paper presented at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

O'Dell, Carrie. "Willow Rosenberg and S. Ansky's 'The Dybbuk': Practical Kabbalah, Witchcraft, and Forbidden Love." Paper accepted (but not presented) for SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

Okabe, Mimi. "It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's a Re-presentation of the Female Superhero in Joss Whedon's Fray." Paper presented at the 2013 Popular Culture Association of Canada Conference, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, 9-11 May 2013.

Oliver, Hannah. "History is Programmed By the Winner: Collective Memory in Doctor Who and Firefly." Paper presented at the 2013 PCA/ACA National Conference, Washington, D.C., 27-30 March 2013.

O'Malley, Cynthia Ryan. "Bringing the Power Together: Willow's Four Personalities." Unpublished paper written for undergraduate course, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, 2004.

O'Meara, Radha. "Patterns of Revelation in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

___. "Soap Hybridity: How Elements of Soap Opera Function in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at What Lies Beneath: Postgraduate Conference, AHCCA, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 6 November 2003.

O'Reilly, Julie Dianne. "Examining the 'Girl Question': the Use of Doubles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Osell, Tedra. "'In Many a Scaly Fold': Maternal Love, Maternal Lust, and Temporal Transformation in BtVS." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

O'Sullivan, Carol. "'Deprimere Ille Babula Linter?': Crossing Over, Reading Through and Puzzling Out in the Buffyverse." Paper presented at Blood, Text and Fears: Reading Around Buffy the Vampire Slayer, University of East Anglia, 19-20 October 2002.

Oviedo, Marilda. "'Blah, blah, blah, Gaia, Moon, and Menstrual Life Force': Tara as a Representation of the Goddess." Paper accepted (but not presented) for the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Owen, Sarah. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Television or Transmedia?" Paper presented at Staking a Claim: Exploring the Global Reach of Buffy, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, 22 July 2003.

Ozgercin, Heather. "I See Almost Dead People: The Re-visions of Cordelia Chase." Paper presented at Pippi to Ripley: Heroines of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, 23 April 2011.

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Pack, Jo Lynn. "Success of the Fittest: the Evolutionary Appeal of BtVS." Paper accepted (but not presented) for SC3: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008.

Page, Rachel. "The Status Is Not Quo: Postmodernism in Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog." Paper presented at the 33rd Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 8-11 February 2012.

Palmer, Michael. "Scoobies, Cyborgs and Women: Exploring Haraway's Cyborg Blasphemy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the 2008 PCA/ACA National Conference, San Francisco, CA, 19-22 March 2008.

___. "'You'll Adjust': Spike's Bad Conscience in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the 2007 PCA/ACA National Conference, Boston, MA, 4-7 April 2007.

Park, Susan Shin Hee. "'Her Work Shall Set Us Free: Immaterial Labor, Gender and Biopolitics in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the 27th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 8-11 February 2006. Also accepted (but not presented) for SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

Parks, Shaolin. "'I mean, admittedly, it's not a haven for the brothers': Millenial Student Critiques of Race in Buffy." Paper accepted (but not presented) for SCW8: The 8th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL, 21-24 June 2018.

Parker, Kathy. "Extraordinarily Ordinary: a Reader-Response View of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's 'The Zeppo' and 'Potential'." Paper presented at It's the End of the World... Again: Why Buffy Still Matters: a Buffy the Vampire Slayer Mini-Conference, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, 16 March 2007.

Parkison, Park S. R. "High Stakes Education: The Development of a Student-Centered Classroom in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the 36th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL, 18-22 March 2015.

Pateman, Matthew. "Buffy versus Dracula: Television, Modernity and Cultural Narrative." Paper presented at TV Fangdom: A Conference on Television Vampires, University of Northampton, Northampton, UK, 7-8 June 2013.

___. "'Contrary to popular mythology': Atheism, Humanism and the Myth of Religion in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented as keynote address at Buffy and the Bible, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, 4-5 July 2019.

___. "The Dramatics of Death in Firefly and Serenity." Paper presented at the John Milton Writers' Conference: East Meets (the American) West, University of South Dakota, October 2007.

___. "Edited Out: The Sad Omission of the Television Editor." Paper presented at SCW8: The 8th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL, 21-24 June 2018.

___. "'Grrr Arrgh': the Monstrous Involutions of Buffy." Paper presented at Staking a Claim: Exploring the Global Reach of Buffy, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, 22 July 2003.

___. "'I thought J-Mo would back my play': Dr Horrible and the Transitions of Whedons." Paper presented at EuroSlayage [SCW7]: The 7th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK, 7-10 July 2016.

___. "'My Name's Buffy and Your History': the Myth/Misquotation of History." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

___. "'Shallow Like Us': a Bit of a Chat About a TV." Paper presented as keynote address at SC3: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008.

___. "Violence and Voyeurism in Joss Whedon's Firefly and Serenity." Paper presented at the 106th Annual Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), Claremont, CA, 7-8 November 2008.

___. "Whedon Studies: The Director's Cut." Paper presented at SCW5: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 12-15 July 2012.

Patton, Lori C. "Horror, Hope and Heroes: Practical Theology in BtVS." Paper presented at Blood, Text and Fears: Reading Around Buffy the Vampire Slayer, University of East Anglia, 19-20 October 2002.

___. "'What Else Are we Gonna Do?': Finding 'the Courage to Be' with Angel and Buffy." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Patton, William Luke. "'I Understood That Reference!': Inter-textuality and the Figure of the Geek in Whedon." Paper presented at the 2014 Midwest PCA/ACA Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN, 3-5 October 2014. Also presented at the Joss in June 2015 Conference, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, 26-27 June 2015.

___. "'Terrible Confusion': Insanity in the Works of Joss Whedon." Paper presented at Joss in June: A Conference on the Works of Joss Whedon, Cleveland Community College, Shelby, NC, 29 June 2013.

___. "'What's This Cheery Singing All About?': The Musical Episode." Paper presented at the 2011 PCAS/ACAS Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, 6-8 October 2011.
Paule, Michele. "'I Can Kill You with my Brain': Gender and Genius in the Jossverse." Paper accepted (but not presented) for SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

___. "School Schemata and Transformative Pedagogies in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at Bring Your Own Subtext: Social Life, Human Experience and the Works of Joss Whedon, Conference, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK, 29 June - 1 July 2005.

___. "Using BtVS to Stimulate and Inform Dialogue Amongst Senior Educators with Respect to the Experience of Able and Gifted Students." Paper accepted (but not presented) for SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

___ and Laura Davison. "School Harder: Using Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Stretch Young Minds." Paper presented at Blood, Text and Fears: Reading Around Buffy the Vampire Slayer, University of East Anglia, 19-20 October 2002.

Payne, Daniel. "Confessions of a Reluctant Vampire: 'Taking the Crimson Highway to Hollywood'" Paper presented at Get to the Point: Issues at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, SUNY College at Oneonta, November 2009.

Peak, Mia. "Love Will Triumph: Themes of Romance in Buffy and Young Adult Vampire Novels." Paper presented at the 2003 PCA/ACA National Conference, New Orleans, LA, 16-19 April 2003.

Pearson, Leslie. "Re-Presenting Reality: Exploring Cultural Narratives at Work in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at SCW5: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 12-15 July 2012.

Pearson, Megan. "Shifting from the Mystical Supernatural to the Technological Superhuman." Paper presented at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association 35th Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 19-22 February 2014.

Peck, James. "Dramatic Irony in Buffy and Angel: Affective Pleasures and Ideological Contradictions." Paper presented at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

Peloff, Amy. "Thanksgiving Guilt Pangs: Representations of a Celebration of Colonialism (in Buffy the Vampire Slayer)." Paper presented at the 2003 Midwest PCA/ACA Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN, 17-19 October 2003.

Pemelton, Sarah. "You Think You Know What You Are: How Buffy and Spike Define Self Through Art in Joss Whedon's BtVS." Paper presented at WisCon 29, Madison, WI, May 2005.

Pender, Patricia J. "Parsing the Sexual Politics of Buffy Vs Edward (Metalepsis in the Mash-Up)." Paper presented at SCW5: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 12-15 July 2012.

Perdigao, Lisa K. "'Bringing Buffy Back': Re-animating the Body in/of Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

___. "'I Just Followed the Bodies' Corporeality and Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Session accepted (but not presented) for the 35th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Convention, Pittsburgh, PA, 3-7 March 2004.

___. "'I'm All for Spurty Knowledge': Buffy and Academics." Paper presented at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

___. "'What Can I Say? I Need Closure': Angel's Narratological Crisis." Paper presented at the 2005 PCAS/ACAS Annual Conference, Jacksonville, FL, 6-8 October 2005.

Perino, Julie. "Married to Identity: Constructing Identity and Marriage in the Works of Joss Whedon." Paper presented at the 2013 PCA/ACA National Conference, Washington, D.C., 27-30 March 2013.

Peters, Brian M. "Bad Boy Vamps and Bad Girl Gothic-Superheroes: Interview with the Vampire, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and True Blood and the Queer Sexual Agency of the Post-Modern Gothic." Paper presented at the 2012 PCA/ACA National Conference, Boston, MA, 11-14 April 2012. Also presented as "Bad Boy Vamps and Bad Girl Gothic-Superheroes: Interview with the Vampire, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and True Blood and the Sexual Agency of the Post-Modern Gothic" at the 2011 PCAS/ACAS Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, 6-8 October 2011.

___. "Nerd/Witch/Queer: Murderous Equations and Same-Sex Desire in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the 2009 PCA/ACA National Conference, New Orleans, LA, 8-11 April 2009.

___. "Re-Gendered Bodies and Gendered Spaces: Desire and Sexuality in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the 2007 PCA/ACA National Conference, Boston, MA, 4-7 April 2007.

___ and Joy Sperling. "Gender/Desire/Sexuality and Equations of Violence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Panel discussion at the 2009 PCA/ACA National Conference, New Orleans, LA, 8-11 April 2009.

Peters, Jane. "Dissembling The Avengers, or, Did We See the Same Movie?" Paper presented at the 2013 PCA/ACA National Conference, Washington, D.C., 27-30 March 2013.

Peters, Mark. "The Nah-nah-nah-nah-nah Approach to Naming: a Slice of Slayer Slang." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Petrova, Erma. "The Faust Paradigm: Soul-Having in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Marlowe's Doctor Faustus." Paper presented (by Russ Jackson) at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Pettell, Amber. "'My Name is Conrade: Homoeroticism and Gender Coding in Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing." Paper presented at the 2015 NEPCA Conference, New London, NH, 30-31 October 2015.

Phillips, Maxine. "Respondent to 'Such is the Will of God': Freedom and Destiny in the Buffyverse." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

___ and Emma Roderick. "Lies My Mother Told Me: Moms and Offspring in the Buffyverse. Is Death the Only Gift Mothers Can Give?" Paper presented at SC3: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008.

Piazza, Joy. "[De]sissifying Men: Angel and Promasculinist Resistance to Buffyworld." Paper presented at the 27th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 8-11 February 2006.

Pietruszynski, Jeffrey. "Connecting with 'The Other': Anti-hero as Role Model in Firefly's 'Verse." Paper presented at the 2012 PCA/ACA National Conference, Boston, MA, 11-14 April 2012.

