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Nadkarni, Samira S. "Front and Center: Examining Black Widow Fanvids." 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. 38-51.

___. "'I Believe in Something Greater than Myself': What Authority, Terrorism, and Resistance Have Come to Mean in the Whedonverses." 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.

___. "'In my house and therefore in my care': Transgressive Mothering, Abuse, and Embodiment." Joss Whedon's Dollhouse: Confounding Purpose, Confusing Identity. Eds. Sherry Ginn, Alyson R. Buckman, and Heather M. Porter. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 81-96.

___. "'Is that a footnote, or are you just happy to see me?': Examining Metanarrative in Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog." Paper presented at the 31st Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 10-13 February 2010. Available online.

___. "'Memory itself guarantees nothing': Dollhouse, Witnessing, and 'the jews'." Joss Whedon and Race: Critical Essays. Eds. Mary Ellen Iatropoulos and Lowery A. Woodall III. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. 233-250. Also presented in earlier form as "'Memory in itself guarantees nothing': Witnessing and 'the jews' in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse" at SCW5: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 12-15 July 2012.

___. "'This Is Where I Am... Ain't a Place of Wishes': Kyriarchy and the Preservation of Power in Better Days." Firefly Revisited: Essays on Joss Whedon's Classic Series. Eds. Michael Goodrum and Philip Smith. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. 69-84. Also presented as "'This Is Where I Am... Ain't a Place of Wishes': Kyriarchy and the Preservation of Power in the Firefly Comic Better Days" at SCW6: Much Ado About Whedon: The 6th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, California State University – Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, 19-22 June 2014.

Naficy, Siamak Tundra and Karthik Panchanathan. "Buffy the Vampire Dater." The Psychology of Joss Whedon: An Unauthorized Exploration of Buffy, Angel, and Firefly. Ed. Joy Davidson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: BenBella, 2007. 141-153.

Nannini, Biancalisa. Cinema, Rete e Blockbuster: il caso Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog di Joss Whedon. BA honors thesis, University of Florence, Florence, Italy, 2012. In Italian. Available Online.

Nardi, Jr., Dominic. "Cleaning the Slate with the Force: Star Wars, Joss Whedon, and the Mind-Body Problem." 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.

Natale, Monica. Gender in Buffy, die Vampirjägerin: die Konstruktion und Rezeption von Geschlechterrollen im Amerikanischen Fernsehen der 90er Jahre. Eine nalyse aus feministischer Perspektive. Masters thesis, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, 2005. In German.

Natasha. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Mental Illness: Or, Why a Show about Killing Vampires Makes Me Feel Okay with the World." Watercooler Journal April 2014. Available online.

Ndalianis, Angela and Felicity Colman, eds. Special Issue on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media 2 (2003). Available online.

Neal, Christopher. "Marching Out of Step: Music and Otherness in the Firefly/Serenity Saga." Investigating Firefly and Serenity: Science Fiction on the Frontier. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya R. Cochran. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2008. 191-198.

Negus, Keith. "Foreword." Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Paul Attinello, Steve [Janet K.] Halfyard, and Vanessa Knights. Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2010. xv-xviii.

Nel, David. "'Does the Phrase 'Vampire Slayer' Mean Anything to You?': The Discursive Construction of the Just Woman Warrior Trope in Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV Series." Supernatural Youth: The Rise of the Teen Hero in Literature and Popular Culture. Ed. Jes Battis. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011. 65-79.

Nelson, Andrew Patrick. "Trick 'r Treat, The Cabin in the Woods and the Defense of Horror's Subcultural Capital: A Genre in Crisis?" '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.

Nelson, Emma Boone. Frontier, Displacement, and Mobility in Joss Whedon's Firefly. Masters thesis, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, 2012. Available online.

Nelson, Michael Curtis. "Pedagogy of the Possessed: Teaching and Learning 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. 69-74. Originally appeared in earlier form in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 13 March 2011, Partially Available Online.

Nevitt, Lucy and Andy William Smith, "'Family Blood is always the Sweetest': The Gothic Transgressions of Angel/Angelus." Special Issue on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Angela Ndalianis and Felicity Colman. Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media 2 (2003). Available online.

