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Abalea, Gaelle. "Death as a Gift in J.R.R Tolkien's Work and Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Special Issue: J. R. R. Tolkien and the Works of Joss Whedon. Eds. Janet Brennan Croft and Kristine Larsen. Journal of Tolkien Research 10.1 (2020).

Abbott, Stacey. "Angel Remembered 10 Years On." CST Online website. 24 April 2014. Available online.

___. "'Can't Stop the Signal': The Resurrection /Regeneration of Serenity." Investigating Firefly and Serenity: Science Fiction on the Frontier. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya R. Cochran. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2008. 227-238.

___. "Case Study: Buffy the Vampire Slayer." The Cult TV Book. Ed. Stacey Abbott. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2010. 100-102.

___. "Cavemen or Astronauts, Weapons to be Determined: Angel, Spike and the Buddy Genre." Paper presented as keynote address at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006. Also published as "Caveman vs. Astronauts – Weapons to Be Determined: Angel, Masculinity, and Male Friendship" in Angel, 63-82.

___. "'Creeped Out and Comforted at the Same Time?': The Generic Hybridity of Angel." In Stacey Abbott. Angel. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2009. 27-43. Also presented in earlier form as "Kung-Fu, Capes and Karaoke: Generic Hybridity in Angel" at Quality American TV: an International Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 1-3 April 2004.

___. "'Does Giant Tentacle Spew Come Out with Dry Cleaning?': Angel as Body Horror." 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. Also published as "'Does Giant Tentacle Spew Come out with Dry Cleaning?': Angel and TV Horror" in Angel, 44-62.

___. "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog: A Cult TV Event without the TV." Critical Studies in Television's "TV Reflections" section. January 2009. Available online.

___. "'Enough of the Action, Let's Get Back to Dancing': Joss Whedon directs Angel." Reading Joss Whedon. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox, Tanya R. Cochran, Cynthea Masson, and David Lavery. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2014. 119-133. Also presented at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

___. "From Madman in the Basement to Self-Sacrificing Champion: The Multiple Faces of Spike." The Vampire Spike in Text and Fandom: Unsettling Oppositions in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Dee Amy-Chinn and Milly Williamson. Special Issue of European Journal of Cultural Studies 8.3, August 2005. 329-344.

___. "'Grrr Aaargh!': The Collective Vision of Mutant Enemy." In Stacey Abbot. Angel. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2009. 9-26.

___. "Introduction: A Seminal Show Canceled by the Idiot Networks." In Stacey Abbot. Angel. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2009. 1-8.

___. "Introduction: 'I kinda want to slay the dragon': Angel and Its Legacy." 'Let's Go to Work': The Legacy of Angel. Eds. Stacey Abbott and and Simon Brown. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 17.2 (50), Summer / Fall 2019: pp. 1-18. Available online.

___. "It (Re-)Started with a Girl: The Creative Interplay Between TV and Comics in Angel: After the Fall." The Literary Angel: Essays on Influences and Traditions Reflected in the Joss Whedon Series. Eds. AmiJo Comeford and Tamy L. Burnett. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 221-232.

___. "'It's a Little Outside the Box': How Angel Breaks the Rules." In Stacey Abbot. Angel. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2009. 83-103.

___. "Joss Whedon 101: Angel." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 161-167. Originally appeared in earlier form in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 15 March 2011. Partially Available Online.

___. "Kicking Ass and Singing 'Mandy': A Vampire in L.A." Reading Angel: the TV Spin-off With a Soul. Ed. Stacey Abbott. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2005. 1-13.

___. "A Little Less Ritual and a Little More Fun: The Modern Vampire in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 1.3 (3), June 2001.

___. "Monstrous Puppet Masters: Negotiating Violence and Horror in the Whedon Tele-verse." Joss Whedon Vs. the Horror Tradition: The Production of Genre in Buffy and Beyond. Eds. Kristopher Karl Woofter and Lorna Jowett. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2018 [c 2019]. 163-180.

___. "'Nobody Scream... or Touch My Arms': The Comic Stylings of Wesley Wyndham-Pryce." Reading Angel: the TV Spin-off With a Soul. Ed. Stacey Abbott. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2005. 189-202. Also presented as "The Comic Stylings of Wesley Wyndham-Pryce" at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

___. "Un Peu Moins de Rituel et un Peu Plus de Fun: Le Vampire Moderne dans Buffy contre les vampires." Traduit de l'anglais par Malaurie Prévost. Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+ 19.1-2 [53-54], Summer/Fall 2021: 13-37.

___. "Walking the Fine Line Between Angel and Angelus." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 3.1 (9), August 2003. Also presented at Blood, Text and Fears: Reading Around Buffy the Vampire Slayer, University of East Anglia, 19-20 October 2002.

___. "'We'll Follow Angel to Hell... or Another Network: The Fan Response to the End of Angel." Reading Angel: the TV Spin-off With a Soul. Ed. Stacey Abbott. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2005. 230-233.

___. Angel. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2009.

___, ed. Reading Angel: the TV Spin-off With a Soul. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2005.

___, Bronwen Calvert, and Lorna Jowett. "A Part of Something Bigger: A Roundtable Discussion of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Transmedia Television, and the Joss Whedon Brand." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 421-430.

___ and Lorna Jowett. "Buffy Hereafter: From the Whedonverse to the Whedonesque; 17-19 October 2007, Istanbul: Conference Report." Special Issue on Firefly and Serenity. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya R. Cochran. Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 7.1 (25), Winter 2008.

___ and Simon Brown, eds. 'Let's Go to Work': The Legacy of Angel. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 17.2 (50), Summer / Fall 2019.

Aberdein, Andrew. "Balderdash and Chicanery: Science and Beyond in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Buffy and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale. Ed. James B. South. Chicago: Open Court, 2003. 79-90. Also presented at Blood, Text and Fears: Reading Around Buffy the Vampire Slayer, University of East Anglia, 19-20 October 2002.

___. "The Companions and Socrates: Is Inara a Hetaera?" Investigating Firefly and Serenity: Science Fiction on the Frontier. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya R. Cochran. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2008. 63-75. Also presented at SC2: The Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

Abu-Remaileh, Razan. "Vampires, Race and Citizenship in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Ignite: Undergraduate Journal of the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice 5.1 (2013): 6-12. Available online.

Adams, Bonnie Jett. "Caleb, the First Evil, and 'That most precious invention of all mankind: the notion of goodness'." Buffy Conquers the Academy: Conference Papers from the 2009/2010 Popular Culture/American Culture Associations. Eds. U. Melissa Anyiwo and Karoline Szatek-Tudor. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. 105-119. Also presented in earlier form as "'Crazy Preacher Man Spoutin' Off at the Mouth about the Whore of Babylon or Some-such': Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Caleb, Christianity, and Comedy Gold" at the 2009 PCA/ACA National Conference, New Orleans, LA, 8-11 April 2009.

Adams, Michael. "Buffy and the Death of Style." Buffy Goes Dark: Essays on the Final Two Seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Television. Eds. Lynne Y. Edwards, Elizabeth L. Rambo and James B. South. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 83-94. Also presented, as "'Don't Give Me Songs/Give Me Something to Sing About': Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Death of Style," as featured lecture at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

___. "Ephemeral Language." In Michael Adams. Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 113-125. Also published in earlier form in American Speech 75.4 (Winter 2000): 382-384.

___. "Introduction: Beyond Slayer Slang: Pragmatics, Discourse, and Style in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Beyond Slayer Slang: Pragmatics, Discourse, and Style in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ed. Michael Adams. Special Issue of Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 5.4 (20), May 2006.

___. "Making Slayer Slang." In Michael Adams. Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 47-86.

___. "Meaningful Infixing: A Nonexpletive Form." American Speech 79.1 (Spring 2004).

___. "Meaningful Interposing: A Countervalent Form." American Speech 80.4 (Winter 2005).

___. "Negotiating with Slang." Slang: The People's Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. 93-104.

___. "Preface." In Michael Adams. Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xi-xii.

___. "Slayer Slang." In Michael Adams. Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 1-46.

___. "Slayer Slang." Verbatim: From the Bawdy to the Sublime, the Best Writing on Language for Word Lovers, Grammar Mavens, and Armchair Linguists. Ed. Erin McKean. San Diego: Harcourt, 2001. 134-141.

___. "Slayer Slang (Part 1)." Verbatim: The Language Quarterly 24.3 (1999): 1-4. Available online.

___. "Slayer Slang (Part 2)." Verbatim: The Language Quarterly 24.4 (1999): 1-7. Available online.

___. Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

___. "Studying the Micro-histories of Words." In Michael Adams. Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 87-111.

___, ed. Beyond Slayer Slang: Pragmatics, Discourse, and Style in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Special Issue of Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 5.4 (20), May 2006.

Adams, Wendy A. "'I Made a Promise to a Lady': Critical Legal Pluralism as Improvised Law in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Critical Studies in Improvisation 6.1 (June 2010): 1-14. Available online.

Adler, Anthony Curtis. The Afterlife of Genre: Remnants of the Trauerspiel in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Brooklyn, NY: Punctum, 2014.

Agee, Richard S. 'Hot chicks with superpowers': Feminist Empowerment in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, Central Michigan University, Mt Pleasant, MI, 2013. Available online.

Ahrens, Elise. "Negative Space Surrounding 'The Body'." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 7.1 [9], June 2014.

Aichele, George. "The Politics of Sacrifice." Bible and Critical Theory 1.2 (April 2005): 6-10. Available online.

___. "Simulating Jesus." The Phantom Messiah: Postmodern Fantasy and the Gospel of Mark. New York: T & T Clark International, 2006. 203-221.

Akgun, Buket. "Kurallari Degistirmek ve Gücü Paylasmak: Vampir Avcisi Buffy'de Avci Mitinin Yeniden Tanimlanisi." Paper presented at 1. Korku Anlatilari Konferansi: Yazinsal ve/veya Görsel Vampir Anlatilari, Istanbul, Turkey, 2-3 Kasim 2009. [Conference proceedings:] Istanbul: Istanbul Üniversitesi Yayinlari, 2012. 33-45. Available online.

Albano, Antonella. "Vampiri, adolescenza, amore: Buffy the Vampire Slayer e The Vampire Diaries." Vampiri, supereroi e maghi: Metafore e percezione morale nella fiction fantastica. Rome: Aracne Editrice, 2013. In Italian.

Albright, Richard S. "'[B]reakaway pop hit or... book number?': 'Once More, With Feeling' and Genre." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 5.1 (17), June 2005. Also presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

___. "'Hey, Respect the Narrative Flow Much?': Problematic Storytelling in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Reading Joss Whedon. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox, Tanya R. Cochran, Cynthea Masson, and David Lavery. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2014. 84-98. Also presented at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

Alderman, Naomi. "'Those whom the powers wish to destroy, they must first make mad': Gods, Prophecy and Death: The Classical Roots of Madness in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004. Available online.

___ and Annette Seidel-Arpaci. "Imaginary Para-Sites of the Soul: Vampires and Representations of 'Blackness' and 'Jewishness' in the Buffy/Angelverse." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 3.2 (10), November 2003. Also presented at Blood, Text and Fears: Reading Around Buffy the Vampire Slayer, University of East Anglia, 19-20 October 2002.

Alessio, Dominic. "'Things are Different Now?': A Postcolonial Analysis of Buffy the Vampire Slayer." The European Legacy 6.6 (2001): 731-40.

Alexander, Amanda. "Sex, Crime and the 'Liberated Woman' in The Virgin Bride and Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Australian Feminist Law Journal 18 (2003): 77-92.

Alexander, Brooks. "Witchcraft in Popular Entertainment: The Craft, Buffy, and Beyond." Witchcraft Goes Mainstream: Uncovering Its Alarming Impact on You and Your Family. Eugene, OR: Harvest House Publishers, 2004.

Alexander, Jenny. "A Vampire is Being Beaten: De Sade Through the Looking Glass in Buffy and Angel." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 4.3 (15), December 2004. Also presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Ali, Asim. "Community, Language, and Postmodernism at the Mouth of Hell." Buffy and Angel Conquer the Internet: Essays on Online Fandom. Ed. Mary Kirby-Diaz. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 107-125. Also presented as "Community from Hell" at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004. Available online at author's website.

___. "'In the World, But Not of It': An Ethnographic Analysis of an Online Buffy the Vampire Slayer Fan Community." Buffy and Angel Conquer the Internet: Essays on Online Fandom. Ed. Mary Kirby-Diaz. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 87-106.

___. Subjacent Culture, Orthogonal Community: An Ethnographic Analysis of an On-Line Buffy the Vampire Slayer Fan Community. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 2013.

Allen, Meaghan, Agnes B. Curry, Ananya Mukherjea, and Savannah Richardson. "Slayage 9 Conference Report." Special 20th Anniversary Issue on Firefly. Eds. Sherry Ginn and Heather M. Porter. Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+ 20.2 [56], Fall 2022.

Allouche, Sylvie. "Voies pour philosopher avec les séries: l'exemple de Buffy, tueuse de vampires." Philoséries: Buffy, tueuse de vampires. Eds. Sylvie Allouche and Sandra Laugier. Paris: Bragelonne, 2014. 25-38. Also presented as "Philosopher avec les séries, l'exemple de Buffy: une perspective philosophique" at Buffy Tueuse De Vampires Conference, Paris, France, 26 June 2009. In French.

___ and Sandra Laugier. "Avant-Propos: Buffy Contre Les Vampires et Philoséries." Philoséries: Buffy, tueuse de vampires. Eds. Sylvie Allouche and Sandra Laugier. Paris: Bragelonne, 2014. 7-21. In French.

___ and Sandra Laugier, eds. Philoséries: Buffy, tueuse de vampires [journée d'études internationale, Cité internationale universitaire, 2009]. Paris: Bragelonne, 2014.

Allrath, Gaby. "Life in Doppelgangland: Innovative Character Conception and Alternate Worlds in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel." Narrative Strategies in Television Series. Ed. Gaby Allrath and Marion Gymnich. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 132-150.

Alnwick, Marie. Translating the Buffyverse: Examining French Fan Response to Buffy contre les vampires. Masters thesis, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 2007.

Aloi, Peg. "Skin Pale as Apple Blossom." Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Television Show. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2003. 41-47.

Alsford, Mike. "The Outsider: Heroes and Otherness." Heroes and Villains. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2006. 23-61.

Althans, Katrin. "Playing the Buffyverse, Playing the Gothic: Genre, Gender and Cross-Media Interactivity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds." Game On, Hollywood!: Essays on the Intersection of Video Games and Cinema. Eds. Gretchen Papazian and Joseph M. Sommers. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013. 20-34.

Alvi, Zalina. "Goliath is People!: How Dollhouse Took Distrust to a Whole New Level." Inside Joss' Dollhouse: from Alpha to Rossum. Ed. Jane Espenson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: Smart Pop [BenBella], 2010. 35-45.

Amy-Chinn, Dee. "Good Vampires Don't Suck: Sex, Celibacy and the Body of Angel." Vampires: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil. Ed. Carla T. Kungl. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2003. 115-120. Also presented at Vampires: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil, Budapest, Hungary, 22-24 May 2003. Available online.

___. "Queering the Bitch: Spike, Transgression and Erotic Empowerment." The Vampire Spike in Text and Fandom: Unsettling Oppositions in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Dee Amy-Chinn and Milly Williamson. Special Issue of European Journal of Cultural Studies 8.3, August 2005. 313-328. Also presented at Blood, Text and Fears: Reading Around Buffy the Vampire Slayer, University of East Anglia, 19-20 October 2002.

___. "'Tis Pity She's a Whore: Postfeminist Prostitution in Joss Whedon's Firefly?" Feminist Media Studies 6.2 (June 2006): 175-189. Available online.

___ and Milly Williamson. "Introduction." The Vampire Spike in Text and Fandom: Unsettling Oppositions in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Dee Amy-Chinn and Milly Williamson. Special Issue of European Journal of Cultural Studies 8.3, August 2005. 275-288.

___ and Milly Williamson, eds. The Vampire Spike in Text and Fandom: Unsettling Oppositions in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Special Issue of European Journal of Cultural Studies 8.3, August 2005.

Anderson, Angel. "Doyle as 'The Passing Figure' and Nella Larson's Passing." The Literary Angel: Essays on Influences and Traditions Reflected in the Joss Whedon Series. Eds. AmiJo Comeford and Tamy L. Burnett. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 30-40.

Anderson, Brendan. "The Girl in the Woods: On Fairy Stories and the Virgin Horror." Special Issue: J. R. R. Tolkien and the Works of Joss Whedon. Eds. Janet Brennan Croft and Kristine Larsen. Journal of Tolkien Research 10.1 (2020).

Anderson, Devon E. "Echoes of Frankenstein: Shelley's Masterpiece in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse and Our Relationship with Technology." Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 14.1 (43), Winter 2016.

___. "Friday Night Rites: The Posthuman Hero's Tale in the Television Narrative." Re-Entering the Dollhouse: Essays on the Joss Whedon Series. Eds. Heather M. Porter and Michael Starr. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2022. 159-174.

Anderson, Kristen Julia. "Seeing Green: Willow and Tara Forever." Fan Phenomena: Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ed. Jennifer Kate Stuller. Chicago: Intellect, 2013. 102-111.

Anderson, Lisa. "Can't Stop the Serenity: Joss Whedon's Shows and Fan Activism." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 258-261. Originally appeared in earlier form as "Can't Stop the Serenity: Taking Fan Activism to the Next Level" in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 14 April 2011. Partially Available Online.

Anderson, Tami. "Whose Story Is This, Anyway?" Inside Joss' Dollhouse: from Alpha to Rossum. Ed. Jane Espenson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: Smart Pop [BenBella], 2010. 161-173.

Anderson, Wendy Love. "Prophecy Girl and the Powers That Be: The Philosophy of Religion in the Buffyverse." Buffy and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale. Ed. James B. South. Chicago: Open Court, 2003. 212-226.

___. "What would Buffy Do?" Christian Century 120.10 (2003): 43.

Appelo, Tim. "Buffy Slays, Now What?: The Least Watched Great Show on TV Grows Up." Slate.com, November 5, 2001. Available online.

Andrade, Jessica. The Gender Politics of Female Action Heroes in Television and Films. Masters thesis, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2005. Available online.

Antoniazzi, Taylor. Vampires Prefer Blondes: From Nosferatu to Buffy. BA honors thesis, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, 2013.

Anyiwo, U. Melissa. "Introduction." Buffy Conquers the Academy: Conference Papers from the 2009/2010 Popular Culture/American Culture Associations. Eds U. Melissa Anyiwo and Karoline Szatek-Tudor. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. 1-5.

___. "More Than Just a Spin-Off: The Enduring Allure of Angel." Buffy Conquers the Academy: Conference Papers from the 2009/2010 Popular Culture/American Culture Associations. Eds U. Melissa Anyiwo and Karoline Szatek-Tudor. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. 149-161.

___ and Karoline Szatek-Tudor, eds. Buffy Conquers the Academy: Conference Papers from the 2009/2010 Popular Culture/American Culture Associations. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

Aoun, Steven. "R.I.P. Buffy: Shadow Boxer Slash Serial Killer, 1997-2003." Metro Magazine Fall 2003: 146-151.

Arant, Wendi and Candace R. Benefiel. "Rupert Giles." The Image and Role of the Librarian. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Information Press, 2002. 76-77.

Are, Carolina. "A 'Chosen' Hope with a 'Gingerbread' Outcome: Democratization of (Media) Power in Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a Metaphor of Online Abuse on High-Profile Criminal Cases." Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 18.2 [52], Summer/Fall 2020: 1-33.

Ash, Alex. 'Slayers, every one of us': Buffy on Challenging Patriarchal Systems. BA honors thesis, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, 2015.

Atchley, Clinton P. E. "King Lear, Buffy, and Apocalyptic Revisionism." Buffy Meets the Academy: Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Texts. Ed. Kevin K. Durand. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 81-90. Also presented as "'Is This the Promis'd End': King Lear, Buffy, and Apocalyptic Revisionism" at SC3: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008.

Attinello, Paul G. "Rock, Television, Paper, Musicals, Scissors: Buffy, The Simpsons, and Parody." Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Paul Attinello, Janet K. [Steve] Halfyard, and Vanessa Knights. Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2010. 235-247.

___, Janet K. [Steve] Halfyard, and Vanessa Knights, eds. Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2010.

Avon, Alexandre. Buffy contre les vampires: Une epopée trifonctionnelle Dumézilienne. Paris: Éditions le Manuscrit, 2009. In French.



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B., Matthew. "Relating Success to Gender in the Angelverse." All Slay 3 (2004).

Bach, Jacqueline. "Not Just Another Love Song: Buffy's Music as Representation of Emerging Adulthood." The Truth of Buffy: Essays on Fiction Illuminating Reality. Eds. Emily Dial-Driver, Sally Emmons-Featherston, Jim Ford and Carolyn Anne Taylor. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 38-54.

___. "Welcome to the Hellmouth: Buffy's Music Arc." Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing: Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon. Ed. Kendra Preston Leonard. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2011. 7-28. Also presented at the Southwest Popular Culture Association Conference, 2003.

___, Jessica Broussard, and Melanie K. Hundley. "Buffy Versus Bella: Teaching about Place and Gender." Fantasy Media in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching with Film, Television, Literature, Graphic Novels, and Video Games. Eds. Emily Dial-Driver, Sally Emmons, and Jim Ford. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. 182-202.

Bachran, Daoine S. "Mexicans in Space?: Joss Whedon's Firefly, Reavers and the Man They Call Jayne." Joss Whedon and Race: Critical Essays. Eds. Mary Ellen Iatropoulos and Lowery A. Woodall III. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. 184-199. Also presented in earlier form as "Mexicans in Space: Coded Absences in Joss Whedon's Firefly" at the 31st Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 10-13 February 2010.

Backhaus, Sita. Buffy und Sabrina - Mystery für Mädchen: Untersuchungen zu neueren TV-Serien und deren Begleitbüchern sowie ihrer Rezeption. Masters thesis, Hochschule der Medien, Fachhochschule Stuttgart [Stuttgart Media University], Stuttgart, 2001. In German. Available online.

Bacon-Smith, Camille. "The Color of the Dark." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 2.4 (8), March 2003. Also published in earlier form as the foreword of Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and David Lavery. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. xi-xiii.

Badman, Derek A. "Academic Buffy Bibliography." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 2.3 (7), December 2002.

Baggett, David. "Firefly and Freedom." The Philosophy of Joss Whedon. Eds. Dean A. Kowalski and S. Evan Kreider. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2011. 9-23.

Bailey, Joseph Doherty. "'Newly Human and Strangely Literal': Embodiments of Haraway's Simian, Cyborg, & Woman in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 8.1 [11], Spring 2015. Available online.

Bailey, Mike. "The Ethics of Malcolm Reynolds." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 261-264.

___. "Personal Identity in Joss Whedon's Shows." PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 30 March 2011. Available Online.

Baker, Amanda M. Joss Whedon: Finding Religious Themes in a Science Fiction Universe. BA honors thesis, Liberty University, Lynchburg, VA, 2009. Available online.

Baker, Djoymi. "Contested Spaces: The Internet Ate My TV, the TV Company Ate My Internet Site." Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media 1 (2002). Available online.

Baltimore, Sam. "'With my freeze ray, I will stop-': Carnival Incompleteness in Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog and 'Once More, With Feeling'." Music and the Moving Image 7.1 (Spring 2014): 24-39.

Bandy, Elizabeth A. Growing up with Buffy: How Adolescent Female Fans Use the Program in Their Everyday Lives. Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2007.

Banschbach, Sarah E. "Hi Ho, Cyborg!: Savages, Cyborgs, and Gender on the Science Fiction Frontier." Contemporary Westerns: Film and Television Since 1990. Ed. Andrew Patrick Nelson. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2013. 107-118. Also presented at the 2012 PCA/ACA National Conference, Boston, MA, 11-14 April 2012.

Bar-Lev, Jennifer. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict." Paper presented at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010. Available online.

Barbaccia, Holly G. "Buffy in the 'Terrible House'." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 1.4 (4), December 2001.

Bardi, C. Albert and Sherry Hamby. "Existentialism Meets Feminism in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." The Psychology of Joss Whedon: An Unauthorized Exploration of Buffy, Angel, and Firefly. Ed. Joy Davidson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: BenBella, 2007. 105-117.

Barnes, Elizabeth. "The New Hero: Women, Humanism and Violence in Alias and Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Investigating Alias: Secrets and Spies. Eds. Stacey Abbott and Simon Brown. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2007. 57-72.

Barros, Ana Carolina de. "'Gay Now': Bisexuality Erasure in Supernatural Media from 1983 to 2003." Journal of Bisexuality 20.1 (2020): 104–117.

Bartel, Hope K. and Timothy E. G. Bartel. "The Harrowing of Hell: 'Anne' and the Greek Paschal Tradition in Conversation." Joss Whedon and Religion: Essays on an Angry Atheist's Explorations of the Sacred. Eds. Anthony R. Mills, John W. Morehead, and J. Ryan Parker. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013. 28-38.

Bartlem, Edwina. "Coming Out on A Hell Mouth." Special Issue on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Angela Ndalianis and Felicity Colman. Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media 2 (2003). Also presented at The Buffyverse: A Symposium on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 21 November 2002. Available online.

Barton, Kristin M. "Can't Stop the Sequel: How the Serenity-Inspired Browncoats: Redemption is Changing the Future of Fan Films." Fan CULTure: Essays on Participatory Fandom in the 21st Century. Barton, Kristin M. and Jonathan Malcolm Lampley, eds. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013. 9-22.

___. "Joss Whedon 101: Serenity." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 239-243. Originally appeared in earlier form in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 17 March 2011. Partially Available Online.

___. "Joss Whedon 101: The Avengers." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: the TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Eds. PopMatters.com with Mary Alice Money. 1st edition. London: Titan Books, 2012. 443-446. Originally appeared in earlier form in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 13 April 2011. Partially Available Online.

___. "TV's Grim Reaper: Why Joss Whedon Continually Kills the Characters We Love." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 153-158. Originally appeared in earlier form in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 5 April 2011. Partially Available Online.

Bates, Jenna. "Exploring the Whedonverses: The Challenges of Creating a Whedon Survey Course." Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+ 19.1-2 [53-54], Summer/Fall 2021: 64-113.

Bates, Margaret, Emily M. Gustafson, Bryan C. Porterfield, and Lawrence B. Rosenfeld. "'When Did Your Sister Get Unbelievably Scary?': Outsider Status and Dawn and Spike's Relationship." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 4.4 (16), March 2005.

Battis, Jes. "Afterword: Families Beyond Buffy (or Firefly, and Everything After)." In Jess Battis. Blood Relations: Chosen Families in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005. 156-165.

___. "Buffy, Angel, and the Ivory Tower: Open and Closed Family Systems." In Jess Battis. Blood Relations: Chosen Families in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005. 134-155.

___. "Captain Tightpants: Firefly and the Science Fiction Canon." Special Issue on Firefly and Serenity. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya R. Cochran. Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 7.1 (25), Winter 2008.

___. "'Daddy's Home – I'm in Real Trouble Now': Fathers Who Watch in Buffy and Angel." In Jess Battis. Blood Relations: Chosen Families in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005. 89-111.

___. "Demonic Maternities, Complex Motherhoods: Cordelia, Fred and the Puzzle of Illyria." In Jess Battis. Blood Relations: Chosen Families in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005. 112-133. Also published in Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 5.2 (18), September 2005.

___. Queer Spellings: Magic and Melancholy in Fantasy-Fiction. Ph.D. dissertation, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, 2007. Available online.

___. "'She's Not All Grown Yet': Willow As Hybrid, Hero and Middle Child of the Scooby Family." In Jess Battis. Blood Relations: Chosen Families in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005. 25-43. Also published in earlier form as "'She's Not All Grown Yet': Willow As Hybrid/Hero in Buffy the Vampire Slayer" in Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 2.4 (8), March 2003.

___. "'This carpenter can drywall you into the next century': Xander Harris as Hero, Big Brother and Male-In-Progress." In Jess Battis. Blood Relations: Chosen Families in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005. 44-66. Also presented in earlier form as "'This carpenter can drywall you into the next century': Xander's 'Superpower' and the Problem of Female Masculinities in Buffy" at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

___. "What It Feels Like for a Slayer: Buffy Summers and the Paradox of Mothering." In Jess Battis. Blood Relations: Chosen Families in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005. 67-88.

___. Blood Relations: Chosen Families in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005.

Bauer, Amy. "'Give Me Something to Sing About': Intertextuality and the Audience in 'Once More, with Feeling'." Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Paul Attinello, Janet K. [Steve] Halfyard, and Vanessa Knights. Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2010. 209-234.

Bavidge, Jenny. "Chosen Ones: Reading the Contemporary Teen Heroine." Teen TV: Genre, Consumption, Identity. Eds. Glyn Davis and Kay Dickinson. London, British Film Institute [BFI], 2004. 41-53.

Bayles, Jaq. Drop-Dead Monstrous: The Funcion of Female Perversity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, 2001.

Beadling, Laura L. "Subverting the Master's Hero: Firefly's Malcolm Reynolds as a New Kind of Space Cowboy.” Screening Images of American Masculinity in the Age of Postfeminism. Eds. Elizabeth Abele and John A. Gronbeck-Tedesco. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015. 69-82.

___. "The Threat of the 'Good Wife': Feminism, Postfeminism, and Third-Wave Feminism in Firefly." Investigating Firefly and Serenity: Science Fiction on the Frontier. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya R. Cochran. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2008. 53-62.

Beagle, Peter S. "The Good Vampire: Spike and Angel." Five Seasons of Angel: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Vampire. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2004. 115-124.

Bear, Elizabeth. "We're Here to Save You." Whedonistas!: A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon by the Women Who Love Them. Eds. Lynne M. Thomas and Deborah Stanish. Des Moines, IA: Mad Norwegian Press, 2011. 83-85.

Beaudoin, Julianna. "Exploring the Contemporary Relevance of 'Gypsy' Stereotypes in the Buffyverse." The Journal of Popular Culture 48.2 (April 2015): 313-327. Also presented as "Gypsy Myths and Romani Realities: Exploring Romani Characterizations in the Buffyverse" at SCW5: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 12-15 July 2012.

Beckmann, Annika, et al., ed. Horror als Alltag: Texte zu Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Berlin: Vebrecher, 2010. In German.

Beckmann, Annika and Heide Lutosch. "Wozu Vampire?: Realismus in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Horror als Alltag: Texte zu Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ed. Annika Beckmann, et al. Berlin: Vebrecher, 2010. 17-54. In German.

Beddows, Emma. "Buffy the Transmedia Hero." Colloquy: text theory critique 24 (2012): 143-158. Available online.

Beeler, Karin. "Cheerleader/Seer: The Hybrid Visions of Cordelia Chase in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. Seers, Witches and Psychics on Screen: An Analysis of Women Visionary Characters in Recent Television and Film. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 25-37.

___. "The Transformation of River Tam: Psychic Warrior, Female Prodigy and Anti-Hero in Firefly and Serenity. Seers, Witches and Psychics on Screen: An Analysis of Women Visionary Characters in Recent Television and Film. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 38-48.

Beeler, Stan. "Outing Lorne: Performance for the Performers." Reading Angel: the TV Spin-off With a Soul. Ed. Stacey Abbott. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2005. 88-100.

Beham, Michaela. Weibliche Heldinnen im Fernsehen—Dargestellt am Beispiel von Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, Kommunikationswissenschaftliche Geschlechterforschung, Universität Salzburg, Austria, 2006. In German.

Behm, Elizabeth A. Where's the Power in Girl Power? Images of Femininity and Feminism on Network Television. Masters thesis, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 2003.

Beirne, Rebecca. "Queering the Slayer-text: Reading possibilities in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media 5 (2004). Also presented at Staking a Claim: Exploring the Global Reach of Buffy, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, 22 July 2003. Available online.

Benkendorf, Sarah. "The New Eden: Deconstructing the Los Angeles Dollhouse." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 7.2 [10], Fall 2014.

Bennett, Eve. "Deconstructing the Dream Factory: Personal Fantasy and Corporate Manipulation in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse." Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 9.1 (33), Spring 2011. Available online.

___. "'I'm awake now': Female Cyborgs, Self-Awareness, and (Qualified?) Rebellion in Dollhouse and Westworld." Re-Entering the Dollhouse: Essays on the Joss Whedon Series. Eds. Heather M. Porter and Michael Starr. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2022. 209-223.
Also presented as "'I'm awake now': Female cyborgs, consciousness and (qualified?) rebellion in Dollhouse and Westworld " at SCW8: The 8th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL, 21-24 June 2018.

___. A Man's End of the World? Gender in Post-9/11 American Apocalyptic Television. Ph.D. dissertation, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, 2015.

___ and Erin Giannini. "Introduction: 'A Part of Something Bigger': Critical Approaches to Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and The Avengers." 'A Part of Something Bigger': Critical Approaches to Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and The Avengers. Eds. Eve Bennett and Erin Giannini. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 17.1 (49), Winter / Spring 2019: 1-10. Available online.

___ and Erin Giannini, eds. 'A Part of Something Bigger': Critical Approaches to Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and The Avengers. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 17.1 (49), Winter / Spring 2019. Available online.

Benoist, Jocelyn. "Trouver sa voix: Buffy et les Gentlemen." Philoséries: Buffy, tueuse de vampires. Eds. Sylvie Allouche and Sandra Laugier. Paris: Bragelonne, 2014. 125-151. Also presented at Buffy Tueuse De Vampires Conference, Paris, France, 26 June 2009. In French.

Benson, Eric. "Overconsumption, the Natural Environment and Lessons from Earth-That-Was." Joss Whedon's Big Damn Movie: Essays on Serenity. Ed. Frederick Blichert. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018. 93-105.

___. "The Serenity Logo:  Otherness and Inauthenticity." Special 20th Anniversary Issue on Firefly. Eds. Sherry Ginn and Heather M. Porter. Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+ 20.2 [56], Fall 2022.

Bercuci, Loredana. “Pop Feminism: Televised Superheroines from the 1990s to the 2010s.” Gender Studies 15.1 (December 2016): 252-269.

Berg, Robert. "For Who Could Ever Love a Beast?: Whedon's Take on a Classic Tale." The Existential Scoobies website. 2001. Available online.

Berger, Laura. 'Cup of tea, cup of tea, almost got shagged': Being a Man in a Feminist Coming of Age Story: Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, 2011. Also presented as "'Cup of Tea, Cup of Tea, Almost Got Shagged': The Late-Life Bildungsroman of Rupert Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer" at SCW5: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 12-15 July 2012.

___. "Interview with Alexis Denisof." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 205-212.

___. "Joss Whedon 101: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (The Movie)." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 433-435. Originally appeared in earlier form in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 3 March 2011. Partially Available Online.

___ and Keri Ferencz. "Returning to the Basement: Excavating the Unconscious in Buffy's 'Restless'." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 112-125. Originally appeared in earlier form in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 13 March 2011. Partially Available Online.

Berger, Rose Marie. "Damnation Will Not Be Televised." Sojourners:Faith in Action for Social Justice 32.6 (November-December 2003): 11. Available online.

Berlatsky, Noah, ed. "Joss Whedon Roundtable." The Hooded Utilitarian website. Available online.

Berner, Amy. "The Path of Wesley Wyndam-Price." Five Seasons of Angel: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Vampire. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2004. 145-151.

Bernstein, Abbie. "It's Not Easy Beaing Green and Nonjudgmental." Five Seasons of Angel: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Vampire. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2004. 65-77.

Berridge, Susan. "Teen Heroine TV: Narrative Complexity and Sexual Violence in Female-Fronted Teen Drama Series." New Review of Film and Television Studies 11.4 (2013): 477-496.

Bertho, Vanessa. "La bibliothèque dans Buffy contre les vampires: grimoires et merveilles." La bibliothèque (auto)portrait. Eds. Vincent Auzas and Juliette Dutour. Special Issue of Conserveries mémorielles: Revue transdisciplinaire de jeunes chercheurs 5 (2008). In French. Available Online.

___. "Introduction à une nouvelle ère de la série télévisée: Buffy contre les vampires, incarnation du pouvoir féminin?" Les Temps des médias 12 (printemps-été 2009): 174-186. In French.

___. De la plume au plasma: Étude d'une transposition des mythes et légendes à l'époque contemporaine à travers la série télévisée Buffy contre les vampires. Masters thesis, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France, 2007. In French.

Besson, Anne. "Buffy, carrefour dans l'évolution des genres et des pratiques." Philoséries: Buffy, tueuse de vampires. Eds. Sylvie Allouche and Sandra Laugier. Paris: Bragelonne, 2014. 39-57. Also presented as "Buffy, carrefour dans l'évolution des genres et des pratiques: une perspective comparatiste" at Buffy Tueuse De Vampires Conference, Paris, France, 26 June 2009. In French.

Betancourt, Michael. "Educating Buffy: The Role of Education in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Transylvanian Journal: Dracula and Vampire Studies 3.2 (1998): 1-12. Also presented at the 19th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, 1998. Available Online.

Bethke, Bruce. "Cut 'Em Off at the Horsehead Nebula!" Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe. Ed. Jane Espenson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: BenBella, 2007. 175-185.

Bianchi, Diana. "Taming Teen-Language: The Adaptation of 'Buffyspeak' into Italian." Between Text and Image: Updating Research in Screen Translation. Eds. Delia Chiaro, Chiara Bucaria, and Christine Heiss. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2008. 185-198.

Bieszk, Patricia. "Vampire Hip: Style as Subcultural Expression in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media's State of Play website. 4 February 2005. Also presented at What Lies Beneath: Postgraduate Conference, AHCCA, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 6 November 2003. Available online.

Billson, Anne. "Afer Buffy." In Anne Billson. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. London: British Film Institute [BFI], 2005. 135-138.

___. "Before Buffy." In Anne Billson. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. London: British Film Institute [BFI], 2005. 1-16.

___. "The Chosen One." In Anne Billson. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. London: British Film Institute [BFI], 2005. 17-26.

___. "The Dark Side: What Happens in Season Three." In Anne Billson. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. London: British Film Institute [BFI], 2005. 62-78.

___. "Death and the Maiden: What Happens in Season Five." In Anne Billson. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. London: British Film Institute [BFI], 2005. 98-107.

___. "Higher Learning: What Happens in Season Four." In Anne Billson. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. London: British Film Institute [BFI], 2005. 79-97.

___. "Love and Other Catastrophes: What Happens in Season Two." In Anne Billson. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. London: British Film Institute [BFI], 2005. 46-61.

___. "Revenge of the Nerds: What Happens in Season Six." In Anne Billson. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. London: British Film Institute [BFI], 2005. 108-121.

___. "Sharing the Power: What Happens in Season Seven." In Anne Billson. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. London: British Film Institute [BFI], 2005. 122-134.

___. "Welcome to the Hellmouth: What Happens in Season One." In Anne Billson. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. London: British Film Institute [BFI], 2005. 27-45.

___. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. London: British Film Institute [BFI], 2005.

Birrer, Doryjane. "A New Species of Humanities: The Marvelous Progeny of Humanism and Postmodern Theory." Journal of Narrative Theory 37.2 (Summer 2007): 217-245.

Bishop, Kyle William. "Technophobia and the Cyborg Menace: Buffy Summers as Neo-Human Avatar." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 19.3 (Fall 2009): 349-363.

Biskup, Kristina. (Dis)Continuities of Gender: Femininity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis,Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2006.

Björnsdóttir, Ásbjörg Una. Unga stúlkan og vampýrurnar: Um mýþusköpun í Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ph.D. dissertation, Háskóla Íslands [University of Iceland], Reykjavík, Iceland, 2002. In Icelandic.

Blackburn, Kasey. Women of Color Consuming Prime Time Television: A Qualitative Study. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, WI, 2002.

Blake, Andrew. "1999 y la irrupción de la teoría [1999 and the Irruption of Theory]." Theory Now: Journal of Literature, Critique and Thought 2.2 (2019): 165–181. In Spanish and English.

Blakely, David. "Signs, Signs, Everywhere Signs: Brechtian Techniques in Buffy." The Truth of Buffy: Essays on Fiction Illuminating Reality. Eds. Emily Dial-Driver, Sally Emmons-Featherston, Jim Ford and Carolyn Anne Taylor. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 107-119.

Blanco, Thèrése A. "'You're Beneath Me': The Stigma of Vampirism in the Buffyverse." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004. Available online.