Pinson, John. "On Patrol: Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Liminal Enforcer." Paper presented at Blood, Text and Fears: Reading Around Buffy the Vampire Slayer, University of East Anglia, 19-20 October 2002.

Piper, Kevin. "Getting to Know the Monster in Buffy and Angel." Paper presented at the 26th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 9-12 February 2005.

Pipkin, Chris. "'Because the Status is not Quo'": The 'Super- Villain' as Anti-Capitalist Revolutionary in Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog." Paper presented at the 2009 PCAS/ACAS Annual Conference, Wilmington, NC, 1-3 October 2009.

Pistilli Conrad, Amalia. "Through a Shadow, Dark: The Influence of Dark Shadows on Buffy and Angel." Paper accepted (but not presented) for SCW5: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 12-15 July 2012.

Pizzino, Christopher. "Secular Scoobies: Trouble at the Boundaries of the Buffyverse." Paper presented at the 26th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 9-12 February 2005.

Platz, Jenny. "Anya's Failed Screwball Romance in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the Joss in June 2015 Conference, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, 26-27 June 2015.

___. "Foxy Slayers: Pam Grier and Nikki Wood." Paper presented at SCW5: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 12-15 July 2012.

___. "Michel Foucault, the Patriarchy of the Shadow Men, and Buffy's Parrhesiastic Act of Psychoanalysis in 'Conversations with Dead People'." Paper presented at SCW6: Much Ado About Whedon: The 6th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, California State University – Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, 19-22 June 2014.

Playdon, Zoe-Jane. "Apocalypse Now and Again: Hero Myths in BtVS." Paper presented as keynote address at Bring Your Own Subtext: Social Life, Human Experience and the Works of Joss Whedon, Conference, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK, 29 June - 1 July 2005.

Podhajski-LeRoy, Susan. "'Dude Looks Like a Lady': The Feminization of the Archetypal Hero in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel." Paper presented at the 2012 PCA/ACA National Conference, Boston, MA, 11-14 April 2012.

Pomeroy, Arthur J. "Don't Speak Latin in Front of the Books." Paper presented at Blood, Text and Fears: Reading Around Buffy the Vampire Slayer, University of East Anglia, 19-20 October 2002, and at Greeks and Romans in the Buffyverse: Classical Threads in Fantasy and Science Fiction on Contemporary Television, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK, 7-8 January 2004.

Popielinski, Lea. "The Dead and the Frugal: Buffy, Angel, and the Economics of Demon Slaying." Paper presented at the 29th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 14-17 February 2008. 

___. "Non-Heteronormativity and Gender Ambiguity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel." Paper presented at the 28th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 14-17 February 2007.

Porter, Heather M. "Corporate Tools: Examining the use of Psychology in the Corporations and Organizations in the Whedonverses." Paper presented at SCW8: The 8th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL, 21-24 June 2018.

___. "Cuppa Tea, Cuppa Tea or Something Stronger: Images of Tea in the Whedonverse." Paper presented at EuroSlayage [SCW7]: The 7th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK, 7-10 July 2016.

___. "Evil Intelligence: Angel versus Angelus." Paper presented at SC3: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008.

___. "'I Didn't Get This Job Because of My Looks': An Examination of the Intellectual Development of Wesley Wyndam-Price." Paper presented at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

___. "'I don't want to use the word genius, but I'd be ok if you wanted to': A Look at the Use of Intelligence on Dollhouse." Paper presented at the 2010 PCAS/ACAS Annual Conference, Savannah, GA, 7-9 October 2010.

___. "'I may be a slow learner... but eventually I learn': Examining the Developing Intelligence of Spike." Paper presented at the 32nd Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, San Antonio, TX, 20-23 April 2011.

___. "'I think your fantasy is even sadder than mine': Paul Ballard and Toxic Masculinity in Dollhouse." Paper presented at Slayage 10 [Buffy Lives!]: The 10th Biennial Slayage Conference, Cal Poly [California Polytechnic State University] San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, CA, 18-21 July 2024.

___. "'I was raised to believe that men dig up the corpses and the women have the babies': Examining the Psychology of Sex and Gender in the Whedonverses." Paper presented at the 2018 PCA National Conference, Indianapolis, IN, 28-31 March 2018.

___. "'If doing violence to vampires upsets you, I think you're in the wrong line of work!': A Quantitative Examination of Violence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at SCW5: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 12-15 July 2012.

___. "'If you could be... you know, plain old Willow or Super Willow, who would you be?': Examining Willow's Use of Intelligence and Violence in BtVS." Paper presented at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010. Also presented in earlier form as "'I haven't been a nerd for a very long time!': Examining Willow's Use of Intelligence in BtVS" at the 2010 PCA/ACA National Conference, St. Louis, MO, 31 March – 3 April 2010.

___. "'Tea or Something Stronger': Images of Tea in Joss Whedon's Firefly and Dollhouse." Paper presented at the Joss in June 2015 Conference, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, 26-27 June 2015.

Porter, Jennifer. "Death and Resurrection in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the 2002 Annual Meeting of the PCA/ACA, Toronto, March 2002.

Porter, Patrick J. "Secrets and Lies: 'Retcon' and the Banal Resolution of Character Enigmas in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel." Paper presented at Staking a Claim: Exploring the Global Reach of Buffy, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, 22 July 2003. Also presented at What Lies Beneath: Postgraduate Conference, AHCCA, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 6 November 2003.

Potter, A. "A Case Study on Group Viewing of BTVS." Paper presented at Bring Your Own Subtext: Social Life, Human Experience and the Works of Joss Whedon, Conference, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK, 29 June - 1 July 2005.

Potts, Liza. "Whedon's Crafty Browncoats: Firefly, etsy, and the Pioneer Spirit." Paper presented at the 2014 Midwest PCA/ACA Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN, 3-5 October 2014.

Powell, Charlotte. "Life on the Rim: Digital Divides in Joss Whedon's Firefly." Paper presented at the Joss in June 2015 Conference, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, 26-27 June 2015.

Powers, Ethan. "Adult Oriented Comics Result in Low Accessibility." Paper presented at Slayage 10 [Buffy Lives!]: The 10th Biennial Slayage Conference, Cal Poly [California Polytechnic State University] San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, CA, 18-21 July 2024.

Prchal, Tim. "'The Definition of a Hero': How Serenity Challenges the Myth of the Taming of the West." Paper presented at the 28th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 14-17 February 2007.

___. "Pre-Reavers: The Science Fiction and Cultural Roots of Joss Whedon's Version of the Primal, Threatening Mob." Paper presented at the 31st Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 10-13 February 2010.

___. "The Science Fiction and Cultural Roots of Joss Whedon's Version of the Primal, Threatening Mob." Paper presented at the 29th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 14-17 February 2008. 

Prescott, Tara. "The Poetics of Buffy: Analyzing the Structures of Speech, Chant, Song, and Silence." Paper presented at the 26th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 9-12 February 2005.

Price, Jessica. "There's Nothing Wrong with You, but You Are Different': Sadomasochism and Trauma in Season Six's Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at SCW6: Much Ado About Whedon: The 6th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, California State University – Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, 19-22 June 2014.

Prindle, Sarah. "The 'P' Word and Postfeminism in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse." Paper presented at the 31st Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 10-13 February 2010.

Pritt, Dreama. "Teaching Composition Through the Works of Whedon: Is Joss Really Boss, or is it Much Ado About Nothing?" Paper presented at the Joss in June 2015 Conference, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, 26-27 June 2015. Also presented at EuroSlayage [SCW7]: The 7th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK, 7-10 July 2016.

___, Bill Pritt, Jack Pritt, Grace Pritt, and Julia Pritt. "Watching Whedon: A Glimpse into One Family's Prolific Consumption and Dynamic Discussion of the Whedonverse (A Multi-generational Roundtable)." Panel discussion at EuroSlayage [SCW7]: The 7th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK, 7-10 July 2016.

Pruter, Robin. "Be My Buffy: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Girl Group Music - Cultural Representations of the Teenage Girl." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Pryor, Robin. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: an Ideological Perspective." Paper presented at the Southwest Popular Culture Association Conference, 2003.

Ptalis, Beth. "Myths of Male Aggression in 'Billy'." Paper presented at Blood, Text and Fears: Reading Around Buffy the Vampire Slayer, University of East Anglia, 19-20 October 2002.

Pugh, Catherine. "'Testosterone Poisoning': Riley Finn versus The Initiative." Paper presented at Slayage 10 [Buffy Lives!]: The 10th
Biennial Slayage Conference, Cal Poly [California Polytechnic State University] San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, CA, 18-21 July 2024.

Pungente, John J. "Buffy is the Key: Teaching Media Literacy." Paper presented as featured lecture at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Purac, Selma Amina. "'What If I'm Still There?': Reality and Schizophrenic Psychosis in 'Normal Again'." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.



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Race, Emily. "A Spatial Approach to Kitty Pryde: She's Sometimes a Woman to Me." Paper presented at the 2015 Midwest PCA/ACA Annual Conference, Cincinnati, OH, 1-4 October 2015.

___. "You Can't Live With 'Em; You Can't Save the World Without 'Em: Female-Driven Character Development in Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men." Paper presented at the Joss in June 2015 Conference, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, 26-27 June 2015.

Race, Molly. "Making Compromises: Morality in the Dollhouse." Paper presented at Joss in June: A Conference on the Works of Joss Whedon, Cleveland Community College, Shelby, NC, 29 June 2013.

___. "'Something Fell on Me': Trauma and Healing in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse." Paper presented at the Joss in June 2015 Conference, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, 26-27 June 2015.

Race, Paul. "Faith and the Firefly: Building a Moral Center by Consensus." Paper presented at Joss in June: A Conference on the Works of Joss Whedon, Cleveland Community College, Shelby, NC, 29 June 2013. Also presented at the 2014 Midwest PCA/ACA Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN, 3-5 October 2014.

___. "The Last of the Space Cowboys." Paper presented at the 2015 Midwest PCA/ACA Annual Conference, Cincinnati, OH, 1-4 October 2015.

___. "Precursors to Firefly: The Good 'Bad Guys'." Paper presented at the Joss in June 2015 Conference, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, 26-27 June 2015.

Rambo, Elizabeth L. "Babylon 5 as Buffy+ Precursor." Paper presented at Slayage 10 [Buffy Lives!]: The 10th Biennial Slayage Conference, Cal Poly [California Polytechnic State University] San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, CA, 18-21 July 2024.

___. "'Love's a Funny Thing': The 'Divine Comedy' of Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at SCW6: Much Ado About Whedon: The 6th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, California State University – Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, 19-22 June 2014.

___. "Making Hell Look Pretty in Pink: Buffy: The High School Years Comics." Paper presented at SCW8: The 8th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL, 21-24 June 2018.

___. "'Nobody Knows... the Real Me': the Importance of Being Dawn." Paper presented at It's the End of the World... Again: Why Buffy Still Matters: a Buffy the Vampire Slayer Mini-Conference, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, 16 March 2007.

___. "'Right Back to the Beginning': Recurring Themes in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented as keynote address at SC3: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008.