Newsom, Victoria A. Girls of Power: 'Girl Power' in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sailor Moon, and Queen Amidala from Star Wars Episode One: The Phantom Menace. Masters thesis, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, 2000.

Ney, Brandon Lee. "Buff with Silence: Zen Rhetoric in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Brandonney.com website. 20 May 2011. Available Online.

Nichols, Tamara J. Hero Unveiled: Transformation of Myth through Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ph.D. dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA, 2008.

Nicol, Rhonda. "'When you kiss me, I want to die': Arrested Feminism in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Twilight Series." Bringing Light to Twilight: Perspectives on a Pop Culture Phenomenon. Ed. Giselle Liza Anatol. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 113-24.

Nicolaisen, Jasper and Jakob Schmidt. "Arbeit, Freiheit, Elend: Zwei lange Thesen über Angel." Horror als Alltag: Texte zu Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ed. Annika Beckmann, et al. Berlin: Vebrecher, 2010. 187-218. In German.

Niebur, Louis. "'What's my melody?': Music and the Deployment of Genre in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Paul Attinello, Steve [Janet K.] Halfyard, and Vanessa Knights. Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2010. 33-44.

Nile, Melissa. "'We Aim To Misbehave' : How the Browncoats Changed the Face of Community as We Know It." Paper presented at 3rd Annual CommUnity: Online Conference on Networks & Communities, Department of Internet Studies, Curtin University, Perth, Australia, 23 April - 13 May 2012. Available online.

Noble, Julia F. Slaying for Keeps: Gender, Genre, and Saving the World in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, 2000.

Noone, Kristin. "Rossum's Universal Robots: Karel Čapek Meets Joss Whedon in the Dollhouse." Inside Joss' Dollhouse: from Alpha to Rossum. Ed. Jane Espenson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: Smart Pop [BenBella], 2010. 21-32.

Nussbaum, Emily. "Confessions of a Spoiler Whore." Slate.com, 4 April 2002. Available online.

___. "Must See Metaphysics." The New York Times, 22 September 2002. Available Online.

Nuttall, Alice. "'I Am the Monster Parents Tell Their Children About at Night': The Marvel Films' Loki as Gothic Antagonist." Gothic Studies 18.2 (November 2016): 62-73.

Nuzum, Eric. "I May Be Dead, but I'm Still Pretty." The Dead Travel Fast: Stalking Vampires from Nosferatu to Count Chocula. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2007. 186-216.

Nylin, Sören. "Mad, Bad Scientists and Cute, Curious Magicians: The Quest for Knowledge in Buffy and the Whedonverse." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 7.4 (28), Summer 2009.

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Oates, Rebecca. "'Not so much connected': Reconciliation and Community in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 9.1 (13), Spring 2016.

O'Connor, Kim. "A New Version of You." The Toast website. 14 August 2013. Available online.

O'Connor, Tom. "'It's Rather Poetic': Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Deleuze's Becoming-Art." Poetic Acts and New Media. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2007. 107-144.

O'Dette, Katarina. "Fantasy Worlds in the Small Screen: Worldbuilding in Original American Fantasy Television." Extrapolation 62.1 (2021): 37–62.

___. "Heroic Mediocrity: Xander Harris and the Civil Heroism of the Ordinary." Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 16.1 (47), Winter/Spring 2018.

Oliveira, Luísa de. Coisas de menina: Análise simbólica da personagem Buffy a Caça-Vampiros. Masters thesis, Pontificia Universidade Catolica de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, 2007. In Portuguese. Available online.

Oliver, Ashley. Queer Sex Gods or Patriarchs with Fangs? Gender and Sexuality in Modern Vampire Narratives Buffy the Vampire Slayer, True Blood, and Twilight. BA honors thesis, Colby College, Waterville, ME, 2012.

Olson, Wendy. "Enlightenment Rhetoric in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Ideological Implications of Worldviews in the Buffyverse." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 7.2 (26), Spring 2008.