Blasingame, Katrina. "'I Can't Believe I'm Saying this Twice in the Same Century... But Duh...': The Evolution of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Sub-Culture Language Through the Medium of Fanfiction." Beyond Slayer Slang: Pragmatics, Discourse, and Style in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ed. Michael Adams. Special Issue of Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 5.4 (20), May 2006. Also presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Blatchford, Kate. "The Avengers Initiative: Joss Whedon Updates the Action Movie." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 7.2 [10], Fall 2014.

Bledsoe, Alex. "Mal Contents: Captain Reynolds Grows Up." Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe. Ed. Jane Espenson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: BenBella, 2007. 95-105.

Bley, Rebecca. "RL on LJ: Fandom and the Presentation of Self in Online Life." Buffy and Angel Conquer the Internet: Essays on Online Fandom. Ed. Mary Kirby-Diaz. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 43-61.

Blichert, Frederick. "'Better worlds': Western Heroes and the Civilized 'Verse." Joss Whedon's Big Damn Movie: Essays on Serenity. Ed. Frederick Blichert. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018. 69-79.

___. "Introduction: Spotlight on Serenity." Joss Whedon's Big Damn Movie: Essays on Serenity. Ed. Frederick Blichert. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018. 1-8.

___. Serenity. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017.

___, ed. Joss Whedon'' Big Damn Movie: Essays on Serenity. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018.

Blom, Minja. "Television Vampire Fandom and Religion." Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis 25 (2013): 9-25. Available online.

___. "Uhrista taistelijaksi: Buffy vampyyrintappaja ja elokuvien väkivaltaiset naiset sankarimyytteinä." Elokuva uskonnon peilinä: Uskontotieteellisiä tarkennuksia länsimaiseen populaarielokuvaan. Eds. Heikki Pesonen, Elina Lehtinen, Nelli Myllärniemi, and Minja Blom. Helsinki: Helsingin Yliopisto, 2011. 192-211. In Finnish.

Blouin, Michael J. “American Horror, Global Commons, and The Cabin in the Woods." Magical Thinking, Fantastic Film, and the Illusions of Neoliberalism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 139-168.

___. "'A growing global darkness': Dialectics of Culture in Goddard's The Cabin in the Woods." Horror Studies 6.1 (April 2015): 83-99.

Bloustien, Geraldine. "'And the rest is silence': Silence and Death as Motifs in Buffy the Vampire Slayer."Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Paul Attinello, Janet K. [Steve] Halfyard, and Vanessa Knights. Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2010. 91-108.

___. "Buffy Night at the Seven Stars: A 'Subcultural' Happening at the 'Glocal' Level." After Subculture: Critical Studies in Contemporary Youth Culture. Eds. Andy Bennett and Keith Kahn-Harris. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 148-160. Also presented as "Buffy Night at the Seven Stars" at Blood, Text and Fears: Reading Around Buffy the Vampire Slayer, University of East Anglia, 19-20 October 2002.

___. "Carpe Diem or 'Fish of the Day?': Time as Leitmotif in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented as featured lecture at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004. Available online.

___. "Fans With a Lot at Stake: Serious Play & Mimetic Excess in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." European Journal of Cultural Studies 5.4 (2002): 427-49.

Bobbitt, Rebecca. "Wesley as Tragic Hero." Buffy Meets the Academy: Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Texts. Ed. Kevin K. Durand. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 169-175. Also presented as "'Not All of Us Have Muscle to Fall Back On': Wesley Wyndam-Price as Tragic Hero" at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

Bodger, Gwyneth. "Buffy the Feminist Slayer? Constructions of Femininity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Special Issue on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Angela Ndalianis and Felicity Colman. Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media 2 (2003). Available online.

Bond-Collins, Margo. "Anamnesis, Hypomnesis, and the Failure of the Posthuman in Whedon's Dollhouse." Joss Whedon's Dollhouse: Confounding Purpose, Confusing Identity. Eds. Sherry Ginn, Alyson R. Buckman, and Heather M. Porter. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 35-50.

Booker, M. Keith. "Buffy Keeps It Cool." Red, White, and Spooked: The Supernatural in American Culture. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2009. 89-101.

___. "Hard-Boiled Magic: The Vampire Detective." Red, White, and Spooked: The Supernatural in American Culture. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2009. 67-82.

Boreliz, Caitlin. "Kaylee Frye: Slaying the Angel in the House." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 6.1 [7], July 2012. Also presented at the 33rd Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 8-11 February 2012.

Bose, Dev Kumar and Esther Liberman-Cuenca. "Buffy, Angel, and the Complications of the Soul: A Collaborative Perspective on the Origin Episodes." Buffy Conquers the Academy: Conference Papers from the 2009/2010 Popular Culture/American Culture Associations Eds. U. Melissa Anyiwo and Karoline Szatek-Tudor. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. 6-18. Also presented in earlier form as "Buffy, Angel, and Complicatioms of the Soul: Observations on Lineage, Colonial Identity, and Gender Roles" at the 2009 PCA/ACA National Conference, New Orleans, LA, 8-11 April 2009.

Bosseaux, Charlotte. "'Bloody hell. Sodding, blimey, shagging, knickers, bollocks. Oh God, I'm English': Translating Spike." Open Graves, Open Minds: Vampires and the Undead in Modern Culture. Eds. Samantha George ad Bill Hughes. Special Issue of Gothic Studies 15.1 (May 2013): 21-32. Also presented at Open Graves, Open Minds: Vampires and the Undead in Modern Culture, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK, 16-17 April 2010. Available online.

___. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Dubbing, Film and Performance: Uncanny Encounters. New York: Peter Lang, 2015. 135-154.

___. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Characterization in the Musical Episode of the TV Series." The Translator: Studies in Intercultural Communication 14.2 (2008): 343-372.

___. "Translating Britishness in the French Versions of Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Quaderns de Filologia 13 (2008): 85-103.

Boulware, Taylor. "'I Made Me': Queer Theory, Subjection, and Identity in Dollhouse." Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 10.1 (35), Winter 2013. Also presented as "'I Made Me': Queering Dollhouse" at SCW5: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 12-15 July 2012.

___. "Race, Passing, and Lynching: Angel's 'Are You Now or Have You Ever Been'." In Media Res website. 1 October 2013. Available online.

Bowers, Cynthia. "Generation Lapse: The Problematic Parenting of Joyce Summers and Rupert Giles." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 2 (2001).

___. "Choc des générations: l'éducation parentale problématique de Joyce Summers et Rupert Giles." Traduit de l'anglais par Malaurie Prévost. Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+ 20.1 [55], Winter/Spring 2022.

Bowers, Jess. "British Vampire, 'American Disease': William the Bloody as Victorian Neurasthenic." Blood, Body and Soul: Essays on Health, Wellness and Disability in Buffy, Angel, Firefly and Dollhouse. Eds. Tamy Burnett and AmiJo Comeford. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2022. 171-187. Also presented in earlier form as "British Vampire, 'American Disease': William the Bloody as 19th Century Neurasthenic" at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

Bowman, James. "Childish Wish-Fulfullment." New Criterion 18.3 (November 1999): 54-59.

Bowman, Laurel. "Whedon Meets Sophocles: Prophecy and Angel. The Literary Angel: Essays on Influences and Traditions Reflected in the Joss Whedon Series. Eds. AmiJo Comeford and Tamy L. Burnett. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 191-205.

___. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: the Greek Hero Revisited website. 2002. Available online.

Boyette, Michele. "The Comic Anti-hero in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or Silly Villain: Spike is for Kicks." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 1.4 (4), December 2001.

Boyle, Karen. "The Days of Whose Lives?: Violence, (Post-)Feminism and Television." Media and Violence: Gendering the Debates. London: Sage, 2005. 187-193. Also accepted (but not presented) in earlier form as "Male Violence, (Post-)Feminist Television Criticism and Buffy the Vampire Slayer" for the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Boyles, Kerry. "Witches, Mothers and Gentlemen: ­Re-Inventing Fairy Tales in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Buffy to Batgirl: Essays on Female Power, Evolving Femininity and Gender Roles in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Eds. Julie M. Still and Zara T. Wilkinson. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2019. 33-52.

Brace, Patricia. "Fashioning Feminism: Whedon, Women, and Wardrobe." The Philosophy of Joss Whedon. Eds. Dean A. Kowalski and S. Evan Kreider. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2011. 117-32.

Bradney, Anthony. "The Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Politics of Legal Education." Readings in Law and Popular Culture . Eds. Steven Greenfield and Guy Osborn. New York: Routledge, 2006. 15-30.

___. "Choosing Laws, Choosing Families: Images of Law, Love and Authority in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Web Journal of Current Legal Issues 2 Web JCLI (2003). Also presented at Blood, Text and Fears: Reading Around Buffy the Vampire Slayer, University of East Anglia, 19-20 October 2002. Available online.

___. "For and Against the Law: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and the Academy." Entertainment and Sports Law Journal 9.1 (2011). Available online.

___. "'I Made a Promise to a Lady': Law and Love in BtVS." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 3.2 (10), November 2003.

___. "Images of Law in BtVS." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004. Available online.

___. "'It's About Power': Law in the Fictional Setting of a Quaker Meeting and in the Everyday Reality of Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Issues in Legal Scholarship 6.1 (January 2006).

___. "'The Morally Ambiguous Crowd': The Image of a Large Law Firm in Angel." Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 56 (2005): 21-37.

___. "The Politics and Ethics of Researching the Buffyverse." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 5.3 (19), February 2006. Also presented as "The Politics and Ethics of writing about the Buffyverse" 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.

Brannon, Julie Sloan. "'It's About Power': Buffy, Foucault, and the Quest for Self." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 6.4 (24), Summer 2007. Also presented at the 2003 PCAS/ACAS Annual Conference, Atlantic Beach, FL, 2-4 October 2003.

Branston, Gill and Roy Stafford. "Case Study: Buffy the Vampire Slayer." The Media Student's Book. 3rd edition. New York: Routledge, 2003. 82-89.

Braun, Beth. "The X-files and Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Ambiguity of Evil in Supernatural Representations." Journal of Popular Film & Television 28.2 (2000): 88-94. Available online.

Breton, Rob and Lindsey McMaster. "Dissing the Age of Moo: Initiatives, Alternatives, and Rationality in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 1.1 (1), January 2001.

Brettauer, Kevin M. "The Night Billy Buddy Died: Dr. Horrible's Tragicomic Inversion of Spider-Man." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 367-371. Originally appeared in earlier form in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 27 March 2011. Partially Available Online.

Brickley, London. "A Reaver in the Writers Room: The Cannibal Approach to Box Office Fear." Joss Whedon's Big Damn Movie: Essays on Serenity. Ed. Frederick Blichert. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018. 9-24.

Bridges, Corey. "The Virtual 'Verse." Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe. Ed. Jane Espenson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: BenBella, 2007. 151-159.

Bridges, Elizabeth. "Grimm Realities: Buffy and the Uses of Folklore." Buffy Meets the Academy: Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Texts. Ed. Kevin K. Durand. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 91-103. Also presented as "Buffy and Old World Folklore" at SC3: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008.

Bridwell, Nick. "Joss Whedon 101: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 337-340. Originally appeared in earlier form in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 22 March 2011. Partially Available Online.

___. "Wesley Wyndam-Pryce: Joss Whedon's True Tragic Hero." PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 15 March 2011. Available Online.

Brin, David. "Buffy vs. the Old-fashioned 'Hero'." Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Television Show. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2003. 1-4.

Broaddus, Maurice. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Hollywood Jesus: Pop Culture from a Spiritual Point of View website. 26 January 2005. Available online.

Broadhead, Lee-Anne. "'You Can't Beat Evil by Doing Evil': Buffy, Discursive Challenges, and Nuclear Weapons." Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+ 20.1 [55], Winter/Spring 2022.

Brown, Glenn. "Consequence and Change in the Works of Joss Whedon, and Why It Matters." PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 28 March 2011. Available Online.

Brown, Jeffrey A. "Kinky Vampires and Action Heroines." Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2011. 185-207.

Brown, Laurel. "Smart is Sexy: An Appreciation of Firefly's Kaylee." Whedonistas!: A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon by the Women Who Love Them. Eds. Lynne M. Thomas and Deborah Stanish. Des Moines, IA: Mad Norwegian Press, 2011. 57-61.

Brown, Rebecca M. "Orientalism in Firefly and Serenity." Special Issue on Firefly and Serenity. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya R. Cochran. Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 7.1 (25), Winter 2008.

Browne, Daniel. "One Man's Myth: How Joss Whedon Showed Me the Crack in the Invisible Wall." New Orleans Review 38.2 (Fall 2012). Available online.

Bruggink, Heidi J. Taking Back the Night: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Girl Power Feminism. BA honors thesis, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2005.

Bryant, Michael. "Grieving with Buffy 20 Years on." British Journal of General Practice 67.658, May 2017: 222.

Bryce, Devon Elizabeth. Surviving the Change: the Domestication of the Vampire in Literature, Film, and Television. Masters thesis, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2009. Also presented in earlier form as "Surviving the Change: How BtVS Changed the Vampire" at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

Buchanan, Ginjer. "The Journey of Jonathan Levenson: From Scenery to Sacrifice." Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Vol. 3. Ed. Paul Ruditis. New York: Simon, 2004. 241-248.

___. "Who Killed Firefly?" Finding Serenity: Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly. Eds. Jane Espenson with Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2005. 47-33.

Buckman, Alyson R. "Conclusion: 'We had our own hellmouth': The Allegations Against Joss Whedon." Slaying Is Hell: Essays on Trauma and Memory in the Whedonverse. Eds. Alyson R. Buckman, Juliette C. Kitchens, and Katherine A Troyer. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2023. 157-179.

___. "'Go ahead! Run away! Say it was Horrible': Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog as Resistant Text." Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 8.1 (29), Spring 2010. Also presented as "'Go Ahead! Run Away! Say It Was Horrible!': Dr. Horrible as a Response to Dua Khalil's Murder" at the 30th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 25-28 February 2009.

___. "[Introduction:] Fantasy Is His Business, But It Is Not His Purpose: An Introduction to Joss Whedon and His Storytelling." Joss Whedon's Dollhouse: Confounding Purpose, Confusing Identity. Eds. Sherry Ginn, Alyson R. Buckman, and Heather M. Porter. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. xi [-?].

___. "'Much Madness is Divinest Sense': Firefly's 'Big Damn Heroes' and Little Witches." Investigating Firefly and Serenity: Science Fiction on the Frontier. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya R. Cochran. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2008. 41-49.

___. "Triangulated Desire in Angel and Buffy." Sexual Rhetoric in the Works of Joss Whedon: New Essays. Ed. Erin B. Waggoner. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 48-92. Also presented as "'Is there anyone here that hasn't slept together?': Triangulated Desire in Buffy and Angel" at the 31st Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 10-13 February 2010.

___. "'Wheel Never Stops Turning': Space and Time in Firefly and Serenity." Reading Joss Whedon. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox, Tanya R. Cochran, Cynthea Masson, and David Lavery. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2014. 169-184.

___, Juliette C. Kitchens, and Katherine A Troyer, eds. Slaying Is Hell: Essays on Trauma and Memory in the Whedonverse. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2023.

Budgen, David. "A Man of Honor in a Den of Thieves: War Veterans in Firefly." Firefly Revisited: Essays on Joss Whedon's Classic Series. Eds. Michael Goodrum and Philip Smith. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. 19-36.

Buinicki, Martin and Anthony Enns. "Buffy the Vampire Disciplinarian: Institutional Excess, Spiritual Technologies, and the New Economy of Power." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 1.4 (4), December 2001.

Bull, Emma. "Malcolm Reynolds, the Myth of the West, and Me." Whedonistas!: A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon by the Women Who Love Them. Eds. Lynne M. Thomas and Deborah Stanish. Des Moines, IA: Mad Norwegian Press, 2011. 190-196.

Bundgaard, Andra. The Female Heroine and the New Vampires on Television: A Comparison of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, True Blood and The Vampire Diaries. Masters thesis, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, 2012.

Burdolski, Lauren. "Reflections of Society in the Buffyverse." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004. Available online.

Burgstaller, Lena Marina. Vom Schweigen zum Musical: Störungen der Narration auf der akustischen Ebene in der TV-Serie Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, Universität Wien [University of Vienna], Vienna, Austria, 2012. In German.

Burkhead, Cynthea. "Angel's Dreams, Our Nightmares: Oneiric Horror in Angel and Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Joss Whedon Vs. the Horror Tradition: The Production of Genre in Buffy and Beyond. Eds. Kristopher Karl Woofter and Lorna Jowett. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2018 [c 2019]. 92-104.

___. "Case Study: Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Dreams in American Television Narratives from Dallas to Buffy. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. Originally appeared in Dancing Dwarfs and Talking Fish: The Narrative Functions of Television Dreams. Ph.D. dissertation, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, 2010. 121-135.

___, Ian G. Klein, and David Kociemba. "Whedon and His Players: A Report on New Scholarship at SC4." Fantasy Is Not Their Purpose: Joss Whedon's Dollhouse. Eds. Cynthea Masson and Rhonda V. Wilcox. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 8.2-3 (30-31), Summer/Fall 2010.

Burnett, Tamy L. "Anya as Feminist Model of Positive Female Sexuality." Sexual Rhetoric in the Works of Joss Whedon: New Essays. Ed. Erin B. Waggoner. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 117-145.

___. "Fred's Captivity Narrative: American Contexts for (Re)Writing Community Identity from Mary Rowlandson to Angel." The Literary Angel: Essays on Influences and Traditions Reflected in the Joss Whedon Series. Eds. AmiJo Comeford and Tamy L. Burnett. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 69-84. Also presented as "'A Stunning Revelation of My True Path in Life': The American Captivity Narrative from Mary Rowlandson to Fred Burkle" at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

___. "'I've got these evil hand issues': Amputation, Identity, and Agency in Angel." Blood, Body and Soul: Essays on Health, Wellness and Disability in Buffy, Angel, Firefly and Dollhouse. Eds. Tamy Burnett and AmiJo Comeford. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2022. 243-258.
Also presented as keynote address at SCW5: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 12-15 July 2012.

___. 'Just a Girl': The Community-Centered Cult Television Heroine, 1995-2007. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, 2010. Available online.

___ and AmiJo Comeford. "Introduction." Blood, Body and Soul: Essays on Health, Wellness and Disability in Buffy, Angel, Firefly and Dollhouse. Eds. Tamy Burnett and AmiJo Comeford. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2022. 1-8.

___ and AmiJo Comeford, eds. Blood, Body and Soul: Essays on Health, Wellness and Disability in Buffy, Angel, Firefly and Dollhouse. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2022.

Burns, Angie. "Passion, Pain and 'Bad Kissing Decisions': Learning About Intimate Relationships from Buffy Season Six." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 6.1 (21), Fall 2006. Also 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. Available online.

Burns, Maggie. "Mars Needs Women: How a Dress, a Cake, and a Goofy Hat Will Save Science Fiction. Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe. Ed. Jane Espenson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: BenBella, 2007. 15-25.

Burr, Megan. "Manifesting Monsters: Metaphor and Genre in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Watercooler Journal April 2014. Available online.

Burr, Vivien. "Ambiguity and Sexuality in the Buffyverse: A Sartrean Analysis." Sexualities 6.2 (2003).

___. "Bad Girls Like it Rough (And Good Girls Don't?): Representations of BDSM in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Phoebe: Gender and Cultural Critiques 18.1 (2006): 45-57. Also presented as "Bad Girls like it Rough... And Good Girls Don't?: Representations of Sexuality in Buffy the Vampire Slayer" at Pleasure & Danger Revisited conference, Cardiff University, Cardiff Wales, UK, July 2004.

___. "Bringing Your Own Subtext: Individual Differences in Viewers' Responses to Buffy." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004. Available online.

___. "Buffy vs. the BBC: Moral Questions and How to Avoid Them." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 2.4 (8), March 2003.

___. "'It All Seems So Real': Intertextuality in the Buffyverse." Special Issue on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Angela Ndalianis and Felicity Colman. Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media 2 (2003). Available online.

___. "'Oh Spike, you're covered in sexy wounds!': The Erotic Significance of Wounding and Torture in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Sex, Violence, and the Body: The Erotics of Wounding. Eds. Vivien Burr and Jeff Hearn. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 137-156.

___. "Performing the Imaginative Variation: Using Buffy to Teach Sartre." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004. Available online.

___. "Scholar/'shippers and Spikeaholics: Academic and Fan Identities at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer." The Vampire Spike in Text and Fandom: Unsettling Oppositions in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Dee Amy-Chinn and Milly Williamson. Special Issue of European Journal of Cultural Studies 8.3, August 2005. 375-383. Also 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.

___. "Sex and Censorship: The Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Young: Nordic Journal of Youth Research 13.3 (2005).

___ and Christine Jarvis. "'Friends are the family we choose for ourselves': Young People and Families in the TV Series Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Young: Nordic Journal of Youth Research 13.3 (2005). Also presented in earlier form as "'Friends are the family we choose for ourselves': Young People and Families in Buffy the Vampire Slayer" at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004. Earlier version available online.

___ and Christine Jarvis. "Imagining the Family: Representations of Alternative Lifestyles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Qualitative Social Work 6.3 (September 2007): 263-280.

___ and Christine Jarvis. "The Transformative Potential of Popular Television: The Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Journal of Transformative Education 9.3 (July 2011): 165-182.

Bushman, David and Arthur Smith.  Buffy the Vampire Slayer FAQ: All That's Left to Know About Sunnydale's Slayer of Vampires Demons and Other Forces of Darkness. Lanham, MD: Applause, 2017.

___. "Unlimited Potentials: Reflections of the Slayer." Fan Phenomena: Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ed. Jennifer Kate Stuller. Chicago: Intellect, 2013. 150-159.

Busse, Kristina. "Crossing the Final Taboo: Family, Sexuality, and Incest in Buffyverse Fan Fiction." Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and David Lavery. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. 207-217. Also presented as "Buffyverse Beyond Slash: Crossing the Final Taboo in Fan Fiction" at the Computers and Writing Conference, Fort Worth, TX, May 2000.

Bussolini, Jeffrey. "A Geopolitical Interpretation of Serenity." Investigating Firefly and Serenity: Science Fiction on the Frontier. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya R. Cochran. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2008. 139-152. Also presented at SC2: The Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

___. "Los Alamos is the Hellmouth." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 5.2 (18), September 2005. Also presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

___. "Sangue, Vampiri e Cristianità." Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Legittimare la Cacciatrice. Ed. Barbara Maio. Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 2007. 65-78. In Italian. Also presented in English (as "Blood, Vamps and Christianity") at Blood, Text and Fears: Reading Around Buffy the Vampire Slayer, University of East Anglia, 19-20 October 2002.

___. "Technology and Magic: Joss Whedon's Explorations of the Mind." Reading Joss Whedon. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox, Tanya R. Cochran, Cynthea Masson, and David Lavery. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2014. 325-340. Also presented as "Joss Whedon's Technologies of the Mind" at at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

___. "Television Intertextuality After Buffy: Intertextuality of Casting and Constitutive Intertextuality." Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 10.1 (35), Winter 2013. Also presented as "Television Intertextuality After Buffy" at SC3: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008, and at the 2010 PCAS/ACAS Annual Conference, Savannah, GA, 7-9 October 2010. Available online.

Bustamante Jr., Cesar R. "Joss Whedon 101: Astonishing X-Men." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 310-312. Originally appeared in earlier form in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 21 March 2011. Partially Available Online.

Butler, Lori M. "'The Ants Go Marching': Effective Lyrics in Buffy Episodes." The Truth of Buffy: Essays on Fiction Illuminating Reality. Eds. Emily Dial-Driver, Sally Emmons-Featherston, Jim Ford and Carolyn Anne Taylor. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 120-130.

Buttsworth, Sara. "'Bite Me': Buffy and the Penetration of the Gendered Warrior-hero." Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 16.2 (2002): 185-99.

___. "Who's Afraid of Jessica Lynch? Or, One Girl in All the World?: Gendered Heroism and the Iraq War." Australasian Journal of American Studies 24.2 (December 2005): 42-62. Revised from material presented in Body Count. Available online.

___. Body Count: The Politics of Representing the Gendered Body in Combat in Australia and the United States. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Western Australia, Crawley [near Peth], Western Australia, 2003. Available online.

Buus, Stephanie. "Hell on Earth." Cooperation and Conflict 44.4 (2009): 400-419.

Byers, Michele. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: the Insurgence of Television as a Performance Text. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2000. Available online.

___. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Next Generation of Television." Catching A Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century. Ed. Rory Dicker and Alison M. Piepmeier. Northeastern UP, 2003. 171-187.



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Caballero, Maria Soledad. "To Choose or Be Chosen: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Question of Inheritance." Black Witches and Queer Ghosts Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation in Teen Supernatural Serials. Ed. Camille S. Alexander. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2024. Also presented as "To Choose or Be Chosen: BtVS and the Question of the Self-Made Witch" at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

Caelsto, Mary. The Fool's Journey through Sunnydale: The Archetypes of the Major Arcana as Seen on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Grimes, IA: Jupiter Garden Press, 2010.

Caillouet, Ruth. "I Date Dead People: Buffy, Bella, Sookie, and the Lure of the Dead Boyfriend." Buffy Conquers the Academy: Conference Papers from the 2009/2010 Popular Culture/American Culture Associations. Eds. U. Melissa Anyiwo and Karoline Szatek-Tudor. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. 120-135. Also presented in earlier form at the 2009 PCA/ACA National Conference, New Orleans, LA, 8-11 April 2009, and as "Dating Dead Boyfriends: Buffy, Bella, Sookie, and the Love of Vampires" at the 2012 PCA/ACA National Conference, Boston, MA, 11-14 April 2012.

Call, Lewis. "Afterword: Reconsidering Whedonversal Sexualities in the #MeeToo Era." In Lewis Call. Sexualities in the Works of Joss Whedon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2020. 203-206.

___. "'Alien Commies from the Future!': Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Season Seven of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+ 19.1-2 [53-54], Summer/Fall 2021: 143-184. Also presented as "'Alien Commies from the Future': Visualizing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Season Seven of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." at SC9: The [Virtual] 9th Biennial Slayage Conference, 21-24 July 2022.

___. "'The Breakable Ones': Disabled Sexualities in Joss Whedon's Superhero Narratives." In Lewis Call. Sexualities in the Works of Joss Whedon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2020. 87-111. Also presented in earlier form as "'The Breakable Ones': The Disabled Sexuality of Bruce Banner and Natasha Romanoff" at the 41th Annual Southwest PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 19-22 February 2020.

___. "'Find What Warmth You Can': Queer Sexualities in Buffy Season Eight through Ten Comic Books." Queering the Whedonverses. Eds. Lorna Jowett and Hélène Frohard-Dourlent. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 15.2 (46), Summer/Fall 2017. Also presented at the 39th Annual Southwest PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 7-10 February 2018.

___. "'The Hammer Is My Penis': Queer and Heteronormative Sexualities in Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. In Lewis Call. Sexualities in the Works of Joss Whedon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2020. 135-155. Also presented in earlier form as "'The Hammer is My Penis': Dr. Horrible's Critique of Masculine Sexualities" at the 38th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 15-18 February 2017.

___. "Introduction: 'Love Dares You.'" In Lewis Call. Sexualities in the Works of Joss Whedon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2020. 9-38.

___. "'It's About Power': The Rise of the Whedonesque Dominant Woman, or Whedomme." In Lewis Call. Sexualities in the Works of Joss Whedon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2020. 39-60.

___. "'It's About Trust': Slavery and Ethics in the Dollhouse." BDSM in American Science Fiction and Fantasy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 183-93. Also presented at the 31st Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 10-13 February 2010.

___. "Joss Whedon's Radical Icon of Third Wave Feminism." Marvel's Black Widow from Spy to Superhero: Essays on an Avenger with a Very Specific Skill Set. Ed. Sherry Ginn. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. 106-127. Also presented as "'A Very Specific Skill Set': Joss Whedon's Black Widow as Radical Icon of Third Wave Feminism" at SCW6: Much Ado About Whedon: The 6th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, California State University – Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, 19-22 June 2014, and at the 34th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 13-16 February 2013.

___. "'Love Keeps Her in the Air': Radical Sexual Pluralism Aboard Firefly Serenity." In Lewis Call. Sexualities in the Works of Joss Whedon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2020. 61-86. Also presented in earlier form as "'Love Keeps Her in the Air': Radical Erotic Pluralism in Firefly" at the 32nd Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, San Antonio, TX, 20-23 April 2011.

___. "'Majestic Creature of Legend': Human/Animal Hybridity and Zoophilia in the Buffyverse." In Lewis Call. Sexualities in the Works of Joss Whedon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2020. 112-134.

___. "Preface: 'Kinky Business.'" In Lewis Call. Sexualities in the Works of Joss Whedon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2020. 5-8.

___. Sexualities in the Works of Joss Whedon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2020.

___. "Slaying the Heteronormative: Representations of Alternative Sexuality in Buffy Season Eight Comics." Sexual Rhetoric in the Works of Joss Whedon: New Essays. Ed. Erin B. Waggoner. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 106-116. Also presented at the 30th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 25-28 February 2009. 

___. "'Sounds like kinky business to me': BDSM on Buffy and Angel." BDSM in American Science Fiction and Fantasy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 147-82. Also published in earlier form as "'Sounds Like Kinky Business to Me': Subtextual and Textual Representations of Erotic Power in the Buffyverse" in Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 6.4 (24), Summer 2007. Earlier version available online.

___. "'That Weird, Unbearable Delight': Representations of Alternative Sexualities in Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men Comics." Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 12.2-13.1 (40-41), Winter 2014/Spring 2015. Also presented at SCW5: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 12-15 July 2012, and at the 35th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 19-22 February 2014. Available online.

___. "'They Want to See Us Punished': Subverting the Sexual Tropes of the Slasher Film in The Cabin in the Woods." In Lewis Call. Sexualities in the Works of Joss Whedon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2020. 156-177. Also presented in earlier form as "'They Want to See Us Punished': Subverting the Sexual Tropes of Horror Cinema in The Cabin in the Woods" at the 36th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 11-14 February 2015.

___. "'To Bind Me, or Undo Me': Dominance and Submission in Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing." Sexualities in the Works of Joss Whedon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2020. 178-202. Also presented in earlier form at SCW8: The 8th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL, 21-24 June 2018.

Callander, Michelle. "Bram Stoker's Buffy: Traditional Gothic and Contemporary Culture." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 1.3 (3), June 2001.

Calvert, Bronwen. "The AI and the Looking Glass: Embodiment, Virtuality, and Power in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Season 4." 'A Part of Something Bigger': Critical Approaches to Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and The Avengers. Eds. Eve Bennett and Erin Giannini. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 17.1 (49), Winter / Spring 2019: 11-35.

___. "Dollhouse's Terrible Places: Hauntings, Abjection, and the Repressed." Joss Whedon Vs. the Horror Tradition: The Production of Genre in Buffy and Beyond. Eds. Kristopher Karl Woofter and Lorna Jowett. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2018 [c 2019]. 105-122.

___. "Going Through the Motions: Robots in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 4.3 (15), December 2004. Also presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

___. "'Great, she’s super-strong and she can alter time': Angel, visual pleasure and the cult action heroine." Critical Studies in Television 12.1 (March 2017): 21-34. Also presented as "'Great, she's super-strong and she can alter time': Illyria and Visual Pleasure" at SC3: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008.

___. "Hacking the System: Dollhouse." Being Bionic: The World of TV Cyborgs. London: I.B. Tauris, 2017. 158-181.

___. "Inside Out: Motherhood as Demonic Possession in Angel." Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 12.2-13.1 (40-41), Winter 2014/Spring 2015. Also presented in earlier form as "Monstrous Maternity" 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.

___. "Mind, Body, Imprint: Cyberpunk Echoes in the Dollhouse." Fantasy Is Not Their Purpose: Joss Whedon's Dollhouse. Eds. Cynthea Masson and Rhonda V. Wilcox. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 8.2-3 (30-31), Summer/Fall 2010.

___. "'The Shell I'm In': Illyria and Monstrous Embodiment." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 181-190. Also presented in earlier form as "'The Shell I'm In': Monstrous Embodiment and the Case of Illyria in Angel" 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.

___. "'Who Did They Make Me This Time?': Viewing Pleasure and Horror." Joss Whedon's Dollhouse: Confounding Purpose, Confusing Identity. Eds. Sherry Ginn, Alyson R. Buckman, and Heather M. Porter. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 113-126.

Campbell, Chloé. "The Chosen Ones: Feminism and Gender Studies in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Watercooler Journal April 2014. Available online.

Campbell, Richard and Caitlin Campbell. "Demons, Aliens, Teens and Television." Television Quarterly 34.1 (2001). Also published in Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 2 (2001).

Camron, Marc. "The Importance of Being the Zeppo: Xander, Gender Identity and Hybridity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 6.3 (23), Spring 2007.

Canavan, Gerry. "Fighting a war you've already lost: Zombies and zombis in Firefly/Serenity and Dollhouse." Science Fiction Film & Television 4.2 (2011): 173-203.

___. "'Something Nightmares Are From': Metacommentary in Joss Whedon's The Cabin in the Woods." 'We Are Not Who We Are': Critical Reflections on The Cabin in the Woods (2012). Eds. Kristopher Woofter and Jasie Stokes. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 10.2-11.1 (36-37), Fall 2013/Winter 2014.

___. "Whedon Studies after Whedon: A Conversation with Sherryl Vint." Buffy at 20. Eds. Gerry Canavan and James B. South. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 16.2 (48), Summer/Fall 2018.

___. Theories of Everything: Science Fiction, Totality, and Empire in the Twentieth Century. Ph.D. dissertation, Duke University, Durham, NC, 2012.

___. "Zombies, Reavers, Butchers, and Actuals in Joss Whedon's Work." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 285-297. Originally appeared in earlier form in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 3 April 2011. Partially Available Online.

___ and James B. South. "Introduction: Buffy at Twentysomething." Buffy at 20. Eds. Gerry Canavan and James B. South. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 16.2 (48), Summer/Fall 2018.

___ and James B. South, eds. Buffy at 20. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 16.2 (48), Summer/Fall 2018.

Cantwell, Marianne. "Collapsing the Extra/Textual: Passions and Intensities of Knowledge in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Online Fan Communities." Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media 5 (2004). Available online.

Card, Orson Scott. "Catching Up with the Future." Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe. Ed. Jane Espenson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: BenBella, 2007. 5-14.

Cardow, Andrew. "Everyman with Fangs: The Acceptance of the Modern Vampire." Business Research Working Paper Series, no.6 (2007). Department of Management and International Business, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand, 2007. Available online.

carrington, andré m. Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.

Carroll, Shiloh R. Fantasy and Pedagogy: The Use of Fantasy in College Classrooms. Masters thesis, Radford University, Radford, VA, 2008. Available online.

___. "'I've Got Red in my Ledger': Natasha Romanoff as Marvel's Whedonbot." Paper presented at the Joss in June 2015 Conference, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, 26-27 June 2015. Available online.

___. "Psychology of a 'Superstar': A Pyschological Analysis of Jonathan Levinson." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 7.4 (28), Summer 2009.

___. "'We're Not the Only Ones Watching': Layered Narrative in Joss Whedon's Cabin in the Woods." Paper presented at the 2012 PCAS/ACAS Annual Conference, Nashville, TN, 27-29 September 2012. Available online.

Carroll, Valerie A. Re-Presenting and Representing on Girl Power TV: Examining Portrayals of Resistance and Domination from Dark Angel, Charmed, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ph.D. dissertation, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, 2005. Available online.

Carter, Margaret L. "A World Without Shrimp." Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Television Show. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2003. 176-187.

Casas-Delgado, Inmaculada and Alberto Galisteo Baena. "Angel: La expansion de Buffyverso. El vampire a la sombra de la Cazadora." De la estaca al martillo: Un viaje por los universos de Joss Whedon, de Buffy a Los Vengadores. Eds. Pedro José García and Irene Raya Bravo. Madrid: Diábolo Ediciones, 2015. 58-77. In Spanish.

Cascajosa Virino, Concepción Carmen. "La experiencia escolar en Buffy, Cazavampiros: Estudiando en la Boca del Infierno." Comunicar: revista científica iberoamericana de comunicación y educación 27 (July 2006): 193-198. In Spanish.

___. "Miedos y sueños en Sunnydale: una aproximación a Joss Whedon como autor televisivo en Buffy, Cazavampiros." Garoza 6 (Septiembre 2006): 61-82. In Spanish. Available online.

___. La experiencia escolar en Buffy, Cazavampiros." Thesis, Universidad de Huelva, Huelva, Spain, 2009. In Spanish.

Casey, Erin. "The Dystopian Future in Joss Whedon's Work." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 390-392. Originally appeared in earlier form in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 10 April 2011. Partially Available Online.

Casta, Isabelle-Rachel. "Apocalypse, sceau de l'enfer, pop-corn et scoubidou: l'étrange jeunesse de Buffy, la tueuse de vampires." Écritures jeunesse 1: représenter la jeunesse pour elle-même Ed. Christian Chelebourg. Caen: Lettres modernes Minard, 2010. 109-122. In French.

___. "'Brouillard sanglant' sur Sunnydale!, ou les mille vies et les mille morts de Buffy Summers, la Tueuse de vampires." Strenæ: Recherches sur les livres et objets culturels de l'enfance 2 (2011). In French. Available online.

___. "Buffy contre les vampires: un rire exterminateur." Le rire fantastique: Grotesque, Pastiches, Parodies. Eds. Luc Ruiz et Denis Mellier. Special Issue of Otrante n° 15, Spring (May) 2004. 139-148. In French.

___. "Les deux tranchants du glaive: Buffy l'élue." Nouvelles mythologies de la mort. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2007. 141-192. In French.

Ceriello, Linda C. "The Big Bad and the Big 'Aha!': Metamodern Monsters as Transformational Figures of Instability." Holy Monsters, Sacred Grotesques Monstrosity and Religion in Europe and the United States. Ed. Michael E. Heyes. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018.

Chaffey, Lucian. Teleodyssey. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 2007.

Chambers, Samuel A. "The Meaning of 'Family'." The Queer Politics of Television. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2009. 131-170.

___ and Daniel Williford. "Anti-Imperialism in the Buffyverse: Challenging the Mythos of Bush as Vampire Slayer." Poroi: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Rhetorical Analysis and Intervention 3.2 (2004). Available online.

Chandler, Holly. "Slaying the Patriarchy: Transfusions of the Vampire Metaphor in BtVS." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 3.1 (9), August 2003.

Chandler, Wayne A. "The Pen Is Mightier Than the Fang: Geek Lit as Buffy's Equipment for Living." Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 14.1 (43), Winter 2016.

Chang, Lisa. "'Like Other Girls': Reinforcive Gender Roles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Comm-Entary: The Undergraduate Journal of Communication Spring 2003: 21-36. Available online.

Chant, Ian. "Joss Whedon 101: Firefly." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 223-225. Originally appeared in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 16 March 2011. Partially Available Online.

Chess, Shira. (En)Gendering the Boob Tube: Technology, Agency, and the Action TV Femme. Masters thesis, Emerson College, Boston, MA, 2003.

Chiat, Kevin. "Giant Dawn and Mutant Superheroes: Joss Whedon in Comics." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 341-352.

___. "Joss Whedon 101: Runaways." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 320-324. Originally appeared in earlier form in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 23 March 2011. Partially Available Online.

Chilcoat, Laura. "'I'm a monster. What I do is evil': Monsters and Evil in Joss Whedon's Firefly and Serenity." Paper presented at Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness, 15th Global Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 22-24 March 2014. Available online.

Chin, Vivian. "Buffy? She's Like Me, She's Not Like Me – She's Rad." Athena's Daughters: Television's New Women Warriors. Eds. Frances Early and Kathleen Kennedy. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2003. 92-102.

Chivers, Sally. "'Vampires Don't Age, but Actors Sure Do: The Cult of Youth and the Paradox of Aging in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Serializing Age: Aging and Old Age in TV Series. Eds. Maricel Oró-Piqueras and Anita Wohlmann. Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript, 2016. 89-108.

Chow, Lesley. "A Thousand Blooms Inside Joss Whedon's Dollhouse." Bright Lights Film Journal, No. 68 (May 2010). Available online.

Chu, Arthur. "Someone Already Did the Definitive Pop Culture Parody Of Joss Whedon (It Was Joss Whedon)." ThoughtCatalog website. 29 June 2015. Available online.

Ciencin, Scott and Denise Ciencin. "I Know You Are, but Who Am I?: Dawn." Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Vol. 3. Ed. Paul Ruditis. New York: Simon, 2004. 277-282.

Clark, Daniel A. and P. Andrew Miller. "Buffy, the Scooby Gang, and Monstrous Authority: BtVS and the Subversion of Authority." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 1.3 (3), June 2001.