___. "Teaching Buffy the Vampire Slayer 7.16 "Storyteller" as Metafiction." Paper presented at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

Rasley, Alicia. "Reviving Buffy: Fandom and Denial of Death (Not to Mention Copyright)." Paper presented at the 2009 PCA/ACA National Conference, New Orleans, LA, 8-11 April 2009.

Ratcliffe, Jessica. "Placing Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at SCW5: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 12-15 July 2012.

Raya Bravo, Irene, María del Mar Rubio-Hernández, Inmaculada Casas-Delgado, and Cristina Pérez de Algaba Chicano. "De la Estaca al Martillo: Un Viaje por los universos de Joss Whedon: The first Spanish Academic Book about the Author and His Artistic Career." Panel discussion at EuroSlayage [SCW7]: The 7th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK, 7-10 July 2016.

Recht, Marcus. "DeWitt on Top of Dollhouse's 'Glass Ceiling': A Visual Analysis of Female Leadership Ability." Paper presented at SCW5: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 12-15 July 2012.

___. "Gazing at Male Vampires: Angel's and Spike's Bodies as Spectacle." Paper presented at SC3: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008.

___. "Gender and Christian Iconology in Angel's & Spike's Visualization." Paper presented at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

___. "Gender Images 'In Your Eyes'." Paper presented at SCW8: The 8th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL, 21-24 June 2018.

___. "Much Ado about Gender: A Visual Analysis of Joss Whedon's Shakespeare-Adaptation." Paper presented at SCW6: Much Ado About Whedon: The 6th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, California State University – Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, 19-22 June 2014.

___. "Undead Masculinities: Visual Gender Constructions of Angel and Spike." Paper presented as keynote address at EuroSlayage [SCW7]: The 7th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK, 7-10 July 2016.

___. "Visual Gender of Buffy's Male Vampires." Paper presented as featured lecture at TV Fangdom: A Conference on Television Vampires, University of Northampton, Northampton, UK, 7-8 June 2013.

Reddy, M. "Fly Robot?" Paper presented at Bring Your Own Subtext: Social Life, Human Experience and the Works of Joss Whedon, Conference, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK, 29 June - 1 July 2005.

Reffett, Delmar. "'My Wish Is Your Command': Audience, Narrative, and Spectacle in Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog." Paper presented at the 2014 Midwest PCA/ACA Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN, 3-5 October 2014.

Rees, Shelley S. "'One Girl' No More: Female Jealousy in BtVS." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

___. "A World without Sin: Anti-Fundamentalism in Serenity." Paper presented at SC3: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008.

___ and Tom Connelly. "Robots, Zombie Slaves, or Liars: Identity and Labor in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse." Paper presented at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

Reichelt, Susan. "'They're just sinners, you are sin': Contrasting the Language of Good and Evil in Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Final Season." Paper presented at Buffy and the Bible, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, 4-5 July 2019.

Reid, Colbey Emmerson. "Flirting with Death: Thanatos in Vampires, Witches, and Children." Paper presented at Buffy Hereafter: From the Whedonverse to the Whedonesque: an Interdisciplinary Conference on the Work of Joss Whedon and its Aftereffects, Istanbul, Turkey, 17-19 October 2007.

___. "Mummy, Possess'd: The Horror of Motherly Love in BtVS." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Reid, Evelyn. "The Westernization of the Vampire: From Lilith to Buffy." Paper presented at the 2007 PCA/ACA National Conference, Boston, MA, 4-7 April 2007.

Rein, Katharina and Anna Grebe. "Oxford is 'where they make Gileses': Translations of Europe in the Buffyverse." Paper presented at EuroSlayage [SCW7]: The 7th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK, 7-10 July 2016.

Reitmeyer, Morgan. "Spaceships, Pirates, and Ideology: Joss Whedon's Firefly as Critical Class Questions." Paper presented at the 2007 PCA/ACA National Conference, Boston, MA, 4-7 April 2007.

Reitzel, Armeda and Andrea Casey. "Television's Influence on Adolescent Identity and Relational Development: Can Buffy Really Be a Role Model?" Paper presented at the 25th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, San Antonio, TX, 7-10 April 2004.

Reynolds, James. "The Daimonic Tale and the Re-watch Ritual: Monstrous Duality and Joss Whedon's New Horror Tradition." Paper presented at EuroSlayage [SCW7]: The 7th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK, 7-10 July 2016.

Richards, Chris. "Dead White People: Sex and Race in BtVS and Angel." Paper presented at Bring Your Own Subtext: Social Life, Human Experience and the Works of Joss Whedon, Conference, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK, 29 June - 1 July 2005.

Richards, Jessica. "Whedon's ' Dr. Horrible': Art as Villain(ous) in a Culture of Corporate Tools." Paper presented at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association 37th Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 10-13 February 2016.

Richardson, J. Michael and J. Douglas Rabb. "Beatrice and Buffy: Shakespeare in the Whedonverse." Paper presented at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association 35th Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 19-22 February 2014.

___ . "Conflicting Concepts of Freedom and Choice in the Whedonverse." Paper presented at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

___. "Demons, Reavers and Radical Categories: The Cognitive Science Behind the Whedonverse." Paper presented at the 29th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 14-17 February 2008. 

___. "Existential Freedom in Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, and Serenity." Paper presented at the 2007 PCA/ACA National Conference, Boston, MA, 4-7 April 2007.

___. "Finding the Serenity in Tai Chi and Tai Chi in Serenity, Joss Whedon's Movie That Is: An Audience Participation Presentation." Paper presented at SCW5: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 12-15 July 2012.

___. "An Introduction to Joss Whedon as Shakespearian Moralist." Paper presented at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association 36th Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 11-14 February 2015.

___. "jAYNe Cobb, The AYN Rand of the Whedonverse: Selecting Texts in Narrative Ethics." Paper presented at SCW6: Much Ado About Whedon: The 6th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, California State University – Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, 19-22 June 2014.

___. "Joss Whedon as Environmentalist and Indian (Stereotype) Fighter." Paper presented at the 34th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 13-16 February 2013.

___. "Myth, Metaphor , Morality and Monsters: How Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Other Works by Joss Whedon Changed Ethical Thought Forever." Paper presented as featured lecture presented by Richardson and Andrea Collins at SC3: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008.

___. "The New Dale in Sunnydale: A Critique of Dale Koontz's Faith and Choice in the Works of Joss Whedon." Paper presented at the 30th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 25-28 February 2009. 

___. "The Point of Faith's Dagger: a Cutting Edge Interpretation of Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the 27th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 8-11 February 2006.

___. "The Role of Tai Chi in Whedon's Dollhouse, in Buffy, and Hidden in Plain Sight in Firefly/Serenity: An Audience Participation Presentation." Paper presented at the 32nd Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, San Antonio, TX, 20-23 April 2011.

___. "The Whedonverses' Critique of Strict Father Family Morality." Paper presented at the 33rd Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 8-11 February 2012.

___. "There's an Echo in this Horrible Dollhouse, Doctor: Memory, Identity and Neurotechnology in Riley, River, Gunn, Echo, and, of course, Spike." Paper presented at the 31st Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 10-13 February 2010.

Rickles, Tim. "Don't Blow Your Cover!!: The Aesthetics of Legitimacy Reflected by Insider Opponents in Joss Whedon's Firefly/Serenity and Dollhouse." Paper accepted (not presented) for the 33rd Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 8-11 February 2012.

Ridgway, Franklin. "Tangled in Strings: The Avengers as Hyperobject." Paper presented at the 2015 Midwest PCA/ACA Annual Conference, Cincinnati, OH, 1-4 October 2015.

Riess, Jana. "Buffydharma: BtVS and the New American Buddhism." Paper presented as featured lecture at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Riggs, Kristin "Cheyenne." "'Him' and 'It': Divine Forces at Play in the Mind and Soul of Spike." Paper presented at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

Riggle, Priscilla. "Exile and Return in Firefly." Paper presented at the 2006 PCA/ACA National Conference, Atlanta, GA, 12-15 April 2006.

Riser, Jim. "Guns Don't Kill Vampires; People Kill Vampires: the Weapons of BtVS, or the Search for WMD – Weapons of Monster Destruction in BtVS." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

___. "'A (Wo) Man's Got to Do What a (Wo)Man's Got to Do': the Western Hero as Paradigm in BtVS." Paper presented at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

Rivera-Hernández, Norma. "The Female Bildungsroman." Paper presented at Buffy Hereafter: From the Whedonverse to the Whedonesque: an Interdisciplinary Conference on the Work of Joss Whedon and its Aftereffects, Istanbul, Turkey, 17-19 October 2007.

Roberts, Ron. "From Metropolis to Melrose Place: Morphic Resonance in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at Blood, Text and Fears: Reading Around Buffy the Vampire Slayer, University of East Anglia, 19-20 October 2002.

Robinson, Michael. "Compliments of Your Friendly Neighborhood Vampire Slayer: Buffy and the Marvel Comics Formula." Paper presented at the 2003 PCA/ACA National Conference, New Orleans, LA, 16-19 April 2003.

Robinson, Robin. "Inferior Black Slayers: Race in Buffy." Paper presented at SCW8: The 8th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL, 21-24 June 2018.

Rocha, James. "The Doll's Agreement: Sexual Autonomy and the Unconscionable Contract in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse." Paper presented at the 2011 PCAS/ACAS Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, 6-8 October 2011.

Rocha, Mona and James Rocha. "Bigotry Sans Power: Grimm's Representation of Power within Monster Relations." Paper presented at Slayage 10 [Buffy Lives!]: The 10th Biennial Slayage Conference, Cal Poly [California Polytechnic State University] San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, CA, 18-21 July 2024.

Roche, Nancy. "Gender Politics, Booze, and Subterfuge in Iambic Pentameter: Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing." Paper presented at SCW8: The 8th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL, 21-24 June 2018.

___. "Revenge, Rivals, and Cupcakes: Joss Whedon's Postmodern Much Ado About Nothing." Paper presented at the Joss in June 2015 Conference, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, 26-27 June 2015.

Rogers, Brett M. "'Previously on...': Memory Loss in BtVS & Angel." Paper presented at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

___ and Walter Scheidel. "'Actually, no wheeling is more my specialty': Why Buffy Doesn't Drive." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Rogers, Scott. "Joss the Buffy Slayer: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Fetishizing of Violence Against Women." Paper presented at the 27th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 8-11 February 2006.

Rollins, Claudia. "Playing the Fool: Anya's Role in the Buffyverse." Paper presented at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

Rosa, Jordan Dobbs. "'Still not convinced it was the wrong one': Revising the Conventions of the Western in the Post-Apocalyptic 'Verse." Paper presented at the 29th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 14-17 February 2008. 

Rosa, Manuel de la. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the Girl Power Movement, and Heroism website, 2002. No longer accessible.

Rose, Anita. "Buffy's Choice: the Meta-Narrative of Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Rose, Jocelyn. "'It'll Go Straight to Your Thighs': Food and Drink Issues in BtVS and Angel." Paper presented at Blood, Text and Fears: Reading Around Buffy the Vampire Slayer, University of East Anglia, 19-20 October 2002.