Olszewska, Barbara. "Les adolescents meurent à 18 ans: Buffy et le rite de passage à l'âge adulte. Un double illusion?" Philoséries: Buffy, tueuse de vampires. Eds. Sylvie Allouche and Sandra Laugier. Paris: Bragelonne, 2014. 81-115. Also presented as "Les adolescents meurent à 18 ans: Buffy et le rite de passage à l'âge adulte" at Buffy Tueuse De Vampires Conference, Paris, France, 26 June 2009. In French.

O'Malley, Cynthia Ryan. 'These things are Shadow-casters. You put them in motion and they tell you a story.': An exploration of Jungian Shadow work in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, 2007.

___. Wearing Cheese and Casting Shadows: The hidden psychology of cheese in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Self-published, 2016.

Onciul-Omelus, Jamie. Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Shero: Re-Defining the Mythological Hero. Masters thesis, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, British Columbia, Canada, 2005.

O'Neill, William L. "Interlude: Buffy the Vampire Slayer." A Bubble in Time: America During the Interwar Years, 1989-2001. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2009. 235-242.

Ono, Kent A. "To Be a Vampire on Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Race and ('Other') Socially Marginalizing Positions on Horror TV." Fantasy Girls: Gender in the New Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy Television. Ed. Elyce Rae Helford. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. 163-186.

Orbesen, James. "Collateral Damage: How The Avengers is a Superhero Film, Not an Action Flick." 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.

O'Reilly, Julie Dianne. Bewitched Again: Supernaturally Powerful Women on Television, 1996-2011. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013.

___. Power Versus Empowerment: A Textual Analysis of Television's Superpowered Women, 1996-2005. Ph.D. dissertation, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, 2005.

___. "The Wonder Woman Precedent: Female (Super)Heroism on Trial." Journal of American Culture 28.3 (September 2005): 273-283. Available online.

Orth, Cameron. "'Joss Whedon' as Cult Auteur: A Case Study in Convergent Production." Unpublished paper written for film course, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 2012(?). Available online.

___. "Postmodern Television: Finding Noir TV in Unexpected Places." Unpublished paper written for film course, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 2012(?). Available online.

Óskarsdóttir, Melkorka. Leið vörðuð í villtum heimi: Um kærleiksboðskapinn í Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ph.D. dissertation, Háskóla Íslands [University of Iceland], Reykjavík, Iceland, 2004. In Icelandic.

Ostos Caliani, Lorena and Cristina Pérez de Algaba Chicano. "El camino del [súper]héroe: Los orígenes 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. 14-33. In Spanish.

Ostow, Micol. "'Chosen': A Postmodern Postmortem on Buffy as Contemporary Icon." Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Vol. 3. Ed. Paul Ruditis. New York: Simon, 2004. 351-356.

___. "Why I Love Buffy." Sojourner: The Women's Forum 24.3 (1998): 20-35.

Ouellette, Jennifer. "Alternate Reality Bites: A Romp Through the Many Worlds of the Multiverse." In Jennifer Ouellette. The Physics of the Buffyverse. New York: Penguin, 2006. 184-203.

___. "Any Portal in a Storm: How to Build a Big, Swirly Wormhole." In Jennifer Ouellette. The Physics of the Buffyverse. New York: Penguin, 2006. 204-223.

___. "Conductivity Unbecoming: The Shocking Truth about Electromagnetisn." In Jennifer Ouellette. The Physics of the Buffyverse. New York: Penguin, 2006. 33-66.

___. "Creature Feature: Physics Meets Biology in a Monster Mash." In Jennifer Ouellette. The Physics of the Buffyverse. New York: Penguin, 2006. 1-32.

___. "Improbable Cause: When Quantum Weirdness Reigns Supreme." In Jennifer Ouellette. The Physics of the Buffyverse. New York: Penguin, 2006. 153-183.

___. "Introduction: Welcome to the Buffyverse." In Jennifer Ouellette. The Physics of the Buffyverse. New York: Penguin, 2006. xi-xxi.

___. "The Physics of the Fight: Mass, Momentum, and the Martial Arts." In Jennifer Ouellette. The Physics of the Buffyverse. New York: Penguin, 2006. 95-122.

___. "The Plural of Apocalypse: There's More than One Way to End a Universe." In Jennifer Ouellette. The Physics of the Buffyverse. New York: Penguin, 2006. 255-284.