Clark, Lynn Schofield. "Touched by a Vampire Named Angel: The Supernatural in Contemporary Teen Popular Culture." In From Angels to Aliens. Teenagers, the Media and the Supernatural. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 46-74, 261-265. Also presented as "Touched by a (Vampire Named) Angel: Or, is Buffy a Celebration of the Occult?" at Console-ing Passions: International Conference on Television, Audio, Video, New Media and Feminism, New Orleans, LA, 30 May - 2 June 2004.

Clark, Myf. "'Oh, hello there gentle viewers': The fan community and Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Watcher Junior: The Journal of Undergraduate Research in Buffy Studies 1.1 (1), July 2005.

Clarke, Ann E. 'Sexual Tension You Could Cut with a Knife': Sexuality on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. BA honors thesis, Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, 2004.

Clarke, Jamie. "Affective Entertainment in 'Once More With Feeling': A Manifesto For Fandom." Special Issue on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Angela Ndalianis and Felicity Colman. Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media 2 (2003). Available online.

Clawson, Julie. "Just to Love and Be Loved in Return: Identity and Love in the Dollhouse." Joss Whedon and Religion: Essays on an Angry Atheist's Explorations of the Sacred. Eds. Anthony R. Mills, John W. Morehead, and J. Ryan Parker. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013. 140-151.

Clayton, Amy E. "The Future of Feminism is Slayed: Tomboyism in Joss Whedon's Fray." Red Feather: An International Journal of Children's Visual Culture 1.1 (Spring 2010): 26-38. Available online.

Clements, Susannah. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Sin and Sacrifice, Postmodern Style." The Vampire Defanged: How the Embodiment of Evil Became a Romantic Hero. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos, 2011. 57-80.

Clemons, Leigh A. "Genre and the Impact on Storytelling in Season Eight." Buffy Meets the Academy: Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Texts. Ed. Kevin K. Durand. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 25-31. Also presented as "The Liminal Season Eight: Genre Change and Its Impact on Character/Story in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season Eight" at SC3: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008.

___. "Real Vampires Don't Wear Shorts: The Aesthetics of Fashion in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Buffy and Aesthetics. Ed. Matthew Pateman. Special Issue of Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 6.2 (22), Winter 2006.

Clendinning, Elizabeth. "Spike Ensouled: The Sonic Transformations of a Champion." Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing: Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon. Ed. Kendra Preston Leonard. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2011. 75-98. Also presented in earlier form as "Seeking Spike's Soul: A Musical, Personal Journey" at the 2010 PCA/ACA National Conference, St. Louis, MO, 31 March – 3 April 2010.

Clerc, Susan J. Who Owns Our Culture?: The Battle Over the Internet, Copyright, Media Fandom, and Everyday Uses of the Cultural Commons. Ph.D. dissertation, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, 2002.

Clifton, Jacob. "Signal to Noise: Media and Subversion in Serenity." Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe. Ed. Jane Espenson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: BenBella, 2007. 203-215.

Cobo-Durán, Sergio and Víctor Hernández-Santaolalla. "Firefly: Alteridad, distopía y libertad en el Lejano Oeste especial." De la estaca al martillo: Un viaje por los universos de Joss Whedon, de Buffy a Los Vengadores. Eds. Pedro José García and Irene Raya Bravo. Madrid: Diábolo Ediciones, 2015. 78-93. In Spanish.

Cocca, Carolyn. "First Word 'Jail,' Second Word 'Bait': Adolescent Sexuality, Feminist Theories, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 3.2 (10), November 2003.

___. "'It's about Power and It's about Women': Gender and the Political Economy of Superheroes in Wonder Woman and Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Heroines of Film and Television: Portrayals in Popular Culture. Eds. Norma Jones, Maja Bajac-Carter, and Bob Batchelor. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 215-235.

Cochran, Tanya R. "Adventures in Popular Culture: My BFF Buffy – That Is, the Vampire Slayer." Adventist Today website. 12 December 2010. Available online.

___. "And the Myth Becomes Flesh." Buffy in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching With the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Jodie A. Kreider and Meghan K. Winchell. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 35-45.

___. "The Browncoats Are Coming!: Firefly and Serenity and Fan Activism." Investigating Firefly and Serenity: Science Fiction on the Frontier. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya R. Cochran. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2008. 239-249.

___. "By Beholding, We Become Changed: Narrative Transubstantiation and the Whedonverses." Joss in June: Selected Essays. Eds. K. Dale Koontz [Guffey] and Ensley Guffey. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 11.2/12.1 (38-39), Summer 2014. Also presented in earlier form as "By Beholding, We Become Changed: Joss Whedon, (Anti-)Fandom, and Lived Religion" at SCW5: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 12-15 July 2012, and as "The Transubstantiation of Whedon Narratives, or Stories in the Flesh" at Joss in June: A Conference on the Works of Joss Whedon, Cleveland Community College, Shelby, NC, 29 June 2013.

___. "Complicating the Open Closet: The Visual Rhetoric of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Sapphic Lovers." Televising Queer Women: A Reader. Ed. Rebecca Beirne. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 49-63. Also presented as "Complicating the Open Closet: Vito Russo and the Visual Rhetoric of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Sapphic Lovers" at the 36th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Convention, Boston, MA, 31 March 31 - 3 April 2005.

___. "Firefly and Serenity: An Introduction." Reading Joss Whedon. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox, Tanya R. Cochran, Cynthea Masson, and David Lavery. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2014. 149-152.

___. "'Let's Watch a Girl': Whedon, Buffy, and Fans in Action." Fan Phenomena: Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ed. Jennifer Kate Stuller. Chicago: Intellect, 2013. 28-37.

___. "'Past the brink of tacit support': Fan activism and the Whedonverses." Transformative Works and Cultures 10 (2012). Also presented as "'Past the Brink of Tacit Support': Joss Whedon and the Rhetoric of Fan Activism" at the 2010 PCAS/ACAS Annual Conference, Savannah, GA, 7-9 October 2010. Available online.

___. "Raise Your Hand If You're Invulnerable!: An Interview with Harry Groener." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 29-37. Originally appeared in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 10 March 2011, Partially Available Online.

___. "Slaying Pupils, Siring Students: Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the Composition Classroom." Paper presented at the Interdisciplinary Conference for Teachers of Undergraduates, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, March 2004. Also published as "Slaying Pupils, Siring Students: Composition Befriends Buffy the Vampire Slayer in Toward a Rhetoric of Scholar-Fandom, 21-46.

___. "Still Flying: An Interview with Tim Minear." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 225-239. Originally appeared in two parts in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 17 and 20 March 2011. Partially Available Online.

___. "'Tell me about the Dollhouse': The Impact of Promotional Paratexts on Audience Reception." Re-Entering the Dollhouse: Essays on the Joss Whedon Series. Eds. Heather M. Porter and Michael Starr. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2022. 190-208. Also presented at SC9: The [Virtual] 9th Biennial Slayage Conference, 21-24 July 2022.

___. Toward a Rhetoric of Scholar-Fandom. Ph.D. dissertation, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, 2009. Available online.

___. "Whedon Fan-Scholars and Scholar-Fans: Life in the Shadowlands." Paper presented as featured lecture at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010. Also published as "Fan-Scholars and Scholar-Fans: Life in the Shadowlands" in Toward a Rhetoric of Scholar-Fandom, 110-141.

___. "Whedon Studies: A Living History, 1999–2013." Reading Joss Whedon. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox, Tanya R. Cochran, Cynthea Masson, and David Lavery. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2014. 371-392.

___ and Jason A. Edwards. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Quest Story: Revising the Hero, Reshaping the Myth." Sith, Slayers, Stargates & Cyborgs: Modern Mythology in the New Millennium. Eds. David Whitt and John Perlich. New York: Peter Lang, 2008. 145-169.

___ and Rhonda V. Wilcox. "A New Frontier: Whedon Studies and Firefly/Serenity." Special Issue on Firefly and Serenity. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya R. Cochran. Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 7.1 (25), Winter 2008.

Cogan, Brian. "'Can't Even Shout, Can't Even Cry' But You Can Learn!: Non-Verbal Communication in 'Hush'." Buffy in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching With the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Jodie A. Kreider and Meghan K. Winchell. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 114-125.

___. "'You're the one who sees everything!': Xander's Eye Patch and Visible Disability in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Blood, Body and Soul: Essays on Health, Wellness and Disability in Buffy, Angel, Firefly and Dollhouse. Eds. Tamy Burnett and AmiJo Comeford. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2022. 158-170.

Cogo, Viviana. La Cacciatrice nella rete: le comunità web dedicate a Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy, 2005. In Italian.

Cohen, Traci J. "'So I wear pearls': Exploring Gender in Tales of the Slayers." The Comics of Joss Whedon: Critical Essays. Ed. Valerie Estelle Frankel. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015. 73-81. Also presented as "'So I Wear Pearls': Depictions of Gender in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Tales" at SC6: Much Ado About Whedon: The 6th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, California State University - Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, 19-22 June 2014.

Coker, Catherine [Cait]. "Exploitation of Bodies and Minds in Season One of Dollhouse." Sexual Rhetoric in the Works of Joss Whedon: New Essays. Ed. Erin B. Waggoner. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 226-238.

___. "That Girl: Bella, Buffy, and the Feminist Ethics of Choice in Twilight and Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 8.4 (32), Winter 2011.

Cole, C. L. "Suburban Icons/Communist Pasts." Journal of Sport and Social Issues 26.3 (2002): 231-234.

Cole, Kelly. From Homeboys to Girl Power: Media Mergers, Emerging Networks, and 1990s Television. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, WI, 2005.

Cole, Phillip. "Rousseau and the Vampires: Toward a Political Philosophy of the Undead." Zombies, Vampires, and Philosophy: New Life for the Undead. Eds. Richard Greene and K. Silem Mohammad. Chicago: Open Court, 2010. 183-196.

Coleman, Jillian. "Conquering Evil with Empathy:  River Tam’s Radical Empathy in Firefly and Serenity." Special 20th Anniversary Issue on Firefly. Eds. Sherry Ginn and Heather M. Porter. Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+ 20.2 [56], Fall 2022.

Colgan, Chris. "The Death of Utopia: Firefly and the Return to Human Realism in TV Sci-Fi." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 253-257. Originally appeared in earlier form in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 21 March 2011. Partially Available Online.

Colgan, Lesley-Ann. The Journey of Female Characters in the Work of Edith Nesbit, Enid Blyton, Joanne Kathleen Rowling, Joss Whedon, and Rockne S. O'Bannon: A Study of the Interactions of Gender and Genre. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2016.

Collier, Noelle R., Christine A. Lumadue, and H. Ray Wooten. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Xena: Warrior Princess: Reception of the Texts by a Sample of Lesbian Fans and Web Site Users." Journal of Homosexuality 56.5 (2009): 575-609.

Colman, Felicity. "The Sight of Your God Disturbs Me: Questioning the Post- Christian Bodies of Buffy, Lain, and George." Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media 3 (2003). Available online.

Colvin, Phil. "Angel: Redefinition and Justification through Faith." Reading Angel: the TV Spin-off With a Soul. Ed. Stacey Abbott. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2005. 17-30.

Comeford, AmiJo. "Cordelia Chase as Failed Feminist Gesture." Buffy Meets the Academy: Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Texts. Ed. Kevin K. Durand. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 150-160.

___. "Helping the Helpless: Medieval Romance in Angel." The Literary Angel: Essays on Influences and Traditions Reflected in the Joss Whedon Series. Eds. AmiJo Comeford and Tamy L. Burnett. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 175-190. Also presented in earlier form as "Knights, Dragons, and Maidens vs. Champions, Demons, and the Helpless: Medieval Romance and Chivalry in Angel" at the 30th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 25-28 February 2009. 

___. "Structural Identity, or Saussure Visits Buffy/Angel's World: An Oppositional View of Angel." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004. Available online.

___ and Tamy L. Burnett. "Introduction: Los Angeles, City of Story." The Literary Angel: Essays on Influences and Traditions Reflected in the Joss Whedon Series. Eds. AmiJo Comeford and Tamy L. Burnett. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 1-13.

___ and Tamy L. Burnett, eds. The Literary Angel: Essays on Influences and Traditions Reflected in the Joss Whedon Series. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010.

___, Ian G. Klein, and Elizabeth Rambo. "Academics Assemble: A Report on New Scholarship at SC5." Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 9.2 (34), Fall 2012.

Conaton, Chris. "Joss Whedon 101: The Cabin in the Woods." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: the TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Eds. PopMatters.com with Mary Alice Money. 1st edition. London: Titan Books, 2012. 440-442. Originally appeared in earlier form as "Joss Whedon 101: Cabin in the Woods" in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 11 April 2011. Partially Available Online.

___. "Joss Whedon: Pioneer of the Body Count." PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 12 April 2011. Available Online.

Conaway, Cindy [Sandra B.]. "Cinderella in the High School Hallways: The Place of Smart Girls on Teen Television." The Mid-Atlantic Almanack 13 (2004). Available Online.

___. Girls Who (Don't) Wear Glasses: The Performativity of Smart Girls on Teen Television. Ph.D. dissertation, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, 2007. Available online.

Connolly, Jane. The Representation of Homosexuality in the Television Series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ph.D. dissertation, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 2007.

Connor, Ed. "Psychology Bad: Why Neuroscience is the Darkest Art in the Latest Whedonverse." The Psychology of Joss Whedon: An Unauthorized Exploration of Buffy, Angel, and Firefly. Ed. Joy Davidson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: BenBella, 2007. 185-195.

Connor, James. "Cultural Loyalty: Loyalty and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The Sociology of Loyalty. New York: Springer, 2007. 117-127.

Cook, Melody. “Joss's Jesus: Christ-figures in the Whedonverses.” Scientia et Humanitas 6 (2016): 19-34.

Cooper, L. Andrew. "The Cabin in the Woods and the End of American Exceptionalism." 'We Are Not Who We Are': Critical Reflections on The Cabin in the Woods (2012). Eds. Kristopher Woofter and Jasie Stokes. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 10.2-11.1 (36-37), Fall 2013/Winter 2014.

___. "Judith Halberstam's Skin Shows and Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Gothic Realities: The Impact of Horror Fiction on Modern Culture. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 86-93.

Cordesman, Anthony. "Biological Warfare and the 'Buffy' Paradigm." CSIS: Center for Strategic and International Studies website, 29 September 2001. Available online.

Corel, Denys, Antoine de Froberville, and Ronan Toulet. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Buffy contre les vampires)." ." Les miroirs obscurs: Grandes séries Américaines d'aujourd'hui. Ed. Martin Winckler. Vauvert, France: Au diable Vauvert, 2005. 17-33. In French.

___, Antoine de Froberville, and Ronan Toulet.. "Comment on dénature les séries en France: Le sort du Buffy." Les miroirs obscurs: Grandes séries Américaines d'aujourd'hui. Ed. Martin Winckler. Vauvert, France: Au diable Vauvert, 2005. 427-433. In French.

Corsie, Sarah. "'You Know, You Ain't Quite Right': Humanity and the Monstrous 'Other' in Joss Whedon's Firefly." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 8.2 [12], Fall 2015.

Costa, Allie. "Part of Something: Or, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: My First Long-Term Relationship." Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Vol. 3. Ed. Paul Ruditis. New York: Simon, 2004. 271-276.

Couch, Jason. "The Brute, the Brawler, and the Ballerina: Fighting Styles and Character Development in Firefly and Serenity." Journal of Theatrical Combatives July 2006. Available online.

Coulombe, Renée T. "'I Had It All Wrong': New Vampires, Grrrl Heroes and the Third Wave Body in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Nostalgia or Perversion?: Gothic Rewriting from the Eighteenth Century until the Present Day. Ed. Isabella van Elferen. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. 206-222.

___. "The 'Restless' Uncanny: Nomadic Affectivity and Apocalyptic Embodiments in the Anthropocene." Buffy at 20. Eds. Gerry Canavan and James B. South. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 16.2 (48), Summer/Fall 2018.

___. "'You're just a girl!': Punk Rock Feminism and the New Hero in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Paul Attinello, Janet K. [Steve] Halfyard, and Vanessa Knights. Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2010. 149-163.

Couturier, Fanny and Hélène Frohard-Dourlent. "'Comment J'ai grandi avec Buffy'." Les miroirs obscurs: Grandes séries Américaines d'aujourd'hui. Ed. Martin Winckler. Vauvert, France: Au diable Vauvert, 2005. 50-56. In French.

Cover, Rob. "Bliss and Time: Death, Drugs, and Posthumanism in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 8.4 (32), Winter 2011.

___. "From Butler to Buffy: Notes Towards a Strategy for Identity Analysis in Contemporary Television Narrative." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 4 (2), Spring 2004. Available online.

___. "'More Than a Watcher': Buffy Fans, Amateur Music Videos, Romantic Slash and Intermedia." Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Paul Attinello, Janet K. [Steve] Halfyard, and Vanessa Knights. Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2010. 131-148.

___. "'Not to be Toyed With': Drug Addiction, Bullying and Self-empowerment in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 19 (1) March 2005. 85-101.

___. "(Re)Cognising the Body: Performativity, Embodiment and Abject Selves in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Aesthethika: International Journal on Culture, Subjectivity and Aesthetics 2.1. (Fall 2005): 68-83.

Cox, Arnie and Rebecca Fülöp. "'What rhymes with lungs?': When Music Speaks Louder Than Words." Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Paul Attinello, Janet K. [Steve] Halfyard, and Vanessa Knights. Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2010. 61-78.

Cox, J. Renée. "Got Myself a Soul?: The Puzzling Treatment of the Soul in Buffy." The Truth of Buffy: Essays on Fiction Illuminating Reality. Eds. Emily Dial-Driver, Sally Emmons-Featherston, Jim Ford and Carolyn Anne Taylor. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 24-37.

Cox, Jessica I. 'Lovingly tweaked': Genre and Gender in Joss Whedon's Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. Masters thesis, University of Colorado, Fort Collins, CO, 2013. Available Online.

Cozzolino, Giuseppe and Flavia Fabozzi. "Forever. I files segreti di Buffy e Angel." Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Legittimare la Cacciatrice. Ed. Barbara Maio. Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 2007. 45-54. In Italian.

___. "Vampires, Comics & Slayers." Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Legittimare la Cacciatrice. Ed. Barbara Maio. Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 2007. 55-64. In Italian.

Crahay, Géraldine. "Serenity's Operative and Les Misérables's Inspector Javert: The Masculinity of Scrupulous Civil Servants." Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 15.1 (45), Winter 2017. Also presented as "The Insecure Masculinity of Zealous Civil Servants: The Operative and the Inspector" at EuroSlayage [SCW7]: The 7th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK, 7-10 July 2016.

Craig, Jamie [Pepper Espinoza and Vivien Dean]. "Older and Far Away." Whedonistas!: A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon by the Women Who Love Them. Eds. Lynne M. Thomas and Deborah Stanish. Des Moines, IA: Mad Norwegian Press, 2011. 165-170.

Craigo-Snell, Shannon. "What Would Buffy do?: Feminist Ethics and Epistemic Violence." Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media 48 (2006). Available Online.

Crawford, Anne. "Now, It's the Buffy Thesis." TheAge.com.au 19 November 2002. Available online.

Croft, Janet Brennan. "Binding with Ancient Logics: The In/Per/Sub-version of Faërian Drama in The Cabin in the Woods." Special Issue: J. R. R. Tolkien and the Works of Joss Whedon. Eds. Janet Brennan Croft and Kristine Larsen. Journal of Tolkien Research 10.1 (2020).

___. "Giving Evil a Name: Buffy's Glory, Angel's Jasmine, Blood Magic, and Name Magic." Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 12.2-13.1 (40-41), Winter 2014/Spring 2015. Also presented as "Giving Evil a Name: Buffy's Glory, Angel's Jasmine, and the Limiting Magic of Names" at the 34th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 13-16 February 2013.

___. "'It's Good to Be Me': Buffy's Resistance to Renaming." Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 18.1 (51), Winter/Spring 2020: 1-18. Also presented at the 36th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 11-14 February 2015.

___. "'Now You Don't Have to Use This Color Anymore': Art Therapy in Dollhouse and Orphan Black." Slaying Is Hell: Essays on Trauma and Memory in the Whedonverse. Eds. Alyson R. Buckman, Juliette C. Kitchens, and Katherine A Troyer. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2023. 118-130. Also presented as "'Now You Don't Have to Use This Color Anymore': Art Therapy in Orphan Black and Dollhouse" at the 40th Annual Southwest PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 20-23 February 2019.

___. "The Vampire Family Plot: Naming, Siring, and Identity." After the Avengers: From Joss Whedon's Hottest, Newest Franchises to the Future of the Whedonverse. Eds. PopMatters.com with Valerie Estelle Frankel. Chicago: PopMatters Media, Inc., 2015. Also presented at the 35th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 19-22 February 2014.

___. "'What if I'm still there? What if I never left that clinic?': Faërian Drama in Buffy's 'Normal Again'." Buffy at 20. Eds. Gerry Canavan and James B. South. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 16.2 (48), Summer/Fall 2018.

___ and Kristine Larsen. "Introduction to Special issue: J.R.R. Tolkien and the Works of Joss Whedon." Special Issue: J. R. R. Tolkien and the Works of Joss Whedon. Eds. Janet Brennan Croft and Kristine Larsen. Journal of Tolkien Research 10.1 (2020).

___ and Kristine Larsen, eds. Special Issue: J. R. R. Tolkien and the Works of Joss Whedon. Journal of Tolkien Research 10.1 (2020).

Crosby, Sara. "The Cruelest Season: Female Heroes Snapped into Sacrificial Heroines." Action Chicks: New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture. Ed. Sherrie A. Inness. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 153-178.

Crusie, Jennifer. "The Assassination of Cordelia Chase." Five Seasons of Angel: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Vampire. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2004. 187-197.

___. "Dating Death." Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Television Show. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2003. 85-96. Available online at author's web site.

Cruz Durán, Rafael and Carlos Gómez Gurpegui. "Fray, Astonishing X-Men y Runaways: El comic según Whedon." De la estaca al martillo: Un viaje por los universos de Joss Whedon, de Buffy a Los Vengadores. Eds. Pedro José García and Irene Raya Bravo. Madrid: Diábolo Ediciones, 2015. 156-175. In Spanish.

Cullen, John. "Rupert Giles, the Professional-image Slayer." American Libraries 31.5 (2000): 42.

Culp, Christopher M. "'But... you're just a girl': The Feminine Mystique of Season Five." Watcher Junior: The Journal of Undergraduate Research in Buffy Studies 2.1 (2), July 2006.

___. "'What does it take to strike a spark?': Nietzsche's Apollonian/Dionysian Balance in Buffy." Watcher Junior: The Journal of Undergraduate Research in Buffy Studies 1.1 (1), July 2005.

Curry, Agnes B. "'The Indians ride over the hill': Revisiting 'On the Paradoxical Construction of the Reavers'." Joss Whedon's Big Damn Movie: Essays on Serenity. Ed. Frederick Blichert. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018. 157-183.

___. "Is Joss Becoming a Thomist?" Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 4.4 (16), March 2005. Also presented as "Gosh, is Joss a Thomist!?" at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

___. "'We Don't Say Indian': on the Paradoxical Construction of the Reavers." Special Issue on Firefly and Serenity. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya R. Cochran. Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 7.1 (25), Winter 2008. Also presented at SC2: The Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

___. "On ne dit pas 'Indien': ou le paradoxe des Ravageurs." French translation by Malaurie Prévost. Special 20th Anniversary Issue on Firefly. Eds. Sherry Ginn and Heather M. Porter. Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+ 20.2 [56], Fall 2022.

___ and Josef Velazquez. "Desperados: Crypto-Mexicans and Firefly’s Mutation of the Western." Special 20th Anniversary Issue on Firefly. Eds. Sherry Ginn and Heather M. Porter. Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+ 20.2 [56], Fall 2022. Also presented as "South of the Border: Firefly's Crypto-Mexicans and the Function of Genre" at SC9: The [Virtual] 9th Biennial Slayage Conference, 21-24 July 2022.

___ and Josef Velazquez. "'Just a Family Legend': The Hidden Logic of Buffy's 'Chosen Family'." Buffy Goes Dark: Essays on the Final Two Seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Television. Eds. Lynne Y. Edwards, Elizabeth L. Rambo and James B. South. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 143-166.



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Dale, Robbie. "Undressing the Vampire: An Investigation of the Fashion of Sunnydale's Vampires." Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 18.1 (51), Winter/Spring 2020: 19-40.

Dalton, David. "Mexican Cinema in the Buffyverse: Towards an Ethics of Transnational Adaptation and Appropriation." Where Is Adaptation: Mapping Cultures, Texts and Contexts. Eds Casie Hermansson and Janet Zepernick. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2018. 230–244.

Dalton, Russell W. "To Assemble or To Shrug? Power, Responsibility, and Sacrifice in Marvel's The Avengers." Joss Whedon and Religion: Essays on an Angry Atheist's Explorations of the Sacred. Eds. Anthony R. Mills, John W. Morehead, and J. Ryan Parker. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013. 165-182.

Daniel, Leith. "Weeding Out the Offensive Material: Beauty, Beasts, 'Gingerbread,' Television, Literature and Censorship." Buffy in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching With the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Jodie A. Kreider and Meghan K. Winchell. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 146-157.

Daniels, Bradley J. "'Stripping' River Tam's Amygdala: Could the Alliance Create a Psychic?" The Psychology of Joss Whedon: An Unauthorized Exploration of Buffy, Angel, and Firefly. Ed. Joy Davidson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: BenBella, 2007. 131-140.

Daniels, Susanne and Cynthia Littleton. "Welcome to Sunnydale." Season Finale: The Unexpected Rise and Fall of the WB and UPN. New York: Harper, 2007. 102-134.

___. "Vampires and Vertical Integration." Season Finale: The Unexpected Rise and Fall of the WB and UPN. New York: Harper, 2007. 248-276.

Dasari, Navya. "Sigh No More, Ladies: Much Ado Tackles Gender and Modern Judgment." After the Avengers: From Joss Whedon's Hottest, Newest Franchises to the Future of the Whedonverse. Eds. PopMatters.com with Valerie Estelle Frankel. Chicago: PopMatters Media, Inc., 2015.

Daspit, Toby A. "Buffy Goes to College, Adam 'Murder(s) to Dissect': Education and Knowledge in a Postmodern World." Buffy and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale. Ed. James B. South. Chicago: Open Court, 2003. 117-130. Also presented at the JCT Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice, Dayton, Ohio, October 2002.

Dath, Dietmar. Sie ist wach: Über ein Mädchen, das hilft, schützt und rettet. Berlin: Implex-Verlag, 2003. In German.

___. "Versuch, 'Restless' zu verstehen." Horror als Alltag: Texte zu Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ed. Annika Beckmann, et al. Berlin: Vebrecher, 2010. 107-124. In German.

Daugherty, Anne Millard. "Just a Girl: Buffy as Icon." Reading the Vampire Slayer: An Unofficial Critical Companion to Buffy and Angel. Ed. Roz Kaveney. 1st edition. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2001. 148-165.

Davidson, Joy. "Introduction." The Psychology of Joss Whedon: An Unauthorized Exploration of Buffy, Angel, and Firefly. Ed. Joy Davidson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: BenBella, 2007. 1-5.

___. "'There's My Boy...'" Five Seasons of Angel: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Vampire. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2004. 199-216. Also published in The Psychology of Joss Whedon: An Unauthorized Exploration of Buffy, Angel, and Firefly. Ed. Joy Davidson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: BenBella, 2007. 197-215.

___. "Whores and Goddesses: The Archetypal Domain of Inara Serra." Finding Serenity: Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly. Eds. Jane Espenson with Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2005. 113-129.

___ with Leah Wilson, eds. The Psychology of Joss Whedon: An Unauthorized Exploration of Buffy, Angel, and Firefly. Dallas: BenBella, 2007.

Davies, Matt. "'You Can't Charge People for Saving Their Lives!': Work in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." International Political Sociology, 4.2 (June 2010), 178-195. Also presented in earlier form at the International Studies Association 48th Annual Convention, Chicago, Il, February 2007. Also accepted (but not presented) for SC3: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008.

Davis, Elizabeth Anne. Monstress: [Re]Flexions through the Virtual Looking Glass on the Hyperglyphics of Fairy Tales and the Network of the Text. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, 2005.

Davis, Erik. "You are the Doll." H+ Magazine, Fall 2009. 34-39. Available online.

Davis, Hugh H. "'The Drama Is In Us': Pirandellian Echoes in Dollhouse." Fantasy Is Not Their Purpose: Joss Whedon's Dollhouse. Eds. Cynthea Masson and Rhonda V. Wilcox. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 8.2-3 (30-31), Summer/Fall 2010. Also presented at the 2009 PCAS/ACAS Annual Conference, Wilmington, NC, 1-3 October 2009.

Davis, Robert A. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Pedagogy of Fear." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 1.3 (3), June 2001.

Day, Deanna. "Toward a Zombie Epistemology: What it Means to Live and Die in Cabin in the Woods. Special issue on Feminist Science Fiction. Ed. Alexis Lothian. Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, & Technology 3 (November 2013). Available online.

Day, William Patrick. "Return of the Slayer." Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture: What Becomes a Legend Most. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2002. 129-166.

DeBrandt, Don. "Angelus Populi." Five Seasons of Angel: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Vampire. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2004. 1-13.

___. "Firefly vs. The Tick." Finding Serenity: Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly. Eds. Jane Espenson with Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2005. 75-84.

DeCandido, GraceAnne A. "Bibliographic Good vs. Evil in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." American Libraries 30.8 (1999): 44-7. Also available as "Rupert Giles and Search Tools for Wisdom in Buffy the Vampire Slayer" at author's website. Available online.

DeCandido, Keith R. A. "'The Train Job' Didn't Do the Job: Poor Opening Contributed to Firefly's Doom." Finding Serenity: Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly. Eds. Jane Espenson with Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2005. 55-61.

Dechert, S. Renée. "'My Boyfriend's in the Band': Buffy and the Rhetoric of Music." Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and David Lavery. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. 218-226.

DeGiglio-Bellemare, Mario. "'The Body' That Will Not Sit Up: Shock, Stasis, and the Negative Space of the Horror Genre." Joss Whedon Vs. the Horror Tradition: The Production of Genre in Buffy and Beyond. Eds. Kristopher Karl Woofter and Lorna Jowett. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2018 [c 2019]. 53-72.

Dehnert, Carmen. "'I'm Under Your Spell': Lesbische Liebe, Narzissmus und die Utopie in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Horror als Alltag: Texte zu Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ed. Annika Beckmann, et al. Berlin: Vebrecher, 2010. 125-138. In German. Also presented in earlier form (in English) as "'I'm Under Your Spell': Willow & Tara: the Vanishing of the Other and the Utopia of Love" 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.

___ and Lars Quadfasel. "Der Chip, die Seele und das Surplus des Begehrens: Der Kastrationskomplex des ödipalen Vampirs." Horror als Alltag: Texte zu Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ed. Annika Beckmann, et al. Berlin: Vebrecher, 2010. 139-156. In German. Also presented (in English) as "On Souls, Chips and the Surplus of Desire: Castration and the Oedipal Vampire" 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.

de Jesus, Desirée. "Who's Afraid of the Big, Black Wolf?: Racial Identity and the Irrationality of Religious Belief in Firefly and Serenity." Joss Whedon and Religion: Essays on an Angry Atheist's Explorations of the Sacred. Eds. Anthony R. Mills, John W. Morehead, and J. Ryan Parker. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013. 83-101.

DeKelb-Rittenhouse, Diane. "Sex and the Single Vampire: The Evolution of the Vampire Lothario and Its Representation in Buffy." Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and David Lavery. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. 143-152.

de Lint, Charles. "Why I Like Buffy." Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Vol. 3. Ed. Paul Ruditis. New York: Simon, 2004. 283-286.

DeLusé, Stephanie R. "More Than Entertainment: Notes on a Spiritual Recovery and What Jossverse Gave Me that Religion and Therapy Didn't." The Psychology of Joss Whedon: An Unauthorized Exploration of Buffy, Angel, and Firefly. Ed. Joy Davidson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: BenBella, 2007. 155-170.

Dempsey-Richardson, Caleb Randall. 'It's like we were being watched... like there were only 3 walls, and not a fourth wall': Manifestations of Metafiction in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY, 2013.

Dentzien, Nicole. "The Fisher Queen: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Death and Mythology." Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 36 (1), 2004. 51-8.

Deritter, Lillian. "'We're Not Men'." Inside Joss' Dollhouse: from Alpha to Rossum. Ed. Jane Espenson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: Smart Pop [BenBella], 2010. 189-203.

DeRoss, Jennifer. "Not Gay Enough So You'd Notice: Poaching Fuffy." Buffy at 20. Eds. Gerry Canavan and James B. South. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 16.2 (48), Summer/Fall 2018.

Destefano, Rashi F. N. Who Are We? A Moral and Visual Analysis of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. BA honors thesis, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, 2004.

Dethlefsen, Alta E. A Feminist Named Buffy? Women in Horror Films of the 1990s. Masters thesis, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 1995.

D'Herblay. "The End of the World, As We Know It: Defining Apocalypse in the Buffyverse." The Existential Scoobies website. 2001. Available online.

___. "Social Construction in 'Life Serial'." The Existential Scoobies website. 2001. Available online.

Dial-Driver, Emily. "Preface." The Truth of Buffy: Essays on Fiction Illuminating Reality. Eds. Emily Dial-Driver, Sally Emmons-Featherston, Jim Ford and Carolyn Anne Taylor. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 1-3.

___. "The Fantastic Classroom: Teaching Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Fantasy Media in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching with Film, Television, Literature, Graphic Novels, and Video Games. Eds. Emily Dial-Driver, Sally Emmons, and Jim Ford. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. 171-181.

___. "What's It All About, Buffy?" The Truth of Buffy: Essays on Fiction Illuminating Reality. Eds. Emily Dial-Driver, Sally Emmons-Featherston, Jim Ford and Carolyn Anne Taylor. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 9-23.

___ and Jesse Stallings. "Texting Buffy: Allusions of Many Kinds." The Truth of Buffy: Essays on Fiction Illuminating Reality. Eds. Emily Dial-Driver, Sally Emmons-Featherston, Jim Ford and Carolyn Anne Taylor. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 142-157.

___, Sally Emmons-Featherston, Jim Ford, and Carolyn Anne Taylor, eds. The Truth of Buffy: Essays on Fiction Illuminating Reality. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008.

Di Bernardo, Emma. "Can the Buffy Comics Be Feminist?: Transmedia Adaptation and Representation." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 8.1 [11], Spring 2015.

Dias Branco, Sérgio. "Being Her/She in 'Who Are You?'" 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. Available online at author's website.

___. "Cowboys no Espaço: Convergências de Géneros em Firefly e Serenity." Fórum Fantástico 4 October 2008. In Portuguese. Available online.

Diehl, Laura. "Why Drusilla's More Interesting Than Buffy." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 4.1-2 (13-14), October 2004. Also presented as "Why Drusilla is More Interesting Than Buffy" at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Di Gregorio, Luciano. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Using a Popular Culture Post-modern Text in the Classroom." Australian Screen Education 42 (Autumn 2006): 90-93.

Dillard, Clayton. "The Slasher Template: Buffy the Vampire Slayer vs. John Carpenter's Halloween." Joss Whedon Vs. the Horror Tradition: The Production of Genre in Buffy and Beyond. Eds. Kristopher Karl Woofter and Lorna Jowett. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2018 [c 2019]. 17-33.

Dillon, Bryant. "The Trouble with Spike: An Examination of William the Bloody's Problematic Progression." The Comics of Joss Whedon: Critical Essays. Ed. Valerie Estelle Frankel. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015. 60-72.

Dixon, Larry. "The Reward, the Details, the Devil, the Due." Finding Serenity: Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly. Eds. Jane Espenson with Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2005. 5-15.

Doan, Brian. "Everyone's a Hero in Their Own Way: Tracing the Superheroic Roots of Joss Whedon." Balder & Dash/RogerEbert.com website. 28 April 2015. Available online.

Dobson, Nichola. "The Regeneration of Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor and the Influence of the Slayer." Flow TV: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture 4.4 (April 2006). Available online.

Donaruma, William. "Once More With Feeling: The Hellmouth in Postmodern Heaven." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004. Available online.

Donovan, Ryan P. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8." Critical Survey of Graphic Novels: Heroes & Superheroes. Eds. Bart H. Beaty and Stephen Weiner. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2012. 150-155.

Doran, Selina. "The 'Faith Goes Dark' Storyline and Viewers: Interpretation of Gendered Roles." Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 9.2 (34), Fall 2012.

Doty, Alexander. "Afterword." Making Things Perfectly Queer: Interpreting Mass Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993. 97-104.

Double, Krystalle. Female Roles and Fan Fiction in Charmed, Supernatural, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. BA honors thesis, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 2013. Available Online.

Douglas, Susan J. "Warrior Women in Thongs." Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message That Feminism's Work is Done. New York: Times Books, 2010. 76-100.

Dove-Viebahn, Aviva. "Cassandra Revisited: River Tam, Hysteria and the Politics of Ecstatic Revenge." Joss Whedon's Big Damn Movie: Essays on Serenity. Ed. Frederick Blichert. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018. 53-68.

Dowling, Jennifer. "'We Are Not Demons': Homogenizing the Heroes in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel." Special Issue on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Angela Ndalianis and Felicity Colman. Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media 2 (2003). Also presented at The Buffyverse: A Symposium on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 21 November 2002. Available online.

Downey, Rebecca Ann. 'Because It's Superman's Book, You Moron': Geeks, Metafiction and Feminism in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. BA honors thesis, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, 2003.

Dray, Colin. "Burning Down the House: The Cabin in the Woods and Genre Immolation." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 444-448.

___. "The Upside of No-See Me: Invisibility and Buffy, the Vampire Slayer." PopMatters.com, 3 March 2015. Available online.

Drewniok, Malgorzata [Gosia]. "'I feel strong. I feel different': Transformations, Vampires and Language in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Open Graves, Open Minds: Representations of Vampires and the Undead from the Enlightenment to the Present Day. Eds. Samantha George and Bill Hughes. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. 131-145. Also presented at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010, at Open Graves, Open Minds: Vampires and the Undead in Modern Culture, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK, 16-17 April 2010, and as "Changing Identity on the Small Screen: Transformations, Vampires and Language in Buffy the Vampire Slayer" at TV Fangdom: A Conference on Television Vampires, University of Northampton, Northampton, UK, 7-8 June 2013.

___. "'You're Strong. I'm Stronger': Vampires, Masculinity and Language in Buffy." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 49-56. Also presented in earlier form as "'You're strong. I'm stronger. You have no idea what you're dealing with': Vampires, Masculinity and Language in Buffy the Vampire Slayer" at Fractured Images/Broken Words, Lancaster University, Bailrigg, Lancaster, UK, 12 June 2010, at at Centre for Gender and Women's Studies Open Seminar Series, Lancaster University, Bailrigg, Lancaster, UK, 14 March 2011. Also appeared in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 9 March 2011, Partially Available Online.

___. A 'very specific skill set': Black Widow's Use of Language in The Avengers." Marvel's Black Widow from Spy to Superhero: Essays on an Avenger with a Very Specific Skill Set. Ed. Sherry Ginn. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. 11-21.

Driscoll, Catherine. "Bronze Things; Things of Bronze: Popular Music Cultures in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Paul Attinello, Janet K. [Steve] Halfyard, and Vanessa Knights. Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2010. 111-130.

___. "The Metaphor of Adolescence: Akira and Buffy." Teen Film: A Critical Introduction. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2011. 95-100.

Driver, Susan. "Willow's Queer Transformations on Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Coming of Age, Coming Out, Becoming Powerful." Queer Girls and Popular Culture: Reading, Resisting, and Creating Media. New York: Peter Lang, 2007. 57-90.

Dryburgh, Monika. "BtVS and Popular Children's Nursery Rhymes." All Slay 2 (2004).

___. "'It's Like a Whole Big Sucking Thing': Queer as the Norm on BtVS." All Slay 3 (2004).

Dubois, François-Ronan. "Le mythe herculéen dans trois séries américaines: Supernatural, Buffy the Vampire Slayer et The X-Files." e-LLA [revue liée à l'Université de Provence] 2012. In French. Available online.

Duda, Heather L. An Examination of the Contemporary Monster Hunter in Popular Culture: Murderers and Men of God. Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, 2006.

___. The Monster Hunter in Modern Popular Culture. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008.

Dudley, Rebecca. Lesbians and Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Popular Culture, the Internet and the Creation of Community" Masters thesis, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2001.

Dugan, Patrick. “Go Run Your Little World: Role Playing in the Firefly Universe." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 9.2 [14], Fall 2016.