Rosen, Gail D. "Walk alone in fear?: Love, Community and Individual Heroism in Buffy the Vampire Slayer's 'Once More with Feeling'. " Paper presented at the 26th Annual Mid-Atlantic PCA/ACA Conference, Philadelphia, PA, 5-7 November 2015.

Rosiene, Alan. "Little to No 'Bots: The Limits of AI in Firefly." Paper presented at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

Ross, Sharon M. "Gender, Genre, and Quality: Fan Responses to the Female Action Heroes in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Xena: Warrior Princess." Panel discussion at Console-ing Passions: International Conference on Television, Audio, Video, New Media and Feminism, New Orleans, LA, 30 May - 2 June 2004.

Rosu, Anca. "The Production of Space in Joss Whedon's Series, Firefly." Paper presented at the 2006 PCA/ACA National Conference, Atlanta, GA, 12-15 April 2006.

Rowley, Robyn. "'I'm Still Free': An Analysis of Models of Female Autonomy Aboard Serenity." Paper presented at the Joss in June 2015 Conference, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, 26-27 June 2015.

Rozenek, Miri. "Adolescents are Vampire Slayers: Identity Formation and Identification with BtVS." Unpublished essay.

Ruane, Matt. "Metal Love: Dolls, Robots, Cyborgs, and Cylons in the Whedonverse and Beyond." Paper presented at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

Rubio-Hernandez, María del Mar, Victor Hernandez-Santaolalla, and Javier Lozano Delmar. "The Spanish Whedonverse: A Study of Whedon's Fans' Creations." Paper presented at EuroSlayage [SCW7]: The 7th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK, 7-10 July 2016.

Ruddell, Caroline. "Fragile identities and the Problem of Maintaining Autonomy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel." Paper presented at Bring Your Own Subtext: Social Life, Human Experience and the Works of Joss Whedon, Conference, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK, 29 June - 1 July 2005. Also presented as "Fragile Identities and the Problem of Maintaining Autonomy in Popular Film and TV" at the Meccsa Postgraduate Conference, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK, June 2005.

Rust, Aimee R. "'We do not joke about eating people in this house!': Posthuman Thought in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at SCW5: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 12-15 July 2012.

Rust, Linda. "Demonize Me Already!: Angel's Cordelia Chase as Female Detective." Paper presented at Console-ing Passions: International Conference on Television, Audio, Video, New Media and Feminism, New Orleans, LA, 30 May - 2 June 2004.

___. "'In My Plan, We are Beltless': Andrew's Fannish Practices in 'Storyteller'." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Ryan, Alyssa. "'Good' Vampires and the Women Who Love Them: Vampiric Trends in Buffy The Vampire Slayer, The Twilight Saga, and True Blood." Paper presented at the 2010 PCA/ACA National Conference, St. Louis, MO, 31 March – 3 April 2010.

Ryan, Cynthia. "What Makes a Family?: Biology Versus Commitment in Joss Whedon's Work." Paper accepted (but not presented) for SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

Ryan, Kaitlyn. "Echo's No Echo: Building Herself in the Process of Searching for Caroline." Paper accepted (but not presented) for SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

Ryus, Lucy. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Feminism, and the World that Women Actually Have to Live In." Paper presented at the 2009 PCA/ACA National Conference, New Orleans, LA, 8-11 April 2009.

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Saccucci, Kristin. "'I've Always Been Bad': Doubting Spike's Alleged Redemption." Unpublished essay.

Sadow, Jonathan. "Nerds, Rage, and the Symbolic Order: Buffy Season Six." Paper presented at Get to the Point: Issues at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, SUNY College at Oneonta, November 2009.

St. Louis, Renée. "Buffy, Sydney & The Bride: Violent Women, Male Authorship, and Feminism in Recent Media." Paper presented at the 106th Annual Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), Claremont, CA, 7-8 November 2008.

___. "Demon Magnet in the Friend Zone: Reconsidering Xander Harris in the Age of #MeToo." Paper presented at SCW8: The 8th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL, 21-24 June 2018.

___. "Veteran Victor: Dollhouse and the Depiction of Real-World War Surviviors." Paper presented at EuroSlayage [SCW7]: The 7th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK, 7-10 July 2016.

___, Catherine Pugh, and Alyson R. Buckman. "Giving the Audience (and Characters) What They 'Need': Joss Whedon and Trauma." Panel discussion at SCW8: The 8th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL, 21-24 June 2018.

___ and Miriam Riggs. "'Clocking Field Time': War-Making as Elevated Labor in the Whedonverse." Paper presented at SCW6: Much Ado About Whedon: The 6th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, California State University – Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, 19-22 June 2014.

Salah, Patricia (Trish). "Between Psychic Stakes and Violent Schoolgirls: Consciousness Raising with the Unconscious on BtVS." Unpublished essay.

___. "Raising the Unconscious or the Dead?: the Uncanny Pedagogy of Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Sandars, Diana. "One More Time with Feeling": Manipulating Pop Culture's Generic Synergies." Paper presented at Sonic Synergies: Creative Cultures, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, 17-20 July 2003.

___. "What, No Romantic Ending?: the Horror of the Hybrid Sci-Fi/Fantasy Musical Television Series." Paper presented at The Buffyverse: a Symposium on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 21 November 2002.

Sanders, Hannah. "From the Screen to the Scene: Representations of the Teen Witch in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its Impact Upon Teen Girl Identity in Contemporary Britain." Paper presented at Blood, Text and Fears: Reading Around Buffy the Vampire Slayer, University of East Anglia, 19-20 October 2002.

Sanders, Kyrsti. "'You Really Think I'm Pretty?': Gender and the Black Widow in Marvel's The Avengers." Paper presented at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association 35th Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 19-22 February 2014.

Sanders, Robert J. "'She's not to be bought. Nor bartered, nor borrowed or lent': The Feminist Underpinnings of Captain Malcolm Reynolds in Joss Whedon's Firefly & Serenity." Paper presented at the 2015 PCA/ACA National Conference, New Orleans, LA, 1-4 April 2015.

Sandler, Kevin, Jesse Saba Kirchner, and Kristen Warner. "Teaching the Vampire Slayer: Pedagogy and Projects from University of Arizona's Buffy Class." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Santos, Jennifer Marie. "Gender Re-gendered: How Buffy the Vampire Slayer Revitalizes Gothic." Paper presented at the 2009 PCA/ACA National Conference, New Orleans, LA, 8-11 April 2009.

___. "The Lure of the Liminal: Revisiting the Gender Politics of Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the 2008 PCAS/ACAS Annual Conference, Louisville, KY, 9-11 October 2008.

Sargent, John-James. "She Saved the World." Paper presented at the 2003 NEPCA Conference, Worchester, MA, 31 October-1 November 2003.

Sawyer, Andy. "In a Small Town in California... the Subtext is Becoming Text." The Alien Online website. No longer accessible.

Saxey, Esther. "Why is BtVS so Slashable?" Paper presented at Blood, Text and Fears: Reading Around Buffy the Vampire Slayer, University of East Anglia, 19-20 October 2002.

Saye, Matthew. "On the Raggedy Edge: Liminality and Resistance in Joss Whedon's Firefly and Serenity." Paper presented at the 2012 PCA/ACA National Conference, Boston, MA, 11-14 April 2012.

Sayre, Dana. "Doing the Impossible: The Performance of Browncoat Identity." Paper presented at the 32nd Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, San Antonio, TX, 20-23 April 2011.

Schaeffer, Kyle. "'Because It's Naughty': Fidelity and Evil in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Scharff, Megan. "Power and Representational Privilege in Firefly/Serenity: Sex Work." Paper accepted (not presented) for the 33rd Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 8-11 February 2012.

Schmidt, Ronald. "'Burn it Down and Salt the Earth': Regeneration Through Violence in the Buffyverse." Paper accepted (but not presented) for the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Schneckloth, Kathrina. "Reclaiming Cordelia Chase." Paper presented at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association 45th Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 21-24 February 2024.

___. "Threshold Guardians in the Works of Joss Whedon." Paper presented at SCW8: The 8th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL, 21-24 June 2018.

Schultz, Lauren Alise. "'It's Showtime': The Spectacle of the Adolescent Female Body in Joss Whedon's Work." Paper presented at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

Schut, Mollie. "They're Women When They Cry: Joss Whedon's Female Characters as Recipients of the Male Gaze." Paper presented at the 2013 PCA/ACA National Conference, Washington, D.C., 27-30 March 2013.

Schwab, Roxanne. "Joss Whedon's Firefly: Followers, Friends, and Fans' Search for Heroes in Unheroic Eras." Paper presented at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association 35th Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 19-22 February 2014.

Scourfield, David. "Edge Girls? Buffy and the Heroines of Greek Romance." Paper presented at Greeks and Romans in the Buffyverse: Classical Threads in Fantasy and Science Fiction on Contemporary Television, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK, 7-8 January 2004.

Segura, Allison. "The Dangers of Being Male in the Feminist World of Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the 2009 PCA/ACA National Conference, New Orleans, LA, 8-11 April 2009.

Seiler, Sascha. "Buffy in the Underworld: Representations of Greek Mythology in Postmodern Demon Dimensions." Paper accepted (but not presented) for the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Sepulveda, Alaine. "From Stakes to Pistols: Killing the Other in Whedon Television." Paper presented at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

___. "Strange Slayer Pedagogy." Paper presented at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

Sequeira, Diana Anselmo. "'The Apocalypse is a Girl': Evilness and Empowerment in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Chuck Pallaniuhk's Fight Club." Paper presented at the 2007 PCA/ACA National Conference, Boston, MA, 4-7 April 2007.

Serafine, Amelia E. "Buffy Fights a Bear: Joss Whedon's Vampire Slayer as Frontier Heroine." Paper presented at the 2010 PCA/ACA National Conference, St. Louis, MO, 31 March – 3 April 2010.

Sexton, Amanda. "Rupert Giles and Negative School Libraranship Practices Portrayed in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the 2015 PCA/ACA National Conference, New Orleans, LA, 1-4 April 2015.

Shapiro, Paul D. "Alexander Harris: Buttmonkey No More." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Sharp, Amie. "Buffy and the Bard: Shakespearean Dramatic Elements in the Whedonverse." Paper presented at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

Shearer, Emily Carroll. "Malcolm Reynolds: Campbellian Hero." Paper presented at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

Shefman, Alan. "The Lolita Theme in BtVS." Paper accepted (but not presented) for the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Shepherd, Dawn. "'In the Plus Column': the Timeliness of Faith." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Sherman, Yael. "Citizenship and Belonging: Gender, the Communal, and the Public/Private in Firefly." Paper presented at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

Shotwell, Alexis. "Becoming Who You Never Were: Co-produced Selfhood in the Dollhouse." Paper presented at XIV IAPh Symposium 2010: Feminism, Science and Values, London, Ontario, CA, 25-28 June 2010.