___. "Rough Magic: Spellbound by the Laws of Thermodynamics." In Jennifer Ouellette. The Physics of the Buffyverse. New York: Penguin, 2006. 67-94.

___. "Shattered Symetries: Stringing Together a Theory of Everything." In Jennifer Ouellette. The Physics of the Buffyverse. New York: Penguin, 2006. 224-254.

___. "Time Goes Wonky: Relativistic Tricks of the Temporal Trade." In Jennifer Ouellette. The Physics of the Buffyverse. New York: Penguin, 2006. 123-152.

___. The Physics of the Buffyverse. New York: Penguin, 2006.

Overbey, Karen Eileen and Lahney Preston-Matto. "Staking in Tongues: Speech Act as Weapon 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. 73-84.

Overstreet, Deborah Wilson. "Welcome to the Buffyverse: Vampires, High School, and the Hellmouth." Not Your Mother's Vampire: Vampires in Young Adult Fiction. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2006.

Oviedo, Marilda. A Qualitative Study of Typology in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Fanfiction. Masters thesis, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 2007. Available online.

Owen, A. Susan. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Vampires, Postmodernity, and Postfeminism." Journal of Popular Film & Television 27.2 (1999): 24-31.

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P., Kathryne. "The Nature and Role of Camp in BtVS and Angel." All Slay 3 (2004).

Padden, Elizabeth. "The Word-Pocalypse: Joss Whedon's Dollhouse and Dystopian Language." Student Pulse: Online Academic Student Journal 3.11 (November 2011). Available online.

Pagnoni Berns, Fernando Gabriel and Cesar Alfonso Marino. "Embracing Goodness (and Colorful Costumes) Amid a World of Gray." The Comics of Joss Whedon: Critical Essays. Ed. Valerie Estelle Frankel. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015. 147-154.

Palindrome, Anna. "We're All Mad Here [Series]: Institutionalization in the Whedon-verse." Bitch Media website. 31 August 2011. Available online.

Palmer, Lorrie. "Homefires Burning: Domestic Space in the Noir City of Angel." '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: 19-47.

___. "Ruby Red and Emerald Green: The Queer Demon Diva of My Dreams." Camera Obscura 23 (2008): 194-199.

Palmer, Louis H. "Buffy Rules." Vampires in the New World. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2013. 99-105.

Pannekoek, Jeffrey and Karin Anderson. "Bruteness: Gender, Race, and Animality in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Superheroes and Critical Animal Studies The Heroic Beasts of Total Liberation. Eds. J.L. Schatz and Sean Parson. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017.

Parham III, Thomas D. "From Androids to Actives: Death of Identity and the Legacy of Technicism." Re-Entering the Dollhouse: Essays on the Joss Whedon Series. Eds. Heather M. Porter and Michael Starr. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2022. 91-105. Also presented as "Joss Whedon's Dollhouse and the Death of Identity" at the 2010 PCA/ACA National Conference, St. Louis, MO, 31 March – 3 April 2010.

Parke, Faith. "'I Hope Evil Takes MasterCard': Faith the Vampire Slayer and the Image of the Bad Girl in Society." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 5.1 (6), July 2011.

Parker, J. Ryan. "As It Ever Was... So Shall It Never Be: Penal Substitutionary Atonement Theory and Violence in The Cabin in the Woods." 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. 196-212.

Parker, Suran. "The Stillness That Slays: Buffy, 'The Gift', and the Avoidance of Choice." PopMatters.com, 12 August 2016. Available online.

Parks, Lisa. "Brave New Buffy: Rethinking 'TV Violence'." Quality Popular Television: Cult TV, the Industry and Fans. Eds. Mark Jancovich and James Lyons. London: British Film Institute [BFI], 2003. 118-133. Also presented as "Brave New Buffy: Rethinking TV Violence and Sexuality" at Console-ing Passions: Televison, Video and Feminism Conference, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, 11-14 May 2000.

Parks, Todd P. "Unthinkable Relationships: Vampire/Slayer and HIV Positive/Negative." Sexual Rhetoric in the Works of Joss Whedon: New Essays. Ed. Erin B. Waggoner. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 18-30. Also presented at the 30th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 25-28 February 2009.