Dunaway, Dustin. "Genius, Billionaire, Playboy, Prometheus: Transhumanism and Proxemics in the Works of Joss Whedon." At Home in the Whedonverse: Essays on Domestic Place, Space and Life. Ed. Juliette C. Kitchens. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. 11-26.

___. "Un-Warren-Ted: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Transgressive Fandom." Transmediating the Whedonverse(s): Essays on Texts, Paratexts, and Metatexts. Eds. Juliette C. Kitchens and Julie L. Hawk. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 17-40.

___. "Whedon and the Fall of Man: How Joss Whedon Subverts the Myths of Masculinity." Joss in June: Selected Essays. Eds. K. Dale Koontz [Guffey] and Ensley Guffey. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 11.2/12.1 (38-39), Summer 2014. Also presented as "Joss Whedon and the Fall of Man" at Joss in June: A Conference on the Works of Joss Whedon, Cleveland Community College, Shelby, NC, 29 June 2013.

Dunn, George A. and Brian McDonald. "'A Very Strong Urge to Hit You': Mimetic Rivalry and Scapegoating in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 7.2 (26), Spring 2008. Also presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Dunne, Michael. "How About a Nice Musical?" American Film Musical Themes and Forms. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2004. 179-180.

Dupuy, Coralline. "Is Giles Simply Another Dr. Van Helsing? Continuity and Innovation in the Figure of the Watcher in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Special Issue on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Angela Ndalianis and Felicity Colman. Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media 2 (2003). Available online.

Durand, Kevin K. "The Battle Against the Patriarchal Forces of Darkness." Buffy Meets the Academy: Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Texts. Ed. Kevin K. Durand. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 176-184. Also published in earlier form as "'Are You Ready to Finish This?': The Battle against the Patriarchal Forces of Darkness" in Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 7.4 (28), Summer 2009. Also presented in earlier form as "Let's Finish This: the First, Caleb, the Watcher's Council, and the Fight against the Patriarchal Forces of Darkness" at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

___. "Buffy's Insight into Wollstonecraft and Mill." Buffy Meets the Academy: Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Texts. Ed. Kevin K. Durand. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 115-121.

___. "Canon Fodder: Assembling the Text." Buffy Meets the Academy: Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Texts. Ed. Kevin K. Durand. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 9-16.

___. "Introduction: Pop Culture Meets the Academy." Buffy Meets the Academy: Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Texts. Ed. Kevin K. Durand. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 1-5.

___. "It's All about Power." Buffy Meets the Academy: Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Texts. Ed. Kevin K. Durand. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 45-56.

___, ed. Buffy Meets the Academy: Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Texts. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009.

Durant, Amy. 'In every generation there is a chosen one': Choice, Family and Motherhood in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Twilight. BA honors thesis, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, 2011.

Duricy, Michael P. "Marian Symbols in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Television Series on the WB." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004. Also available on author's website. Conference version available online here, or web version available here.

DuVall, Colleen. "Buffy vs. Sisyphus: Why the Chosen One is the Perfect Absurd Heroine." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 7.2 [10], Fall 2014.

Dvoskin, Michelle G. Under Their Spell: How the Musical Episodes of Xena: Warrior Princess and Buffy the Vampire Slayer Queer the Audience. Masters thesis, University of Texas – Austin, Austin, TX, 2006.

Dykstra, Grace. "Not-So-Super Heroes: The Moral Humanization of Joss Whedon's Heroic Characters." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 9.2 [14], Fall 2016.



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Early, Frances H. "The Female Just Warrior Reimagined: From Boudicca to Buffy." Athena's Daughters: Television's New Women Warriors. Eds. Frances Early and Kathleen Kennedy. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2003. 55-65.

___. "Staking Her Claim: Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Transgressive Woman Warrior." The Journal of Popular Culture 35.3 (2001): 11-28. Also published in Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 2.2 (6), September 2002.

Eaton, Nicholas R. and Robert F. Krueger. "The Adaptive, the Maladaptive, and the Mal-Adaptive: Personality Traits in Firefly." The Psychology of Joss Whedon: An Unauthorized Exploration of Buffy, Angel, and Firefly. Ed. Joy Davidson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: BenBella, 2007. 51-64.

Ebertz, Roger P. "Shepherd Book, Malcolm Reynolds, and the Dao of Firefly." The Philosophy of Joss Whedon. Eds. Dean A. Kowalski and S. Evan Kreider. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2011. 194-207.

Edelson, Cheryl D. Siting Horror: Place and Space in American Gothic Fiction. Ph.D. dissertation, University of California – Riverside, Riverside, CA, 2007.

Edwards, Lynne Y. "'The black chick always gets it first': Black Slayers in Sunnydale." Joss Whedon and Race: Critical Essays. Eds. Mary Ellen Iatropoulos and Lowery A. Woodall III. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. 37-50.

___. "Slaying in Black and White: Kendra as Tragic Mulatto in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and David Lavery. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. 85-97.

___, ed. Watcher Junior: The Journal of Undergraduate Research in Buffy Studies, 3.1 (3), September 2007.

___ and Carly Haines. "Reality Bites: Buffy in the UPN Years." Buffy Goes Dark: Essays on the Final Two Seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Television. Eds. Lynne Y. Edwards, Elizabeth L. Rambo and James B. South. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 130-142.

___ and Katy Stevens, eds. Watcher Junior: The Journal of Undergraduate Research in Buffy Studies, 1.1-2.1 (1-2), July 2005-July 2006.

___, Elizabeth L. Rambo, and James B. South, eds. Buffy Goes Dark: Essays on the Final Two Seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Television. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009.

Elden, Gro. The Buffyverse and its Inhabitants: A Study of Fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, International School for Humanities and Social Sciences, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2002.

Elliott, Tara. "The Use of Count Famous in 'Buffy vs. Dracula'." Journal of Dracula Studies 8 (2006): 14-19.

Ellis, Sigrid. "The Ages of Dollhouse: Autobiography through Whedon." Whedonistas!: A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon by the Women Who Love Them. Eds. Lynne M. Thomas and Deborah Stanish. Des Moines, IA: Mad Norwegian Press, 2011. 42-48.

Ellwood, Taylor. "Invoking Buffy: How to Use Pop Culture Icons as God-Forms." Pop! Goes the Witch: The Disinformation Guide to 21st Century Witchcraft. Ed. Fiona Horne. New York: The Disinformation Company, 2004. 184-187.

Elz. "From Dracula to Dead Things: What we can learn from the Season 5 premiere." Tabula Rasa website. Available online.

Emerson, Rana. "Dollhouse, Fox Television, and Cultural Fragmentation." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 399-403. Originally appeared in earlier form in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 29 March 2011. Partially Available Online.

Emmons-Featherston, Sally. "Is That Stereotype Dead? Working with and Against 'Western' Stereotypes in Buffy." The Truth of Buffy: Essays on Fiction Illuminating Reality. Eds. Emily Dial-Driver, Sally Emmons-Featherston, Jim Ford and Carolyn Anne Taylor. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 55-66. Also presented as "Slaying the Stereotypes: Working With and Against 'Western' Stereotypes in Buffy" at the 28th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 14-17 February 2007.

England, Marcia. Who's Afraid of the Dark? Not Buffy! A Feminist Examination of the Paradoxical Representations of Public and Private Space in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2002.

Epps, Garrett. "Can Buffy's Brilliance Last?" The American Prospect. 13.2 (2002): 28-31. Available online.

Erickson, Gregory T. "From Old Heresies to Future Paradigms: Joss Whedon on Body and Soul." Reading Joss Whedon. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox, Tanya R. Cochran, Cynthea Masson, and David Lavery. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2014. 341-355.

___. "Humanity in a 'Place of Nothin': Morality, Religion, Atheism, and Possibility in Firefly." Investigating Firefly and Serenity: Science Fiction on the Frontier. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya R. Cochran. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2008. 167-179.

___. "'Religion Freaky' or a 'Bunch of Men Who Died?': The (A)theology of Buffy." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 4.1-2 (13-14), October 2004. Also presented as "Revisiting Buffy's (A)Theology: Religion 'Freaky' or just 'A Bunch of Men Who Died'" at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

___. "'Sometimes You Need a Story': American Christianity, Vampires, and Buffy." Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and David Lavery. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. 108-119.

___ and Jennifer Lemberg. "Bodies and Narrative in Crisis: Figures of Rupture and Chaos in Seasons Six and Seven." Buffy Goes Dark: Essays on the Final Two Seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Television. Eds. Lynne Y. Edwards, Elizabeth L. Rambo and James B. South. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 114-129.

___ and Richard W. Santana. "Television Drama, Fan Communities, and Theology: God as 'Nothing Solid'." Religion and Popular Culture: Rescripting the Sacred. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 113-137.

Erickson, John. "'It's About Power': Reflecting Upon and Pondering About Men in Feminism and Religion." Feminism and Religion website. 21 July 2011. Available online.

Espenson, Jane. "Introduction." Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe. Ed. Jane Espenson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: BenBella, 2007. 1-4.

___. "Introduction." In Michael Adams. Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. vii-x.

___. "Introduction: Dollhouse Lives!" Inside Joss' Dollhouse: from Alpha to Rossum. Ed. Jane Espenson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: Smart Pop [BenBella], 2010. 1-3.

___ with Leah Wilson, eds. Inside Joss' Dollhouse: from Alpha to Rossum. Dallas: Smart Pop [BenBella], 2010.

___ with Leah Wilson, eds. Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe. Dallas: BenBella, 2007.

___ with Glenn Yeffeth, eds. Finding Serenity: Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly. Dallas: BenBella, 2005.

Estill, Adriana. "Going to Hell: Placing the Library in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." The Library as Place: History, Community, and Culture. Eds. John Buschman and Gloria J. Leckie. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2007. 235-250.

Evelina, Nicole. Fierce Females on Television A Cultural History. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.

Everingham, Mark, Josef Sivic, and Andrew Zisserman. "'Hello! My name is... Buffy': Automatic Naming of Characters in TV Video." Paper presented at the 17th Annual British Machine Vision Conference, Edinburgh, UK, September 2006. Available online.

___. "'Who Are You?': Learning Person Specific Classifiers from Video." Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 2009. 1145-1152. Also presented at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Miami, Fl, June 2009. Available online.

Evon, Carrie Rose. "Messy Postcolonialism in Joss Whedon's Firefly-Serenity 'Verse." Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 18.2 [52], Summer/Fall 2020: 34-63.

Evusa, Juliet. "Witchy Women: Witchcraft in Buffy and in Contemporary African Culture." The Truth of Buffy: Essays on Fiction Illuminating Reality. Eds. Emily Dial-Driver, Sally Emmons-Featherston, Jim Ford and Carolyn Anne Taylor. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 173-184.



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Fall, Wendy. "Spike Is Forgiven: The Sympathetic Vampire's Resonance with Rape Culture." Buffy at 20. Eds. Gerry Canavan and James B. South. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 16.2 (48), Summer/Fall 2018.

Fard, Cyrus. "Everything Is for Sale: The Merchandising of 'Buffy'." PopMatters.com, 31 August 2009. Available online.

Farghaly, Nadine. Patriarchy Strikes Back: Power and Perception in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. MA thesis, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, 2009. Also published in shortened form in Buffy Conquers the Academy: Conference Papers from the 2009/2010 Popular Culture/American Culture Associations. Eds. U. Melissa Anyiwo and Karoline Szatek-Tudor. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. 19-31. Also presented in earlier form as "Buffy the Matriarch: Giving Birth to a New World Order" at the 2009 PCA/ACA National Conference, New Orleans, LA, 8-11 April 2009, and accepted (but not presented) for the 30th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 25-28 February 2009.

Fathallah, Judith. "'Except That Joss Whedon Is God': Fannish Attitudes to Statements of Author/Ity." International Journal of Cultural Studies 19.4 (July 2016): 459–476.

Favreau, Mandi. Feminism on the Final Frontier: Perceptions of Gender Performativity in Joss Whedon's Firefly. Masters thesis, University of Maine, Orono, ME, 2012.

Feasey, Rebecca. "Investigating Angel: the Hair, the Car and the Wardrobe." Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media 4 (December 2007): 97-111. Also presented at the 26th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 9-12 February 2005. Available online.

Ferguson, Max. "Miranda: Conflicting Anxieties, Ableism and Population Health." Joss Whedon's Big Damn Movie: Essays on Serenity. Ed. Frederick Blichert. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018. 132-142.

Fernandez, Charmaine. "Déjà New in Joss Whedon's Marvel's The Avengers." Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies [Special Edition] 18.2 (January 2013). Available online. Also presented in earlier form as "Déjà New in Joss Whedon's The Avengers." at Humanising Collaboration: The 7th Annual Limina Conference, University of Western Australia, Crawley [near Peth], Western Australia, 7 June 2012."

Field, Mark. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Myth, Metaphor & Morality. Self-published, 2013. Originally appeared in earlier form on author's website. Available online.

Fifarek, Aimee. "'Mind and Heart with Spirit Joined': The Buffyverse as an Information System." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 1.3 (3), June 2001.

Fillion, Nathan. "I, Malcolm." Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe. Ed. Jane Espenson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: BenBella, 2007. 49-53.

Fingeroth, Danny. "Amazon Grace: Wonder Woman Xena, and Buffy." Superman on the Couch: What Superheroes Really Tell Us About Ourselves and Our Society. New York: Continuum, 2004. 79-95.

Fisher, Roy, Ann Harris, and Christine Jarvis. "Don't Pick on Me." Education in Popular Culture: Telling Tales on Teachers and Learners. New York: Routledge, 2008. 122-126.

___, Ann Harris, and Christine Jarvis. "High School Confidential." Education in Popular Culture: Telling Tales on Teachers and Learners. New York: Routledge, 2008. 69-73.

___, Ann Harris, and Christine Jarvis. "The Sad and the Bad." Education in Popular Culture: Telling Tales on Teachers and Learners. New York: Routledge, 2008. 49-60.

___, Ann Harris, and Christine Jarvis. "School for Grownups: Lifelong Learning in Popular Culture." Education in Popular Culture: Telling Tales on Teachers and Learners. New York: Routledge, 2008. 152-154.

Fixler, Alex. "'The Hardest Thing in This World Is to Live in It': Identity and Mental Health in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Buffy at 20. Eds. Gerry Canavan and James B. South. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 16.2 (48), Summer/Fall 2018.

Flamson, Thomas. "Free Will in a Deterministic Whedonverse." The Psychology of Joss Whedon: An Unauthorized Exploration of Buffy, Angel, and Firefly. Ed. Joy Davidson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: BenBella, 2007. 35-49.

Fletcher, Lawson. "'Is She Cold?': Telaesthetic Horror and Embodied Textuality in 'The Body'." Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 9.1 (33), Spring 2011.

Flor, Chris and Philipp Kneis. "'Normal Again': Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Psychotic Narration." Picturing America: Trauma, Realism, Politics, and Identity in American Visual Culture. Eds. Antje Dallmann, Reinhard Isensee, and Philipp Kneis. New York: Peter Lang, 2007. 65-77. Also presented in earlier form, by Chris Flor, as "Psychotic Narration and Institutionalization in 'Normal Again'" at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Foley, Rebecca I. M., "'Shoot 'Em ... Politely': Presentations of Gender, Violence, and Power in Firefly." Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 16.1 (47), Winter/Spring 2018.

Foley, Timothy Michael. Double Coded Feminist TV: Overlooked Contradictions within Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, University of Washington, Tacoma, WA, 2013. Available online.

Ford, Jessica. "Coming Out of the Broom Closet: Willow's Sexuality and Empowerment in Buffy." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 94-102. Originally appeared in earlier form in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 9 March 2011, Partially Available Online.

Ford, Jim. "Introduction." The Truth of Buffy: Essays on Fiction Illuminating Reality. Eds. Emily Dial-Driver, Sally Emmons-Featherston, Jim Ford and Carolyn Anne Taylor. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 5-8.

___. "A Life Well-Lived: Buffy and the Pursuit of Happiness." The Truth of Buffy: Essays on Fiction Illuminating Reality. Eds. Emily Dial-Driver, Sally Emmons-Featherston, Jim Ford and Carolyn Anne Taylor. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 201-210.

Forry, Joan Grassbaugh. "'Powerful, Beautiful, and without Regret': Femininity, Masculinity, and the Vampire Aesthetic." Zombies, Vampires, and Philosophy: New Life for the Undead. Eds. Richard Greene and K. Silem Mohammad. Chicago: Open Court, 2010. 237-247.

Forster, Greg. "Faith And Plato: 'You're Nothing! Disgusting, Murderous Bitch!'" Buffy and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale. Ed. James B. South. Chicago: Open Court, 2003. 7-19.

Fossey, Claire. "Never Hurt the Feelings of a Brutal Killer: Spike and the Underground Man." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 2.4 (8), March 2003.

Foster, Susanne E., and James B. South. "'Look What Free Will Has Gotten You': Isolation, Individuality, and Choice in Angel." The Philosophy of Joss Whedon. Eds. Dean A. Kowalski and S. Evan Kreider. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2011. 168-81.

___ and James B. South. "Social Contract: Rebellion and Dissent Aboard 'Serenity'." Homer Simpson Ponders Politics: Popular Culture as Political Theory. Eds. Joseph J. Foy and Timothy M. Dale. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2013. 63-74. Available online.

___ and James B. South. "'There's no place I can be': Whedon, Augustine, and the Earthly City." Joss Whedon and Religion: Essays on an Angry Atheist's Explorations of the Sacred. Eds. Anthony R. Mills, John W. Morehead, and J. Ryan Parker. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013. 152-164.

Foy, Joseph J. "The State of Nature and Social Contracts on Spaceship Serenity." The Philosophy of Joss Whedon. Eds. Dean A. Kowalski and S. Evan Kreider. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2011. 39-54.

___ and Dean A. Kowalski. "Seeking Authenticity in the Whedonverse." The Philosophy of Joss Whedon. Eds. Dean A. Kowalski and S. Evan Kreider. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2011. 151-67.

Francis, Jr., James. "'Selfless': Locating Female Identity in Anya/Anyanka Through Prostitution." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004. Available online.

Francis, Rob. "London Calling: Buffy from a British Perspective." Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Vol. 3. Ed. Paul Ruditis. New York: Simon, 2004. 255-264.

Frankel, Valerie Estelle. "All Dolled Up: Twisted Princes and Fairytale Heroines." Inside Joss' Dollhouse: from Alpha to Rossum. Ed. Jane Espenson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: Smart Pop [BenBella], 2010. 63-77.

___. "Allies and Enemies." In Valerie Estelle Frankel. Buffy and the Heroine's Journey: Vampire Slayer as Feminine Chosen One. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. 42-61.

___. "Angel/Angelus." In Valerie Estelle Frankel. Buffy and the Heroine's Journey: Vampire Slayer as Feminine Chosen One. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. 62-75.

___. "Cheeky Heroines, Girls in Refrigerators, Wit, and Slapstick: Much Ado's Place in the Whedon Canon." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 463-471.

___. "Comic-Con, Consumerism and Chaos: Reflecting the Fans in Last Angel in Hell, Stan Lee Meets the Amazing ­Spider-Man and Sugarshock!" The Comics of Joss Whedon: Critical Essays. Ed. Valerie Estelle Frankel. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015. 180-198.

___. "Conclusion." In Valerie Estelle Frankel. Buffy and the Heroine's Journey: Vampire Slayer as Feminine Chosen One. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. 204.

___. "Departing the Ordinary World - The Film." In Valerie Estelle Frankel. Buffy and the Heroine's Journey: Vampire Slayer as Feminine Chosen One. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. 13-25.

___. "Downfall in Season Eight." In Valerie Estelle Frankel. Buffy and the Heroine's Journey: Vampire Slayer as Feminine Chosen One. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. 189-203.

___. "Embracing the Shadow: Faith." In Valerie Estelle Frankel. Buffy and the Heroine's Journey: Vampire Slayer as Feminine Chosen One. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. 76-92.

___. "Fun with Fandom in Avengers: Age of Ultron." After the Avengers: From Joss Whedon's Hottest, Newest Franchises to the Future of the Whedonverse. Eds. PopMatters.com with Valerie Estelle Frankel. Chicago: PopMatters Media, Inc., 2015.

___. "The Hero's and Heroine's Journey." In Valerie Estelle Frankel. Buffy and the Heroine's Journey: Vampire Slayer as Feminine Chosen One. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. 5-12.

___. "The Heroine's Journey from Fray to Wonder Woman." The Comics of Joss Whedon: Critical Essays. Ed. Valerie Estelle Frankel. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015. 165-179.

___. "How to Make a Wonder Woman Movie." After the Avengers: From Joss Whedon's Hottest, Newest Franchises to the Future of the Whedonverse. Eds. PopMatters.com with Valerie Estelle Frankel. Chicago: PopMatters Media, Inc., 2015.

___. "Introduction." In Valerie Estelle Frankel. Buffy and the Heroine's Journey: Vampire Slayer as Feminine Chosen One. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. 1-3.

___. "Leading the Next Generation." In Valerie Estelle Frankel. Buffy and the Heroine's Journey: Vampire Slayer as Feminine Chosen One. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. 177-188.

___. "Lover/Beast." In Valerie Estelle Frankel. Buffy and the Heroine's Journey: Vampire Slayer as Feminine Chosen One. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. 125-144.

___. "The Mad Girl Weds the Evil Doctor: Whedonisms in In Your Eyes." After the Avengers: From Joss Whedon's Hottest, Newest Franchises to the Future of the Whedonverse. Eds. PopMatters.com with Valerie Estelle Frankel. Chicago: PopMatters Media, Inc., 2015.

___. "More Allies, More Enemies." In Valerie Estelle Frankel. Buffy and the Heroine's Journey: Vampire Slayer as Feminine Chosen One. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. 110-124.

___. "Posthuman Defenders from the Zombie Apocalypse: The Cyborgs of Dollhouse, Firefly and The Nevers." Slayage: The International Journal of  Buffy+  21.2 [58], Summer/Fall 2023.

___. "The Powerful Feminine." In Valerie Estelle Frankel. Buffy and the Heroine's Journey: Vampire Slayer as Feminine Chosen One. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. 145-162.

___. "Preface." The Comics of Joss Whedon: Critical Essays. Ed. Valerie Estelle Frankel. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015. 1-8.

___. "Presenting the Collection." After the Avengers: From Joss Whedon's Hottest, Newest Franchises to the Future of the Whedonverse. Eds. PopMatters.com with Valerie Estelle Frankel. Chicago: PopMatters Media, Inc., 2015.

___. "Refusing the Call, Accepting the Call." In Valerie Estelle Frankel. Buffy and the Heroine's Journey: Vampire Slayer as Feminine Chosen One. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. 26-41.

___. "The Rewards of Growing Up." In Valerie Estelle Frankel. Buffy and the Heroine's Journey: Vampire Slayer as Feminine Chosen One. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. 93-98.

___. "Season Six and the Pain of Return." In Valerie Estelle Frankel. Buffy and the Heroine's Journey: Vampire Slayer as Feminine Chosen One. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. 163-176.

___. "Seeking Safe Haven: Shelter and ­Self-Protection from Afterlife to Avengers: Age of Ultron. At Home in the Whedonverse: Essays on Domestic Place, Space and Life. Ed. Juliette C. Kitchens. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. 68-86.

___. "Terrible Mother, Powerless Father." In Valerie Estelle Frankel. Buffy and the Heroine's Journey: Vampire Slayer as Feminine Chosen One. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. 99-109.

___. "Unwanted Memories: When Heroines Choose Trauma Over Amnesia." Slaying Is Hell: Essays on Trauma and Memory in the Whedonverse. Eds. Alyson R. Buckman, Juliette C. Kitchens, and Katherine A Troyer. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2023. 43-61.

___. "Why Do Villains Insist on a Ring?: Greed and Fetishism from Sauron to Spike." Special Issue: J. R. R. Tolkien and the Works of Joss Whedon. Eds. Janet Brennan Croft and Kristine Larsen. Journal of Tolkien Research 10.1 (2020).

___. Buffy and the Heroine's Journey: Vampire Slayer as Feminine Chosen One. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012.

___. Everything I Need to Know in Life I Learned from Joss Whedon. Brooklyn, NY: Thought Catalog, 2015.

___. Joss Whedon's Names: The Deeper Meanings Behind Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Cabin in the Woods, The Avengers, Doctor Horrible, In Your Eyes, Comics and More. Self-published, 2014.

___. Pop Culture in the Whedonverse: All the References in Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Cabin in the Woods, The Avengers, Doctor Horrible, In Your Eyes, Comics and More. Self-published, 2014.

___, ed. The Comics of Joss Whedon: Critical Essays. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015.

Fredrickson, Nathan. "Queer Composition, Fantasizing Phlebotinum, and Worldmaking with the Whedonverse: A Course in Religious Studies Using Critical, Genre-based, and Technology-Supplemented Pedagogical Methods." Queering the Whedonverses. Eds. Lorna Jowett and Hélène Frohard-Dourlent. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 15.2 (46), Summer/Fall 2017.

Free, Anna. "Re-Vamping the Gothic in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Screen Education 46 (2007): 138-144.

Freedland, Julian. "Vampire Slaying in Buffy the Vampire Slayer May Result from Disrupted Ion Signaling." Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 18.2 [52], Summer/Fall 2020: 64-84.

___ and Kelvin Young. "On the Transformation of Humans into Vampires in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: A Viral Disease Model." Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+ 20.1 [55], Winter/Spring 2022.

Freedman, Eric. "Television, Horror and Everyday Life in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." The Contemporary Television Series. Eds. Michael Hammond and Lucy Mazdon. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005. 159-180.

Friedrich, Emily. "Suiting Up and Stripping Down: the Changing Face of (American) Hegemonic Masculinity." Spaces Between: An Undergraduate Feminist Journal 1.1 (2013). Available online.

Fritts, David. " Buffy's Seven-Season Initiation." Buffy Meets the Academy: Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Texts. Ed. Kevin K. Durand. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 32-44. Also presented as "From Beneath You It Empowers: Buffy's Seven-Season Initiation" at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

___. "Warrior Heroes: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Beowulf." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 5.1 (17), June 2005. Also presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Fritz, Martin and Sulzenbacher Carmen: "The Choice, Not To Be Chosen: Wie Buffy The Vampire Slayer mit Butler gedacht handeln kann." Gender: from Field Studies to Agency Theories. Eds. Julia Prager and Nina Fuchs. Innsbruck: Studia Universitätsverlag, 2010. In German. Available online.

Froberville, Antoine de. "Angel." Les miroirs obscurs: Grandes séries Américaines d'aujourd'hui. Ed. Martin Winckler. Vauvert, France: Au diable Vauvert, 2005. 34-49. In French.

Froese, Jocelyn Sakal and Laura Buzzard. "'I Mean for Us to Live. The Alliance Won't Have That': New Frontierism and Biopower in Firefly/Serenity." Lightin' Out For the Library: A Firefly/Serenity Special Issue. Eds. Michael Goodrum and Philip Smith. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 13.2 (42), Summer 2015.

Frohard-Dourlent, Hélène. "'Lez-faux' Representations: How Buffy Season Eight Navigates the Politics of Female Heteroflexibility." Sexual Rhetoric in the Works of Joss Whedon: New Essays. Ed. Erin B. Waggoner. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 31-47. Also presented as "'Tomorrow I'm gonna blush, then I'm gonna smile... but I'm not sure if it goes any further than that': Heteroflexibility and Buffy's Dabble Outside of Heterosexuality" at the 30th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 25-28 February 2009. 

___. "Someone’s Asian in Dr. Horrible: Humor, Reflexivity and the Absolution of Whiteness." Joss Whedon and Race: Critical Essays. Eds. Mary Ellen Iatropoulos and Lowery A. Woodall III. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. 283-298. Also presented in earlier form as "Somebody's Asian in Dr. Horrible: Humor and Racial Representations in Commentary! The Musical" as featured lecture at SCW5: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 12-15 July 2012.

___. "When the heterosexual script goes flexible: Public reactions to female heteroflexibility in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic books." Sexualities 15.5-6 (September 2012): 718-738. Originally presented as "Buffy/Satsu: Pure Genius or Out Of Character? Complicating Fan Responses to Modern Narratives of Sexuality" at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

Fuchs, Cynthia. "Captain Forehead." PopMatters.com, 29 September 2003. Available online.

___. "'Did Anyone Ever Explain to you What "Secret Identity" Means?': Race and Displacement in Buffy and Dark Angel." Undead TV: Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Elana Levine and Lisa Parks. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. 96-115. Also published in Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 6.4 (24), Summer 2007.

___. "Forever." PopMatters.com, 18 May 2004. Available online.

___. "Mopey Season." PopMatters.com, 6 July 2004. Available online.

___. "Talky Meat." PopMatters.com, 5 May 2003. Available online.

Fudge, Keith. "Ethics Homework from the Hellmouth: Buffy Stakes Her Claim in the First-year Composition Classroom." Buffy in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching With the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Jodie A. Kreider and Meghan K. Winchell. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 94-102. Also presented as "Homework from the Hellmouth: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Stakes Her Claim in the Composition Classroom" at the 2012 PCA/ACA National Conference, Boston, MA, 11-14 April 2012.

___. "The High School Education of Buffy Summers." Buffy Meets the Academy: Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Texts. Ed. Kevin K. Durand. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 203-210. Also presented in earlier form as "No Slayer Left Behind: Buffy in the Classroom and Public School Education in Buffy the Vampire Slayer" at SC3: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008.

Fudge, Rachel. "The Buffy Effect or, a Tale of Cleavage and Marketing." Bitch 4.1 (1999): 18-21. Available online.

Fuller [de la Rosa], Nicole (Nikki) Faith. "The Art of Buffy Crafts." Fan Phenomena: Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ed. Jennifer Kate Stuller. Chicago: Intellect, 2013. 112-119.

___. "'Touch Me and Die, Vermin!': The Psychoanalysis of Illyria." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 199-205. Originally appeared in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 16 March 2011. Partially Available Online.

___. The Hero's Journey Revamped in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, California Baptist University, Riverside, CA, 2007.



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Gabriele, Timothy. "The Sky Is Falling: Images of Mass Destruction in The Avengers." PopMatters.com, 10 June 2012. Available online.

Garbett, Tom. "'What about the laws?': Regulation and the Celebration of Resistance." Eds. Sherry Ginn, Alyson R. Buckman, and Heather M. Porter. Joss Whedon's Dollhouse: Confounding Purpose, Confusing Identity. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 53-64.

García, Pedro José. "Dollhouse: Poesía y ciencia ficción en la etapa oscura de Joss Whedon." De la estaca al martillo: Un viaje por los universos de Joss Whedon, de Buffy a Los Vengadores. Eds. Pedro José García and Irene Raya Bravo. Madrid: Diábolo Ediciones, 2015. 116-137. In Spanish.

___. "Marvel Los Vengadores: Una pieza más del Whedonverso." De la estaca al martillo: Un viaje por los universos de Joss Whedon, de Buffy a Los Vengadores. Eds. Pedro José García and Irene Raya Bravo. Madrid: Diábolo Ediciones, 2015. 196-221. In Spanish.

___ and Irene Raya Bravo, eds. De la estaca al martillo: Un viaje por los universos de Joss Whedon, de Buffy a Los Vengadores. Madrid: Diábolo Ediciones, 2015. In Spanish.

Garcia, Tristan. "Buffy: un fait adolescent total." Philoséries: Buffy, tueuse de vampires. Eds. Sylvie Allouche and Sandra Laugier. Paris: Bragelonne, 2014. 59-77. Also presented at Buffy Tueuse De Vampires Conference, Paris, France, 26 June 2009. In French.

Garret, Kyle. "Failure of the Everyman: The Lost Character That Was Xander Harris." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 57-60. Originally appeared in earlier form in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 8 March 2011, Partially Available Online.

___. "In the Buff: Sexual Conservatism in the Works of Whedon." PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 23 March 2011. Available Online.

Garrison, Stephanie. "Much Ado About Whedon and the Hamlet Hypothesis." After the Avengers: From Joss Whedon's Hottest, Newest Franchises to the Future of the Whedonverse. Eds. PopMatters.com with Valerie Estelle Frankel. Chicago: PopMatters Media, Inc., 2015.

Gatson, Sarah N. and Amanda Zweerink. "Border Patrol: Rule-Making and Community Boundaries." In Sarah N. Gatson and Amanda Zweerink. Interpersonal Culture on the Internet: Television, the Internet, and the Making of a Community. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2004. 141-188.

___. "Choosing Community: Rejecting Anonymity in Cyberspace." Community Structure and Dynamics at the Dawn of the New Millenium. Ed. Danesh A. Chekki. Stamford, CT: JAI Press, 2000. 105-137.

___. "Introduction: Vampire Slaying on TV, the Internet, and Ethnography - Come as You Aren't?" In Sarah N. Gatson and Amanda Zweerink. Interpersonal Culture on the Internet: Television, the Internet, and the Making of a Community. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2004. 1-37.

___. "The Place of Networks, Networks in Place." In Sarah N. Gatson and Amanda Zweerink. Interpersonal Culture on the Internet: Television, the Internet, and the Making of a Community. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2004. 39-95.

___. "Practicing Bronzer Politics: Demanding a Voice, Reforming, and Revolting." In Sarah N. Gatson and Amanda Zweerink. Interpersonal Culture on the Internet: Television, the Internet, and the Making of a Community. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2004. 189-232.

___. "Remaking the Local and Remaking the Locale." In Sarah N. Gatson and Amanda Zweerink. Interpersonal Culture on the Internet: Television, the Internet, and the Making of a Community. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2004. 97-139.

___. "The Television Node Revisited – how or when will The Bronze leave Buffy Behind?" In Sarah N. Gatson and Amanda Zweerink. Interpersonal Culture on the Internet: Television, the Internet, and the Making of a Community. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2004. 233-260. Also presented in earlier form as "Bronzers Still, Online and Off?: the Changing Nature of Bronzer Identity After Buffy" at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

___. "www.Buffy.com: Cliques, Boundaries, and Hierarchies in an Internet Community." Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and David Lavery. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. 239-249.

Gelder, Ken. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." New Vampire Cinema. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 15-19.

Gelineau, Mark. "Coyote in the Black: The Evolution of Malcolm Reynolds the Trickster-Shaman." Special Issue on Firefly and Serenity. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya R. Cochran. Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 7.1 (25), Winter 2008.

Geller, Len. "Beer Good: Demon Brew and the Cave Slayer." Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 18.1 (51), Winter/Spring 2020: 41-68.

___. "'Normal Again' and 'The Harvest': The Subversion and Triumph of Realism in Buffy." Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 8.4 (32), Winter 2011.

Genz, Stéphanie. "Fighting It: The Supergirl." Postfemininities in Popular Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 152-169.

Georgis, Dina. "Moving Past Ressentiment: War and the State of Feminist Freedom." TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 20 (Fall 2008): 109-127. Available online.

Gerlach, David. Blood, Sex and Education: Teenage Problems and Fears as Presented in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Seminar paper presented at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Maburg, Germany, 2004. Partially Available Online.

Gerrits, Jeroen. "Ici-bas et encore plus bas: la projection empathique dans Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Philoséries: Buffy, tueuse de vampires. Eds. Sylvie Allouche and Sandra Laugier. Paris: Bragelonne, 2014. 117-124. Also presented as "Ici-bas et encore plus bas" at Buffy Tueuse De Vampires Conference, Paris, France, 26 June 2009. In French.

___. "When Horror Becomes Human: Living Conditions in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." MLN: Modern Language Notes 127.5 (December 2012): 1059-1070

Gerrold, David. "Star Struck." Finding Serenity: Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly. Eds. Jane Espenson with Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2005. 183-195.

Giannini, Erin M. "'The body doesn't matter, it's the mind that we want': Examining and Critiquing Contemporary Socioeconomic and Political Structures Through Rossum and the Framework." Re-Entering the Dollhouse: Essays on the Joss Whedon Series. Eds. Heather M. Porter and Michael Starr. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2022. 27-40. Also presented in earlier form as "The Body Doesn't Matter, It's the Mind That We Want: The Framework as Contemporary Political Commentary in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season Four" at SCW8: The 8th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL, 21-24 June 2018.

___. "'Call us what you want, just not family': Undermining Whedon Tropes in the Dollhouse." In Erin Giannini. Joss Whedon Versus the Corporation: Big Business Critiqued in the Films and Television Programs. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. 157-175. Also presented in earlier form as "'Call Us What You Want, Just Not Family': Corporate Culture and the Subversion of the Created Family Whedonverse Trope in Dollhouse" at SCW6: Much Ado About Whedon: The 6th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, California State University – Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, 19-22 June 2014.

___. "'Charybdis Tested Well with Teens': The Cabin in the Woods as Metafictional Critique of Corporate Media Producers and Audiences." 'We Are Not Who We Are': Critical Reflections on The Cabin in the Woods (2012). Eds. Kristopher Woofter and Jasie Stokes. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 10.2-11.1 (36-37), Fall 2013/Winter 2014.

___. "'Eat them all the time/Let them blow your mind': River and the Unacknowledged Corporate Hand in Serenity." Joss Whedon's Big Damn Movie: Essays on Serenity. Ed. Frederick Blichert. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018. 106-116.

___. "Forever Knight, Angel, and Supernatural: A Genealogy of Television Horror/Crime Hybrids." Joss Whedon Vs. the Horror Tradition: The Production of Genre in Buffy and Beyond. Eds. Kristopher Karl Woofter and Lorna Jowett. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2018 [c 2019]. 181-198.

___. "'It Doesn't Mean What You Think': River Tam as Embodied Culture Jam." Lightin' Out For the Library: A Firefly/Serenity Special Issue. Eds. Michael Goodrum and Philip Smith. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 13.2 (42), Summer 2015. Also presented at the 35th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 19-22 February 2014.

___. "Of Moonlight and Miracles: The Influence of Angel on David Greenwalt's Immediate Post-Whedon Series." Let's Go to Work': The Legacy of Angel. Eds. Stacey Abbott and Simon Brown. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 17.2 (50), Summer / Fall 2019: 180-209. Also presented at the 39th Annual Southwest PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 7-10 February 2018.

___. "'That has nothing to do with today': The Whedonverse and the Dangers of Rewriting Historical Memory." Slaying Is Hell: Essays on Trauma and Memory in the Whedonverse. Eds. Alyson R. Buckman, Juliette C. Kitchens, and Katherine A Troyer. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2023. 21-42.

___. Joss Whedon Versus the Corporation: Big Business Critiqued in the Films and Television Programs. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017.

___. "Something Nightmares Are From: Corporate Culture and Externalized Consequences." After the Avengers: From Joss Whedon's Hottest, Newest Franchises to the Future of the Whedonverse. Eds. PopMatters.com with Valerie Estelle Frankel. Chicago: PopMatters Media, Inc., 2015.

___. "'They brought it on themselves!': Adapting and Reflecting Cultural Fears, from The Shop to Rossum." Science Fiction Film & Television 10.2, June 2017: 231–249. Also presented at the 37th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 10-13 February 2016. Available online.

Gianniny, Megan E. 'Other than dead': Queering Vampires in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Interview with the Vampire, and The Gilda Stories. BA honors thesis, Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA, 2014.

Giardina, Natasha. "Geeks of the World, Unite!: You Have Nothing to Lose but Your Lovebots!" Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe. Ed. Jane Espenson with Leah Wilson.. Dallas: BenBella, 2007. 131-140.

Gibson-James, Jessica N. The Aud One Out in the Final Battle: An Anya-Centered Feminist Analysis of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, University of Dayton, Ohio, Dayton, OH, 2006.

Gill, Candra K. "Cuz the Black Chick Always Gets It First: Dynamics of Race in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Girls Who Bite Back: Witches, Mutants, Slayers and Freaks. Ed. Emily Pohl-Weary. Toronto: Sumach Press, 2004. 39-55.

___. "On Soldiers and Sages: Problematizing the Roles of Black Men in the Whedonverses." Joss Whedon and Race: Critical Essays. Eds. Mary Ellen Iatropoulos and Lowery A. Woodall III. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. 253-267. Also presented at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

Gill, Pat. "Making a Killing in the Marketplace: Incorporation as a Monstrous Process." Monsters in and Among Us: Toward a Gothic Criminology. Eds. Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart and Cecil Greek. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007. 142-163.

Gilliland, Elizabeth. "Double Trouble: Gothic Shadows and Self-Discovery in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 16.1 (47), Winter/Spring 2018. Also presented as "'Not Much with the Damseling: Gothic Heroes, Heroines, Subversions, and Shadows in Buffy the Vampire Slayer" at EuroSlayage [SCW7]: The 7th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK, 7-10 July 2016.