Shuart, Kai. "I Kissed a Boy: Depiction of Male Fluid Sexuality in the Buffyverse." Paper presented at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

Shull, Ira and Anne Shull. "You're Gonna Stake It After All: Archetypal Influences of The Mary Tyler Moore Show on BtVS." Paper presented at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

Siemann, Catherine. "Ethics or Legal Ethics?: Wolfram & Hart and the Code of Professional Responsibility." Paper accepted (but not presented) for the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

___. "It's a Femme, Femme World: Forms of Femininity and Power in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the 2002 PCAS/ACAS Annual Conference, Charlotte, NC, 3-5 October 2002.

Simmons, David. "'The Future's so Bright and I Owe it All To You': Considering Negative Capability in Relation to Joss Whedon's Unfinished Oeuvre." Paper presented at EuroSlayage [SCW7]: The 7th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK, 7-10 July 2016.

Simon, Dvorah and Katherine Keller. "I Have Seen the Hellmouth, and It is Us; or, What Would Buffy Do In a Real Disaster?" Paper presented at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

Simon, Dvorah and Patti Sisson. "From Grace, Dark and Light: the Fall Into Humanity in the Buffyverse." Paper presented at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

Skwire, Sarah E. "Buffy and 'The Body': Responding to Violence." Paper presented at the 26th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 9-12 February 2005.

Smith, Derek A. "To Sanshu or Not to Shanshu." Paper accepted (but not presented) for SC3: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008. Also presented at the 2008 PCAS/ACAS Annual Conference, Louisville, KY, 9-11 October 2008.

Smith, Diantha. "How the West Was Whedon's: Exploring the Connection Between Western and Science Fiction Films/Television." Paper presented at the 47th Annual Conference of the Western Literature Association, Lubbock, TX, 7-10 November 2012.

Smith, Michael B. "'Do I Have Mom Hair?': Progressive Parenting in BtVS." Paper presented at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

Smith, Philip. "Chinoiserie, Caning and Code-switching: Finding Serenity in Singapore." Paper presented at EuroSlayage [SCW7]: The 7th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK, 7-10 July 2016.

Smith, Scott. "Lessons in Neo-Luddite and Eco-Anarchist Thought in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at Staking a Claim: Exploring the Global Reach of Buffy, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, 22 July 2003.

Smurthwaite, Victoria. "Joss Wedon's Heroine Addiction: Definiting a New Trope in the Whedonverse." Paper presented at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association 38th Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 15-18 February 2017.

Souder, Donna M. "Images and Metaphor of the Domestic Feminine: Barthes, Buffy, and Joss Whedon Re-Imagine the Tradition of the Mythic Family." Paper presented at the 27th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 8-11 February 2006. Also presented at the 2006 PCA/ACA National Conference, Atlanta, GA, 12-15 April 2006.

South, James B. "'All that James Bond Stuff': the Appropriation of James Bond in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the Cultural Politics of Ian Fleming and 007 Conference, University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN, May 31, 2003.

___. "Buffy, Faith, and the Meaning of Life." Paper presented as invited Raynor Library Colloquium Lecture, March 23, 2004. Also presented as invited Lecture at Denison University, Granville, Ohio, October 21, 2004. Also accepted (but not presented) for SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

___. "'Death is My Gift': Philosophical Themes in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the 2002 Midwest Popular Culture Society Conference, Milwaukee, WI, October 5, 2002.

___. "Television and Philosophy: the Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Invited talk for an ACPA sponsored session at the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, Boston, MA, 29 December 2004.

___. "'They Show Up, They Scare Us, I Beat Them Up, and They Leave': the Dialectic of Self-Knowledge in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at Blood, Text and Fears: Reading Around Buffy the Vampire Slayer, University of East Anglia, 19-20 October 2002.

Sowers, Regan. "The Emasculation of Spike." Paper presented at It's the End of the World... Again: Why Buffy Still Matters: a Buffy the Vampire Slayer Mini-Conference, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, 16 March 2007.

Sparling, Rebecca. "'But You're Just a Girl': Representations of the New Woman in Buffy and Dracula." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Speakman, Scott. "Magic, Classical Physics, and the Conservation of Energy and Matter." Paper accepted (but not presented) for the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Spirko, Jennifer W. "Body of Work: Sex, Prostitution and the Women of Firefly." Paper presented at WisCon 30, Madison, WI, May 2006.

Spooner, Catherine. "'What's With the Makeover of the Damned': Buffy, Goth, and Sartorial Evil." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Sprout, Frances. "'We Destroyed the Mall? I Fought on the Wrong Side': Consumerism and the Gift Economy in Buffy and Angel." Paper presented at SCW5: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 12-15 July 2012.

Stafford, Nikki. "Don't You Forget About Buffy: Why Joss Whedon's Masterpiece Captivates Us Still." Paper presented as keynote address at SC3: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008.

___ and Matthew Pateman. "'Oh, wouldn't it be tragic if you were here being kinda silly with your comically paralyzed sister while Willow was dying?' or 'Excellect. Now. Do we suspect that there may be some connection between Ben and Glory?': The tragi-comic / comic-tragic methods of miscommunication in Buffy." Paper presented as featured lecture at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

Stanfield, Brett. "Rebinding Moloch: Jenny Calendar as an Archetype for Critical Digital Literacy in the Digital Age." Paper presented at Slayage 10 [Buffy Lives!]: The 10th Biennial Slayage Conference, Cal Poly [California Polytechnic State University] San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, CA, 18-21 July 2024.

Starr, Michael. "'The Bad Guys Always Go Where the Power Is': Sunnydale as Deleuzoguattarian Heterotopia." Paper presented at SCW5: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 12-15 July 2012.

___. "Becoming Echo: Deterritorializing Dollhouse." Paper presented at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

___. "'It's the End of the World. It's Rather Important Really': Accelerationist Aesthetics of the Whedonverses." Paper presented at EuroSlayage [SCW7]: The 7th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK, 7-10 July 2016.

___. "'The Only Thing I Like About Myself Is You': The 'Terminal Identity' of In Your Eyes." Paper presented at SCW8: The 8th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL, 21-24 June 2018. Also presented as "'The only thing I like about myself is you': The 'Terminal Identity' of the Whedonverses" at the 2018 PCA National Conference, Indianapolis, IN, 28-31 March 2018.

___. "'Sometimes you just look at everything and it's all different': In Your Eyes in Hindsight." Paper presented at Slayage 10 [Buffy Lives!]: The 10th Biennial Slayage Conference, Cal Poly [California Polytechnic State University] San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, CA, 18-21 July 2024.

___. "'Turn two, the rest is food': Political Anthropology and the Buffyverse Vampire." Paper presented at TV Fangdom: A Conference on Television Vampires, University of Northampton, Northampton, UK, 7-8 June 2013.

Staudacher, Joanne E. "'Inspired by Your Beauty Effulgent': the Buffy Sonnets Project." Paper presented at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

___. "Spanking the Inner Moppet: the Expression of Women's Anger in the Good-vs-Evil Universe of Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

___. "This is My West Hollywood Lifestyle... Whatever: the Art of Vids as Fan Revision in the Buffyverse." Paper presented at WisCon 29, Madison, WI, May 2005.

___. "'You're a person, actual and whole': Self-fulfilling Prophecies of Humanity in the Whedonverses." Paper accepted (but not presented) for SC3: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008.

Steeves, Andrew. "The Thing that Really Matters is the Spices: Misfits and Family Aboard the Transport Ship Serenity." Paper presented at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

Stengel, Wendy. "Doe-Eyed Dorks: Joss Whedon's Girl Geeks." Paper presented at the 2005 PCA/ACA National Conference, San Diego, CA, 23-26 March 2005. Also presented at the 2006 PCA/ACA National Conference, Atlanta, GA, 12-15 April 2006.

___. "What Would GSIS Do?: Firefly's Gendered Social Interaction Scores." Paper presented at the 25th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, San Antonio, TX, 7-10 April 2004.

Stepniak, Anthony. "'Woman's Body as Warzone': The Gender Identity of Drusilla." Paper presented at EuroSlayage [SCW7]: The 7th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK, 7-10 July 2016.

Sterba, Wendy. "Guise and Dolls: Prostitution as Representation of Capitalistic Masking and Mark(et)ing of Women in the Televisual Whedonverse." Paper presented at SCW6: Much Ado About Whedon: The 6th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, California State University – Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, 19-22 June 2014.

___. "J.J. vs. Joss: Putting the Fan in F(r)anchise." Paper presented at the Joss in June 2015 Conference, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, 26-27 June 2015.

Stern, David "'When I was you... for Halloween': Identification and Consubstantiality in Fan-Celebrity Encounters at Fandom Conventions." Paper presented at the 2013 PCA/ACA National Conference, Washington, D.C., 27-30 March 2013.

Stevens, E. Charlotte. "Firefly: Between the Noir Frontier and the Final Frontier." Paper presented at the 31st Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 10-13 February 2010.

Stevens, Katy. "Bronzers, Breakaway Pop Hits and Karaoke: Popular Music in the Whedonverse." Paper presented as keynote address at the Buffy Down Under Convention, Melbourne, Australia, July 2004. Also on Jossology: Exploring the Buffyverse website. No longer accessible.

___. "The Hum of the Box: Critical Listening in the Buffyverse." Paper presented at The Buffyverse: A Symposium on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 21 November 2002. Also published as "Inside the Buffyverse: Hum of the Box" at Vibewire.net: Rewiring Youth Media, 2002. No longer accessible.

___. "Slash: Perversity, Fandom and (Re)Authorship." Jossology: Exploring the Buffyverse website. Also published as "Buffy: Perversity, Fandom [sic] and (Re)Authorship" at Vibewire.net: Rewiring Youth Media, 2002. No longer accessible.

___. "Vocal Indexicality in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." KatyStevens.com, 2002. No longer accessible.

___. Jossology: Exploring the Buffyverse website. No longer accesible.

Stevens, Natalie. "Brave Storytelling: Whedon's Rhetorical Vision of Dollhouse." Paper presented at the 31st Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 10-13 February 2010.

___. "Clasped and Detached: The Symbolic Use of Hands in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel." Paper presented at the 32nd Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, San Antonio, TX, 20-23 April 2011.

___. "Objectification and Power in Season 5 of Angel." Paper presented at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

___. "Protest, Freedom, and Transformation in Space: Firefly as Road Narrative." Paper presented at SCW5: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 12-15 July 2012.

___. "Virtual Identity in Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog." Paper presented at the 30th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 25-28 February 2009. 

Stickney, Stephanie. "'Actually, this isn't about you': Willow Queering Buffy." Paper presented at the 2012 PCA/ACA National Conference, Boston, MA, 11-14 April 2012.

Stiebel, Amanda. "De-Stigmatizing Mental Illness in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the 2010 PCA/ACA National Conference, St. Louis, MO, 31 March – 3 April 2010.

Stiles, Siobahn. "'New Moon Rising': The Evolving Lesbian Presence on American Television as Seen in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the 2009 PCA/ACA National Conference, New Orleans, LA, 8-11 April 2009.

Stock, Barbara. "Moral Status in the Dollhouse." Paper presented at the 31st Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 10-13 February 2010.

___. "Of Monsters and Men." Paper presented at the 28th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 14-17 February 2007.

___. "On Growing a Soul: Moral Development on Buffy." Paper presented at the 29th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 14-17 February 2008. 