Parnell, Will. "Reconstruction: Meltdown in the Midst of Beauty." Early Childhood Education and Phenomenology. Ed. Will Parnell. Special issue of The Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology May 2012. Available online.

Parpart, Lee. "'Action, Chicks, Everything': On-Line Interviews with Male Fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Athena's Daughters: Television's New Women Warriors. Eds. Frances Early and Kathleen Kennedy. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2003. 78-91.

Parrish, Jaclyn S. "People vs. Humanity: Utilitarianism and Genre Critique in The Cabin in the Woods." Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 15.1 (45), Winter 2017.

Parrish, Juli J. Inventing a Universe: Reading and Writing Internet Fan Fiction. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 2007. Available online.

Pascale, Amy. Joss Whedon: The Biography. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2014. Also published as Joss Whedon: Geek King Of The Universe - A Biography. London: Aurum, 2014.

Pasley, Jeffrey L. "Old Familiar Vampires: Radicalism and Liberalism in the Politics of the Buffyverse." Buffy and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale. Ed. James B. South. Chicago: Open Court, 2003. 254-267. (See also next entry.)

___. "You Can't Pin a Good Slayer Down: The Politics, If Any, of Buffy the Vampire Slayer." The Politics of the Buffyverse: Radical, Conservative, and Liberal Tendencies in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel website. 2003. (This is a longer version of "Old Familiar Vampires" -- see previous entry). Available Online.

Pateman, Matthew. "Aesthetics, Culture and Knowledge: 'Everyone Forgets, Willow, That Knowledge is the Ultimate Weapon'." In Matthew Pateman. The Aesthetics of Culture in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006. 15-37.

___. "Aesthetics, Culture and Ethics: 'You Can Tell It's Not Gonna Have a Happy Ending when the Main Guy's All Bumpy'." In Matthew Pateman. The Aesthetics of Culture in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006. 85-105.

___. "Aesthetics, Culture and Ethnicity: 'Silly, Silly British Man'." In Matthew Pateman. The Aesthetics of Culture in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006. 38-61.

___. "Aesthetics, Culture and History: 'She Lives Very Much in the Now'." In Matthew Pateman. The Aesthetics of Culture in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006. 62-84.

___. "The Aesthetics of Involution: 'I've Got a Theory'." In Matthew Pateman. The Aesthetics of Culture in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006. 109-125.

___. "Buffy's Dream: 'You Think You Know What You Are?'" In Matthew Pateman. The Aesthetics of Culture in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006. 183-207.

___. "Conclusion: 'I'd Call That a Radical Interpretation of the Text'." In Matthew Pateman. The Aesthetics of Culture in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006. 208-211.

___. "Deathly Serious: Mortality, Morality, and the Mise-en-Scène 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. 212-223.

___. "Firefly: Of Formats, Franchises, and Fox." Reading Joss Whedon. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox, Tanya R. Cochran, Cynthea Masson, and David Lavery. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2014. 153-168.

___. "Giles' Dream: 'There's a Great Deal Going On, and All at Once'." In Matthew Pateman. The Aesthetics of Culture in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006. 164-182.

___. "Introduction." Buffy and Aesthetics. Ed. Matthew Pateman. Special Issue of Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 6.2 (22), Winter 2006.

___. "Introduction: 'What Kind of Name is Buffy?'" In Matthew Pateman. The Aesthetics of Culture in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006. 1-12.

___. "Restless Readings: Involution, Aesthetics, and Buffy." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 5.3 (19), February 2006. Excerpted from The Aesthetics of Culture in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

___. "'That Was Nifty': Willow Rosenberg Saves the World in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 25.4 (Summer 2007): 64-77.

___. "Willow's Dream: 'It's Exactly Like a Greek Tragedy'." In Matthew Pateman. The Aesthetics of Culture in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006. 126-145.

___. "Xander's Dream: 'It's All About the Journey, Isn't It?'" In Matthew Pateman. The Aesthetics of Culture in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006. 146-163.