___, Darrell J. Jordan, and Robin Robinson​​. "Report on SCW8: The Eighth Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses." Buffy at 20. Eds. Gerry Canavan and James B. South. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 16.2 (48), Summer/Fall 2018.

Gilman, Laura Anne. "True Shanshu: Redemption Through Compassion, and the Journey of Cordelia Chase." Five Seasons of Angel: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Vampire. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2004. 179-185.

Gilstrap, Andrew. "Death and the Single Girl: Buffy Grows Up." PopMatters.com, 10 June 2002. Available online.

Ginn, Sherry. "Aggression and Violence as Methods of Control." In Sherry Ginn. Power and Control in the Television Worlds of Joss Whedon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. 43-61. Also presented in earlier form as "Interpersonal Aggression and Violence in the Works of Joss Whedon" at the 32nd Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, San Antonio, TX, 20-23 April 2011.

___. "Epilogue: Final Remarks." In Sherry Ginn. Power and Control in the Television Worlds of Joss Whedon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. 144.

___. "Exerting Control with Pharmaceutical Agents." In Sherry Ginn. Power and Control in the Television Worlds of Joss Whedon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. 114-129. Also presented in earlier form as "Better Living through Drugs?: Science Fiction Explores Mind Control" at the 2009 PCA/ACA National Conference, New Orleans, LA, 8-11 April 2009.

___. "Introduction: Black Widow's Place in Marvel's Universes and Our Own." Marvel’s Black Widow from Spy to Superhero: Essays on an Avenger with a Very Specific Skill Set. Ed. Sherry Ginn. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. 1-10.

___. "Love and Sex as Methods of Control." In Sherry Ginn. Power and Control in the Television Worlds of Joss Whedon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. 23-42.

___. "Manipulating Memory as a Method of Control." In Sherry Ginn. Power and Control in the Television Worlds of Joss Whedon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. 97-113.

___. "Manipulating the Brain as a Method of Control." In Sherry Ginn. Power and Control in the Television Worlds of Joss Whedon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. 81-96. Also presented in earlier form as "Joss' Brains: Exploring Neurological Tampering in Firefly and Dollhouse" at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

___. "Memory, Mind, and Mayhem: Neurological Tampering and Manipulation in Dollhouse." Fantasy Is Not Their Purpose: Joss Whedon's Dollhouse. Eds. Cynthea Masson and Rhonda V. Wilcox. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 8.2-3 (30-31), Summer/Fall 2010.

___. "Other Methods of Control." In Sherry Ginn. Power and Control in the Television Worlds of Joss Whedon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. 130-143.

___. Power and Control in the Television Worlds of Joss Whedon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012.

___. "The Problem of Power and Control." In Sherry Ginn. Power and Control in the Television Worlds of Joss Whedon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. 9-22. Also presented in earlier form as "Exploring Power and Control in the Whedonverse: in Sunnydale, in the Dollhouse, and On Board the Firefly Serenity" at the 2009 PCAS/ACAS Annual Conference, Wilmington, NC, 1-3 October 2009.

___. "Red Rooms, Conditioning Chairs, and Needles in the Brain: Brainwashing and Mind Control in the Whedon and Marvel Universes." Marvel’s Black Widow from Spy to Superhero: Essays on an Avenger with a Very Specific Skill Set. Ed. Sherry Ginn. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. 88-105. Also presented as "Red Rooms, Conditioning Chairs, and Needles in the Brain: Brainwashing and Memory Manipulation in the Whedonverses" at EuroSlayage [SCW7]: The 7th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK, 7-10 July 2016.

___. "Ripley, Alice, and Echo: Corporate Malfeasance and the Female Body." Re-Entering the Dollhouse: Essays on the Joss Whedon Series. Eds. Heather M. Porter and Michael Starr. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2022. 41-55.

___. "Supernatural Methods of Control." In Sherry Ginn. Power and Control in the Television Worlds of Joss Whedon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. 62-80.

___. "The Token Fatty: Three Whedon Series in Search of a 'Normal-Sized' Woman." Blood, Body and Soul: Essays on Health, Wellness and Disability in Buffy, Angel, Firefly and Dollhouse. Eds. Tamy Burnett and AmiJo Comeford. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2022. 201-211.
Also presented at the 2011 PCAS/ACAS Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, 6-8 October 2011.

___, ed. Marvel’s Black Widow from Spy to Superhero: Essays on an Avenger with a Very Specific Skill Set. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017.

___ and Heather M. Porter. "Introduction:  You Can’t Take Firefly from Me: Twenty Years Later and Still Missed." Special 20th Anniversary Issue on Firefly. Eds. Sherry Ginn and Heather M. Porter. Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+ 20.2 [56], Fall 2022.

___ and Heather M. Porter, eds. Special 20th Anniversary Issue on Firefly. Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+ 20.2 [56], Summer/Fall 2022.

___, Alyson R. Buckman and Heather M. Porter, eds. Joss Whedon's Dollhouse: Confounding Purpose, Confusing Identity. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.

Gleason, Tracy R. and Nancy S. Weinfield. "An Analysis of Slayer Longevity: Relationships on the Hellmouth." The Psychology of Joss Whedon: An Unauthorized Exploration of Buffy, Angel, and Firefly. Ed. Joy Davidson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: BenBella, 2007. 65-77.

Glynn, Kevin. "Challenging Disenchantment: The Discreet Charm of Occult TV." Comparative American Studies 1.4 (December 2003): 421-447.

Gobatto, Nancy. "'Ready To Be Strong?': Buffy, Angelina and Me." Girls Who Bite Back: Witches, Mutants, Slayers and Freaks. Ed. Emily Pohl-Weary. Toronto: Sumach Press, 2004. 119-131.

Goile, Joanne E. Fascinations of Fiction: An Examination of Devices Used within the Television Programme Buffy the Vampire Slayer That Succeed in Blurring the Boundaries between Viewers and the Fictional Diegesis of the Show. Masters thesis, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand, 2003. Also presented in earlier form as "Fascinations of Fiction" at Staking a Claim: Exploring the Global Reach of Buffy, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, 22 July 2003.

Golden, Anne. "The Melancholy Musical: Horror and Avant-Garde Strategies in Once More.'" Joss Whedon Vs. the Horror Tradition: The Production of Genre in Buffy and Beyond. Eds. Kristopher Karl Woofter and Lorna Jowett. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2018 [c 2019]. 73-91.

Golden, Christie. "Where's the Religion in Willow's Wicca?" Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Television Show. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2003. 159-166.

Goldsmith, P. Gardner. "Freedom in an Unfree World." Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe. Ed. Jane Espenson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: BenBella, 2007. 55-65.

Goltz, Jennifer. "Listening to Firefly." Finding Serenity: Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly. Eds. Jane Espenson with Glenn Yeffeth.Dallas: BenBella, 2005. 209-215.

Gölz, Peter. "Fear and Laughing in Sunnydale: Buffy vs Dracula." Journal of Dracula Studies 11 (2009). Available online.

Gomez, Lisa. "Buffy Is in Bed with a Woman?: Problematic and Perfect Gay and Lesbian Representation." The Comics of Joss Whedon: Critical Essays. Ed. Valerie Estelle Frankel. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015. 19-30.

Goodfriend, Wind. "Terror Management Aboard Serenity." The Psychology of Joss Whedon: An Unauthorized Exploration of Buffy, Angel, and Firefly. Ed. Joy Davidson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: BenBella, 2007. 91-104.

Goodrum, Michael and Philip Smith. "Introduction." Firefly Revisited: Essays on Joss Whedon's Classic Series. Eds. Michael Goodrum and Philip Smith. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. ix-xx.

___ and Philip Smith. "Lightin' Out For the Library: A Firefly/Serenity Special Issue." Lightin' Out For the Library: A Firefly/Serenity Special Issue. Eds. Michael Goodrum and Philip Smith. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 13.2 (42), Summer 2015.

___ and Philip Smith, eds. Firefly Revisited: Essays on Joss Whedon's Classic Series. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.

___ and Philip Smith, eds. Lightin' Out For the Library: A Firefly/Serenity Special Issue. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 13.2 (42), Summer 2015.

Goodwill, Jo-Anne S. The Action Hero Revisioned: An Analysis of Female 'Masculinity' in the New Female Hero in Recent Filmic Texts. Masters thesis, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, 2009. Available online.

Gorissen, Sebastiaan. "Violence, Strong Language, and Adult Content: Whedon's Return to Television." After the Avengers: From Joss Whedon's Hottest, Newest Franchises to the Future of the Whedonverse. Eds. PopMatters.com with Valerie Estelle Frankel. Chicago: PopMatters Media, Inc., 2015.

Grace, Matthew. "'Doctor Horrible': Lessons from the Musical-Tragi-Comedy-Internet Sensation." PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 27 March 2011. Available Online.

Graeber, David. "Rebel Without a God: Buffy the Vampire Slayer is Gleefully Anti- authoritarian – and Popular." In These Times 23.2 (December 1998): 30+. Available online.

Graham, Brita Marie. Buffy at Play: Tricksters, Deconstruction, and Chaos at Work in the Whedonverse. Masters thesis, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, 2007. Also presented in earlier form as "Buffy at Play: the Deconstructing Trickster at Work in the Whedonverse" at the 27th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 8-11 February 2006. Available online.

___. "'Needing to Know the Plural of Apocalypse': Buffy's Lessons in Creating Meaning." Paper presented at the 28th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 14-17 February 2007. Also published as "'Needing to Know the Plural of Apocalypse': Buffy's Lessons in Dismantling Meaning" in Buffy at Play, 29-47.

Graham, Helen. "Post-Pleasure: Representations, Ideologies and Affects of a Newly-Post 9/11 'Feminist' Icon." Feminist Media Studies 7.1 (March 2007): 1-15.

Graham, Paula. "Buffy Wars: The Next Generation." Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge 4 (2002) Available online.

Granade, S. Andrew. "'So Here's Us, On the Raggedy Edge': Exoticism and Identification in Joss Whedon's Firefly." Popular Music and Society 34:5 (December 2011). 621-637.

___. "Speaking Chinese: Music and the Exotic in Firefly." Firefly Revisited: Essays on Joss Whedon's Classic Series. Eds. Michael Goodrum and Philip Smith. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. 101-120.

Grant, Julia L. "Slaying Shakespeare in High School: Buffy Battles The Merchant of Venice and Othello." Buffy in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching With the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Jodie A. Kreider and Meghan K. Winchell. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 202-212.

Graves, Stephanie. "Inscription and Subversion: The Cabin in the Woods and the Postmodern Horror Tradition." Joss Whedon Vs. the Horror Tradition: The Production of Genre in Buffy and Beyond. Eds. Kristopher Karl Woofter and Lorna Jowett. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2018 [c 2019]. 123-140.

___. "The Transtextual Road Trip: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Supernatural, and Televisual Forebears." Transmediating the Whedonverse(s): Essays on Texts, Paratexts, and Metatexts. Eds. Juliette C. Kitchens and Julie L. Hawk. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 167-200.

Gray, Emily. "Writing 'lesbian, gay-type lovers': Buffy, Postmodern Gothic and Interruptions to the Lesbian Cliché." New Directions in 21st-Century Gothic: The Gothic Compass. Eds. Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Donna L. Brien. New York: Routledge, 2015. 132-145.

Gray, Jonathan. "Coming Soon!: Hype, Intros, and Textual Beginnings." Show Sold Separately: Promos, Spoilers, and Other Media Paratexts. New York: New York University Press, 2010. 76-78.

Greenwood, Steven. "'Life Isn’t a Story:' Xander, Andrew, and Queer Disavowal in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Queering the Whedonverses. Eds. Lorna Jowett and Hélène Frohard-Dourlent. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 15.2 (46), Summer/Fall 2017.

Greco, Nicholas P. "The Companion as a Doll: The Female Enigma in Firefly and Dollhouse." Sexual Rhetoric in the Works of Joss Whedon: New Essays. Ed. Erin B. Waggoner. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 239-247.

Greenberg, Raz. "Alien Resurrection, the Script That Shaped Joss Whedon's Career." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 435-444. Originally appeared in earlier form as "'Alien Resurrection,' the Unproduced Script That Shaped Joss Whedon's Career" in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 6 March 2011. Partially Available Online.

Greene, Doug Enaa. "Sartrean Themes in Joss Whedon's Angel: A Marxist Interpretation." RedWedgeMagazine.com website. 29 October 2014. Available online.

Greene, Eric. "The Good Book." Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe. Ed. Jane Espenson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: BenBella, 2007. 79-93.

Greene, Richard and Wayne Yuen. "Morality on Television: The Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Buffy and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale. Ed. James B. South. Chicago: Open Court, 2003. 271-281.

___. "Why Can't We Spike Spike?: Moral Themes in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 1.2 (2), March 2001.

Greenman, Jennifer. "Witch Love Spells Death." Sacramento News and Review 6 June 2002. Available online.

Greenwald, Sarah J., and Jill E. Thomley. "Mathematically Talented Women in Film and Television: A Summary of the Last Five Years." Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter 38.1 (January-February 2009): 8-11. Also published in earlier form as "Mathematically Talented Women in Hollywood: Fred in Angel" in PRIMUS: Problems, Resources, and Issues in Mathematics Undergraduate Studies 17.1 (2007).

Griffin, Victoria. "Buffy 'Spits Out the Apple': Rejecting False Knowledge and 'Bad Faith'." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 10.1 [15], Spring 2017.

Griffiths, Estelle L. Talk about Television: The Uses of Buffy in Identity Formation and Self-Understanding. BA honors thesis, University of Tasmania, Burnie, Australia, 2000.

Grinnell, Jason D. "Aristotle, Kant, Spike, and Jayne: Ethics and Character in the Whedonverse." The Philosophy of Joss Whedon. Eds. Dean A. Kowalski and S. Evan Kreider. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2011. 88-102.

Grossman, Jacob. "Spike, the Initiative, and the Substitution of the Technological for the Metaphysical." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004. Available online.

Grunzke, Andrew L. "High School Is Hell: Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Feminist Education at the Turn of the Millennium." Education and the Female Superhero Slayers, Cyborgs, Sorority Sisters, and Schoolteachers Education and the Female Superhero Slayers, Cyborgs, Sorority Sisters, and Schoolteachers. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019. Also presented in earlier form as "Schoolteachers, Co-eds, and Warrior Women: Female Empowerment in TV's High Schools from The Secrets of Isis to Buffy the Vampire Slayer" at the 2013 PCA/ACA National Conference, Washington, D.C., 27-30 March 2013.

Grzanka, Patrick R. "Buffy the Black Feminist?: Intersectionality and Pedagogy." Buffy in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching With the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Jodie A. Kreider and Meghan K. Winchell. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 186-201.

Guffey, Ensley. "Joss Whedon Throws His Mighty Shield: Marvel's The Avengers as War Movie." Reading Joss Whedon. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox, Tanya R. Cochran, Cynthea Masson, and David Lavery. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2014. 280-293.

___. "'We Just Declared War': Buffy as General." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 5.1 (6), July 2011. Also presented at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

___. Fantastic Histories: War and American Memory in Selected Works of Joss Whedon. Masters thesis, Eastern Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, 2014.




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Hadas, Leora. "Authorship and Authenticity in the Transmedia Brand: The Case of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA-PGN 7.1 (2014). Available online.

___. "Authorship Assembled: Joss Whedon as Promotional Auteur in Marvel's The Avengers." The Comics of Joss Whedon: Critical Essays. Ed. Valerie Estelle Frankel. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015. 199-208. Also presented as "Authorship Assembled: Joss Whedon's The Avengers and the Discourse of Authorship in the Franchise Adaptation" at MeCCSA Annual Conference 2013, University of Ulster – Magee, Londonderry, UK, 9-11 January 2013.

___. "Authorship in Promotional Suround: The Shakespearean and the Whedonesque." In Media Res website. 30 September 2013. Available online.

Hadyk-Delodder, Gareth and Laura Chilcoat. "'See What's Inside': Understanding the Reavers' Posthuman Identity and Role in Firefly and Serenity." Firefly Revisited: Essays on Joss Whedon's Classic Series. Eds. Michael Goodrum and Philip Smith. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. 37-52.

Hager, Lisa. "Aiming to Misbehave at the Boundary Between the Human and the Machine: The Queer Steampunk Ecology of Joss Whedon's Firefly and Serenity." The Philosophy of Joss Whedon. Eds. Dean A. Kowalski and S. Evan Kreider. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2011. 182-193.

Hahn, Kelsie. "Lady Killer: Death of the Feminized Body in the Whedonverse." Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 10.1 (35), Winter 2013. Also presented at the 33rd Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 8-11 February 2012.

Hale, Kelly. "My European Vacation: A Love Letter/Confession." Whedonistas!: A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon by the Women Who Love Them. Eds. Lynne M. Thomas and Deborah Stanish. Des Moines, IA: Mad Norwegian Press, 2011. 93-99.

Halfyard, Janet K. [Steve]. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Sounds of Fear and Wonder: Music in Cult TV. London: I.B. Tauris, 2016.

___. "The Dark Avenger: Angel and the Cinematic Superhero." Reading Angel: the TV Spin-off With a Soul. Ed. Stacey Abbott. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2005. 149-162.

___. "The Greatest Love of All: Cordelia's Journey of Self-Discovery." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004. Available online.

___. "Hero's Journey, Heroine's Return: Buffy, Eurydice and the Orpheus Myth." Reading Joss Whedon. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox, Tanya R. Cochran, Cynthea Masson, and David Lavery. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2014. 40-52. Also presented at SC3: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008.

___. "Listening to Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Sounds of Fear and Wonder: Music in Cult TV. London: I. B. Tauris, 2016. 73–92.

___. "Love, Death, Curses, and Reverses (in E minor): Music, Gender and Identity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel." Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Paul Attinello, Janet K. [Steve] Halfyard, and Vanessa Knights. Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2010. 15-31. Also puublished in earlier form as "Love, Death, Curses and Reverses (in F minor): Music, Gender, and Identity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel" in Slayage: the Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 1.4 (4), December 2001.

___. "Singing Their Hearts Out: The Problem of Performance in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel." Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing: Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon. Ed. Kendra Preston Leonard. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2011. 155-171. Also published in earlier form in Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 5.1 (17), June 2005. Also presented as "Singing Their Hearts Out: Performance, Sincerity and Musical Diegesis in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel" at Blood, Text and Fears: Reading Around Buffy the Vampire Slayer, University of East Anglia, 19-20 October 2002.

___. "What You Don't Know Won't Hurt You?: Constructive Omissions in the Title Music." Re-Entering the Dollhouse: Essays on the Joss Whedon Series. Eds. Heather M. Porter and Michael Starr. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2022. 143-158.

___, Linda Jenscon, James Rocha, Alia R. Tyner-Mullings, and Ananya Mukherjea. "Where Do We Go From Here? A Roundtable Discussion of Buffy+ Studies and Whether, How, or Why to Forge a Path Forward." Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+ 19.1-2 [53-54], Summer/Fall 2021: 266-305.

Hall, Jasmine. "Im/Material Girl: Abjection, Penetration, and the Postmodern Body on Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004. Available online.

Hallab, Mary Y. "Alternative Lives: Buffy and Angel." Vampire God: The Allure of the Undead in Western Culture. Albany, NY: SUNY [State University of New York] Press, 2009. 122-128.

Hamilton, Jennifer. "Pylean Idol: L.A.'s De(con)struction of a Postmodern Bard." The Literary Angel: Essays on Influences and Traditions Reflected in the Joss Whedon Series. Eds. AmiJo Comeford and Tamy L. Burnett. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 41-53.

Hammond, Mary. "Monsters and Metaphors: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Old World." Cult Television. Eds. Sara Gwenllian-Jones and Roberta E. Pearson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004.

Hampton, Howard. "American Daemons: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Studies in Classic American Literature." In Born in Flames: Termite Dreams, Dialectical Fairy Tales, and Pop Apocalypses. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. 372-377.

___. "American Demons: Buffy Amok in D. H. Lawrence's World." Village Voice Literary Supplement 20 May 2003. Available online.

___. "Wrecked in El Dorado: Angel." In Born in Flames: Termite Dreams, Dialectical Fairy Tales, and Pop Apocalypses. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. 378-386.

Hanks, Robert. "Deconstructing Buffy." The Independent online edition. 1 July 2002. Available online.

Harbin, Leigh. "'You Know You Wanna Dance': Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Contemporary Gothic Heroine." Studies in the Humanities 32.1 (June 2005): 22-37.

Hark, Ina Rae. "The Miranda Job: Serenity as Crime Film." Joss Whedon's Big Damn Movie: Essays on Serenity. Ed. Frederick Blichert. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018. 80-92.

Harmath, Emilia. Familjemaskinen: En schizoanalytisk studie om vänskap i Buffy the Vampire Slayer. BA honors thesis, Halmstad University, Halmstad, Sweden, 2010. In Swedish. Available online.

Harney, Eileen M. "Struggling for Dominance: Artemis Confronts Other Olympian Goddesses in the Works of Joss Whedon." The Artemis Archetype in Popular Culture: Essays on Fiction, Film and Television. Eds. Susan Redington, Bobby Harney, and Eileen M. Harney. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2016. 170-200.

Harper, Steven. "Dark Fears: Madness in Gothic and Supernatural Drama." Madness, Power and the Media Class, Gender and Race in Popular Representations of Mental Distress. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 115-116.

___. "Jasmine: Scariest Villain Ever." Five Seasons of Angel: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Vampire. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2004. 49-55.

Harre, Cynthia. "Demons in the Internet: Buffy and the Timelessness of Abuse." The Mary Sue website. 19 August 2016. Available online.

Harris, Charlaine. "A Reflection on Ugliness." Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Television Show. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2003. 116-120.

Harris, Howard. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the Business Ethics Classroom." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 7.3 (27), Winter 2009. Also presented in earlier form as "Using Buffy in the Teaching of Business Ethics" at Staking a Claim: Exploring the Global Reach of Buffy, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, 22 July 2003.

Harris, Nathan P. Watch Buffy Much? Definitions of Cult Television in Relation to Character Identification. BA honors thesis, Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, 2002.

Harrison, Janine R. "Gender Politics in Angel: Traditional vs. Non-Traditional Corporate Climates." Reading Angel: the TV Spin-off With a Soul. Ed. Stacey Abbott. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2005. 117-131.

Hart, Maryelizabeth. "Slaying the Big Lies: Love Conquers All and Other Monstrous Myths." Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Vol. 3. Ed. Paul Ruditis. New York: Simon, 2004. 265-270.

Hart, Taryn. "Prestige Television, Joss Whedon and the End of History." Plutocracty Files website. 26 November 2011. Available online.

Harts, Kate. "Deconstructing Buffy: Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Contribution to the Discourse on Gender Construction." Popular Culture Review 12:1 (2001): 79-98.

Hasa, Zaki. "The Avengers: The Rise of Superhero Movies and the End of Superhero Comics." In Media Res website. 10 May 2012. Available online.

Haskins, Rob. "Variations on Themes for Geeks and Heroes: Leitmotif, Style, and the Musico-dramatic Moment." Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Paul Attinello, Janet K. [Steve] Halfyard, and Vanessa Knights. Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2010. 45-60.

Haslem, Wendy. "'Every Home Should Have One of You': The Serial Killer Disguised as the Perfect Husband." Special Issue on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Angela Ndalianis and Felicity Colman. Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media 2 (2003). Also presented at The Buffyverse: A Symposium on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 21 November 2002. Available online.

Hastie, Amelie. "The Epistemological Stakes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Television Criticism and Marketing Demands." Undead TV: Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Elana Levine and Lisa Parks. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. 74-95.

Hatlapa, Ruth. "Jeden Tag eien gute Tat: Moral statt Emanzipation in Angel." Horror als Alltag: Texte zu Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ed. Annika Beckmann, et al. Berlin: Vebrecher, 2010. 219-244. In German.

Hause, Jeffrey, and Krysta Larsen. "The Slayer and the Slayerettes: Buffy and the Cluster Theory of Vocation." The Journal of Popular Culture 53.5 (2020): 1023–1045.

Hautsch, Jessica. "Journey into Heart of Darkness: Intertextuality, Redemption, and Rewriting (Neo)colonial Discourses in Angel & Faith's Lost and Found." After the Avengers: From Joss Whedon's Hottest, Newest Franchises to the Future of the Whedonverse. Eds. PopMatters.com with Valerie Estelle Frankel. Chicago: PopMatters Media, Inc., 2015.

___. "'One of your little pop culture references': Argument, Intertextuality, and Literary Affordance in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Fanfiction." Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 16.1 (47), Winter/Spring 2018.

___. "Staking Her Colonial Claim: Colonial Discourses, Assimilation, Soul-making, and Ass-kicking in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 9.1 (33), Spring 2011.

___. "Terraforming the Earth-That-Was: Planetary Engineering, Utopia, and the Anthropocene in Joss Whedon's Firefly and Serenity." Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 18.2 [52], Summer/Fall 2020: 85-120.

___. "'What the Geisha has gotten into you?': Colorblindness, Orientalist Stereotypes, and the Problem of Global Feminism in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight." Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 12.2-13.1 (40-41), Winter 2014/Spring 2015. Also presented as "'What the Geisha has gotten into you?': Resistance, Representation, and Rearticulation of Orientalist Stereotypes and Transnational Feminism in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight" at the 2014 Midwest PCA/ACA Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN, 3-5 October 2014.

___, Jay Bamber, and Bethan Jones. "EuroSlayage 2016 Report." Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 14.2 (44), Summer 2016.

___, Masani McGee, and Samira Nadkarni. "Much Ado About Whedon: Report on the 6th Biennial Slayage Conference." Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 12.2-13.1 (40-41), Winter 2014/Spring 2015.

Havelka, Emily Suzanne. 'The painful noun-ing process': The Arduous Journey of Masculinity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. BA honors thesis, Alma College, Alma, MI, 2012.

Havens, Candace. "To All the Girls He Loved, Maimed and Banged Before." Five Seasons of Angel: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Vampire. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2004. 125-132.

___. Joss Whedon: The Genius Behind Buffy. Dallas: BenBella, 2003.

Hawk, Julie L. "Hacking the Read-Only File: Collaborative Narrative as Ontological Construction in Dollhouse." Fantasy Is Not Their Purpose: Joss Whedon's Dollhouse. Eds. Cynthea Masson and Rhonda V. Wilcox. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 8.2-3 (30-31), Summer/Fall 2010.

___. "More Than the Sum of Our Imprints." Inside Joss' Dollhouse: from Alpha to Rossum. Ed. Jane Espenson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: Smart Pop [BenBella], 2010. 247-257.

___. "Scythe Matters: Performing Object Oriented Ontology on Domestic Space in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." At Home in the Whedonverse: Essays on Domestic Place, Space and Life. Ed. Juliette C. Kitchens. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. 104-121.

___. Storied Subjects: Posthuman Subjectivization Through Narrative in Post-1960 American Print and Televisual Narrative. Ph.D. dissertation, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, 2012. Available online.

___ and Juliette C. Kitchens. "A Brief Note on Looking Forward." Transmediating the Whedonverse(s): Essays on Texts, Paratexts, and Metatexts. Eds. Juliette C. Kitchens and Julie L. Hawk. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 201-206.

Hawkes, Joel. "A Dodgy English Accent: The Rituals of a Contested Space of Englishness in 'Helpless'." Joss Whedon and Race: Critical Essays. Eds. Mary Ellen Iatropoulos and Lowery A. Woodall III. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. 72-90.

___. "Joss Whedon's Hamlet: The Problems of Ophelia and Representation." After the Avengers: From Joss Whedon's Hottest, Newest Franchises to the Future of the Whedonverse. Eds. PopMatters.com with Valerie Estelle Frankel. Chicago: PopMatters Media, Inc., 2015.

___. "The Origin of a Superhero: Sacrifice, Choice and the Significance of Merrick in Buffy's Journey." The Comics of Joss Whedon: Critical Essays. Ed. Valerie Estelle Frankel. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015. 9-18.

___. "'She's a creature of extraordinary grace': Resistance Through Dance to the Myth of 'Civilized Cultures'." Joss Whedon's Big Damn Movie: Essays on Serenity. Ed. Frederick Blichert. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018. 143-156.

___. "The Theatre of the Self: Repetitious and Reflective Practices of Person and Place." Eds. Sherry Ginn, Alyson R. Buckman, and Heather M. Porter. Joss Whedon's Dollhouse: Confounding Purpose, Confusing Identity. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 141-162.

Hawkins, Paul. "Season Six and the Supreme Ordeal." Buffy Goes Dark: Essays on the Final Two Seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Television. Eds. Lynne Y. Edwards, Elizabeth L. Rambo and James B. South. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 183-197.

Hay, Genevieve. Vampires and Identity Violence from The Vampyre to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. BA honors thesis, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2013.

Hayes, K. [Karen] Stoddard. "Where Have All the Good Guys Gone?" Five Seasons of Angel: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Vampire. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2004. 139-144.

Haynes, Natalie. "Girls, Guns, Gags: Why the Future Belongs to the Funny." Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe. Ed. Jane Espenson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: BenBella, 2007. 27-36.

Hays, Sara. "Tight Pants and Pretty Floral Bonnets: Outfitting the Outlaws of the 'Verse." Joss in June: Selected Essays. Eds. K. Dale Koontz [Guffey] and Ensley Guffey. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 11.2/12.1 (38-39), Summer 2014. Also presented at Joss in June: A Conference on the Works of Joss Whedon, Cleveland Community College, Shelby, NC, 29 June 2013.

Headley, Cynthia. "Slaying the Deficit in Disability: Exploring Buffy and Firefly/Serenity." Blood, Body and Soul: Essays on Health, Wellness and Disability in Buffy, Angel, Firefly and Dollhouse. Eds. Tamy Burnett and AmiJo Comeford. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2022. 28-41. Also presented at the 27th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 8-11 February 2006.

Heba, Gary with Robin Murphy. "Heroes and Villains: Morality, the Will to Power, and the Overman in the Work of Joss Whedon." The Philosophy of Joss Whedon. Eds. Dean A. Kowalski and S. Evan Kreider. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2011. 133-47.

Hedlund, Sam. "The Avengers Confront America's Midlife Crisis: War, Whedon, and Western Values in the Post-9/11 World." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 448-463.

Heggen, Amanda H. The Role of Disability in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Masters thesis, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 2014. Available online.

Heinecken, Dawn M. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Body in Relation." The Warrior Women of Television: A Feminist Cultural Analysis of the New Female Body in Popular Media. New York: Peter Lang, 2003. Also appeared in earlier form in The Women Warriors of Television: A Feminist Cultural Analysis of the New Female Body in Popular Media, Ph.D. dissertation, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, 1999.

___. "Fan Readings of Sex and Violence on BtVS." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 3.3-4 (11-12), April 2004. Also presented at Blood, Text and Fears: Reading Around Buffy the Vampire Slayer, University of East Anglia, 19-20 October 2002.

___. "'I Wasn't Planning on Hurting You – Much': Sadomasochism, Melodrama and Buffy the Vampire Slayer Fan Fiction." Spectator 25.1 (Spring 2005): 48-60.

Held, Jacob. "Justifying the Means: Punishment in the Buffyverse." Buffy and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale. Ed. James B. South. Chicago: Open Court, 2003. 227-238.

___. "The Stuff We're Made Of." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004. Available online.

Helford, Elyce Rae. "'My Emotions Give Me Power': The Containment of Girls' Anger in Buffy." Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and David Lavery. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. 18-34.

Helfrich, Ronald. "'Note to Self, Religion Freaky': When Buffy Met Biblical Studies." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 37-48. Also presented at Get to the Point: Issues at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, SUNY College at Oneonta, November 2009. Also appeared in earlier form in in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 6 March 2011, Partially Available Online.

Heller, Lambert. "Von Buffy, der Vampirjägerin, lernen -- Oder: Eine Community-Strategie (nicht nur) für One Person Libraries." Paper presented at 97. Deutsches Bibliothekartag, Mannheim, 3-6 June 2008. In German. Available online

Helms, Bari L. Reel Librarians: The Stereotype and Technology. Masters thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 2006. Available online.

Hemmingson, Margaret L. Sex, Family, and the Home: Portrayals of Gender in the Domestic Sphere in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Supernatural. BA honors thesis, Elon University, Elon, NC, 2011. Available online.

Hemstrom, Cassie. "What's at Stake? The Use of Simulacra to (Re)Construct Identity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Buffy Conquers the Academy: Conference Papers from the 2009/2010 Popular Culture/American Culture Associations. Eds. U. Melissa Anyiwo and Karoline Szatek-Tudor. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. 48-59. Also presented in earlier form as "What's at Stake: Creating a Simulacrum in Buffy the Vampire Slayer" at the 2009 PCA/ACA National Conference, New Orleans, LA, 8-11 April 2009.

Hendershot, Heather. "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: From Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Dr. 90210." Camera Obscura 21.1/61 (January 2006): 46-51.

Hendershott-Kraetzer, Kirk. "It's Joss Whedon's World and We're All Just Livin' in It: The 'Closed Frame' of the Whedonverse." At Home in the Whedonverse: Essays on Domestic Place, Space and Life. Ed. Juliette C. Kitchens. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. 27-47.

Herland, Karen. "Horror and the Last Frontier: Monstrous Borders and Bodies in Firefly and Westworld." Joss Whedon Vs. the Horror Tradition: The Production of Genre in Buffy and Beyond. Eds. Kristopher Karl Woofter and Lorna Jowett. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2018 [c 2019]. 261-280.

Herman, Caroline. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Dichotomy of Self: A Study in the Shadow Selves of Buffy and Spike." Watcher Junior: The Journal of Undergraduate Research in Buffy Studies 1.1 (1), July 2005.

Herrmann, Andrew F. "'C-can we rest now?': Foucault and the Multiple Discursive Subjectivities of Spike." Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 10.1 (35), Winter 2013.

___. "'On... on peut se reposer maintenant?': Foucault et les multiples subjectivités discursives de Spike." French translation by Malaurie Prévost. Slayage: The International Journal of  Buffy+  21.1 [57], Winter/Spring 2023.

___. Organizational Communication Approaches to the Works of Joss Whedon. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019.

___. "The Scoobies, the Council, the Whirlwind, the Initiative: Portrayals of Organizing in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the Central States Communication Association Convention, Kansas City, MO, 2-7 April 2013. Available online.

___ and Art Herbig. "'All too human': Xander Harris and the embodiment of the fully human." The Popular Culture Studies Journal 3.1-2 (2015): 85-112.

Hertz, Todd. "Don't Let Your Kids Watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer: But You Can Tape It and Watch After They Go to Bed." Christianity Today, 18 September 2002. Available online.

Heyerdahl, Leena Katharine. 'We haven't been properly introduced' : fan representation in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, Universität Wien [University of Vienna], Vienna, Austria, 2012.

Hibbs, Thomas. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Feminist Noir." Buffy and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale. Ed. James B. South. Chicago: Open Court, 2003. 49-60.

Hicks, Kenneth S. "Lord Acton Is Alive and Well in Sunnydale: Politics and Power in Buffy." The Truth of Buffy: Essays on Fiction Illuminating Reality. Eds. Emily Dial-Driver, Sally Emmons-Featherston, Jim Ford and Carolyn Anne Taylor. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 67-82.

___ and Carolyn Anne Taylor. "'I'm Cookie Dough': Exploring Buffy Iconography." The Truth of Buffy: Essays on Fiction Illuminating Reality. Eds. Emily Dial-Driver, Sally Emmons-Featherston, Jim Ford and Carolyn Anne Taylor. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 185-200.

Hill, Annette and Ian Calcutt. "Vampire Hunters: The Scheduling and Reception of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel in the United Kingdom." Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media 1 (2001). Also published in revised form in Undead TV: Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Elana Levine and Lisa Parks. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. 56-73. Available online.

Hill, Kathryn. "Buffy's Voice: Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Popular Music Soundtrack and Contemporary Feminism." Feminist Media Studies iFirst, 3 February 2012. Also presented in earlier form as "Buffy's Voice: the Power of Popular Music as Feminine/Feminist Narrative" at Staking a Claim: Exploring the Global Reach of Buffy, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, 22 July 2003.

___. "'Easy to Associate Angsty Lyrics with Buffy': An Introduction to a Participatory Fan Culture: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Vidders, Popular Music and the Internet." Buffy and Angel Conquer the Internet: Essays on Online Fandom. Ed. Mary Kirby-Diaz. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 172-196.

___. "Music, Subtexts and Foreshadowings: Contextual Roles of Popular Music in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 1997-2003." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004. Available online.

___. "Punks, Geeks and Goths: Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a Study of Popular Music Demographics on American Commercial Television." Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Paul Attinello, Janet K. [Steve] Halfyard, and Vanessa Knights. Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2010. 165-186.

___. "S/He's a Rebel: The James Dean Trope in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 27.1 (February 2013): 124-140.

Hill, Matthew B. "'I am a Leaf on the Wind': Cultural Trauma and Mobility in Joss Whedon's Firefly." Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy 50.3 (Fall 2009): 484-511.

Hillerup, Colleen. "Buffy Love, Lust and Trust: A Relationship Analysis." Tabula Rasa website. Available online.

Hills, Matt and Rebecca Williams. "Angel's Monstrous Mothers and Vampires with Souls: Investigating the Abject in 'Television Horror'." Reading Angel: the TV Spin-off With a Soul. Ed. Stacey Abbott. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2005. 203-217.

___. "'It's All My Interpretation': Reading Spike Through the Subcultural Celebrity of James Marsters." The Vampire Spike in Text and Fandom: Unsettling Oppositions in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Dee Amy-Chinn and Milly Williamson. Special Issue of European Journal of Cultural Studies 8.3, August 2005. 345-365.

Hindle, Michael. "'Jimmy Olsen jokes are pretty much gonna be lost on you': The Importance of Xander in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 6.2 (8), September 2012.

Hinojosa, Manuel M. Teaching Outré Literature Rhetorically in First-Year Composition. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 2005. Available online.

Hirji, Faiza. "Embodied Power: The Physicality and Strength of Buffy the Vampire Slayer." The Image of Power in Literature, Media, and Society: Selected Papers, 2006 Conference, Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery. Eds. Will Wright and Steven Kaplan. Pueblo, CO: Colorado State University, 2006. 25-32. Also presented at the 2006 Conference of the Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, March 2006, Colorado Springs, CO.

Hirmer, Karin. "Female Empowerment: Buffy and Her Heiresses in Control." Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the Atavistic. Eds. Barbara Brodman and James E. Doan. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013. 71-84.

Hiromi, Luciana and Yamada da Silveira. "How Cancellation Told the Story of the Dollhouse." Inside Joss' Dollhouse: from Alpha to Rossum. Ed. Jane Espenson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: Smart Pop [BenBella], 2010. 147-159.

Hixson-Vulpe, Jack. "Lesbian Passage: The Representation of the Lesbian from Pulp to Buffy." Subversions: The Journal of Gender and Sexuality 3 (Spring 2007): 23-25. Available online.

Hobma, H.S. "Death in the 'Verse." Joss Whedon's Big Damn Movie: Essays on Serenity. Ed. Frederick Blichert. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018. 36-52.

Hobson, Amanda. "Foreword: Why Does Buffy Matter?" Buffy Conquers the Academy: Conference Papers from the 2009/2010 Popular Culture/American Culture Associations. Eds. U. Melissa Anyiwo and Karoline Szatek-Tudor. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. ix-xii.

Hodge, Amber P. "​A Corpse by Any Other Name: Romancing the Language of the Body in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein for the Adam Storyline in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 18.2 [52], Summer/Fall 2020: 121-146.

Hodges, Amanda L. and Laurel P. Richmond. "Taking a bite out of 'Buffy': Carnivalesque play and resistance in fan fiction." Transformative Works and Cultures 7 (2011). Available online.

Hodges, Susanne Bodil. Tv'ets Heltefortælling: En undersøgelse af heltefiguren og det fantastiske i Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Smallville og Charmed. Masters thesis, Københavns Universitet [University of Copenhagen], Copenhagen, Denmark, 2006. In Danish.

Hoffmann, Christine. "Happiness is a Warm Scythe: the Evolution of Villainy and Weaponry in the Buffyverse." Slayage: the Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 7.3 (27), Winter 2009.

Hofman-Howley, Ingrid. "Romancing the Vampire: The Lives and Loves of Two Vampire Slayers - Anita and Buffy." Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media 8 (2005). Also presented as "Supernatural Superheroes: War and Love in the Lives of Two Vampire Slayers - Anita and Buffy" at Holy Men in Tights: A Superheroes Conference, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, June 2005. Available online.