___. "'You're On My Crew': Ethical Prioritizing in Firefly." Paper presented at the 27th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 8-11 February 2006.

Stokes, Haley. "Angel: The Modern Quixote." Paper presented at the 2008 PCA/ACA National Conference, San Francisco, CA, 19-22 March 2008.

Stokes, Jennifer. "Joss Whedon and Contemporary Programming." Paper presented at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

Stoner Morgan, Megan J. "'Heroes are Over With' - Or Are They?: Dr. Horrible as Byronic Hero." Paper presented at the 32nd Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, San Antonio, TX, 20-23 April 2011. Also accepted (but not presented) for the 31st Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 10-13 February 2010.

___. "'We're All Just Floating': the Use of Existentialism in 'Objects in Space'." Paper presented at the 28th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 14-17 February 2007.

Stommel, Jesse James. "The Ecstatic Corpse: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and What Becomes of Bodies Once They're Dead." Paper presented at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

Stout, Jerry. "Buffy Summers is an Aristotelian Tragic Hero." Paper presented at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

___. "The Moral, Ethical, and Feminist Failings of Seasons Six and Seven: How Joss Whedon's Message Died on Top of a Tower." Paper presented at It's the End of the World... Again: Why Buffy Still Matters: a Buffy the Vampire Slayer Mini-Conference, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, 16 March 2007.

Story, Elizabeth. "Foucault and the Dollhouse: Examining Joss Whedon's Dollhouse through the Work of Michel Foucault." Paper presented at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

Stowell, Louie. "Absent Fathers and Multiplying Christs in BtVS." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

___. "Once more with Bathos: Comedy, Anxiety and Sentiment in the Jossverse." Paper presented at Bring Your Own Subtext: Social Life, Human Experience and the Works of Joss Whedon, Conference, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK, 29 June - 1 July 2005.

___. "'I've Died Twice':Absurdity, Death and the Body in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Stimulus Respond 1 (2004). Not available (and may never have existed).

Stuller, Jennifer Kate. "Buffy and the Amazon Princess." Paper presented at Holy Men in Tights: a Superheroes Conference, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, June 2005.

___. "Numfar! Do the Dance of Seduction!: Nerd Burlesque, Performing Fandom, and the Whedonverse." Paper presented at SCW5: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 12-15 July 2012.

___. "'Where Do We Go From Here?': A Look at Female Heroes in a Post-Buffy Context." Paper presented at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

Sturgis, Amy H. "'Crowded in My Sky': Frontier Narratives and Freedom in Firefly and Serenity." Paper presented at Joss in June: A Conference on the Works of Joss Whedon, Cleveland Community College, Shelby, NC, 29 June 2013.

___. "Genres of Liberty: Westerns and Science Fiction." Paper presented at Cinematic & Literary Traditions of Liberty: A Workshop at UCLA, University of California – Los Angeles, CA, 10 July 2007.

Sumption, Linda. "'I Hate Being Obvious. All Fangy and "Grr!"': The Animal in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association 38th Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 15-18 February 2017.

___. "'We have a lot to talk about': The Dialogical Adam in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the 2018 PCA National Conference, Indianapolis, IN, 28-31 March 2018.

Sundström, Charlotte. "'I see right through you': Affect and Affection in BtVS." Paper accepted (but not presented) for SC3: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008.

___ and Hanna Lahdenperä. "'I Feel Like a Joan': Purity vs. Passion in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at Buffy Hereafter: From the Whedonverse to the Whedonesque: an Interdisciplinary Conference on the Work of Joss Whedon and its Aftereffects, Istanbul, Turkey, 17-19 October 2007.

Sutherland, Sharon, Rowan Meredith, and Darsey Meredith. "Raising Slayers: Buffy the Vampire Slayer through a Generational Lens." Paper presented by Sharon Sutherland and Rowan Meredith at EuroSlayage [SCW7]: The 7th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK, 7-10 July 2016.

Sutherland, Sharon and Sarah Swann. "'Everyone's a Hero in Their Own Way': The 'Heroism' of Dr. Horrible and Captain Hammer." Paper accepted (but not presented) for the 30th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 25-28 February 2009.

___. "If a Vampire Bites a Lawyer, is it Cannibalism?: The Demonization of Lawyers in Angel." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

___. "'It's Not Council Policy to Cure Vampires': The Watchers Council as Lawmakers and Judges." Paper presented at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

___. "Sometimes You Have to... Compromise: Lilah as Lawyer." Paper presented at SC3: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008.

___. "'Standard Perpetuity Clause': Contracting with the Devil in Season Five of Angel." Paper presented at the 28th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 14-17 February 2007.

___. "Vampires, Reavers, and Lawyers: Joss Whedon's Lens on Law." Paper presented at SCW5: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 12-15 July 2012.

___. "'We Could Use Some of Those Nyazian Scroll Writers in Contracts and Negotiations': Angel as Text for First Year Law." Paper presented at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

___. "'We've Always Been above the Law, Adele': Dollhouse and Contemporary Televised Rape Narratives." Paper presented at SCW6: Much Ado About Whedon: The 6th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, California State University – Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, 19-22 June 2014.

___. "'With my freeze ray I will stop the world': Coercive Social Control in the Whedonverses." Paper accepted (but not presented) for the 32nd Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, San Antonio, TX, 20-23 April 2011.

Svatek, John. "Fonty Goodness: Authenticity through Graphic Design on Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Swanson, KJ. "'Avenging Is Your World. Your World Is Crazy': Joss Whedon's Avengers: Age of Ultron and George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road as Action Films that Problematize Redemptive Violence." Paper presented at EuroSlayage [SCW7]: The 7th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK, 7-10 July 2016.

Sweet, Derek. "America Assemble: The Avengers as Therapeutic Public Memory." Paper presented at the 2014 Midwest PCA/ACA Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN, 3-5 October 2014.

Swihart, Melissa. "Anya-lame-ass-made-up Maiden Name Harris: Defining the Feminist Hero and Discovering a Feminist Identity in Contemporary Popular Visual Culture." Paper presented at WisCon 29, Madison, WI, May 2005.

___. "'We Are Better. That's Right... Better': Finding the Hero in Buffy and Angel." Paper presented at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

___, Catharine Strauss, Carrie L. Ferguson, and Jef Smith. "What about Xander?: Strength and Gender in SF and F." Panel discussion at WisCon 29, Madison, WI, May 2005.

Swinford, Susan. "Adapting Serenity: Genre, Myth and Freedom." Paper presented at the 2006 PCA/ACA National Conference, Atlanta, GA, 12-15 April 2006.

Switaj, Elizabeth Kate. "How's College?: Considering Buffy Season Four in the Context of University Fiction." Paper presented at EuroSlayage [SCW7]: The 7th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK, 7-10 July 2016.

Sylvia, IV, J.J. "Postmodernism and Buffy: Challenging Mass Media's Ideological Grip on the Simulacra." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.



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Tarrant, Bronwyn. "Alice in Sunnydale or Buffy in Wonderland: the Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Object Relations in Alice in Wonderland and Buffy." Paper presented at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

Taylor, Amanda. "The Terror of Silence/The Silence of Terror." Paper presented at the 27th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 8-11 February 2006.

Taylor, Lauren Todd. "The Real and its Vampiric Vicissitudes: Watching Buffy with Slavoj Zizek." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Telegen, Joseph. "The 'Goldilocks' Conundrum: Moderating Buffy the Vampire Slayer Inclusion toward a Generative Composition Praxis." Paper presented at SCW6: Much Ado About Whedon: The 6th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, California State University – Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, 19-22 June 2014.

Thomas, Deborah. "Persons and Things in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at Bring Your Own Subtext: Social Life, Human Experience and the Works of Joss Whedon, Conference, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK, 29 June - 1 July 2005.

Thomas, Sarah. "'This is a witch symbol': Willlow's Queer Identity." Paper presented at SC3: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008.

Thomson, Claire. "She Who Hangs Out in Cemeteries (and Libraries): a Heterotopology of Sunnydale." Paper presented at Blood, Text and Fears: Reading Around Buffy the Vampire Slayer, University of East Anglia, 19-20 October 2002.

Tiemeier, Tracy. "Self Becoming or Becoming Self?: a Comparative Study of Buffy and the Hindu Saint Antal on Identity and Self-Realization." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Tjardes, Sue. "Out of the Basement, Into the Background: Xander's Masculinity and Marginalization." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Tomasso, Vincent and Sebastian De Vivo. "Dong Ma?: The Construction of Spoken Chinese and the Language of Empire in Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe." Paper presented at the 2008 PCA/ACA National Conference, San Francisco, CA, 19-22 March 2008.

Torregrossa, Michael. "Frankenstein+: John Byrne's Angel vs. Frankenstein (2009-10) and Adam Glass and Olivia Cuartero-Briggs's Mary Shelley: Monster Hunter (2019) as Parts of the Buffy+ Corpus." Paper presented remotely at Slayage 10 [Buffy Lives!]: The 10th Biennial Slayage Conference, Cal Poly [California Polytechnic State University] San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, CA, 18-21 July 2024.

Torres, Marco. "'What If You Just Start Attracting Male Demons?': Male Homoeroticism and the Monstrous in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the 28th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 14-17 February 2007.

Townsend, Bryan. "Assuming Virtue: Spike, Anya and the Aristotelian Model." Paper presented at Bring Your Own Subtext: Social Life, Human Experience and the Works of Joss Whedon, Conference, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK, 29 June - 1 July 2005.

___. "Leitmotif Imagery in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at Bring Your Own Subtext: Social Life, Human Experience and the Works of Joss Whedon, Conference, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK, 29 June - 1 July 2005.

Toye, Margaret. "The New Man, Fitting Mate for the New Woman: Buffy and the Boys via Postfeminist Ethics." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Tredennick, Bianca. "'Not you is you, but not you': Teaching 'Halloween'." Paper presented at Get to the Point: Issues at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, SUNY College at Oneonta, November 2009.

Tresca, Don. "'I'm Cowboy Guy': Riley Finn as Traditional Literary Hero." Paper accepted (but not presented) for SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

Tringali, William. "Buffy vs. Bella: Gender and the Undead." Paper presented at SCW6: Much Ado About Whedon: The 6th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, California State University – Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, 19-22 June 2014.

Turk, Renée. "The Illogic of the Soul in Buffy." Paper presented at the 28th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 14-17 February 2007.

___. "A Slayer Should Be Able: Recognizing Evil." Paper presented at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

Turk, Tisha. "Feminist Community in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the 26th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 9-12 February 2005.

Turley, Ben. "'Here's the Part Where You Make a Choice': Patriarchy and Empowerment Made Literal and Metaphoric in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the 26th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 9-12 February 2005.

Turnbull, Sue. "If you'll be Rupert then I'll be Randy: the Fluidity of (Sexual) Identities in Buffy." Paper presented at Sonic Synergies: Creative Cultures, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, 17-20 July 2003.