___. "'You say tomato': Englishness in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Cercles: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone 8 (2003): 103-113. Available Online.

___. The Aesthetics of Culture in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006.

___. Joss Whedon. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018.

___, ed. Buffy and Aesthetics. Special Issue of Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 6.2 (22), Winter 2006.

Paule, Michele. "Buffy's Special Gift to Girls." The Times Educational Supplement no. 4578 (April 9, 2004): 17.

___. "You're On My Campus Buddy!: Sovereign and Disciplinary Power at Sunnydale High." 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.

___ and Laura Davison. "Superheroes and Superlearning: Enriching the Lower School Curriculum with Buffy the Vampire Slayer." A Project from the Westminster Institute of Education, Oxford Brookes University website (undated). Available online.

Payne-Mulliken, Susan Marie. The Power of Metaphor: The Construction of Feminism in Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Final Season. Masters thesis, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, 2004.

___ and Valerie Renegar. "Buffy Never Goes It Alone: The Rhetorical Construction of Sisterhood in the Final Season." Buffy Meets the Academy: Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Texts. Ed. Kevin K. Durand. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 57-77. Also presented by Susan Marie Payne-Mulliken as "Buffy Never Goes it Alone: the Rhetorical Construction of Feminism in BtVS's Final Season" at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

Pearl, J. Leavitt. "Actives, Affectivity, and the Soul: Interpreting Dollhouse through the Phenomenology of Michel Henry." 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. 123-139.

Pearl, Michael S. 'All That We Become': Renegotiating Vampire/Performative Masculinity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. Masters thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 2004. Available online.

Pearson, Lars and Christa Dickson. Redeemed: the Unauthorized Guide to Angel. Des Moines, IA: Mad Norwegian Press, 2006.

Pearson, Megan Saint Clair. "'We Are Not Just Human Anymore': Accepting the Posthuman Future." Joss Whedon's Dollhouse: Confounding Purpose, Confusing Identity. Eds. Sherry Ginn, Alyson R. Buckman, and Heather M. Porter. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 21-34. Also presented as "'We Are Not Just Human Anymore': A Posthumanist Approach to Dollhouse" at the 34st Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 13-16 February 2013.

Peat, Calvin. "Buffy's Successors: How Both The Guild and How I Met Your Mother Spring from Buffy." 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.

Peeling, Caitlin and Meaghan Scanlon. "'What's More Real? a Sick Girl in an Institution... or Some Kind of Supergirl?': The Question of Madness in 'Normal Again,' a Feminist Reading." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004. Available online.

Pelkey II, Stanley C. "Still Flyin'?: Conventions, Reversals, and Musical Meaning 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. 209-242.

Peloff, Amy and David Boarder Giles. "'Welcome to the Hellmouth': Harnessing the Power of Fandom in the Classroom." Fan Phenomena: Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ed. Jennifer Kate Stuller. Chicago: Intellect, 2013. 74-83.

Pender, Patricia J. "Becoming Worthy of Buffy: Performing Masculinity in a Patriarchal World." I'm Buffy and You're History: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Contemporary Feminism. London: I.B. Tauris, 2016. 89-117.

___. "Buffy in History: Feminisms Pro and Faux, Post and Most." I'm Buffy and You're History: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Contemporary Feminism. London: I.B. Tauris, 2016. 21-43.

___. "Buffy Summers: Third-Wave Feminist Icon." The Atlantic website. 31 July 2016. Available online.

___. "'From Beneath You It Devours': Andrew and the Homoerotics of Evil." I'm Buffy and You're History: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Contemporary Feminism. London: I.B. Tauris, 2016. 119-132. Also published in earlier form as "Andrew and the Homoerotics of Evil" in Sexual Rhetoric in the Works of Joss Whedon: New Essays. Ed. Erin B. Waggoner. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 93-105.

___. I'm Buffy and You're History: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Contemporary Feminism. London: I.B. Tauris, 2016.

___. "'I'm Buffy and You're... History': Buffy Baffles the Binaries." I'm Buffy and You're History: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Contemporary Feminism. London: I.B. Tauris, 2016. 9-20.

___. "'I'm Buffy and You're... History': The Postmodern Politics of 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. 35-44.