Hohenstein, Svenja. "Establishing the Feminist Quest Heroine in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." In Svenja Hohenstein. Girl Warriors: Feminist Revisions of the Hero's Quest in Contemporary Popular Culture. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2019. 19-50.

Holba, Annette M. "Occultic Rhetoric in the Buffyverse: Apocalypse Revisited." Media and the Apocalypse. Eds. Kylo-Patrick R. Hart and Annette M. Holba. New York: Peter Lang, 2009. 77-96.

Holder, Nancy. Buffy: The Making of a Slayer. London: Titan Books, 2012.

___. "Death Becomes Him: Blondie Bear 5.0." Five Seasons of Angel: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Vampire. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2004. 153-166.

___. "I Want Your Sex: Gender and Power in Joss Whedon's Dystopian Future World." Finding Serenity: Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly. Eds. Jane Espenson with Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2005. 139-153.

___. "Learning on the Job." Tied In: The Business, History and Craft of Media Tie-In Writing. Ed. Lee Goldberg. New York: International Association of Media Tie-In Writers, 2010. 173-182.

___. "Ramping Up for a Decade with Joss Whedon." Whedonistas!: A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon by the Women Who Love Them. Eds. Lynne M. Thomas and Deborah Stanish. Des Moines, IA: Mad Norwegian Press, 2011. 19-24.

___. "Slayers of the Last Arc." Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Television Show. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2003. 195-205.

___. "Writing Tie-Ins." The Cult TV Book. Ed. Stacey Abbott. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2010. 191-197.

___, Jeff Mariotte, and Maryelizabeth Hart. "The Bands of Buffy." In Nancy Holder, Jeff Mariotte, and Maryelizabeth Hart. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Vol. 2. New York: Simon, 2000. 453-466.

___, Jeff Mariotte, and Maryelizabeth Hart. "Buffyverse." In Nancy Holder, Jeff Mariotte, and Maryelizabeth Hart. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Vol. 2. New York: Simon, 2000. 1-42.

___, Jeff Mariotte, and Maryelizabeth Hart. "Cast Profiles." In Nancy Holder, Jeff Mariotte, and Maryelizabeth Hart. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Vol. 2. New York: Simon, 2000. 255-318.

___, Jeff Mariotte, and Maryelizabeth Hart. "The Character Guide." In Nancy Holder, Jeff Mariotte, and Maryelizabeth Hart. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Vol. 2. New York: Simon, 2000. 43-110.

___, Jeff Mariotte, and Maryelizabeth Hart. "Creating Buffy: The Production Process." In Nancy Holder, Jeff Mariotte, and Maryelizabeth Hart. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Vol. 2. New York: Simon, 2000. 319-452.

___, Jeff Mariotte, and Maryelizabeth Hart. "The Pain." In Nancy Holder, Jeff Mariotte, and Maryelizabeth Hart. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Vol. 2. New York: Simon, 2000. 111-137.

Holliday, Frederick A. The Long View: Three Levels of Narration in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 2005.

Hollis, Erin. "Gorgonzola Sandwiches and Yellow Crayons: James Joyce, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the Aesthetic of Minutiae." Buffy and Aesthetics. Ed. Matthew Pateman. Special Issue of Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 6.2 (22), Winter 2006.

___. "'It's the Perfect Story, So They Say': Viewer Participation and the Works of Joss Whedon." Previously on: estudios interdisciplinarios sobre la ficción televisiva en la Tercera Edad de Oro de la Televisión. Ed. Miguel Angel Pérez Gómez. Seville, Spain: Biblioteca de la Facultad de Comunicación de la Universidad de Sevilla, 2011. 291-305. Also presented in earlier form as "'It's the Perfect Story, So They Say': Heroes, Villains, Ethics, and the Media in Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" at the 30th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 25-28 February 2009. Available online.

___. "Regarding Torture in Buffy the Vampire Slayer's 'Hush.'" Blood, Body and Soul: Essays on Health, Wellness and Disability in Buffy, Angel, Firefly and Dollhouse. Eds. Tamy Burnett and AmiJo Comeford. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2022. 144-157.

___. "Revisiting the Gothic: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel as Contemporary Gothic." Critical Insights: Good & Evil. Ed. Margaret Sönser Breen. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2012. 238-252.

___. "'So, Joss, why do you always write these strong women characters?': Using Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men to Teach Feminism." Graphic Novels and Comics in the Classroom: Essays on the Educational Power of Sequential Art. Eds. Carrye Kay Syma and Robert G. Weiner. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013. 251-259.

Holwerda, Jane. "Quo Vadis, Slayer." Ruminate Magazine 39 (2016): 18–26.

Hook, Misty K. "Dealing with the F-Word: Joss Whedon and Radical Feminism." The Psychology of Joss Whedon: An Unauthorized Exploration of Buffy, Angel, and Firefly. Ed. Joy Davidson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: BenBella, 2007. 119-129.

Horn, Birte W. "'We're your arch-nemesises … ses' - Buffy and 'The Trio': The Americanization of a Mythological Motif." Buffy Conquers the Academy: Conference Papers from the 2009/2010 Popular Culture/American Culture Associations. Eds. U. Melissa Anyiwo and Karoline Szatek-Tudor. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. 89-104. Also presented in earlier form as "'We're your arch-nemesises...ses': The Americanization of Myth in Buffy the Vampire Slayer" at the 2009 PCA/ACA National Conference, New Orleans, LA, 8-11 April 2009.

Hornick, Alysa. "Mapping the Whedonverses: Whedon Studies 1999 and Beyond." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: the TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Eds. PopMatters.com with Mary Alice Money. 1st edition. London: Titan Books, 2012. 457-464.

___. "The Verses Go On: 15 Years of Whedon Studies." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 483-491.

___. Whedonology: An Academic Whedon Studies Bibliography. Website. [Since 2005.] Available online.

___ with Kristopher Karl Woofter. "[Appendix I:] The Work of Joss Whedon and the Horror Tradition: A Selected Bibliography." Joss Whedon Vs. the Horror Tradition: The Production of Genre in Buffy and Beyond. Eds. Kristopher Karl Woofter and Lorna Jowett. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2018 [c 2019]. 298-307.

Horrocks, Adrian. "The First Horror Soap: The Innovative Genre Mix of Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Necronomicon: The Journal of Erotic and Horror Cinema 5 (2007): 7-20.

Horton, Gemma. Willow as Hybrid: The Transitions of Her Character through Stereotypes associated to Women in Sci-Fi. BA honors thesis, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK, 2006. Available online.

Hoskin, Dave. "Pecking the Flesh of a Dead Man: Joss Whedon at the Melbourne Writers Festival." Screen Education 60 (Summer 2011). 42-45.

Hosogi, Michelle. "Tequila is My Lady: Is The Cabin in the Woods Nihilistically Half Full?" Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 8.1 [11], Spring 2015.

Hoven, Bettina van. "Geografie & Cinema: Buffy Voer voor Cultureel Geografen." Geografie 12.1 (January 2003): 42-43. In Dutch.

Howard, Adam. "Death is Your Gift: In Praise of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Fifth Season." The Blank Projector website, 3 August 2012. Available online.

Howard, K. Shannon. "Charles Gunn, Wolfram & Hart, and Baudrillard's Theory of the Simulacrum." The Literary Angel: Essays on Influences and Traditions Reflected in the Joss Whedon Series. Eds. AmiJo Comeford and Tamy L. Burnett. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 147-158.

Howe, Andrew. "Failed Experiment: Miranda and the Critique of Social Engineering." Joss Whedon's Big Damn Movie: Essays on Serenity. Ed. Frederick Blichert. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018. 117-131.

___. "Lighting Out for the Black: Firefly and the Suspicion of Governance Structures." Firefly Revisited: Essays on Joss Whedon's Classic Series. Eds. Michael Goodrum and Philip Smith. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. 139-154.

Howell, Amanda. "'If we hear any inspirational power chords?': Rock Music, Rock Culture on Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 18.3 (2004): 406-422.

___. "More than Just a Rock'n'Roll Reversal: Tracking Gender on Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing: Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon. Ed. Kendra Preston Leonard. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2011. 99-117.

Hoyt, Heather. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: A Hero's Journey. Masters thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA, 2007.

Hudson, Jennifer A. "'She's Unpredictable': Illyria and the Liberating Potential of Chaotic Postmodern Identity." Magazine Americana: The American Popular Culture Magazine March 2005. Also presented at the 27th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 8-11 February 2006. Available online.

Huehner, Mariah. "Imperfectly Perfect: Why I Really Love Buffy for Being a Pill Sometimes." Whedonistas!: A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon by the Women Who Love Them. Eds. Lynne M. Thomas and Deborah Stanish. Des Moines, IA: Mad Norwegian Press, 2011. 86-92.

Huff, Tanya. "'Thanks for the Reenactment, Sir': Zoe: Updating the Woman Warrior." Finding Serenity: Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly. Eds. Jane Espenson with Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2005. 105-112.

Hughes, Bill. "'Through a glass darkly': Reflection, Representation, and Mortality in 'Eternity.'"'Let's Go to Work': The Legacy of Angel. Eds. Stacey Abbott and Simon Brown. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 17.2 (50), Summer / Fall 2019: 77-95. Also presented by Hughes and Samantha George as "'Through a glass darkly': Reflection, Representation, and Mortality in Angel" at TV Fangdom: A Conference on Television Vampires, University of Northampton, Northampton, UK, 7-8 June 2013.

Hulst, V. van. Buffy, the Story Teller: A Study into the Way in which the Popular Television Series Buffy, the Vampire Slayer Provides Usable Stories for its Viewers. Ph.D. dissertation, Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2007. Available online.

Hundertmark, Svea. "The Never-Ending Happily-Ever-After: Serial Fairy Tales in Once Upon a Time." Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+ 19.1-2 [53-54], Summer/Fall 2021: 227-265.

Hung, Eric. "The Meaning of 'World Music' in Firefly." Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing: Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon. Ed. Kendra Preston Leonard. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2011. 255-273.

Hunter, Aaron. "Performance as Authorship: Sarah Michelle Gellar and Buffy Season 6." Journal of Film and Video 68.3/4 (2016): 51–68.

Hurd, Matthew. "Six Reasons Why Joss Whedon Is the Perfect Director for The Avengers." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: the TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Eds. PopMatters.com with Mary Alice Money. 1st edition. London: Titan Books, 2012. 447-454. Originally appeared in earlier form in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 13 April 2011. Partially Available Online.

Huston, Shaun. "Black Widow and the Burden of Being the Female Avenger." PopMatters.com, 20 May 2015. Available online.

Huttunen, Kukka Marjut. "Buffy haastaa vampyyrit ja miehisen vallan." Peili: Audiovisual Culture of Children & Teachers 26.2 (February 2003): 14-15. In Finnish.




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Iatropoulos, Mary Ellen. "Defining the Whedonverse Disability Narrative Ethic: Examining Impairment Arcs in Dollhouse, Angel, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Blood, Body and Soul: Essays on Health, Wellness and Disability in Buffy, Angel, Firefly and Dollhouse. Eds. Tamy Burnett and AmiJo Comeford. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2022. 11-27. Also presented in earlier form as "Defining Joss Whedon's Disability Narrative Ethic: The Impairment Arcs of Lindsey McDonald, Bennett Halverson, and Xander Harris" at SCW5: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 12-15 July 2012.

___. "Foreword." In Lewis Call. Sexualities in the Works of Joss Whedon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2020. 1-3.

___. "'Look Where Free Will Has Gotten You': Brave New World and Angel's Body Jasmine." Paper presented at the 31st Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 10-13 February 2010. Available online.

___. "'Now that we have a black president': White Feminism, Post-Raciality, and the Curious Case of Boyd Langton." Re-Entering the Dollhouse: Essays on the Joss Whedon Series. Eds. Heather M. Porter and Michael Starr. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2022. 13-16.

___. "Of Whedonverse Canon and 'Someone Else's Sandbox': Marvel, Much Ado, and the Great Auteur Debate." After the Avengers: From Joss Whedon's Hottest, Newest Franchises to the Future of the Whedonverse. Eds. PopMatters.com with Valerie Estelle Frankel. Chicago: PopMatters Media, Inc., 2015.

___. "(Re)Negotiating the Dystopian Dilemma: Huxley, Orwell and Angel." The Literary Angel: Essays on Influences and Traditions Reflected in the Joss Whedon Series. Eds. AmiJo Comeford and Tamy L. Burnett. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 115-129. Also presented as "Orwell and Angel: (Re)Negotiating the Dystopian Dilemma" at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

___ and Lowery A. Woodall III. "Introduction: The Individual, the Institutional and the Unintentional: Exploring the Whedonverses Through Critical Race Theory." Joss Whedon and Race: Critical Essays. Eds. Mary Ellen Iatropoulos and Lowery A. Woodall III. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. 10-33.

___ and Lowery A. Woodall III, eds. Joss Whedon and Race: Critical Essays. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017.

Innocenti, Veronica. "La 'serializzazione' della serie." Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Legittimare la Cacciatrice. Ed. Barbara Maio. Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 2007. 33-44. In Italian. Also presented in English translation (as "Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Serialization of the Series") 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.

Interrante, Scott."'I'm Every Bit the S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent That You Are': Exploring Opposing Masculinities." After the Avengers: From Joss Whedon's Hottest, Newest Franchises to the Future of the Whedonverse. Eds. PopMatters.com with Valerie Estelle Frankel. Chicago: PopMatters Media, Inc., 2015. Partially available online.

Introvigne, Massimo. "Brainwashing the Working Class: Vampire Comics and Criticism from Dr. Occult to Buffy." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 2.3 (7), December 2002. Also presented at Blood, Text and Fears: Reading Around Buffy the Vampire Slayer, University of East Anglia, 19-20 October 2002.

___. "God, New Religious Movements and Buffy the Vampire Slayer." CESNUR: Center for Studies on New Religions website. March 2001. Also presented as "'There Will Be No Thomas Aquinas at This Table': Notions of God in the New Religious Consciousness" at Expanding Concepts of God symposium, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 7-9 April 2000. Available online.

___. "Strange Wars: Evangelical Counter-Cultists vs Buffy the Vampire Slayer." CESNUR: Center for Studies on New Religions website. 30 October 1999. Available online.

Isaksson, Malin. "Buffy: héros postféministe." Le héros était une femme...: Le genre de l'aventure. Eds. Loïse Bilat and Gianni Haver. Lausanne: Éditions Antipodes, 2011. 81-92. In French.

___. "Buffy/Faith Adult Femslash: Queer Porn with a Plot." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 7.4 (28), Summer 2009. Also presented as "Buffy/Faith Adult Femslash: Porn by Women for Women?" at Codex and Code: Aesthetics, Language and Politics in an Age of Digital Media, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2009.

___. "The Erotics of Pain: BDSM Femslash Fan Fiction." Making Sense of Pain: Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Ed. Jane Fernandez. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2010. 203—210. Also presented at Making Sense of Pain, 1st Global Conference, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 17-19 February 2010. Available online.

___. "Pain as Pleasure: Tough Girls' Love in Fan Fiction." How does it feel?: Making Sense of Pain. Eds. Hans T. Sternudd and Angela Tumini. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2011. 99-116. Available online.

___. "Quand les internautes rencontrent Buffy: la fan fiction sur l'amour entre femmes." Figures du fémin dans les industries culturelles contemporaines. Eds. Fabienne Malbois, Silvia Ricci Lempen, Valérie Cossy, and Lorena Parini. Special Issue of Nouvelles Questions Féministes 28.1 (2009). 50-65. In French.

___ and Maria Lindgren Leavenworth. "Queera lustar: Fan fiction i vampyrmiljö." TFL: Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap 39.3-4 (2009): 23-36. In Swedish. Available online.




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Jackson, Debra. "Throwing Like a Slayer: A Phenomenology of Gender Hybridity and Female Resilience in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 14.1 (43), Winter 2016. Also presented as "Throwing Like a Slayer: A Phenomenology of Resilience" at the Joss in June 2015 Conference, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, 26-27 June 2015.

Jackson, Kimberly. "Meta-horror and Simulation in the Scream Series and The Cabin in the Woods." Technology, Monstrosity, and Reproduction in Twenty-First Century Horror. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 11-30.

Jacob, Benjamin. "Los Angelus: The City of Angel." Reading Angel: the TV Spin-off With a Soul. Ed. Stacey Abbott. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2005. 75-87. Also presented at Blood, Text and Fears: Reading Around Buffy the Vampire Slayer, University of East Anglia, 19-20 October 2002.

Jagodzinski, Jan. "The Buffyverse Soteriology: Youth's Garden of Earthly Delights." Television and Youth Culture: Televised Paranoia. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 133-149.

___. "The Death Drive's at Stake: Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Television and Youth Culture: Televised Paranoia. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 111-132.

James, Gareth. "Masquerade and Automation: The Unstable Female Body in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Alias." Watcher Junior: The Journal of Undergraduate Research in Buffy Studies 3.1 (3), September 2007.

James, Paula. "Crossing Classical Thresholds: Gods, Monsters and Hell Dimensions in the Whedon Universe." Classics for All: Reworking Antiquity in Mass Culture. Eds Dunstan Lowe and Kim Shahabudin. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. 237-260. Also presented in earlier for as "Gate-Crashing Gods, and 'Coming Back Wrong': Crossing Classical Thresholds in BtVS" 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.

James Hansen, Emily and Katheryn Wright. "Trauma, Technology, and the Affective Body in Firefly and Dollhouse." lood, Body and Soul: Essays on Health, Wellness and Disability in Buffy, Angel, Firefly and Dollhouse. Eds. Tamy Burnett and AmiJo Comeford. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2022. 188-200.

Jamison, Anne, Jen Zern [and Bethan Jones]. "The X-Files, Buffy and the Rise of Internet Fic Fandoms." Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World. Ed. Anne Jamison. Dallas: BenBella, 2013. 111-149.

Jampol, Noah Simon. "'As it ever was. As it ever was.': Between the Cyclical and the Apocalyptic in The Cabin in the Woods." Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 18.1 (51), Winter/Spring 2020: 69-87. Also presented as "'As It Ever Was. As It Ever Was': The Cyclical and the Apocalyptic in Joss Whedon's Cabin in the Woods" at the 38th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 15-18 February 2017.

Jandrok, Thierry. "Buffy: une relecture de la mythologie adolescente." Philoséries: Buffy, tueuse de vampires. Eds. Sylvie Allouche and Sandra Laugier. Paris: Bragelonne, 2014. 187-203. Also presented at Buffy Tueuse De Vampires Conference, Paris, France, 26 June 2009. In French.

Japha, Vicki. "'They told me Sunnydale was gonna be interesting': Metaphorical Schizophrenia in Buffy The Vampire Slayer." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 10.2 [16], Fall 2017.

Jaquet, Alison. "Detective Fiction/Fictionality from Asmodeus to Angel." The Literary Angel: Essays on Influences and Traditions Reflected in the Joss Whedon Series. Eds. AmiJo Comeford and Tamy L. Burnett. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 206-220.

Jarnagin, Mayan. "Zoe Washburne: Navigating the ’Verse as a Military Woman of Color." Joss Whedon and Race: Critical Essays. Eds. Mary Ellen Iatropoulos and Lowery A. Woodall III. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. 200-214.

Jarvis, Christine. "Battle of the Blockbusters: Joss Whedon as Public Pedagogue." Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 14.1 (43), Winter 2016.

___. "'I run to Death': Renaissance Sensibilities in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: the Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 7.3 (27), Winter 2009.

___. "Real Stakeholder Education?: Lifelong Learning in the Buffyverse." Studies in the Education of Adults, 37:1 (Spring 2005): 31-46.

___. "School is Hell: Gendered Fears in Teenage Horror." Educational Studies 27.3 (2001): 257-67.

___ and Don Adams. "Dressed to Kill: Fashion and Leadership in BtVS." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 6.1 (21), Fall 2006. Also 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.

Jarvis, Matt. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Psychoanalysis." Psychology Review 10 (September 2003): 2-5.

Javaid, Hanan. Getting Slayed by Buffy: An Analysis of Meaning in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. BA honors thesis, Duke University, Durham, NC, 2000.

Jawetz, Ryan. "Identity and Memory in Dollhouse." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 385-389. Originally appeared in earlier form in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 31 March 2011. Partially Available Online.

Jelinski, Oliver. "The End of Magicks: Zur achten Staffel." Horror als Alltag: Texte zu Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ed. Annika Beckmann, et al. Berlin: Vebrecher, 2010. 157-186. In German.

Jencson, Linda Jean. "All Those Apocalypses: Disaster Studies and Community in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel." Reading Joss Whedon. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox, Tanya R. Cochran, Cynthea Masson, and David Lavery. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2014. 99-112.

___. "'Aiming to Misbehave': Role Modeling Political-Economic Conditions and Political Action in the Serenityverse." Special Issue on Firefly and Serenity. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya R. Cochran. Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 7.1 (25), Winter 2008.

___. "'My Rifle's as Bright as my Sweetheart's Eyes': Joss Whedon's Firefly and the Song of the Clancy Brothers." Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing: Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon. Ed. Kendra Preston Leonard. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2011. 243-254. Also presented at SC3: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008.

Jeney, Cynthia. "If the Apocalypse Comes... Email Me: Or, All I Need to Know about Online Distance Ed, I Learned from Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of Writing and Webbed Environments 7.3 (2002). Available online.

___. "Online Distance Education and the 'Buffy Paradigm': Welcome to the Hell Mouth." Role Play: Distance Learning and the Teaching of Writing. Eds. Jonathan Alexander and Marcia Dickson. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2006. 163-189.

Jenkins, Alice and Susan Stuart. "Extending Your Mind: Nonstandard Perlocutionary Acts in 'Hush'." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 3.1 (9), August 2003. Also presented at Blood, Text and Fears: Reading Around Buffy the Vampire Slayer, University of East Anglia, 19-20 October 2002.

Jenkins, Henry. "Joss Whedon, the Browncoats, and Dr. Horrible." Spreadable Media website. 3 December 2012. Available online.

___ with Henry G. Jenkins IV. "'The Monsters Next Door': A Father-Son Dialogue about Buffy, Moral Panic, and Generational Differences." Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Media Consumers in a Digital Age. New York: NYU Press, 2006. 226-248. Available online at author's website.

Jensen, Melanie A. and Kyle William Bishop. "Classrooms, Classrooms Everywhere, but Not to Slay or Think: the Domestic Learning Environments of Buffy the Vampire Slayer." At Home in the Whedonverse: Essays on Domestic Place, Space and Life. Ed. Juliette C. Kitchens. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. 165-181.

Jobbling, J'annine. "The Good and the Monstrous: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: 'From Beneath You, It Devours'." Fantastic Spiritualities: Monsters, Heroes, and the Contemporary Religious Imagination. London: Clark, 2007. 168-188.

Johansen, Vibeke. 'The Divine Exists in Cyberspace Same as Out Here': Academics and the Internet Fan-Scholars of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. BA honors thesis, Griffith University, Nathan, Australia, 2004.

___. "'I Laugh in the Face of Danger. Then I Hide Until It Goes Away': The Transgressive and Problematic Gender Roles of Buffy and Xander." All Slay 3 (2004).

___. ""The Importance of BtVS's Lesbians in Today's Gay-Starved Media World." All Slay 2 (2004).

Johnson, Catherine. "Quality/Cult Television: The X-Files and Buffy the Vampire Slayer in 1990s US Television." Telefantasy. London: British Film Institute [BFI], 2005.

Johnson, Kate and J.T. Bock. "A Whedonite's Guide to Characterization." After the Avengers: From Joss Whedon's Hottest, Newest Franchises to the Future of the Whedonverse. Eds. PopMatters.com with Valerie Estelle Frankel. Chicago: PopMatters Media, Inc., 2015.

Johnson, Melissa C. "Appetite and Destruction: Issues of Consumption and Containment in Seasons 2 and 3 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at SC2: The Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006. Available online.

___. "College Isn't Just Job Training and Parties: Stimulating Critical Thinking with 'The Freshman'." Buffy in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching With the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Jodie A. Kreider and Meghan K. Winchell. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 103-113.

___. "River Is Wolverine: Whedon Performs a Sex-Change." The Comics of Joss Whedon: Critical Essays. Ed. Valerie Estelle Frankel. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015. 155-164. Also presented at SC3: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008.

Johnson, Thomas. "'Live in the Lie for a While': Closure in Angel: After the Fall." The Comics of Joss Whedon: Critical Essays. Ed. Valerie Estelle Frankel. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015. 51-59.

Johnson-Lewis, Erika. "'Would you like a treatment?': Dollhouse, Pain, and Memory." In Media Res website. 13 October 2009. Available online.

Jones, Andrew Zimmerman. "The Redemption of Topher Brink." Inside Joss' Dollhouse: from Alpha to Rossum. Ed. Jane Espenson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: Smart Pop [BenBella], 2010. 79-92.

Jones, Bethan. "Buffy vs. Bella: Gender, Relationships, and the Modern Vampire." The Modern Vampire and Human Identity. Ed. Deborah Mutch. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 38-54. Also presented at Vegetarians, VILFs and Fang-Bangers: Modern Vampire Romance in Print and On Screen, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, 24 November 2010.

Jones, Caroline E. "Unpleasant Consequences: First Sex in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Veronica Mars, and Gilmore Girls." Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 5.1 (2013). Available online.

Jones, Gerard. "Vampire Slayers." Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy, Super Heroes, and Make-Believe Violence. New York: Basic, 2002. 149-164.

Jones, Kelli. Getting Acquainted with the Inner Moppet: The Vampire as a Reflection/Catalyst in The Traveling Vampire Show and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. BA honors thesis, Arcadia University, Glenside, PA, 2005.

Joplin, Benjamin. New Breed, Old Blood: Gothic Horror in Contemporary Fiction and Film. Ph.D. dissertation, State University of New York – Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 2006.

Jorgensen, Jeana and Brittany Warman "Molding Messages: Analyzing the Reworking of 'Sleeping Beauty' in Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics and Dollhouse." Channeling Wonder: Fairy Tales on Television. Eds. Pauline Greenhill and Jill Terry Rudy. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2014. 144-162.

Jorgensen, Jeana and Keegan L. Mills. "'To grow, we all need to suffer': Memory and Trauma as the Path to Personhood." Re-Entering the Dollhouse: Essays on the Joss Whedon Series. Eds. Heather M. Porter and Michael Starr. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2022. 224-239.

Joseph, Ben. "A Look Back At Joss Whedon's Roseanne Episodes." Splitsider.com website. 29 May 2012. Available online.

Jowett, Lorna. "Angel's Female Freaks: (Dis)Abilties, Professional, and Personal Life Limitations." Blood, Body and Soul: Essays on Health, Wellness and Disability in Buffy, Angel, Firefly and Dollhouse. Eds. Tamy Burnett and AmiJo Comeford. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2022. 42-56. Also 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.

___. "Back to the Future: Retrofuturism, Cyberpunk and Humanity in Firefly and Serenity." Investigating Firefly and Serenity: Science Fiction on the Frontier. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya R. Cochran. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2008. 101-113.

___. "Bad Girls." In Lorna Jowett. Sex and the Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2005. 70-94.

___. "Biting Humor: Harmony, Parody, and the Female Vampire." The Literary Angel: Essays on Influences and Traditions Reflected in the Joss Whedon Series. Eds. AmiJo Comeford and Tamy L. Burnett. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 17-29.

___. "Buffy, Dark Romance and Female Horror Fans." Fan Phenomena: Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ed. Jennifer Kate Stuller. Chicago: Intellect, 2013. 90-101.

___. "Case Study: Angel." The Cult TV Book. Ed. Stacey Abbott. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2010. 114-116.

___. "'Centuries of evil… wacky sidekicks… yadda, yadda': Vampire Television, Vampire Time and the Conventions of Flashback." Time on Television. Eds. Lorna Jowett, Kevin Lee Robinson, and David Simmons. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2016. 121-133.

___. "Dead Boys." In Lorna Jowett. Sex and the Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2005. 144-166.

___. "Girl Power." In Lorna Jowett. Sex and the Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2005. 18-43.

___. "Good Girls." In Lorna Jowett. Sex and the Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2005. 44-69.

___. "Helping the Hopeless: Angel as Critical Dystopia." Critical Studies in Television 2.1 (Spring 2007): 74-89. Also 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. Available online here and here.

___. "'I love him... Is that real?': Interrogating Romance Through Victor and Sierra." Eds. Sherry Ginn, Alyson R. Buckman, and Heather M. Porter. Joss Whedon's Dollhouse: Confounding Purpose, Confusing Identity. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 127-140. Also presented as "'I love him... Is that real?': Interrogating Romance in Dollhouse" at SCW5: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 12-15 July 2012.

___. "Introduction." In Lorna Jowett. Sex and the Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2005. 1-17.

___. "Lab Coats and Lipstick: Smart Women Reshape Science on Television." Geek Chic: Smart Women in Popular Culture. Ed. Sherrie Inness. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 31-48.

___. "Lindsey and Angel: Reflecting Masculinity." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 168-181. Also presented in earlier form as "Self-Made Man: Lindsey McDonald, 'the Cain to Angel's Abel'" at SC3: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008.

___. "Masculinity, Monstrosity, and Behaviour Modification in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction 31.84 (2002): 59-73.

___. "New Men." In Lorna Jowett. Sex and the Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2005. 119-143. Also published as "New Men: 'Playing the Sensitive Lad'" in Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 4.1-2 (13-14), October 2004.

___. "'Not Like Other Men?': The Vampire Body in Joss Whedon's Angel." Studies in Popular Culture 32.1 (Fall 2009): 37-51. Available online.

___. "Parental Issues." In Lorna Jowett. Sex and the Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2005. 167-197.

___. "Plastic Fantastic?: Genre and Science/Technology/Magic in Angel." Channeling the Future: Essays on Science Fiction and Fantasy Television. Ed. Lincoln Geraghty. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2009. 167-182.

___. "The Problem of Romance and the Representation of Gender in Buffy and Angel." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004. Available online.

___. "Stuffing a Rabbit in It: Character, Narrative, and Time in the Whedonverses." Reading Joss Whedon. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox, Tanya R. Cochran, Cynthea Masson, and David Lavery. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2014. 297-311. Also presented as keynote address at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

___. "The Summers' House as Domestic Space in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 5.2 (18), September 2005.

___. "Tough Guys." In Lorna Jowett. Sex and the Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2005. 95-118.

___. "Whedon, Feminism, and the Possibility of Feminist Horror on Television." Joss Whedon Vs. the Horror Tradition: The Production of Genre in Buffy and Beyond. Eds. Kristopher Karl Woofter and Lorna Jowett. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2018 [c 2019]. 201-218.

___. "Whedon, Weinstein and Why Feminism Matters." CST Online website. 22 November 2017. Also published on Women's Film and TV History Network UK and Ireland [WFTHN] website, 30 October 2017 Available online here and here.

___. Sex and the Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2005.

___ and Hélène Frohard-Dourlent. "Introduction: Interrogating Whedon from a Multiplicity of Queer Perspectives." Queering the Whedonverses. Eds. Lorna Jowett and Hélène Frohard-Dourlent. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 15.2 (46), Summer/Fall 2017.

___ and Hélène Frohard-Dourlent, eds. Queering the Whedonverses. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 15.2 (46), Summer/Fall 2017.

___ and Stacey Abbott. TV Horror: Investigating the Dark Side of the Small Screen. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2013.

Jusino, Teresa. "Why Joss is More Important Than His 'Verse." Whedonistas!: A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon by the Women Who Love Them. Eds. Lynne M. Thomas and Deborah Stanish. Des Moines, IA: Mad Norwegian Press, 2011. 171-177.




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Kahm, Howard. "'They Couldn't Let Us Profit – It Wouldn't Be Civilized': Economic Modalities and Core-Periphery Relationships in the Political Economy of Firefly-Serenity." Firefly Revisited: Essays on Joss Whedon's Classic Series. Eds. Michael Goodrum and Philip Smith. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. 155-170.

Kane, Tim. "The Sympathetic Cycle (1987-): Buffy the Vampire Slayer." The Changing Vampire of Film and Television: A Critical Study of the Growth of a Genre. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006. 112-116.

Karras, Irene. "The Third Wave's Final Girl: Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Thirdspace 1.2 (2002). Available online.

Kassabian, Anahid. "Afterword." Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Paul Attinello, Janet K. [Steve] Halfyard, and Vanessa Knights. Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2010. 249-250.

Katz, Evan Ross. Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Hearts. New York:‎ Hachette, 2022.

Kaveney, Roz. "Gifted and Dangerous: Joss Whedon's Superhero Obsession." Superheroes!: Capes and Crusaders in Comics and Films. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2008. 201-225. Also presented as keynote address at SC2: The Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

___. "The Heirs of Heather: Cordelia, Nicole, and Other Mean Girls." Teen Dreams: Reading Teen Film from Heathers to Veronica Mars. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2006. 85-108.

___. "A Sense of the Ending: Schrödinger's Angel." Reading Angel: the TV Spin-off With a Soul. Ed. Stacey Abbott. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2005. 57-72. Also available in Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 4.4 (16), March 2005.

___. "'She Saved the World. A Lot': An Introduction to the Themes and Structures of Buffy and Angel." Reading the Vampire Slayer: An Unofficial Critical Companion to Buffy and Angel. Ed. Roz Kaveney. 2nd edition. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2004. 1-82.

___. "Writing the Vampire Slayer: Interviews with Jane Espenson and Steven S. DeKnight." Reading the Vampire Slayer: An Unofficial Critical Companion to Buffy and Angel. Ed. Roz Kaveney. 2nd edition. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2004. 100-131.

___, ed. Reading the Vampire Slayer: An Unofficial Critical Companion to Buffy and Angel. 1st edition. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2001.

___, ed. Reading the Vampire Slayer: An Unofficial Critical Companion to Buffy and Angel. 2nd edition. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2004.

Kaveny, Cathleen. "What Women Want: Buffy, the Pope, and the New Feminists." Commonweal: A review of religion, politics, and culture, 130.19 (2003). Available online.

Kawal, Jason. "Should We Do What Buffy Would Do?" Buffy and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale. Ed. James B. South. Chicago: Open Court, 2003. 149-159.

Kaye, Sharon M. and Melissa M. Milavec. "Buffy in the Buff: A Slayer's Solution to Aristotle's Love Paradox." Buffy and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale. Ed. James B. South. Chicago: Open Court, 2003. 173-184.

Kearney, Mary Celeste. "The Changing Face of Teen Television, or Why We all Love Buffy." Undead TV: Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Elana Levine and Lisa Parks. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. 17-41.

Keegan, Cáel M. "Emptying the Future: Queer Melodramatics and Negative Utopia on Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture 1.1 (January 2016): 9-22. Available online.

Keft-Kennedy, Virginia. "Fantasising Masculinity in Buffyverse Slash Fiction: Sexuality, Violence, and the Vampire." NJES: Nordic Journal of English Studies 7.1 (2008): 49-80. Available online.

Keller, Donald. "Spirit Guides and Shadow Selves: from the Dream Life of Buffy (and Faith)." Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and David Lavery. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. 165-177.

Kellner, Douglas. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Spectacular Allegory: A Diagnostic Critique." Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction of Childhood. 2nd edition. Eds. Shirley R. Steinberg and Joe L. Kincheloe. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2004. 49-71. Also presented at Cultural Studies conference, Melbourne, Australia, 2003(?). Available online.

___. "Teens and Vampires: From Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Twilight's Vampire Lovers." Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction of Childhood. 3rd edition. Ed. Shirley R. Steinberg. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2011. 55-72.

Kem, Jessica Freya. Cataloging the Whedonverse: Potential Roles for Librarians in Online Fan Fiction. Masters thesis, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 2005. Available online.

Kemerly, Tony with Victoria Morgan. "The Shell She's In: Fred, Illyria, and Thoughts on Bodies." 'Let's Go to Work': The Legacy of Angel. Eds. Stacey Abbott and Simon Brown. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 17.2 (50), Summer / Fall 2019: 155-179.

Kennedy, Gwynne and Jennifer Dworschack-Kinter. "'Once More, with Feeling': Emotional Self-Discipline in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Buffy at 20. Eds. Gerry Canavan and James B. South. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 16.2 (48), Summer/Fall 2018.

Kenyon, Sherrilyn. "Parting Gifts." Five Seasons of Angel: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Vampire. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2004. 87-91.

___. "The Search for Spike's Balls." Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Television Show. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2003. 25-29.

Keough, Sarah. The Slayer Goes to College: Teaching Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the University. BA honors thesis, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, 2009.

Kerns, Dan. "Angel by the Numbers." Five Seasons of Angel: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Vampire. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2004. 23-31.

Kerr, Selina E. M. "Viewers' Interpretations of the Buffy and Spike Relationship in Season 6." Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 18.1 (51), Winter/Spring 2020: 88-124.

Kessenich, Laura. "'I'm beginning to understand this now': 'Restless'." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 4.2 (5), June 2010.

___. "'Wait Till You Have an Evil Twin': Jane Espenson's Contributions to Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Watcher Junior: The Journal of Undergraduate Research in Buffy Studies 3.1 (3), September 2007.

Kessler, Jackie. "Going Dark." Whedonistas!: A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon by the Women Who Love Them. Eds. Lynne M. Thomas and Deborah Stanish. Des Moines, IA: Mad Norwegian Press, 2011. 116-123.

Ketchum, Alex D. "Smashing the Demon Lizard Patriarchy: Queer Feminist Buffy the Vampire Slayer Rewatch Podcasts Raise the Stakes for Queer Feminist Sonic Space." Slayage: The International Journal of  Buffy+  21.2 [58], Summer/Fall 2023.

Ketskarova, Violeta Rumyanova. From Beowulf to Buffy: Or, Why Do We Keep Chasing Evil Dragons and Glorifying Virtuous Heroes? BA honors thesis, Reed College, Portland, OR, 2008.

Key, Kristina Pope. "'There will be Others... Like me': The Legacy of Otherness in Tales of the Slayers." The Comics of Joss Whedon: Critical Essays. Ed. Valerie Estelle Frankel. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015. 82-92.

Kilpatrick, Nancy. "Sex and the Single Slayer." Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Television Show. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2003. 19-24.

Kim, Janna L., C. Lynn Sorsoli, Katherine Collines, Bonnie A. Zylbergold, Deborah Schooler, and Deborah L. Tolman. "From Sex to Sexuality: Exposing the Heterosexual Script on Primetime Network Television." Journal of Sex Research 44.2 (May 2007): 145-57. Available online.

Kind, Amy. "The Vampire with a Soul: Angel and the Quest for Identity." The Philosophy of Horror. Ed. Thomas Fahy. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2010. 86-101.

King, Derrick. "The (Bio)political Economy of Bodies, Culture as Commodification, and the Badiouian Event: Reading Political Allegories in The Cabin in the Woods." Joss in June: Selected Essays. Eds. K. Dale Koontz [Guffey] and Ensley Guffey. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 11.2/12.1 (38-39), Summer 2014. Also presented as "Biopower, Interpellation, and the Illusion of Freedom in The Cabin in the Woods" at Joss in June: A Conference on the Works of Joss Whedon, Cleveland Community College, Shelby, NC, 29 June 2013.

___. "'We're Lost. We are not Gone': Critical Dystopia and the Politics of Radical Hope." Eds. Sherry Ginn, Alyson R. Buckman, and Heather M. Porter. Joss Whedon's Dollhouse: Confounding Purpose, Confusing Identity. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 163-176.

King, John C. and Christophe Beck. "Preface." Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Paul Attinello, Janet K. [Steve] Halfyard, and Vanessa Knights. Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2010. xxi-xxiii.

King, Meredith. "Mad About Saffron: Identity Construction In 'Our Mrs. Reynolds'." Paper presented at Battleground States Conference 2009. Available online.

King, Neal. "Brown Skirts: Fascism, Christianity, and the Eternal Demon." Buffy and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale. Ed. James B. South. Chicago: Open Court, 2003. 197-211.

Kinsey, Tammy A. "Transitions and Time: The Cinematic Language of Angel." Reading Angel: the TV Spin-off With a Soul. Ed. Stacey Abbott. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2005. 44-56.

Kirby-Diaz, Mary. "Buffy, Angel, and the Creation of Virtual Communities." Buffy and Angel Conquer the Internet: Essays on Online Fandom. Ed. Mary Kirby-Diaz. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 18-41. Also presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004, and as "Virtual Communities in the Buffyverse" at the 25th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, San Antonio, TX, 7-10 April 2004.

___. "The Fandom Project: What Makes a Fandom Run? Ships, Fics, Plot Devices, Favorite Characters, and Fancons." International Journal of the Humanities 3.4 (2006): 256-265. Also presented at NEPCA 2006 Conference, Rivier College, Nashua, New Hampshire, 27-28 October 2006. Also presented in shortened form as "The Fandom Project: What Keeps a Fandom Afloat? Report Two: 'Ships" at SC2: The Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

___. "Ficcers and 'Shippers: A Love Story." Fan Phenomena: Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ed. Jennifer Kate Stuller. Chicago: Intellect, 2013. 38-51.