Turner, Chestina. "Dying To Be: How Women in the Buffyverse Must Be Something More." Paper presented at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

___. "Sacrificing the Boys: Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Turner, Wendell Scott. "Deep Down with the Head Boy." Paper accepted (but not presented) for SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

Tuszynski, Stephanie. IRL (In Real Life): Breaking down the Binary of Online Versus Offline Social Interaction. Ph.D. dissertation, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, 2006. Also presented in shortened form as "'IRL (In Real Life)': the Bronze Documentary Project" at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004. Available online

Tyma, Adam. "What Whedon Can Teach Us: Exploring the Work of Joss Whedon as Cultural Literacy and Pedagogy." Paper presented at the Central States Communication Association Convention, Minneapolis, MN, 15-19 March 2017.

Tyner-Mullings, Alia R. "'Men Dig Up the Corpses, Women Have the Babies': Negotiating Gender in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper accepted (but not presented) for the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

___. "'Working for Redemption': Angel as a Contemporary Tragic Hero." Paper presented at Staking a Claim: Exploring the Global Reach of Buffy, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, 22 July 2003.

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Urbanski, Heather. "Agents of SHIELD's 'Framework' as Interconnected Canon." Paper presented at the 2018 PCA National Conference, Indianapolis, IN, 28-31 March 2018.

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Valentine, Amandelin. "People in Pieces: Gender, Identity, and Punishment in The Cabin in the Woods." Paper presented at the 2015 Midwest PCA/ACA Annual Conference, Cincinnati, OH, 1-4 October 2015.

Van Acker, Chris. "Buffy as Cyberpunk." Paper presented at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

Van Gameren, Sophia. "'I'm Dying for a Good Slay': Death and the Inversion of Gender Roles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Medea." Paper presented at Holy Men in Tights: a Superheroes Conference, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, June 2005.

Velazquez, Josef. "Dappled Things." Paper presented at SC3: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008.

Velicaria, Kevin. "The Quest for Home: the Christian Pilgrimage as Seen Through the Eyes of Simon Tam." Paper accepted (but not presented) for SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

Vella, Kellie. "'Because It's Wrong': Why You've Got to Have Faith." Paper accepted (but not presented) for the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Viator, Adam C. "Folklore in Joss Whedon's Firefly: An Examination of Folkways, Folktales, and Folklife in Science Fiction." Paper presented at the 2009 PCA/ACA National Conference, New Orleans, LA, 8-11 April 2009.

Vint, Sherryl. "Difficult Men, Powerful Women: Buffy and Quality Television." Paper presented as keynote address at SCW6: Much Ado About Whedon: The 6th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, California State University – Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, 19-22 June 2014.

Vogt, Katherine. "Societal Construction of the (Female) Body in Frankenstein and Buffy." Paper presented at the 2015 Midwest PCA/ACA Annual Conference, Cincinnati, OH, 1-4 October 2015.

Vox, Lisa Roy. "'This Is How Many Apocalypses For Us Now?': the Buffyverse Apocalyptic and Premillennialist Christianity." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.




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Wadman, Carrie. "The (Un)importance of Being Xander: Mimetic Triangles and Unrecognized Desire." Paper presented at WisCon 29, Madison, WI, May 2005.

Wagaman, J. Brian. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Feminist Hero for Our Times." Paper presented at the 2005 NEPCA Conference, Fairfield, CT, 28-29 October 2005.

Waggoner, Erin B. "Buffy Gives Me Goosebumps: The Literary Effect of Music in the Buffyerse." Paper presented at the 2008 PCAS/ACAS Annual Conference, Louisville, KY, 9-11 October 2008.

___. "Did the Professor Really Just Say That?: Teaching the Visual Rhetoric in Buffy the Vampire Slayer's 'Hush'." Paper presented at the 32nd Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, San Antonio, TX, 20-23 April 2011.

___. "A Rebel With/Out a Cause: Angel as Beatnik in 'Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?'" Paper presented at the 2009 PCAS/ACAS Annual Conference, Wilmington, NC, 1-3 October 2009. Also presented at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

___. "Television, Fandom, and CMC: A Case Study on Buffy and Lost Girl." Paper presented at the 2012 PCAS/ACAS Annual Conference, Nashville, TN, 27-29 September 2012.

___. "The Use of the Works of Joss Whedon in the Comp I and Comp II Classroom." Paper presented at the 2010 PCA/ACA National Conference, St. Louis, MO, 31 March – 3 April 2010.

Wagner, Cassie. "Technology Makes the Man, Or Bringing a Pistol to a Laser Fight: the Divide Between Technological Haves and Have-Nots in the Firefly Universe." Paper presented at the 27th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 8-11 February 2006.

Wagner, Wendy. "I'll Destroy You Worse': Veronica Mars as Post-Buffy Feminist Heroine." Paper presented at the 2005 PCAS/ACAS Annual Conference, Jacksonville, FL, 6-8 October 2005.

Wälivaara, Josefine. "Deviants in Space: The Cancellation of Firefly as Testament to Shifting Tonalities in Science Fiction." Paper presented at EuroSlayage [SCW7]: The 7th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK, 7-10 July 2016.

Walker, K. "Fear of a Browncoat planet: Serenity as the ghetto of the Whedonverse." Paper presented at Bring Your Own Subtext: Social Life, Human Experience and the Works of Joss Whedon, Conference, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK, 29 June - 1 July 2005.

Walmsley, C. "Good Girls Go To Hell: the 'Other' Willow." Paper presented at Blood, Text and Fears: Reading Around Buffy the Vampire Slayer, University of East Anglia, 19-20 October 2002.

Walters, Maria. "The Tradition of Food in Firefly." Paper presented at the 27th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 8-11 February 2006.

Walton, Saige. "Careful What You Wish For: the Magic of Multiple Worlds in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at The Buffyverse: a Symposium on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 21 November 2002.

Waltonen, Karma. "Whedon's Liminal 'Reavers' as Societal Critique." Paper presented at the 2012 PCA/ACA National Conference, Boston, MA, 11-14 April 2012.

Wardell, Claire. "Taking the Initiative: Science and Agency in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at Blood, Text and Fears: Reading Around Buffy the Vampire Slayer, University of East Anglia, 19-20 October 2002.

Warden, Ryan. "Dead and Still Pretty: The Subversion and Subsequent Elimination of the Final Girl in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

Warenik, Victoria. "The Secret's Out: Defying Archetypal Archetypes in Joss Whedon's Firefly." Paper presented at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

Warner, Kristen. "I am the Hellmouth Cu Cu Cachoo: Joss Whedon's Branding as a Technique of the Self in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at Console-ing Passions: International Conference on Television, Audio, Video, New Media, and Feminism, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI, 25-27 May 2006.

Watkins, Zach. "Witchcraft as a Cultural Reaction to Technological Advancement in Buffy." Paper presented at the 29th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 14-17 February 2008. 

Wee Su-Lin, Valerie. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Teen Television and the WB." Paper accepted (but not presented) for the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Weill, Clay. "Saving Slayer Buffy." Paper presented at SCW5: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 12-15 July 2012.

___. "Xander Harris, Everyman or Batman?: Relative Identity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the 34th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 13-16 February 2013.

Weiss, Dennis M. "The Magic of Critique: Science and Technology Studies in Joss Whedon's Televisual Cosmos." Paper presented at Buffy Hereafter: From the Whedonverse to the Whedonesque: an Interdisciplinary Conference on the Work of Joss Whedon and its Aftereffects, Istanbul, Turkey, 17-19 October 2007.

Weiss, Katie. "I May be Dead, but I'm Still Pretty: a Corpus Linguistic Analysis of 'he' versus 'she' in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at Slayage 10 [Buffy Lives!]: The 10th Biennial Slayage Conference, Cal Poly [California Polytechnic State University] San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, CA, 18-21 July 2024.

Welker, Holly. "The Big Bad Evil Is Just a Good Little Girl with a Broken Heart: Willow Rosenberg and Ethics, Sex and Class in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the 2008 PCA/ACA National Conference, San Francisco, CA, 19-22 March 2008.

___. "'Sex is Bad?' 'We All Knew That': Sex and the Consequences in BtVS and Angel." Paper presented at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

___. "A Sexy Fuddy-Duddy and a Woman Who knows How to Moisturize: Adulthood, Authority, and Sex in BtVS." Paper accepted (but not presented) for SC3: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008.

Wells, J. "Exotic Familiarity: How Joss Whedon's Worlds Bring Us Home." Paper presented at Bring Your Own Subtext: Social Life, Human Experience and the Works of Joss Whedon, Conference, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK, 29 June - 1 July 2005.

Welsh, Jennifer. "'Don't Speak Latin in Front of the Books': Knowledge, Power, and History in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

West, Sasha. "Where Forms Collide: the Hybrid Genre as a Deconstructive & Generative Force in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the 26th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 9-12 February 2005.

Whaley, Kadee [Katherine] E. "Aging the Vampire: Old Monsters Passing for Young People in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel." Paper presented at SCW6: Much Ado About Whedon: The 6th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, California State University – Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, 19-22 June 2014. Also presented at the 2014 Midwest PCA/ACA Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN, 3-5 October 2014.

___. "Xander as Seer of the Self, Provider of Clarity, and Purveyor of Acceptance: Human Agency in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at SCW5: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 12-15 July 2012.

___, CarrieLynn D. Reinhard, Art Herbig, Katie Wilson, and Laura Stoltzfus-Brown. "The Controversial Whedon: Tensions and Disagreements in the Texts, Fandom and Scholarship of Joss Whedon." Panel discussion at the 2015 Midwest PCA/ACA Annual Conference, Cincinnati, OH, 1-4 October 2015.

Whippey, Caroline and Deborah Hicks. "'Knowledge Should be Smelly': Using Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Examine Popular Understandings of Information Seeking Practices." Paper presented at the 2013 PCA/ACA National Conference, Washington, D.C., 27-30 March 2013.

White, Rosemary [Rosie]. "Mis-Staking Feminism: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the New Feminism." Paper presented at Console-ing Passions: Television Video Feminism New Media Conference, University of Bristol, UK, 5-8 July 2001.

Whitlock, Katie. "Imprinting Gender: The Collision of Memory and Body in Dollhouse." Paper presented at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

Whittington, William. "Buffyoke: Fan Performance and the Tele-Musical." Paper presented at Console-ing Passions: International Conference on Television, Audio, Video, New Media and Feminism, University of California–Santa Barbara, CA, 24–26 April 2008.

Wigard, Justin. "Genius. Billionaire. Playboy. Philanthropist. Trauma Victim: Tony Stark's Trauma in the Marvel Cinematic Universe." Paper presented at the 2015 Midwest PCA/ACA Annual Conference, Cincinnati, OH, 1-4 October 2015.

Wilberger, Rebecca. "You Can't Stand Alone: Joss Whedon's Avengers, Astonishing X-Men, and the Flawed Superhero." Paper presented at the 2015 Midwest PCA/ACA Annual Conference, Cincinnati, OH, 1-4 October 2015.

Wilcox, Rhonda V. "The Destruction of Buffy's Body: the Reclamation of the Flesh in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the 2006 PCA/ACA National Conference, Atlanta, GA, 12-15 April 2006.

___. "Future Maternal: Mothering in the Future History Episodes of Fringe and Dollhouse." Paper presented at the 2012 PCAS/ACAS Annual Conference, Nashville, TN, 27-29 September 2012.