___. "Introduction: Hey, Professor... You Watch Buffy, and Angel?" Buffy and Angel Conquer the Internet: Essays on Online Fandom. Ed. Mary Kirby-Diaz. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 1-6.

___. "So, What's the Story? Story-Oriented and Series-Oriented Fans: A Complex of Behaviors." Buffy and Angel Conquer the Internet: Essays on Online Fandom. Ed. Mary Kirby-Diaz. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 62-86.

___, ed. Buffy and Angel Conquer the Internet: Essays on Online Fandom. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009.

Kirchner, Jesse Saba. "'And in Some Language That's English?': Slayer Slang and Artificial Computer Generation." Beyond Slayer Slang: Pragmatics, Discourse, and Style in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ed. Michael Adams. Special Issue of Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 5.4 (20), May 2006.

Kirkland, Ewan. "The Caucasian Persuasion of Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 5.1 (17), June 2005. Also 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, and with alternate title "Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Constructions of Whiteness" at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

___. "A Conference Report on Bring Your Own Subtext: Social Life, Human Experience and the Works of Joss Whedon (University of Huddersfield, Summer 2005)." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 5.2 (18), September 2005.

Kirkpatrick, Kim. "Re-Appropriating Female Identity: Taking Back the Buffybot and Other Bionic Females." Phoebe: Gender and Cultural Critiques 18.1 (2006): 59-73.

___. "Scoobies and Potentials: The Slayer Community as Hero in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." MP: An Online Feminist Journal 1.4 (May 2006). Available online.

Kitchens, Juliette C. "Agencied Objects: Locations of the Technodomestic Object-I in the Whedonverses." Re-Entering the Dollhouse: Essays on the Joss Whedon Series. Eds. Heather M. Porter and Michael Starr. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2022. 106-121. Also presented in earlier form as "Whedonbots vs. Whedonborgs: Locations of the Technodomestic Body in Firefly, Dollhouse, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer" at the 36th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL, 18-22 March 2015.

___. "Introduction. Locating Home, Unraveling the Domestic Entanglements in the Whedonverse." At Home in the Whedonverse: Essays on Domestic Place, Space and Life. Ed. Juliette C. Kitchens. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. 1-10.

___. "Object Entanglements: From Postmodern Subjectivity to Posthuman Thingness in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse." Studies in Popular Culture 38.2 (2016): 1–22.

___. "Restless Death: Memory and Transmedial Bodies in the Buffyverse." Slaying Is Hell: Essays on Trauma and Memory in the Whedonverse. Eds. Alyson R. Buckman, Juliette C. Kitchens, and Katherine A Troyer. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2023. 62-80.

___, ed. At Home in the Whedonverse: Essays on Domestic Place, Space and Life. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017.

___ and Julie L. Hawk. "Exploring a Whedonverse, the Whedonverses, and the Whedonverse(s): The Shape of Transmedia Storytelling in Joss Whedon's World(s)." Transmediating the Whedonverse(s): Essays on Texts, Paratexts, and Metatexts. Eds. Juliette C. Kitchens and Julie L. Hawk. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 1-16.

___ and Julie L. Hawk, eds. Transmediating the Whedonverse(s): Essays on Texts, Paratexts, and Metatexts. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

Kittelsen, Lene Aasland. Audiovisuell subjektivitet i Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ph.D. dissertation, Institutt for medier og kommunikasjon, Universitet i Oslo, Oslo, Norway, 2005. In Norwegian. Available online.

Kjøsen, Atle Mikkola. "Dollhouse, Labour and Uploading the Mind: The Transhumanist Production Process of Reality Television." Paper presented at the 2011 Popular Culture Association of Canada Conference, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, 12-14 May 2011. Available online.

Klein, Ian G. "'I Like My Scars': Claire Saunders and the Narrative of Flesh." Inside Joss' Dollhouse: from Alpha to Rossum. Ed. Jane Espenson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: Smart Pop [BenBella], 2010. 117-131. Also presented at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010, and as "'I Like My Scars': Joss Whedon's Dollhouse and the Narrative of Flesh" at the 31st Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 10-13 February 2010.

___. "Ritual, Rebirth, and the Rising Tide: Water and the Transcendent Self." Eds. Sherry Ginn, Alyson R. Buckman, and Heather M. Porter. Joss Whedon's Dollhouse: Confounding Purpose, Confusing Identity. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 195-210. Also presented as "Ritual, Rebirth, and the Rising Tide: Water in Dollhouse" at the 34st Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 13-16 February 2013.

___ and Kj Swanson. "'Not Very Christian of Me': The Escapist Faith of a Lost Shepherd in Joss Whedon's Firefly." Paper presented at the 30th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 25-28 February 2009. Available online.

Klock, Geoff. "Firefly and Story Structure, Advanced." Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe. Ed. Jane Espenson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: BenBella, 2007. 161-174.

Knapp, Raymond. "'Once More, with Feeling' (Television 2001)." The American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. 196-204.

Kneale, Ruth. "Rupert Giles." You Don't Look Like a Librarian: Shattering Stereotypes and Creating Positive New Images in the Internet Age. Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2009. 61.

Kneen, Bonnie. "'Add it up, it all spells "duh"': the language of Buffy, the Vampire Slayer." Oxford Dictionaries Online website, 17 August 2012. Available online.

Knehans, Greg. "Buffy, Betrayal, and the Ethic of Truths." Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 12.2-13.1 (40-41), Winter 2014/Spring 2015. Also presented as "'I am the Law': Buffy, Alain, Badiou, and Betrayals of Ethics" at Joss in June: A Conference on the Works of Joss Whedon, Cleveland Community College, Shelby, NC, 29 June 2013.

Knight, Gladys. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Female Action Heroes: A Guide to Women in Comics, Video Games, Film, and Television. Santa Barbara: Greenwood, 2010. 15-28.

Knights, Vanessa. "Introduction: 'Bay City Rollers. Now That's Music': Music as Cultural Code in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Paul Attinello, Janet K. [Steve] Halfyard, and Vanessa Knights. Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2010. 1-12. Also presented as "'Bay City Rollers. Now That's Music': Coolness, Crassness and Characterisation on Buffy the Vampire Slayer" at Sonic Synergies: Creative Cultures, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, 17-20 July 2003. Conference version available online.

Knoblauch, A. Abby. "From Burke to Buffy and Back Again: Intersections of Rhetoric, Magic, and Identification in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 8.1 (29), Spring 2010. Also presented as "From Burke to Buffy: Explorations of Rhetoric, Writing, and Magic" at the 2009 PCA/ACA National Conference, New Orleans, LA, 8-11 April 2009.

Knoell, Tiffany and Derek Sweet. "Science and Sorcery in BtVS." Panel discussion at the 2009 PCA/ACA National Conference, New Orleans, LA, 8-11 April 2009.

Knowles, Claire. "Sensibility Gone Mad: or, Drusilla, Buffy and the (D)evolution of the Heroine of Sensibility." Postfeminist Gothic: Critical Interventions in Contemporary Culture. Eds. Benjamin A. Brabon and Stephanie Genz. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Also presented at Removing the Boundaries seminar, School of English, Journalism and European Languages, University of Tasmania, 24 March 2006, and as "Sensibility Gone Mad: or, Drusilla, Buffy and the (D)evolution of the Gothic Heroine" at Staking a Claim: Exploring the Global Reach of Buffy, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, 22 July 2003.

Kociemba, David. "'Actually, it explains a lot': Reading the Opening Title Sequences of Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Buffy and Aesthetics. Ed. Matthew Pateman. Special Issue of Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 6.2 (22), Winter 2006.

___. "Athena's Daughter: Black Widow's Impact Aesthetic in the Marvel Cinematic Universe." Marvel's Black Widow from Spy to Superhero: Essays on an Avenger with a Very Specific Skill Set. Ed. Sherry Ginn. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. 128-148.

___. "'Fake It Till You Make It': Understanding Media Addiction and Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Buffy and Angel Conquer the Internet: Essays on Online Fandom. Ed. Mary Kirby-Diaz. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 127-146. Also presented as "Fake It to Make It: Media Addiction in Buffy the Vampire Slayer" at the 2006 PCA/ACA National Conference, Atlanta, GA, 12-15 April 2006, and at SC2: The Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

___. "From Beneath You, It Foreshadows: Why Buffy's First Season Matters." Reading Joss Whedon. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox, Tanya R. Cochran, Cynthea Masson, and David Lavery. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2014. 22-39. Also presented at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

___. "'Over-identify much?': Passion, 'Passion,' and the Author-Audience Feedback Loop in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 5.3 (19), February 2006.

___. "To Spoil or Not to Spoil: Teaching Television's Narrative Complexity." Buffy in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching With the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Jodie A. Kreider and Meghan K. Winchell. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 7-21. Also presented as "The Spoiler Virgin Project: Teaching Television's Narrative Complexity" at SC3: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008.

___. "Understanding the Espensode." Buffy Goes Dark: Essays on the Final Two Seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Television. Eds. Lynne Y. Edwards, Elizabeth L. Rambo and James B. South. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 23-39.

___. "Welcome to the Dollhouse: Reading Its Opening Title Sequences." Eds. Sherry Ginn, Alyson R. Buckman, and Heather M. Porter. Joss Whedon's Dollhouse: Confounding Purpose, Confusing Identity. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 177-194.

___. "'Where's the Fun?': The Comic Apocalypse in 'The Wish'." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 6.3 (23), Spring 2007.

___. "Why Xander Matters: The Extraordinary Ordinary in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Supernatural Youth: The Rise of the Teen Hero in Literature and Popular Culture. Ed. Jes Battis. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011. 80-101.

___, ed. Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies. 4.1-7.1 (4-9), November 2009-June 2014.

___ and Mary Ellen Iatropoulos. "Separate Worlds or One?: Canonicity, Medium and Authorship." The Comics of Joss Whedon: Critical Essays. Ed. Valerie Estelle Frankel. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015. 31-50.

Koehler, Julia. "Realism Featured in Fantasy Series: The Portrayal of Death: An Analysis of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 5, Episode 16." Paper presented at the"Framing Reality": The Hollywood Representation of Broadcast News Journalism, Seminar at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Summer 2007. Available for purchase online here and here.

Koontz [Guffey], K. Dale. "Coming Apart, but Moving Forward: Magic Twins and Older Sisters in Fray." In K. Dale Koontz [Guffey]. Faith and Choice in the Works of Joss Whedon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 49-64.

___. "Conclusion: Buffy Goes (Back) to School." In K. Dale Koontz [Guffey]. Faith and Choice in the Works of Joss Whedon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 185-190.

___. "Czech Mate: Whedon, Čapek, and the Foundations of Dollhouse." Fantasy Is Not Their Purpose: Joss Whedon's Dollhouse. Eds. Cynthea Masson and Rhonda V. Wilcox. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 8.2-3 (30-31), Summer/Fall 2010.

___. "Foreword." Joss Whedon and Religion: Essays on an Angry Atheist's Explorations of the Sacred. Eds. Anthony R. Mills, John W. Morehead, and J. Ryan Parker. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013. 1-4.

___. "Growing After Death: Angel, Spike, and the Evolution of the Soul." In K. Dale Koontz [Guffey]. Faith and Choice in the Works of Joss Whedon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 27-48.

___. "Heroism on the Hellmouth: Teaching Morality Through Buffy." Buffy in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching With the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Jodie A. Kreider and Meghan K. Winchell. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 61-72.

___. "Introduction." In K. Dale Koontz [Guffey]. Faith and Choice in the Works of Joss Whedon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 1-12.

___. "Introduction." Joss in June: Selected Essays. Eds. K. Dale Koontz [Guffey] and Ensley Guffey. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 11.2/12.1 (38-39), Summer 2014.

___. "No Girls Allowed: Caleb and the Evils of Misogyny." In K. Dale Koontz [Guffey]. Faith and Choice in the Works of Joss Whedon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 164-184. Also presented at the 28th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 14-17 February 2007, and 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.

___. "The One that Almost Got Away: Doyle and the Fish Story." In K. Dale Koontz [Guffey]. Faith and Choice in the Works of Joss Whedon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 85-97. Also published in Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies7.2 (26), Spring 2008. Also presented at SC3: The Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008. Available online.

___. "Prodigal Daughter: Faith and Homecoming." In K. Dale Koontz [Guffey]. Faith and Choice in the Works of Joss Whedon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 132-148.

___. "Reflections in the Pool: Echo, Narcissus, and the Male Gaze in Dollhouse." Reading Joss Whedon. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox, Tanya R. Cochran, Cynthea Masson, and David Lavery. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2014. 205-220. Also presented as "Reflections in the Pool: Echo, Narcissus and the Dollhouse [Part 1]" at the 2009 PCAS/ACAS Annual Conference, Wilmington, NC, 1-3 October 2009, and "Gazing into the Pool: Echo, Narcissus, and the Males Gaze of Dollhouse [Part 2]" at the 2010 PCAS/ACAS Annual Conference, Savannah, GA, 7-9 October 2010.

___. "What's a Key without a Lock?: Dawn and the Promise of Purpose." In K. Dale Koontz [Guffey]. Faith and Choice in the Works of Joss Whedon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 13-26.

___. Faith and Choice in the Works of Joss Whedon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008.

___ and Ensley Guffey, eds. Joss in June: Selected Essays. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 11.2/12.1 (38-39), Summer 2014.

Kooyman, Ben. "'Gotta keep the customer satisfied': Puppeteers as Director-Surrogates in The Cabin in the Woods." Horror Studies 6.1 (April 2015): 101-119.

Kord, Susanne and Elisabeth Krimmer. "Vamp(ires)s and Those Who Kill Them: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Dana Scully." Hollywood Divas, Indie Queens, and TV Heroines: Contemporary Screen Images of Women. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. 141-160.

Korsmeyer, Carolyn. "Passion and Action: In and Out of Control." Buffy and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale. Ed. James B. South. Chicago: Open Court, 2003. 160-172.

Köver, Christina. "BtVS, Polysemy and the Quest for Feminist Agency." 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. Available online.

___. "She's a Hero. She's Not Like Us." Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Legittimare la Cacciatrice. Ed. Barbara Maio. Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 2007. 97-106.

___. Zur Darstellung/Herstellung von Weiblichkeit in der Fernsehserie Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, University of Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany, 2006. In German. Available online.

Kowalski, Dean A. "On the Meaningfulness of Helping the Helpless: Revisiting Angel’s Mission." 'Let's Go to Work': The Legacy of Angel. Eds. Stacey Abbott and Simon Brown. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 17.2 (50), Summer / Fall 2019: 96-124.

___. Joss Whedon as Philosopher. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017.

"'Letting that Belief Be Real Enough': Shepherd Book as the Embodiment of Religious Non-Realism in the Whedonverse." Lightin' Out For the Library: A Firefly/Serenity Special Issue. Eds. Michael Goodrum and Philip Smith. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 13.2 (42), Summer 2015.

___. "Plato, Aristotle and Joss on Being Horrible." The Philosophy of Joss Whedon. Eds. Dean A. Kowalski and S. Evan Kreider. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2011. 71-87.

___. "Visions of the Soul: Looking Back on Buffy and Angel." Buffy at 20. Eds. Gerry Canavan and James B. South. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 16.2 (48), Summer/Fall 2018.

___. "'Where Does Any Story Begin?': Book Chapters and Whedonverse Choices." Firefly Revisited: Essays on Joss Whedon's Classic Series. Eds. Michael Goodrum and Philip Smith. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. 121-138.

___. "'You're Welcome on My Boat, God Ain't': Ethical Foundations in the Whedonverse." Joss Whedon and Religion: Essays on an Angry Atheist's Explorations of the Sacred. Eds. Anthony R. Mills, John W. Morehead, and J. Ryan Parker. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013. 102-122.

___ and S. Evan Kreider. "Introduction." The Philosophy of Joss Whedon. Eds. Dean A. Kowalski and S. Evan Kreider. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2011. 1-5.

___ and S. Evan Kreider, eds. The Philosophy of Joss Whedon. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2011.

Krátká, Jana, and Patrik Vacek. "Popular Culture Monsters Go to Education: The Czech Republic Buffy Case." Paper presented at Monsters and the Monstrous: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil, 6th Global Conference, Oxford, UK, September 2008. Available online.

Krause, Marguerite. "It's a Stupid Curse." Five Seasons of Angel: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Vampire. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2004. 103-113.

___. "The Meaning of Buffy." Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Television Show. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2003. 97-108.

Krawczyk, Marian. 'She Kicks Ass... in Heels': Negotiating Representations of Feminity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, 2006.

Kreider, Jodie A. "'Best Damn Field Trip I Ever Took!': Historical Encounters In and Out of the Classroom." Buffy in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching With the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Jodie A. Kreider and Meghan K. Winchell. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 158-168.

___ and Meghan K. Winchell. "Introduction: 'Let's Have a Lesson Then'." Buffy in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching With the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Jodie A. Kreider and Meghan K. Winchell. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 1-6.

___ and Meghan K. Winchell. "The State of the Journal." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 10.2 [16], Fall 2017.

___ and Meghan K. Winchell, eds. Buffy in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching With the Vampire Slayer. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010.

___ and Meghan K. Winchell, eds. Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies, 7.2-10.2 (10-16), Fall 2014 - Fall 2018.

Kreider, S. Evan. "Completion of Character and Relationship in Serenity." Joss Whedon's Big Damn Movie: Essays on Serenity. Ed. Frederick Blichert. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018. 25-35.

___. "Dollhouse and Consensual Slavery." The Philosophy of Joss Whedon. Eds. Dean A. Kowalski and S. Evan Kreider. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2011. 55-68.

___. "Mind-Body Dualism vs. Materialism: Personal Identity in Dollhouse: Epitaphs." The Comics of Joss Whedon: Critical Essays. Ed. Valerie Estelle Frankel. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015. 109-120.
 
___. "To Live and Die in the 'Verse: A Re-evaluation of Inara." Lightin' Out For the Library: A Firefly/Serenity Special Issue. Eds. Michael Goodrum and Philip Smith. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 13.2 (42), Summer 2015.

Krimmer, Elizabeth, and Shilpa Raval. "'Digging the Undead': Death and Desire in Buffy." Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and David Lavery. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. 153-164.

Kristensen, Anne C. Evolution of the Vampire Genre: From Polidori's The Vampyre to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, Aalborg Universitet, Aalborg, Denmark, 2003.

Kromer, Kelly. "Silence as Symptom: A Psychoanalytic Reading of 'Hush'." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 5.3 (19), February 2006.

Krzywinska, Tanya. "Arachne Challenges Minerva: The Spinning-Out of Long Narrative in World of Warcraft and Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the Cine-Excess: An International Conference on Global Cult Film Traditions, London, May 2007. Also presented at Working Paper, School of Arts Research Papers, Brunel University West London, 2007, and at the Computer Games: Learning, Meaning and Method Seminar, London Knowledge Lab, London 26 January 2007. Available online.

___. "Demon Power Girl: Regimes of Form and Force in Videogames Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Primal." Women in Games Conference Proceedings 2005. Dundee, UK: University of Abertay Press, 2006. Also published in (now defunct) e-journal Intersections (Autumn 2005). Also presented at the following seven conferences: Power Up: Computer Games, Ideology and Play, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2003; the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004; Active Heroines Study Day, John Moores University, Liverpool UK, 2004; Consuming New Femininities, University of East London, UK, 2005; Woman in Games, University of Aberty, Dundee, UK, 2005; Artful Gaming Forum, Science Museum's Dana Centre, London, UK, 2006; and (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. Two different versions available online: here and here.

___. "Hubble-Bubble, Herbs and Grimoires: Magic, Manichaeanism, and Witchcraft in Buffy." Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and David Lavery. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. 178-194.

___. "Playing Buffy: Remediation, Occulted Meta-game-Physics and the Dynamics of Agency in the Videogame Version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 2.4 (8), March 2003. Also presented at Blood, Text and Fears: Reading Around Buffy the Vampire Slayer, University of East Anglia, 19-20 October 2002.

Kungl, Carla T. "Fears and Femininity at the Fin-de-siecle: of Vampires and Vampire Slayers." Vampires: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil. Ed. Carla T. Kungl. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2003. 109-114. Also presented at Vampires: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil, Budapest, Hungary, 22-24 May 2003. Available online.

___, ed. Vampires: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil." Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2003. Available online.

Kurzban, Robert. "Mal's Morals: Evolutionary Pornography." The Psychology of Joss Whedon: An Unauthorized Exploration of Buffy, Angel, and Firefly. Ed. Joy Davidson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: BenBella, 2007. 7-20.




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LaBennett, Oneka. "Reading Buffy and 'Looking Proper': Race, Gender, and Consumption Among West Indian Girls in Brooklyn." Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness. Eds. Kamari M. Clarke and Deborah A. Thomas. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. 279-298.

Labre, Magdala Peixoto and Lisa Duke. "'Nothing Like a Brisk Walk and a Spot of Demon Slaughter to Make a Girl's Night': The Construction of the Female Hero in the Buffy Video Game." The Journal of Communication Inquiry 28.2 (2004).

Lackey, Mercedes. "Serenity and Bobby McGee: Freedom and the Illusion of Freedom in Joss Whedon's Firefly." Finding Serenity: Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly. Eds. Jane Espenson with Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2005. 63-73.

Ladouceur, Liisa. "In Praise of the Slayer." How to Kill a Vampire: Fangs in Folklore, Film and Fiction. Toronto: ECW Press, 2013. 139-168.

Lady Aeryn. "'Handbook? What handbook?': Mentoring the Chosen One in Star Wars and Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Saga Journal: An Academic Star Wars Fan Journal 2.5 (May 2006).

La Fortune, Chelsea. "'The Man They Call Jayne': Emotional Development and the Family Structure in Joss Whedon's Firefly." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 8.2 [12], Fall 2015.

Lamb, Brett. "Whedonesque Women: One Man's Quest for Positive Gender Representations." Screen Education 61 (2011): 104-11.

Lang, Anouk. "'The Status Is Not Quo!': Pursuing Resolution in Web-Disseminated Serial Narrative." Narrative 18.3 (October 2010): 367-381.

Lang-Muhr, Tanja Maria. Filmsoziologische Untersuchung zum Format Fernsehserie am Beispiel Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, Universität Wien [University of Vienna], Vienna, Austria, 2004. In German.

Lange, Heidi C. "Those Capitalist Demons!: Anti-Market Bias in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Journey of Liberty and Society 1 (2009): 6-13. Available online.

Lantz, Victoria Pettersen. "Numero Cinco, Border Narratives, and Mexican Cultural Performance in Angel." The Literary Angel: Essays on Influences and Traditions Reflected in the Joss Whedon Series. Eds. AmiJo Comeford and Tamy L. Burnett. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 98-111.

Larbalestier, Justine. "A Buffy Confession." Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Television Show. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2003. 72-84.

___. "Buffy's Mary Sue is Jonathan: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Acknowledges the Fans." Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and David Lavery. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. 227-238.

___. "The Only Thing Better Than Killing a Slayer: Heterosexuality and Sex in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Reading the Vampire Slayer: An Unofficial Critical Companion to Buffy and Angel. 2nd edition. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2004. 195-219.

Larsen, Kristine. "'They're something nightmares are from': The Notion Club Papers and The Cabin in the Woods." Special Issue: J. R. R. Tolkien and the Works of Joss Whedon. Eds. Janet Brennan Croft and Kristine Larsen. Journal of Tolkien Research 10.1 (2020).

Larsen, Lasse Asger Juel. Besmittelsens æstetik eller enhedens perforering: Læsninger af den amerikanske tv-serie Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, Københavns Universitet [University of Copenhagen], Copenhagen, Denmark. 2003. In Danish.

Laskari, Isabelle. "'My emotions give me power': Radcliffean Sensibility and Female Gothic Anxieties in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 7.1 [9], June 2014.

Lastra, David. "Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog: O cómo un nerd rompió Internet en 42 minutos." De la estaca al martillo: Un viaje por los universos de Joss Whedon, de Buffy a Los Vengadores. Eds. Pedro José García and Irene Raya Bravo. Madrid: Diábolo Ediciones, 2015. 138-155. In Spanish.

Latham, Jo. "'[I]s it dangerous?': Alternative readings of 'drugs' and 'addiction' in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 4.2 (5), June 2010.

Laverty, Christopher. "Much Ado About Nothing: Colour Blind Costuming." Clothesonfilm.com 11 July 2013. Available online.

Lavery, David. "Afterword: The Genius of Joss Whedon." Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and David Lavery. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. 251-256.

___. "Afterword: My So-Called Life Meets The X-Files: Winnie Holzman's Influence on Joss Whedon." Dear Angela: Remembering My So-Called Life. Eds. Michele Byers and David Lavery. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007. 211-217.

___. "Apocalyptic Apocalypses: The Narrative Eschatology of Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 3.1 (9), August 2003.

___. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." 50 Key Television Programmes. Ed. Glen Creeber. London: Arnold, 2004. 31-35.

___. "Dollhouse: An Introduction." Reading Joss Whedon. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox, Tanya R. Cochran, Cynthea Masson, and David Lavery. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2014. 201-204.

___. "'Emotional Resonance and Rocket Launchers': Joss Whedon's Commentaries on the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVDs." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 2.2 (6), September 2002.

___. "Fatal Environment: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and American Culture." Talk presented at Staking a Claim: Exploring the Global Reach of Buffy, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, 22 July 2003. Available online.

___. "'I Wrote My Thesis on You': Buffy Studies as an Academic Cult." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 4.1-2 (13-14), October 2004. Also presented as keynote address at Sonic Synergies: Creative Cultures, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, 17-20 July 2003, and as featured lecture at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

___. Joss Whedon, A Creative Portrait: From Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Marvel's The Avengers. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2013.

___. "A Religion in Narrative: Joss Whedon and Television Creativity." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 2.3 (7), December 2002. Also presented at the 2002 PCAS/ACAS Annual Conference, Charlotte, NC, 3-5 October 2002. Also presented at Blood, Text and Fears: Reading Around Buffy the Vampire Slayer, University of East Anglia, 19-20 October 2002. Available online.

___. "'The status is not quo': Television's Horrible Future." Critical Studies in Television's "TV Reflections" section. January 2009. Available online.

___ and Cynthia Burkhead, eds. Joss Whedon: Conversations. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2011.

Lavigne, Carlen. "Forces of the Universe: Intuition and the Lesbian Witch in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Technologies of Intuition. Ed. Jennifer Fisher. Toronto: YYZ Books, 2006. 189-199.

Lavoie, Erin. "'Sex, Love and Sadomasochism: Buffy/Spike as a Queer Relationship." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 6.2 (8), September 2012. Also presented at NCUR: National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, 31 March - 2 April 2011, at Pippi to Ripley: Heroines of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, 23 April 2011, and at the English and Communication Department Colloquium, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY, 9 May 2011.

Lawler, James. "Between Heaven and Hells: Multidimensional Cosmology in Kant and Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Buffy and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale. Ed. James B. South. Chicago: Open Court, 2003. 103-116.

___. "The Multidimensional Universe of Buffy the Vampire Slayer." The God Tube: Uncovering the Hidden Spiritual Message in Pop Culture. Chicago: Open Court, 2009. 60-86.

Layne, Ken. "The Theology of Angel in the City of Demons." The Awl website, 14 January 2013. Available online.

Leaver, Tama. "Joss Whedon, Dr. Horrible, and the Future of Web Media." Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture 11.2 (Spring 2013): 160-173.

LeBoeuf, Anjeanette. "Buffy Vs. Bella." Feminism and Religion website. 14 April 2012. Available online.

Lecoq, Frédérique. "Play, Identity, and Aesthetics in 'Restless'." Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 9.2 (34), Fall 2012.

Lee, Chun Yong. "Staking It to Buffy: Letter." Herizons 16.3 (Winter 2003): 2.

Lee, Keon-Woong. Sacrificial Cain in the Modern Workplace. Masters thesis, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, 2005. Available online.

Lee, Tiffany Kristin. "The Justice Systems of Slayers and Vengeance Demons: Prosecutorial Discretion in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 10.1 (35), Winter 2013.

Lehmann, Joanna. "The Bully Within and Without: Facing Intimidation in Buffy." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004. Available online.

Leland, Jennie. The Phoenix Always Rises: The Evolution of Superheroines in Feminist Culture. Masters thesis, University of Maine, Orono, ME, 2007. Available online.

Lenk, Leah and Denise Lynch. "'Yes Men'?: Rape Myths and Gender Stereotypes in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 8.2 [12], Fall 2015. Also presented as "'Love's Bitch' No Longer: A Disobedient Reading of Romance in Buffy the Vampire Slayer" at the Joss in June 2015 Conference, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, 26-27 June 2015.

Lenzhofer, Karin. "Buffy - Im Bann der Weiblichkeit." Chicks Rule!: Die Schönen neuen Heldinnen in US-Amerikanischen Fernsehserien. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2006. 210-224. In German.

Leon, Hilary M. "Why We Love the Monsters: How Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer Wound Up Dating the Enemy." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 1.1 (1), January 2001.

Leonard, Kendra Preston. "'The Future is the Past': Music and History in Firefly." Space and Time: Essays on Visions of History in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Eds. David C. Wright and Allen W. Austin. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 174-188. Available online.

___. "Introduction." Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing: Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon. Ed. Kendra Preston Leonard. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2011. 1-6.

___. "'The Status is not Quo': Gender and Performance in Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog."Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing: Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon. Ed. Kendra Preston Leonard. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2011. 275-292.

___, ed. Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing: Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2011.

Lerner, Neil. "Music, Race, and Paradoxes of Representation: Jubal Early's Musical Motif of Barbarism in 'Objects in Space'." Investigating Firefly and Serenity: Science Fiction on the Frontier. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya R. Cochran. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2008. 183-190.

Leslie. "The Road Less Traveled: Mutant Enemy, Spike, Angel and Redemption at the End of the Day." Tabula Rasa website. Available online.

Lester, Darren. "'Don't Speak Latin in Front of the Books': Latin as the Lingua Franca of Magic in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 12.2-13.1 (40-41), Winter 2014/Spring 2015.

___. "A Slayer Slays and a Watcher Mentors:  A Comparison of Rupert Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Mentor from Homer's The Odyssey." Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+ 20.1 [55], Winter/Spring 2022.

Levina, Marina. "How the Vampire Got Neutered: Boundary Surveillance and Technoscientific Discourse on Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Vampires: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil. Ed. Carla T. Kungl. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2003. 121-123. Also presented at Vampires: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil, Budapest, Hungary, 22-24 May 2003. Available online.

Levine, Elana. "Buffy and the 'New Girl Order': Defining Feminism and Femininity." Undead TV: Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Elana Levine and Lisa Parks. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. 168-189. Also presented in earlier form at National Communication Association Conference, Chicago IL, November 2004, and as an invited lecture, "Buffy and the 'New Girl Order': Two Waves of Television and Feminism," at the Media and Cultural Studies colloquium, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Spring 2002.

___ and Lisa Parks. "Introduction." Undead TV: Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Elana Levine and Lisa Parks. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. 1-15.

___ and Lisa Parks, eds. Undead TV: Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Elana Levine and Lisa Parks. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007.

Levine, Michael P. and Steven Jay Schneider, "Feeling for Buffy: The Girl Next Door." Buffy and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale. Ed. James B. South. Chicago: Open Court, 2003. 294-308.

Levinger, Rebecca. "'Let the Tide Come In': How Claire is the True Representation of Dollhouse's Premise." Inside Joss' Dollhouse: from Alpha to Rossum. Ed. Jane Espenson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: Smart Pop [BenBella], 2010. 105-115.

Levy, Sophie. "'You Still My Girl?': Adolescent Femininity as Resistance in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 3.1 (2003). Available online.

Lichtenberg, Jacqueline. "Power of Becoming." Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Television Show. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2003. 121-136.

___. "Victime Triumphant." Five Seasons of Angel: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Vampire. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: Benella, 2004. 133-138.

Liddell, Alex. "Problematic Tropes of Bi Women in the Whedonverses." Queering the Whedonverses. Eds. Lorna Jowett and Hélène Frohard-Dourlent. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 15.2 (46), Summer/Fall 2017.

Lima, Maria. "I Am Joss Whedon's Bitch." Whedonistas!: A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon by the Women Who Love Them. Eds. Lynne M. Thomas and Deborah Stanish. Des Moines, IA: Mad Norwegian Press, 2011. 112-115.

Lincoln Charles. "The Joss Whedon Way of Life." Buffy the Vampire Slayer Online website. 24 October 2011. Available online.

Lins, Marcella. "Libertarianism in Pop Culture: Applying Libertarian Principles to Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s Season 4." MISES: Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, Law, and Economics 8 (2020): 1–23.

Linsley, Brent. "Canon Fodder Revisited: Buffy Meets the Bard." Buffy Meets the Academy: Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Texts. Ed. Kevin K. Durand. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 17-24.

___. "Complexes My Mother Left Me: Spike Meets Robin Wood." Buffy Meets the Academy: Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Texts. Ed. Kevin K. Durand. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 131-136.

Lioi, Anthony. "Slayer and Signal: Joss Whedon Versus the Big Bads." Nerd Ecology: Defending the Earth with Unpopular Culture. London: Bloomsbury, 2016. 145-168.

Lipsett, Joseph. "'One for the Horror Fans' vs. 'An Insult to the Horror Genre': Negotiating Reading Strategies in IMDb Reviews of The Cabin in the Woods." 'We Are Not Who We Are': Critical Reflections on The Cabin in the Woods (2012). Eds. Kristopher Woofter and Jasie Stokes. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 10.2-11.1 (36-37), Fall 2013/Winter 2014.

___. Opposing Buffy: Power, Responsibility and the Narrative Function of the Big Bad in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 2006.

Little, Tracy. "High School is Hell: Metaphor Made Literal." Buffy and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale. Ed. James B. South. Chicago: Open Court, 2003. 282-293.

Lively, Robert L. "Remapping the Feminine in Joss Whedon's Firefly." Channeling the Future: Essays on Science Fiction and Fantasy Television. Ed. Lincoln Geraghty. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2009. 183-198.

Livingston, James. "Apocalypse Now?" The World Turned Inside Out: American Thought and Culture at the End of the 20th Century. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010. 89-91.

Livingstone, Aaron.  "'Bits, Fluids, what am I?': Biopolitical Incursion and River's Enduring Soul." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 8.2 [12], Fall 2015.

Lockett, Christopher. "'We are not who we are': Lovecraftian Conspiracy and Magical Humanism in The Cabin in the Woods." Horror Studies 6.1 (April 2015): 121-139. Also presented as "Magical Humanism: Joss Whedon's Rewriting of Lovecraft" at SCW6: Much Ado About Whedon: The 6th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, California State University – Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, 19-22 June 2014.

Locklin, Reid B. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Domestic Church: Revisioning Family and the Common Good." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 2.2 (6), September 2002.

Lodge, Mary Jo. "Beyond 'Jumping the Shark': The New Television Musical." Studies in Musical Theatre 1.3 (December 2007): 293-305.

Loftis, J. Robert. "Moral Complexity in the Buffyverse." Slayage: the Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 7.3 (27), Winter 2009. Also presented at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

Longbons, Jarrod. "Vampires Are People, Too: Personalism in the Buffyverse." The Undead and Theology. Eds. Kim Paffenroth and John W. Morehead. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2012. 34-53.

Longstreet-Conrad, Roxanne. "Is That Your Final Answer...?" Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Television Show. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2003. 5-18.

___. "Mirror/Mirror: A Parody." Finding Serenity: Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly. Eds. Jane Espenson with Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2005. 169-182.

___. "Welcome to Wolfram & Hart: The Semi-Complete Guide to Evil." Five Seasons of Angel: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Vampire. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2004. 33-47.

López Rodríguez, Francisco Javier. "La cabaña en el bosque: De-construyendo el cine de terror convencional." De la estaca al martillo: Un viaje por los universos de Joss Whedon, de Buffy a Los Vengadores. Eds. Pedro José García and Irene Raya Bravo. Madrid: Diábolo Ediciones, 2015. 176-195. In Spanish.

Lorrah, Jean. "Love Saves the World." Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Television Show. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2003. 167-175.

___. "A World Without Love: The Failure of Family in Angel." Five Seasons of Angel: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Vampire. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2004. 57-63.

Lotz, Amanda D. "Fighting for Families and Femininity: The Hybrid Narratives of the Action Drama." Redesigning Women: Television After the Network Era. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2006. 68-83.

___. "Love, Trust and Friendship in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Redesigning Women: Television After the Network Era. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2006. 85-86.

Low, Dae S. "The Browncoat Connection." Whedonistas!: A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon by the Women Who Love Them. Eds. Lynne M. Thomas and Deborah Stanish. Des Moines, IA: Mad Norwegian Press, 2011. 142-149.

Lowe, Donna. "The Last Spike: Jungian Individuation in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Watcher Junior: The Journal of Undergraduate Research in Buffy Studies 2.1 (2), July 2006.

Lozano Delmar, Javier and Alberto Hermida. "Agentes de S.H.I.E.L.D.: Convergencia collision de mundos narrativos en el autor transmedia Joss Whedon." De la estaca al martillo: Un viaje por los universos de Joss Whedon, de Buffy a Los Vengadores. Eds. Pedro José García and Irene Raya Bravo. Madrid: Diábolo Ediciones, 2015. 240-259. In Spanish.

Ludlow, Peter. "From Sherlock and Buffy to Klingon and Norrathian Platinum Pieces: Pretense, Contextualism, and the Myth of Fiction." Philosophical Issues 16.1 (2006): 162-183. Available online.

Lundy, Jonathon N. Still Flying: The Communicative Constitution of Browncoat Fandom as Culture. Masters thesis, Boise State University, Boise, ID, 2010. Available online.

Luria, Rachel. "Nothing Left but Skin and Cartilage: The Body and Toxic Masculinity." Sexual Rhetoric in the Works of Joss Whedon: New Essays. Ed. Erin B. Waggoner. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 185-193. Also presented at SC3: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008.

Lyn, Liang-Chih. Blondes and the Horror Genre: The Subversion of Gender and Genre in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. Masters thesis, National Central University, Zhongli City, Taiwan, 2006. Available online.

Lyons, Siobhan. "No Future For You?: Faith and the Future of the Dark Slayer." After the Avengers: From Joss Whedon's Hottest, Newest Franchises to the Future of the Whedonverse. Eds. PopMatters.com with Valerie Estelle Frankel. Chicago: PopMatters Media, Inc., 2015.

Lytle, Paul. One Power in the 'Verse: Finding God in Firefly and Serenity. Self-published, 2009.

Lyubansky, Mikhail. "Buffy's Search for Meaning." The Psychology of Joss Whedon: An Unauthorized Exploration of Buffy, Angel, and Firefly. Ed. Joy Davidson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: BenBella, 2007. 171-183.




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McAvan, Emily. "'I Think I'm Kinda Gay': Willow Rosenberg and the Absent/Present Bisexual in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 6.4 (24), Summer 2007.

McClain, Katia. "Angel vs. the Grand Inquisitor: Joss Whedon Re-imagines Dostoevsky." The Literary Angel: Essays on Influences and Traditions Reflected in the Joss Whedon Series. Eds. AmiJo Comeford and Tamy L. Burnett. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 130-146. Also presented as "Freedom from Suffering or Freedom to Suffer: Joss Whedon Reimagines Dostoevsky" at SC3: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008.

___. "'It's nowhere special': Representations of Eastern Europe in Avengers: Age of Ultron." 'A Part of Something Bigger': Critical Approaches to Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and The Avengers. Eds. Eve Bennett and Erin Giannini. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 17.1 (49), Winter / Spring 2019: 36-57. Also presented in earlier form as "Joss Whedon's The Avengers: Age of Ultron: 'Sokovia... it's nowhere special" at SCW8: The 8th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL, 21-24 June 2018.

___. "Joss Whedon's The Avengers: Age of Ultron: 'Sokovia... it's nowhere special'." Paper presented at SCW8: The 8th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL, 21-24 June 2018.

___. "Representations of the Roma in Buffy and Angel." Joss Whedon and Race: Critical Essays. Eds. Mary Ellen Iatropoulos and Lowery A. Woodall III. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. 127-149.

McClain-Rowe, Elaine. "Warren Mears and the Slaying of Incel Culture." Watcher Junior​: The Undergraduate Journal of Buffy+, 12.1 [17], Fall 2021.

McClelland, Bruce. "By Whose Authority?: The Magical Tradition, Violence, and the Legitimation of the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 1.1 (1), January 2001.

___. "The Slayer Generation." Slayers and Their Vampires: A Cultural History of Killing the Dead. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006. 168-186.

McConnell, Kathleen. "Chaos at the Mouth of Hell. Why the Columbine High School Massacre had Repercussions for Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Gothic Studies 2.1 (April 2000): 119-135.

McCormick, Casey J. "Making Sense of the Future: Narrative Destabilization in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse." Time in Television Narrative: Exploring Temporality in Twenty-first-centuty Programming. Ed. Melissa Ames. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2012. 205-217.

___. "That Whedony Feeling." In Media Res website. 3 October 2013. Available online.

___. "Transmediating the Whedon Classroom." Transmediating the Whedonverse(s): Essays on Texts, Paratexts, and Metatexts. Eds. Juliette C. Kitchens and Julie L. Hawk. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 65-86.

McCracken, Allison. "At Stake: Angel's Body, Fantasy Masculinity, and Queer Desire in Teen Television." Undead TV: Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Elana Levine and Lisa Parks. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. 116-144.

McCrann, Eugena. "The Browncoats Return!: The New Rebellion in Leaves on the Wind." After the Avengers: From Joss Whedon's Hottest, Newest Franchises to the Future of the Whedonverse. Eds. PopMatters.com with Valerie Estelle Frankel. Chicago: PopMatters Media, Inc., 2015.

MacDonald, Deneka C. "Iconic Eye Candy: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Designer Peer Pressure for Teens." Femme Fatalities: Representations of Strong Women in the Media. Eds. Rikke Schubart and Anne Gjelsvik. [Gothenburg, Sweden] Scandinavia: Nordicom Publishing, 2004. 111-26. Also presented at Crossroads in Cultural Studies: Fourth International Conference, Tampere, Finland.

McDonald, Kathleen. "The More Things Change: Buffy and Angel Enact a Modern-Day Sentimental Novel." Americanization of History: Conflation of Time and Culture in Film and Television. Ed. Kathleen McDonald. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. 108-132.

McDonald, Neil. "Buffy: Prime Time Passion Play." Quadrant 44.4 (April 2000): 63-67.

McDonald, Paul F. "Buffy and the Beast: An Analysis of Buffy and Spike's Relationship." The Existential Scoobies website. 2001. Available online.

___. "Existentialism in 'The Gift': Philosophy and Buffy the Vampire Slayer." The Existential Scoobies website. 2001. Available online.

___. "Saving the World: An Analysis of Season Six's Finale." The Existential Scoobies website. 2002. Available online.

___. "The Goddess and Her Gift: An Analysis of the Fifth Season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer." The Existential Scoobies website. 2001. Available online.

___. "The Mythic Experience." The Existential Scoobies website. 2002. Available online.

___. "To Heaven and Back: The Return of Buffy the Vampire Slayer." The Existential Scoobies website. 2001. Available online.

___. "The Mythology and Magic of Buffy the Vampire Slayer." The Existential Scoobies website. 2001. Available online.

___. "Vampire Slaying and Cultivating Insanity." The Existential Scoobies website. 2002. Available online.

Macdonald, Peregrine. "'Little Geisha Dolls': Postfeminism in Joss Whedon's Firefly." uffy to Batgirl: Essays on Female Power, Evolving Femininity and Gender Roles in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Eds. Julie M. Still and Zara T. Wilkinson. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2019. 216-224.

McDonald, Rick. "Sacred Violence and The Cabin in the Woods." 'We Are Not Who We Are': Critical Reflections on The Cabin in the Woods (2012). Eds. Kristopher Woofter and Jasie Stokes. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 10.2-11.1 (36-37), Fall 2013/Winter 2014. Also presented at the 2013 PCA/ACA National Conference, Washington, D.C., 27-30 March 2013.

McDowell, John C. "National Treasures: Joss Whedon's Assembling of Exceptional Avengers." Joss Whedon and Religion: Essays on an Angry Atheist's Explorations of the Sacred. Eds. Anthony R. Mills, John W. Morehead, and J. Ryan Parker. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013. 183-195.

___. The Politics of Big Fantasy: The Ideologies of Star Wars, The Matrix and The Avengers. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014. 25-66.

McGee, Masani. "Big Men in Spangly Outfits: Spectacle and Masculinity in Joss Whedon's The Avengers." Joss in June: Selected Essays. Eds. K. Dale Koontz [Guffey] and Ensley Guffey. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 11.2/12.1 (38-39), Summer 2014. Also presented as "'Big Men in Spangly Outfits': Spectacle and Eroticism in Joss Whedon's The Avengers" at Joss in June: A Conference on the Works of Joss Whedon, Cleveland Community College, Shelby, NC, 29 June 2013.

___. "The Godmothers of Them All: ­Female-Centered Blaxploitation Films and the Heroines of Joss Whedon." Joss Whedon and Race: Critical Essays. Eds. Mary Ellen Iatropoulos and Lowery A. Woodall III. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. 268-282.

McGrath, Derek S. "Some Assembly Required: Joss Whedon's Bridging of Masculinities in Marvel Films' The Avengers." Screening Images of American Masculinity in the Age of Postfeminism. Eds. Elizabeth Abele and John A. Gronbeck-Tedesco. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015. 135-154.

McGrath, Meredith. "How an Atheist and His Demons Created a Shepherd." Whedonistas!: A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon by the Women Who Love Them. Eds. Lynne M. Thomas and Deborah Stanish. Des Moines, IA: Mad Norwegian Press, 2011. 156-164.

McGuire, Seanan. "The Girls Next Door: Learning to Live with the Living Dead and Never Even Break a Nail." Whedonistas!: A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon by the Women Who Love Them. Eds. Lynne M. Thomas and Deborah Stanish. Des Moines, IA: Mad Norwegian Press, 2011. 13-18. Available online.

Machard, Caileen. "Geisha in the Wild, Wild West: How the Companions of the 'Verse are Influenced by Geisha Culture." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 7.2 [10], Fall 2014.

McIntosh, Jonathan. "What Would Buffy Do?: Notes on Dusting Edward Cullen." Women in Media & News website, WIMN's Voices: A Group Blog on Women, Media, AND.... 1 July 2009. Available online.

McKee, Alan. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Television Studies. Ed. Toby Miller. London: British Film Institute [BFI], 2002. 69.

___. "Previously on Buffy." In Media Res website. 23 February 2007. Available online.

McKee, Marc. "'You're Not the Source of Me': Navigating and Mastering the Transmedial at the End of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Fourth Season." Transmediating the Whedonverse(s): Essays on Texts, Paratexts, and Metatexts. Eds. Juliette C. Kitchens and Julie L. Hawk. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

McKenzie, Keira. A Tale Not Told (Novel): Consorting with Devils, Dancing with Angels. Masters thesis, University of Western Australia, Crawley [near Peth], Western Australia, 2003.

McKeon, J. Michael. "'Love the One You're With': Developing Xander." The Truth of Buffy: Essays on Fiction Illuminating Reality. Eds. Emily Dial-Driver, Sally Emmons-Featherston, Jim Ford and Carolyn Anne Taylor. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 131-141.

McLaren, Scott. "The Evolution of Joss Whedon's Vampire Mythology and the Ontology of the Soul." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 5.2 (18), September 2005.

McMillan, Tracie, and Oscar Owen. "The Buffy Files." The Activist Winter/Spring 1999. Also published as "Teen Socialist Idols" in Harper's July 1999: 35-36.

McMurray, Rachel. "'I have no speech, no name': The Denial of Female Agency Through Speech in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Joss Whedon and Race: Critical Essays. Eds. Mary Ellen Iatropoulos and Lowery A. Woodall III. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. 51-71.

Macnaughtan, Don. The Buffyverse Catalog: A Complete Guide to Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel in Print, Film, Television, Comics, Games and Other Media, 1992-2010. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011.

___. The Whedonverse Catalog: A Complete Guide to Works in All Media. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018.

MacNeil, William P. "You Slay Me!: Buffy as Jurisprude of Desire." Cardozo Law Review 24.6 (2003): 2421-2440. Also presented at Staking a Claim: Exploring the Global Reach of Buffy, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, 22 July 2003.

McNeilly, Kevin, Susan R. Fisher, and Christina Sylka. "Kiss the Librarian, But Close the Hellmouth: 'It's Like a Whole Big Sucking Thing'." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 1.2 (2), March 2001.

McRae, Leanne Helen. "A Postcolonial Provocation: Serenity." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 243-252. Originally appeared in earlier form in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 20 March 2011. Partially Available Online.

___.  "Whedon's Women: Melinda May and Maria Hill as Transgressive Superheroines." After the Avengers: From Joss Whedon's Hottest, Newest Franchises to the Future of the Whedonverse. Eds. PopMatters.com with Valerie Estelle Frankel. Chicago: PopMatters Media, Inc., 2015. Partially Available Online.

___. Questions of Popular Cult(ure). Ph.D. dissertation, Media Communication & Culture School, Arts Division, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia, 2003. Available Online.

McTee, Sasha Rene. 'But, You're Just A Girl': The Female Hero in Modern Science Fiction and Fantasy. MA thesis, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, 2013. Available Online.

Maddox, Margaret Joan. "Joan's Daughters: Threshold to the Eternal Now." Portrayals of Joan of Arc in Film: From the Historical Joan to Her Mythological Daughters. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2008. 171-211.

___. Keeping Her in Her Place: The Perpetual Imprisonment of Joan of Arc. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, 2004.

Magill, David. "'I Aim to Misbehave': Masculinities in the 'Verse." Investigating Firefly and Serenity: Science Fiction on the Frontier. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya R. Cochran. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2008. 76-86.

Magistrale, Tony. "Vampiric Terrors: Dracula, The Hunger, Interview with the Vampire, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Abject Terrors: Surveying the Modern and Postmodern Horror Film. New York: Peter Lang, 2005. 37-56.

Magnusson, Gert. "Are Vampires Evil?: Categorizations of Vampires, and Angelus and Spike as the Immoral and the Amoral." Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 9.2 (34), Fall 2012.

___. "Being a Vampire Sucks: Regard-ing the Anonymous Vampires in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 9.1 (33), Spring 2011.

___. "Harmony: The Lonely Life of a Modern Woman." Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 9.2 (34), Fall 2012.

Magoulick, Mary. "Frustrating Female Heroism: Mixed Messages in Xena, Nikita, and Buffy." The Journal of Popular Culture 39.5 (Oct 2006): 729-755. Also accepted (but not presented) for the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Mahoney, Blair. "Screwball Shakespeare: Much Ado about Nothing." Screen Education 72 (2013): 116-120.

Mahoney, Melissa. "A Slayer's Death Denial: The Struggle for Authenticity in 'Graduation Day: Part One and Two'." Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 9.2 (34), Fall 2012.

Mai, Emily. Writing the Vampire: Constitutions of Gender in Carmilla, Dracula, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. BA honors thesis, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 2009. Available online.

Mainon, Dominique and James Ursini. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Modern Amazons: Warrior Women on Screen. Pompton Plains, NJ: Limelight Editions, 2006. 81-85.

Mains, Christine. "'Dreams Teach': (Im)Possible Worlds in Science Fiction Television." The Essential Science Fiction Television Reader. Ed. J. P. Telotte. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. 143-158.

Maio, Barbara. "Between Past and Future: Hybrid Design Style in Firefly and Serenity." Investigating Firefly and Serenity: Science Fiction on the Frontier. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya R. Cochran. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2008. 201-211.

___. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Cult Series (Vol. I): Le grandi narrazioni televisive nell'America di fine secolo. Ed. Franco Monteleone. Rome: Dino Audino Editore, 2007. 134-158. In Italian.

___. "Case Study: Buffy the Vampire Slayer." La terza golden age della televisione: autorialità, generi, modelli produttivi. Cantalupo in Sabina: Sabinæ, 2009. 181-202. In Italian.

___. "Etica ed estetica del non morto." In Barbara Maio. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Rome: Aracne Editrice, 2004. 42-45. In Italian. Available online.

___. "Famiglia, religione e rovesciamento della autorità." In Barbara Maio. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Rome: Aracne Editrice, 2004. 54-57. In Italian. Available online.

___. "Girl Power and Magic in the Service of a Cult." English translation by Jeffrey Bussolini. Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 6.3 (23), Spring 2007.

___. "L'inizio della storia." In Barbara Maio. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Rome: Aracne Editrice, 2004. 8-15. In Italian. Available online.

___. "Introduzione." In Barbara Maio. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Rome: Aracne Editrice, 2004. 6-8. In Italian. Available online.

___. "Joss Whedon o dell'autore televisivo." CinemAvvenire website. 27 May 2008. In Italian. Available Online.

___. "I personaggi." In Barbara Maio. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Rome: Aracne Editrice, 2004. 16-41. In Italian. Available online.

___. "Novellizzazioni e Fanfiction." In Barbara Maio. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Rome: Aracne Editrice, 2004. 58-61. In Italian. Available online.

___. "Relazioni pericolose: il rapporto Buffy-Giles." Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Legittimare la Cacciatrice. Ed. Barbara Maio. Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 2007. 123-135. In Italian.

___. "Slayer Slang." In Barbara Maio. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Rome: Aracne Editrice, 2004. 62-64. In Italian. Available online.

___. "Il tema della morte nel buffyverse." In Barbara Maio. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Rome: Aracne Editrice, 2004. 46-53. In Italian. Available online.

___. "Watching the Watcher: Analysing the Character of Rupert Giles." Paper presented at SC2: The Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006. Available online.

___. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Rome: Aracne Editrice, 2004. In Italian. Entire book available online.

___, ed. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Legittimare la Cacciatrice. Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 2007. In Italian, mainly.

Makishima, Keiko. "'You're not the source of me': Adoptive Identity and Child-Heroes in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 6.1 (7), July 2012.

Mallan, Kerry. "Hitting Below the Belt: Action Femininity and Representations of Female Subjectivity." Youth Cultures: Texts, Images, and Identities. Eds. Kerry Mallan and Sharyn Pearce. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. 139-153.

Maloney-Mangold, Michelle. "Working-Class Hero?: Fighting Neoliberal Precarity in Buffy's 6th Season.” The Journal of Popular Culture 51.5 (2018): 1152–1171.

Maltese, Racheline. "Late to the Party: What Buffy Never Taught Me About Being a Girl." Whedonistas!: A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon by the Women Who Love Them. Eds. Lynne M. Thomas and Deborah Stanish. Des Moines, IA: Mad Norwegian Press, 2011. 150-155.

Mandala, Susan. "Representing the Future: Chinese and Codeswitching in Firefly." Investigating Firefly and Serenity: Science Fiction on the Frontier. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya R. Cochran. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2008. 31-40.

___. "Solidarity and the Scoobies: An analysis of the -y suffix in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Language and Literature 16.1 (February 2007): 53-73. Also 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.

Marano, Michael. "River Tam and the Weaponized Women of the Whedonverse." Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe. Ed. Jane Espenson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: BenBella, 2007. 37-48.

Marinov, Monica. "Traveling Between Mediums: Buffy's Ascent into Television." Watcher Junior: The Journal of Undergraduate Research in Buffy Studies 2.1 (2), July 2006.

Marinucci, Mimi. "Feminism and the Ethics of Violence: Why Buffy Kicks Ass." Buffy and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale. Ed. James B. South. Chicago: Open Court, 2003. 61-75.

Marks, Rick Brian. Targeting Families and Teens: Television Violence on the WB. Masters thesis, University of Nevada – Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, 2000.

Markson, Alison Warren. Definitions of Femininity: Social and Media Influences on Late Adolescent Girls Ph.D. dissertation, Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, Boston, MA, 2004.

Marmo, Jennifer. "From Typical Teen to Sidekick: The Transformation of Xander in Buffy the Vampire Slayer."  The Human in Superhuman The Power of the Sidekick in Popular Culture. Eds. Sandra Eckard and Alex Romagnoli. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022.

___. "The Heroine’s Journey: Writing and Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Yin and Yang in the English Classroom Teaching with Popular Culture Texts. Ed. Sandra Eckard. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.

___. "Who Am I?: A Discovery of Self Through Comics with Buffy, the Vampire Slayer." Comic Connections Reflecting on Women in Popular Culture. Ed. Sandra Eckard. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.

Marotta, Melanie A. "Domestic Space and Identity: Joss Whedon's Futuristic Frontier in Firefly." At Home in the Whedonverse: Essays on Domestic Place, Space and Life. Ed. Juliette C. Kitchens. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. 87-103.

Marshall, C. W. "Aeneas the Vampire Slayer: A Roman Model for Why Giles Kills Ben." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 9 (August 2003):

Marshall, Jerilyn. "What Would Buffy Do?: The Use of Popular Culture Examples in Undergraduate Library Instruction." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the PCA/ACA, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, March 13-16, 2002. Available online.

Martens, John W. "The Apocalyptic Vision in Film and Television.: Traditional Apocalyptic Films." The End of the World: The Apocalyptic Imagination in Film & Television. Winnipeg: Shillingford, 2003. 130-137.

Martin, Andrew. "Popular Culture and Narratives of Insecurity." Rethinking Global Security: Media, Popular Culture, and the 'War on Terror'. Eds. Patrice Petro and Andrew Martin. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2006. 104-116.

Martin, Jane. "'Show, Don't Tell': Teaching the Elements of Film Production." Buffy in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching With the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Jodie A. Kreider and Meghan K. Winchell. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 126-135.

Mason, Jonathan. "Like a Boss." Inside Joss' Dollhouse: from Alpha to Rossum. Ed. Jane Espenson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: Smart Pop [BenBella], 2010. 95-103.

Masson, Cynthea. "Angel: An Introduction." Reading Joss Whedon. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox, Tanya R. Cochran, Cynthea Masson, and David Lavery. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2014. 115-118.

___. "'Break Out the Champagne, Pinocchio': Angel and the Puppet Paradox." Studies in Popular Culture 35.2 (2013): 43-67. Also presented as keynote address at SCW5: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 12-15 July 2012.

___. "'But She Was Naked! And All Articulate!': The Rhetoric of Seduction in Firefly." Investigating Firefly and Serenity: Science Fiction on the Frontier. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya R. Cochran. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2008. 19-30.

___. "'Can You Just Be Kissing Me Now?': The Question(s) of Willow in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Televising Queer Women: A Reader. Ed. Rebecca Beirne. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 65-81. Also published in earlier form as "'Is That Just a Comforting Way of Not Answering the Question?': Willow, Questions, and Affective Respose in Buffy the Vampire Slayer" in Beyond Slayer Slang: Pragmatics, Discourse, and Style in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ed. Michael Adams. Special Issue of Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 5.4 (20), May 2006.

___. "Concealing Truths: Rhetorical Questions in 'Once More, with Feeling'." Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing: Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon. Ed. Kendra Preston Leonard. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2011. 133-153. Also presented in earlier form as "'What Did You Sing About?': Acts of Questioning in 'Once More With Feeling'" at SC2: The Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

___. "'Evil's Spreading Sir... And It's Not Just Over There': Nazism in Buffy and Angel." Monsters in the Mirror: Representations of Nazism in Post-War Popular Culture. Eds. Sara Buttsworth and Maartje Abbenhuis. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2010. 179-99.

___. "'It's a play on perspective': A Reading of Whedon's Illyria through Sartre's Nausea." The Literary Angel: Essays on Influences and Traditions Reflected in the Joss Whedon Series. Eds. AmiJo Comeford and Tamy L. Burnett. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 159-172.

___. "'It's a Thing We Do': Crying with Buffy and Angel." On the Verge of Tears: Why the Movies, Television, Music, Art, Popular Culture, Literature, and the Real World Make Us Cry. Ed. Michele Byers and David Lavery. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. 114-24.

___. "'Let's see what's in there': Unlocking the Containers of Firefly and Serenity." Special 20th Anniversary Issue on Firefly. Eds. Sherry Ginn and Heather M. Porter. Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+ 20.2 [56], Fall 2022. Also 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.

___. "'Off with their heads!!—Kidding!': The Beheading Topos in Angel's Pylea." Blood, Body and Soul: Essays on Health, Wellness and Disability in Buffy, Angel, Firefly and Dollhouse. Eds. Tamy Burnett and AmiJo Comeford. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2022. 131-143.

___. "'What a Crazy Random Happenstance': Destiny and Free Will in Dr. Horrible." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 372-377. Also presented in earlier form as "'What a Crazy Random Happenstance': Destiny & Free Will in Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog at the 30th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 25-28 February 2009. Also appeared in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 24 March 2011. Partially Available Online.

___. "What the Hell?: Angel's 'The Girl in Question'." Reading Joss Whedon. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox, Tanya R. Cochran, Cynthea Masson, and David Lavery. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2014. 134-146. Also presented at SC3: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008, and at Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, BC, Canada, November 2008.

___. "Who Painted the Lion?: A Gloss on Dollhouse's 'Belle Chose'." Fantasy Is Not Their Purpose: Joss Whedon's Dollhouse. Eds. Cynthea Masson and Rhonda V. Wilcox. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 8.2-3 (30-31), Summer/Fall 2010. Also presented as featured lecture at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

___ and Marni Stanley. "Queer Eye of that Vampire Guy: Spike and the Aesthetics of Camp." Buffy and Aesthetics. Ed. Matthew Pateman. Special Issue of Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 6.2 (22), Winter 2006.

___ and Rhonda V. Wilcox. "'Fantasy... Is Their Business, But That Is Not Their Purpose': Introduction to the Slayage Special Issue on Dollhouse." Fantasy Is Not Their Purpose: Joss Whedon's Dollhouse. Eds. Cynthea Masson and Rhonda V. Wilcox. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 8.2-3 (30-31), Summer/Fall 2010.

___ and Rhonda V. Wilcox, eds. Fantasy Is Not Their Purpose: Joss Whedon's Dollhouse. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 8.2-3 (30-31), Summer/Fall 2010.

Mastracci, Sharon H. "Public Service Motivation in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Public Voices 12(1), 2011. 67-85.

Mathers, Ian. "Joss Whedon 101: Dollhouse." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 381-384. Originally appeared in earlier form in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 28 March 2011. Partially Available Online.

___. "'The Strength and Conviction to Lose So Relentlessly': Heroism in Angel." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 213-219.

Mathis, Cori. "Bringing the Pain: An Examination of Marti Noxon's Contributions to Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Joss in June: Selected Essays. Eds. K. Dale Koontz [Guffey] and Ensley Guffey. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 11.2/12.1 (38-39), Summer 2014. Also presented as "Joss Whedon Might Kill People, but Marti Noxon Brings the Pain" at Joss in June: A Conference on the Works of Joss Whedon, Cleveland Community College, Shelby, NC, 29 June 2013.

Mattessi, Peter. "Buffy and the Serialization of the Series." Metro Magazine 137 (Summer 2003): 76-77.

Mayer, Sophia R. Script Girls and Automatic Women: A Feminist Film Poetics. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2006.

Mayhew, Valerie. "Mary and Buffy Walk into a Bar: The Virgin Deity and Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Joss Whedon and Religion: Essays on an Angry Atheist's Explorations of the Sacred. Eds. Anthony R. Mills, John W. Morehead, and J. Ryan Parker. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013. 39-50.

Mayo, Andrea E. "Cops, Teachers, and Vampire Slayers: Buffy as Street-Level Bureaucrat." Administrative Theory & Praxis 33.4 (December 2011): 599-603.

Meaney, Geraldine. "Dead, White, Male: Irishness in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel." The Irish in Us: Irishness, Performativity, and Popular Culture. Ed. Diane Negra. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. 254-281.

Medendorp, Liz. "Buffyspeak: The Internal and External Impact of Slayer Slang." Fan Phenomena: Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ed. Jennifer Kate Stuller. Chicago: Intellect, 2013. 64-73.

Melissa. "Thematic Crossovers Between Angel and Buffy." Tabula Rasa website. Available Online.

Melnyk, Rachel. "'I Only Have Eyes For You': A Disobedient Reading of the Buffy/Angel Romance in Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 8.2 [12], Fall 2015. Also presented as "'Love's Bitch' No Longer: A Disobedient Reading of Romance in Buffy the Vampire Slayer" at the Joss in June 2015 Conference, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, 26-27 June 2015.

Melton, J. Gordon. "Images from the Hellmouth: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Comic Books 1998-2002." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 2.2 (6), September 2002.

___. "Words from the Hellmouth: A Bibliography of Books on Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 1.4 (4), December 2001 [Revised and Expanded, March 2003].

___ and Alysa Hornick. The Vampire in Folklore, History, Literature, Film and Television: A Comprehensive Bibliography. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015.

Melvin, Stephen G. "'You cannot possibly stop them alone': The Formula Conspiracy Story, the Monomyth, and Whedon's Complicated Heroics." Re-Entering the Dollhouse: Essays on the Joss Whedon Series. Eds. Heather M. Porter and Michael Starr. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2022. 175-189.

Mendelsohn, Farah. "Surpassing the Love of Vampires; or Why (and How) a Queer Reading of Buffy/Willow is Denied." Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and David Lavery. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. 45-60.

Mendick, Heather. "Hippy Chix and Geek Chic: What do Positive Images of Women Mathematicians Look Like?" Proceedings of the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics 25.2 (June 2005): 55-60. Available online.

Meredith, Rowan. "Dream Queer: Does Fitz Offer Positive Bisexual Representation on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.?" Queering the Whedonverses. Eds. Lorna Jowett and Hélène Frohard-Dourlent. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 15.2 (46), Summer/Fall 2017.

Merrick, Robin M. Buffy Can Be Stuffy: The Rhetoric of Pop Culture and Post-Feminist Ideology with Composition Applications in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, OK, 2003.

Mesnildot, Stéphane du. "Buffy contre les vampires." Ecran fantastique 190 (October 1999): 88-89. In French.

Messina, Justin. "The Legacy of the Slayer: How Buffy Lives On in Chaos Bleeds." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 6.2 (8), September 2012.

Metz, Jr., Jerry D. "'For All I Know, It Could be Really Hilarious or It Could Suck': Situating the Film Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) in Period Vampire Comedy." Joss Whedon Vs. the Horror Tradition: The Production of Genre in Buffy and Beyond. Eds. Kristopher Karl Woofter and Lorna Jowett. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2018 [c 2019]. 143-162.

___. "What's Your Fetish?: The Tortured Economics of Horror Simulacra in The Cabin in the Woods." 'We Are Not Who We Are': Critical Reflections on The Cabin in the Woods (2012). Eds. Kristopher Woofter and Jasie Stokes. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 10.2-11.1 (36-37), Fall 2013/Winter 2014. Also presented as "'What's your Fetish?': Rutual, Capitalism, and Postmodernism in Craze (1974) and The Cabin in the Woods (2011)" at the 2013 PCA/ACA National Conference, Washington, D.C., 27-30 March 2013.

Meyer, Jenna. 'You're a Vampire... Was That an Offensive Term? Should I Say "Undead American"?' The Evolution of the Vampire in Popular Culture. Masters thesis, State University of New York – Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 2010.

Meyer, Michaela D. E. "From Rogue in the 'Hood to Suave in a Suit: Black Masculinity and the Transformation of Charles Gunn." Reading Angel: the TV Spin-off With a Soul. Ed. Stacey Abbott. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2005. 176-188.

Middents, Jeffery R. "A Sweet Vamp: Critiquing the Treatment of Race in Buffy and the American Musical Once More (with Feeling)." Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing: Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon. Ed. Kendra Preston Leonard. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2011. 119-132. Also published in earlier form in Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 17 (2005). Also presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Middleton, Jason. "Buffy as Femme Fatale: The Cult Heroine and the Male Spectator." Undead TV: Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Elana Levine and Lisa Parks. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. 145-167.

Mikosz, Philip and Dana Och. "Previously on Buffy the Vampire Slayer..." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 2.1 (5), May 2002.

Miller, Jessica Prata. "'The I in Team': Buffy and Feminist Ethics." Buffy and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale. Ed. James B. South. Chicago: Open Court, 2003. 35-48.

Miller, Laura. "Bye-Bye, Buffy!" Salon.com, May 2003. Available Online.

Millman, Joyce. "Buffy's Leap of Faith." Salon.com, May 2001. Available Online.

___. "The Death of Buffy's Mom: An Amazing, Buzz-Heavy Episode Takes the Most Daring Show on TV to a New Level." Salon.com, March 2001. Available Online.

Mills, Anthony R. "Buffyverse Fandom as Religion." Fan Phenomena: Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ed. Jennifer Kate Stuller. Chicago: Intellect, 2013. 134-143.

___. "Introduction." Joss Whedon and Religion: Essays on an Angry Atheist's Explorations of the Sacred. Eds. Anthony R. Mills, John W. Morehead, and J. Ryan Parker. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013. 7-10.

___. "Preface." Joss Whedon and Religion: Essays on an Angry Atheist's Explorations of the Sacred. Eds. Anthony R. Mills, John W. Morehead, and J. Ryan Parker. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013. 5-6.

___, John W. Morehead, and J. Ryan Parker, eds. Joss Whedon and Religion: Essays on an Angry Atheist's Explorations of the Sacred. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013.

Mills, Matthew. "Angel's Narrative Score." Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing: Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon. Ed. Kendra Preston Leonard. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2011. 173-208.

___. "Ubi Caritas?: Music as Narrative Agent in Angel." Reading Angel: the TV Spin-off With a Soul. Ed. Stacey Abbott. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2005. 31-43.

Milner, Andrew. "Postmodern Gothic: Buffy, the X-Files and the Clinton Presidency." Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 19.1 (2005): 103-116.

___. "Texts and Contexts: from Rossums's Universal Robots to Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Literature, Culture and Society. 2nd edition. New York: Routledge, 2005. 239-294.

Milson, Jack. "Joss Whedon 101: Sugarshock!" Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 334-336. Originally appeared in earlier form in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 29 March 2011. Partially Available Online.

___. "The Power of Fandom in the Whedonverse." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 270-284. Originally appeared in earlier form in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 11 April 2011. Partially Available Online.

Minear, Tim. "Foreword." The Philosophy of Joss Whedon. Eds. Dean A. Kowalski and S. Evan Kreider. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2011. vii-ix.

Mitchell, Shawarma B. "The Whole Assembly: Much Ado About Superheroes, Shakespeare, and. [sic]" After the Avengers: From Joss Whedon's Hottest, Newest Franchises to the Future of the Whedonverse. Eds. PopMatters.com with Valerie Estelle Frankel. Chicago: PopMatters Media, Inc., 2015.

Moeller, Gary. "Is It Art?: The Artful 'Hush' of St. Francis and the Gentlemen Blue Meanies." The Truth of Buffy: Essays on Fiction Illuminating Reality. Eds. Emily Dial-Driver, Sally Emmons-Featherston, Jim Ford and Carolyn Anne Taylor. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 96-106.

Moldovano, Pnina. "Virtually a Femme Fatale: The Case of Buffy's Faith." Sexual Rhetoric in the Works of Joss Whedon: New Essays. Ed. Erin B. Waggoner. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 194-214.

Molinier, Pascale. "Sur la Bouche de l'Enfer: Sexualités de Buffy : 'Ça vient d'en dessous, ça dévore tout'." Philoséries: Buffy, tueuse de vampires. Eds. Sylvie Allouche and Sandra Laugier. Paris: Bragelonne, 2014. 155-185. Also presented as "Sexualités de Buffy" at Buffy Tueuse De Vampires Conference, Paris, France, 26 June 2009. In French.

Molloy, Patricia. "Demon Diasporas: Confronting the Other and the Other Worldly in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel." To Seek Out New Worlds: Science Fiction and World Politics. Ed. Jutta Weldes. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. 99-122.

Monette, Sarah. "The Kindness of Monsters." Whedonistas!: A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon by the Women Who Love Them. Eds. Lynne M. Thomas and Deborah Stanish. Des Moines, IA: Mad Norwegian Press, 2011. 131-134.

Money, Mary Alice. "Firefly's 'Out of Gas': Genre Echoes and the Hero's Journey." Investigating Firefly and Serenity: Science Fiction on the Frontier. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya R. Cochran. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2008. 114-124.

___. "The Undemonization of Supporting Characters in Buffy." Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and David Lavery. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. 98-107.

Montgomery, Carla. "Innocence." Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Television Show. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2003. 152-158.

­Monk-Payton, Brandeise. "Programming Slavery: Race, Technology and the Quest for Freedom in Dollhouse." Joss Whedon and Race: Critical Essays. Eds. Mary Ellen Iatropoulos and Lowery A. Woodall III. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. 215-232.

Montz, Amy L. "'Size Doesn't Matter?': The Disembodied Miniature in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004. Available online.

Moore, James. "Monsters Made to Order." Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Vol. 3. Ed. Paul Ruditis. New York: Simon, 2004. 287-292.

Moore, Robert. "How Buffy Changed Television." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 140-153.

___. "Introduction: Why Cast a Spotlight on Joss Whedon?" Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 11-21. Originally appeared in earlier form as "Why Cast a Spotlight on Joss Whedon?" in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 4 March 2011, Partially Available Online.

___. "Joss Whedon 101: Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 25-28. Originally appeared in earlier form in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 8 March 2011, Partially Available Online.

___. "When TV Became Art: What We Owe to Buffy." PopMatters.com, 17 December 2009. Available online.

Moorman, Jennifer. "'Kinda Gay': Queer Cult Fandom and Willow's (Bi)Sexuality in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Supernatural Youth: The Rise of the Teen Hero in Literature and Popular Culture. Ed. Jes Battis. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011. 102-115.

Morehouse, Lyda. "Romancing the Vampire and Other Shiny Bits." Whedonistas!: A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon by the Women Who Love Them. Eds. Lynne M. Thomas and Deborah Stanish. Des Moines, IA: Mad Norwegian Press, 2011. 100-106.

Morohunfola, Oluwafemi. "What Echo's Journey to Self-Awareness Tells Us About the Human Soul." Inside Joss' Dollhouse: from Alpha to Rossum. Ed. Jane Espenson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: Smart Pop [BenBella], 2010. 219-231.

Morris, Barry. "Round Up the Usable Suspects: Archetypal Characters in the Study of Popular Culture." Buffy in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching With the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Jodie A. Kreider and Meghan K. Winchell. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 46-60.

Morris, Frances E. "Willow's Electric Arcs: Moral Choices Sparked by Connections." The Truth of Buffy: Essays on Fiction Illuminating Reality. Eds. Emily Dial-Driver, Sally Emmons-Featherston, Jim Ford and Carolyn Anne Taylor. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 83-95. Also presented as "Electric Arcs: Character Development in Buffy at the 28th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 14-17 February 2007.

Morris, Tracy S. "Joss Whedon, Alan Moore and the Whole Horrible Future." The Comics of Joss Whedon: Critical Essays. Ed. Valerie Estelle Frankel. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015. 121-132.

Morse, Joan. "Dawn as Ophelia: The Conflicting Femininities of Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Watcher Junior: The Journal of Undergraduate Research in Buffy Studies 4.1 (4), November 2009.

Moss, Gabrielle. "From the Valley to the Hellmouth: Buffy's Transition from Film to Television." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 1.2 (2), March 2001.

Moy, Luke. "'Are You Ready to be Strong?': Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Transgressive to the Strong Female Character Stereotype." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 9.1 [13], Spring 2016.

Moylan, Katie. "'Nothing is what it appears to be': Event Fidelity and Critique in Battlestar Galactica and Dollhouse." Science Fiction Film & Television 5.1 (2012): 67-84.

Mroczkowski, Jim. "The Avengers and the Evolution of the Multi-Film Franchise." In Media Res website. 7 May 2012. Available Online.

Muir, John Kenneth.  Joss Whedon FAQ: All That's Left to Know About Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Dr. Horrible, the Avengers, and More. Lanham, MD: Applause, 2019.

___. "Once More, with Feeling." Singing a New Tune: The Rebirth of the Modern Film Musical, from Evita to De-Lovely and Beyond. New York: Applause, 2005. 276-282.

Mukherjea, Ananya. "'It's like Some Primal, Some Animal Force . . . That Used to Be Us': Animality, Humanity, and Moral Careers in the Buffyverse." Reading Joss Whedon. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox, Tanya R. Cochran, Cynthea Masson, and David Lavery. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2014. 53-69.

___. "My Vampire Boyfriend: Postfeminism, "Perfect" Masculinity, and the Contemporary Appeal of Paranormal Romance." Studies in Popular Culture 33.2 (Spring 2011): 1-20. Also presented as "My Vampire Boyfriend: Interrogating the Appeal of Romance Stories Between Vampire Men and Human Women" at at the 2010 PCAS/ACAS Annual Conference, Savannah, GA, October 7-9, 2010. Available online.

___. "Somebody's Asian on TV: Sierra/Priya and the Politics of Representation." Joss Whedon's Dollhouse: Confounding Purpose, Confusing Identity. Eds. Sherry Ginn, Alyson R. Buckman, and Heather M. Porter. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 65-80.

___. "'When you kiss me, I want to die': Gothic Relationships and Identity Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 7.2 (26), Spring 2008. Also presented as "'When you kiss me, I want to die': Gothic Relationships and Social Taboos on BtVS" at SC3: The Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008.

___ and Rhonda V. Wilcox. "In and Out, Around and Through: Buffy+ on the Cusp: An Introduction to the Anniversary Issue of Slayage's Twentieth Year." Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+ 19.1-2 [53-54], Summer/Fall 2021: 1-12.

Mullen, Darcy and Tirza L. Leader. "Talk Bluntly and Carry a Pointy Stick: Violence and Verbal Complexity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Hero or Villain?: Essays on Dark Protagonists of Television. Eds. Abigail G. Scheg and Tamara Girardi. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. 60-73.

Mullen, Darcy with Tirza L. Leader. "What to do About All The Number Thingies: Data on Violence and Verbal Complexity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 16.1 (47), Winter/Spring 2018.

Mulvihill, Thalia M. and Christina L. Blanch. "Do Serenity Comics Forecast Our Pedagogies of Identity Construction?" The Comics of Joss Whedon: Critical Essays. Ed. Valerie Estelle Frankel. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015. 93-108.

Muntersbjorn, Madeline M. "Disgust, Difference, and Displacement in the Dollhouse." Fantasy Is Not Their Purpose: Joss Whedon's Dollhouse. Eds. Cynthea Masson and Rhonda V. Wilcox. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 8.2-3 (30-31), Summer/Fall 2010. Also presented at the 31st Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 10-13 February 2010, and at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

___. "Dismembering (the) Buffybot." Slaying Is Hell: Essays on Trauma and Memory in the Whedonverse. Eds. Alyson R. Buckman, Juliette C. Kitchens, and Katherine A Troyer. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2023. 81-98.

___. "Earning a Place on the Ark: Evolution, Ethics, and Epitaphs." Re-Entering the Dollhouse: Essays on the Joss Whedon Series. Eds. Heather M. Porter and Michael Starr. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2022. 75-90.

___. "Pluralism, Pragmatism, and Pals: The Slayer Subverts the Science Wars." Buffy and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale. Ed. James B. South. Chicago: Open Court, 2003. 91-102.

___. "Suffering, Strength, and the Soul of the Slayer." Blood, Body and Soul: Essays on Health, Wellness and Disability in Buffy, Angel, Firefly and Dollhouse. Eds. Tamy Burnett and AmiJo Comeford. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2022. 114-127. Also presented in earlier form as "Slayer Soul: Suffering, Survival, & Strength" at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Murphy, Bernice M. "'Ah, But Underneath...': Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Desperate Housewives." The Suburban Gothic in American Popular Culture. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009. 166-192.

Murphy, Kevin Andrew. "Unseen Horrors & Shadowy Manipulations." Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Television Show. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2003. 137-151.

Murphy, Kylie. "Choosing Cordelia: Re-Vamping Feminism: The Third Wave of the Small Screen." Bitch: The Politics of Angry Women. Ph.D. dissertation, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia, 2002. 60-100. Available online.

Murray, Faye and Holly Golding. "Women Who Hate Women: Female Competition in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 83-94. Originally appeared in earlier form in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 9 March 2011, Partially Available Online.

Murray, Noel. "[A Very Special Episode:] How Dollhouse toyed with the idea of how people and institutions are formed." The A.V. Club website. 14 March 2013. Available online.

Murray, Susan. "I Know What You Did Last Summer: Sarah Michelle Gellar and Cross-Over Teen Stardom." Undead TV: Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Elana Levine and Lisa Parks. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. 42-55.

Musgrove, Kristie L. Lilith Rising: American Gothic Fiction and the Evolution of the Female Hero in Sarah Wood's Julia and the Illuminated Baron, E.D.E.N. Southworth's The Hidden Hand, and Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, 2008.

Myers, Brian. An Exploration of Female Superheroes in Television. BA honors thesis, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 2006. Available online.

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