___. "'Give Us the Swords': Whedon's Feminism in Shakespeare's Much Ado." Paper presented at SCW6: Much Ado About Whedon: The 6th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, California State University – Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, 19-22 June 2014.

___. "Invisible Sex and Peculiar Pregnancies: The X Files, Bones, Fringe, Dr. Who, Angel, and Star Trek: The Next Generation." Paper presented at the 2011 PCAS/ACAS Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, 6-8 October 2011.

___. "Killing and Comedy: How Mrs. Maisel Helped Me Understand Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at Slayage 10 [Buffy Lives!]: The 10th Biennial Slayage Conference, Cal Poly [California Polytechnic State University] San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, CA, 18-21 July 2024.

___. "[Plenary Presentation.]" Presented at It's the End of the World... Again: Why Buffy Still Matters: a Buffy the Vampire Slayer Mini-Conference, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, 16 March 2007.

___. "Smoking the Hat: Fred/Illyria in Angel and Juliette/Eve in Grimm." Paper presented at SCW8: The 8th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL, 21-24 June 2018.

___. "A Soliloquy by Any Other Name: Speech-Making in the Whedonverses." Paper presented at SCW5: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 12-15 July 2012.

___. "The Wound in the World: Buffy, Death and 'The Body'." Paper presented as part of Agnes Scott College Ethics Program Lecture Series, Decatur, GA, 10 November 2005.

___, Stacey Abbott, Tanya Cochran, Cynthia Burkhead, and Stephanie Graves. "'5 x 5': A Memorial Tribute to David Lavery." Keynote presentation at SCW8: The 8th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL, 21-24 June 2018.

___, Victoria Willis, and Julie Hawk. "From the Hellmouth to the Dollhouse: Joss Whedon's Transitions between Fantasy and Science Fiction." Panel discussion at the 2010 PCA/ACA National Conference, St. Louis, MO, 31 March – 3 April 2010.

Wilkes, Hannah. "Misogyny or Feminism? Considering Authorship and Creation in Dollhouse's 'Belle Chose'." Paper presented at the 2011 PCAS/ACAS Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, 6-8 October 2011.

Williams, Amy A. "Choice and the Chosen One: Abortion in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at SCW6: Much Ado About Whedon: The 6th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, California State University – Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, 19-22 June 2014.

___. "Interpersonal Communication in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Theories of Self-Disclosure in 'Hush' and 'Once More With Feeling'." Paper presented at EuroSlayage [SCW7]: The 7th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK, 7-10 July 2016.

Williams, Mary Kathryn. "Sociopath in a Sweater Vest: What Clothing Tells Us About the Dollhouse." Paper accepted (but not presented) for SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

Williams, Rebecca. "Immortal Fandom?: The Post-Object Afterlives of Joss Whedon's Television Shows." Paper presented as keynote address at EuroSlayage [SCW7]: The 7th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK, 7-10 July 2016.

___. "Slashing the Subtext in BTVS." Paper presented at Bring Your Own Subtext: Social Life, Human Experience and the Works of Joss Whedon, Conference, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK, 29 June - 1 July 2005.

___. "Who Wants to live forever?: Angel, the TV vampire, and post-object fandom." Paper accepted (not presented) for TV Fangdom: A Conference on Television Vampires, University of Northampton, Northampton, UK, 7-8 June 2013.

Williamson, Amy Lynn. "What Just Happened?: Sacrifice, Heroics, and Death in Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Avengers." Paper presented at the 2018 PCA National Conference, Indianapolis, IN, 28-31 March 2018.

Willis, Victoria. "'Have you heard my speeches?': The Locations of Rhetorical Delivery in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the 2009 PCA/ACA National Conference, New Orleans, LA, 8-11 April 2009.

Willms, Georgina. "The Inter-male Relationships of Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at EuroSlayage [SCW7]: The 7th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK, 7-10 July 2016.

Willse, Craig. "Technodemons and the Material Bodies of Vampires." Paper presented at Blood, Text and Fears: Reading Around Buffy the Vampire Slayer, University of East Anglia, 19-20 October 2002.

Wilson, Jim. "'A Heinous Crime, a Show of Force': Billy Buddy, Bad Horse, and the Nature of Evil." Paper presented at SCW5: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 12-15 July 2012.

___. "'Hush Little Baby': What Lies Beneath the Lullabies of Rosemary's Baby and Dollhouse." Paper presented at Joss in June: A Conference on the Works of Joss Whedon, Cleveland Community College, Shelby, NC, 29 June 2013.

Wilson, Tamara. "Buffy and Jame Sitting in a Tree: What Are Our Girl Heroes up to Now?" Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

___. "Cannery Row and Firefly: Misfit Crews in Lonely 'Verses." Paper presented at Joss in June: A Conference on the Works of Joss Whedon, Cleveland Community College, Shelby, NC, 29 June 2013.

___. "'Don't Know Much About Chemistry': Attraction and Delayed/Denied Passion in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Dollhouse." Paper presented at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

___. "The Girl Children of Serenity: Envisioning the Future of Female Maturation." Paper presented at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

___. "Revisiting Passion and Tested Virtue 'Once More (with Feeling)': Milton's Comus and Whedon's Dancing Demon." Paper presented at SCW5: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 12-15 July 2012.

Winchell, Meghan K. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer as an Introduction to the Liberal Arts." Paper presented at SC3: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008.

___, David Kociemba, Kristopher Karl Woofter, Rod Romesburg and Jodie A. Kreider. "Slaying with Pedagogy: Teaching Buffy to the Millenials." Panel discussion at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

___, Jodie A. Kreider, Cynthea Masson, and Kristopher Karl Woofter. "Uploading to the Cortex: Watcher Junior and the Process of Undergraduate Publication." Panel discussion at EuroSlayage [SCW7]: The 7th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK, 7-10 July 2016.

Winslade, Jason Lawton. "Aspects of Metatextuality: Using BtVS to Illustrate Pop Cultural Phenomena." Paper presented at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

___. "'It's Inside You Now, This Magic': Magickal Embodiment and Occult Ethics in the Buffyverse." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Wolfe, Susan and Lee Ann Roripaugh. "Postmodern Anxiety: Androids and Cyborgs in the Whedonverse." Paper accepted (but not presented) for the 30th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 25-28 February 2009. 

___. "Constructing Spaces in Firefly and Serenity." Paper presented at the 29th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 14-17 February 2008. 

___. "Cultural Geography in Outer Space: East Meets West in Firefly and Serenity." Paper presented at the John Milton Writers' Conference: East Meets (the American) West, University of South Dakota, October 2007.

___. "Monstrous Appetites: Television Vampires, Consumption, and Postmodern Cultural Malaise." Paper presented at the 28th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 14-17 February 2007.

___. "Postmodern Anxiety: Androids and Cyborgs in the Whedonverse." Paper presented at the 31st Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 10-13 February 2010.

___. "'We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us': Dystopian Frontiers in Joss Whedon's Firefly. Paper presented at the 27th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 8-11 February 2006.

Wolstein, Shana. "Dissecting the Lolita Complex: A Close Look at Adolescence as Represented by Joss Whedon." Paper presented at Pippi to Ripley: Heroines of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, 23 April 2011.

Wood, Ashley. "Anxieties of Adolescent Sexualities in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association 36th Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 11-14 February 2015.

Woodall, Lowery A. "Closing the Hellmouth: Confronting the Joss Whedon Problem and Forging a Path Forward for Whedon Studies." Paper presented as keynote address at SCW8: The 8th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL, 21-24 June 2018.

___. "Staking Out Adventure on the Hellmouth: Confronting the Question of Heroics in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Masters thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, 2007. Also presented in shortened form at the 30th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 25-28 February 2009. 

___. "What Makes Us Astonishing: Exploring Post-Racial Thought in Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men." Paper presented at SCW5: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 12-15 July 2012.

Woofter, Kristopher Karl. "Archival Anxiety and the Hysterical Male: Andrew Wells as Gothic (Mock)Documentary 'Storyteller' in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at EuroSlayage [SCW7]: The 7th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK, 7-10 July 2016.

___. "Using BtVS to Illuminate Literary Terms and Concepts." Paper presented at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

___. "Why Does Willow Have Nowhere to Go?: the Narrative Obliteration of a Lovecraftian Overreacher in Season 6 and 7 of BtVS." Paper presented at SC3: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008.

___, Erin M. Giannini, Jerry D. Metz, and Michael Starr. "Screen Angst: A Joint Screening and Roundtable Discussion of The Cabin in the Woods." Panel discussion at SCW6: Much Ado About Whedon: The 6th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, California State University – Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, 19-22 June 2014.

___, et al. "Bewitching the Powers-That-Be: A Proposal-Writing Workshop for Whedon Studies Scholars." Panel discussion at SCW6: Much Ado About Whedon: The 6th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, California State University – Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, 19-22 June 2014.

Wooldridge, Deborah. "Joss Whedon: Genre Master." Paper presented at the Central States Communication Association Convention, Kansas City, MO, 2-7 April 2013.

Woolford, Kristan. "Social Justice in Science Fiction Storyworlds." Paper presented at EuroSlayage [SCW7]: The 7th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK, 7-10 July 2016.

Worsley, Natasja. "Voice Box: Sex, Language and Power in 'Hush'." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Wosniack, Steven. "Pre, While, and Post Buffy: The Televisual Lineage of the Slayer." Paper presented at EuroSlayage [SCW7]: The 7th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK, 7-10 July 2016.

Wright, Katheryn. "River's Gift: The Production of the Affective Body in Firefly and Serenity." Paper presented at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

Wurzburg, Jill. "From Fangs to Feelings: The Evolution of Evil in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at Rhetoric of Monstrosity: Second Semi-Annual Conference, Stanford University February 27-March 6, 2006. Available online.


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Yeager, Hillary, Cheryl Jensen, and Jennifer Kickliter. "The Phenomenon of Hate in Fandom: Why Some People Have a Problem with Joss Whedon." Paper presented at the Joss in June 2015 Conference, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, 26-27 June 2015.

Yeapanis, Stacia. "My Life as a Sim: Sunnydale." Paper presented at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

Yegin, Afsar. "Joss Wants You: Joss Whedon's Television and Hyperawareness of Fannish Meaning." Paper presented at Buffy Hereafter: From the Whedonverse to the Whedonesque: an Interdisciplinary Conference on the Work of Joss Whedon and its Aftereffects, Istanbul, Turkey, 17-19 October 2007.

___. "That's Child's Play, Grown-Up Television: Reading Between the Lines Doesn't Make For a Good Lesson." Paper presented at Buffy Hereafter: From the Whedonverse to the Whedonesque: an Interdisciplinary Conference on the Work of Joss Whedon and its Aftereffects, Istanbul, Turkey, 17-19 October 2007.

Yelverton-Trosclair, Cally. "'You let him domesticate you': Anya/Anyanka and Insensitive Interpretations of Consumer and Domestic Stereotypes in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at SC3: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008.

Young, Justin. "Angel Among Us: the Vampire With a Soul Who Has a Reflection – Us." Paper presented at the 2006 PCA/ACA National Conference, Atlanta, GA, 12-15 April 2006.

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