___. "Introduction: How to Do Things with Buffy." I'm Buffy and You're History: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Contemporary Feminism. London: I.B. Tauris, 2016. 1-8.

___. "'Kicking Ass is Comfort Food': Buffy as Third Wave Feminist Icon." I'm Buffy and You're History: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Contemporary Feminism. London: I.B. Tauris, 2016. 45-63. Also published in earlier form in Third Wave Feminism: A Critical Exploriation. Ed. Stacy Gillis, Gillian Howie, and Rebecca Munford. New York: Palgrave-McMillan, 2004. 164-174. Also presented at Staking a Claim: Exploring the Global Reach of Buffy, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, 22 July 2003.

___. "'Where do we go from here?': Trajectories in Buffy Studies." I'm Buffy and You're History: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Contemporary Feminism. London: I.B. Tauris, 2016. 157-175. Also published in earlier form as "'Where do we go from here?': Buffy Studies and Slayage 2006" in Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 6.1 (21), Fall 2006.

___. "Whose Revolution Has Been Televised?: Race, Whiteness and 'Transnational' Slayer Suffrage." I'm Buffy and You're History: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Contemporary Feminism. London: I.B. Tauris, 2016. 65-88. Also presented in earlier form as "Whose Revolution Has Been Televised?: Buffy's Transnational Sisterhood of Slayers" at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004. Earlier version available online.

___. "'Why Can't You Just Masturbate Like the Rest of Us?': The Erotics and Politics of Buffy Fandom." I'm Buffy and You're History: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Contemporary Feminism. London: I.B. Tauris, 2016. 133-155. Also presented in earlier form as "'Why Can't You Just Masturbate Like the Rest of Us?': Andrew and the Erotics of Fandom in 'Storyteller." at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006, and at the 2008 PCA/ACA National Conference, San Francisco, CA, 19-22 March 2008.

Pensky, Nathan. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the Fantasy 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. 60-69. Originally appeared in earlier form in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 8 March 2011, Partially Available Online.

___. "Trickster-Heroes in 'Buffy' and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'." PopMatters.com, 8 September 2011. Available online.

___. "Voluntary Amnesia in 'Dollhouse' and 'Pygmalion'." PopMatters.com, 26 July 2011. Available online.

Peperoni, Corrado. "Non si è sole sulla bocca dell'inferno." Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Legittimare la Cacciatrice. Ed. Barbara Maio. Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 2007. 107-122. In Italian.

Perdigao, Lisa K. "At the 'Corner of No and Where': River's Unmappable Body in the Firefly/Serenityverse." Firefly Revisited: Essays on Joss Whedon's Classic Series. Eds. Michael Goodrum and Philip Smith. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. 53-68.

___. "A Home at the End of the World: The Future of Domesticity in the Whedonverse." At Home in the Whedonverse: Essays on Domestic Place, Space and Life. Ed. Juliette C. Kitchens. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. 182-198.

___. "'I hear it's best to play along': The Poststructuralist Turn in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 8.4 (32), Winter 2011.

___. "'This is the Next Me': The Evolution of AI in the Whedonverses." Transmediating the Whedonverse(s): Essays on Texts, Paratexts, and Metatexts. Eds. Juliette C. Kitchens and Julie L. Hawk. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 87-116.

___. "'This one's broken': Rebuilding Whedonbots and Reprogramming the Whedonverse." 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 "'This one's broken': Rebuilding Really Real Bots in the Whedonverse" at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010. Available online.

Peristere, Loni. "Mutant Enemy U." Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe. Ed. Jane Espenson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: BenBella, 2007. 117-129.

Perry, David. "Marti Noxon: Buffy's Other Genius." 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. 13-22. Also presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Perry, Michael Aaron. "My First Time: Theological Diversity, The Rhetoric of Conversion, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Buffy Conquers the Academy: Conference Papers from the 2009/2010 Popular Culture/American Culture Associations. Eds. Uzoamaka Melissa Anyiwo and Karoline Szatek-Tudor. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. 136-148. Also presented in earlier form as "My First Time: Social Media, a Theology of Diversity, and the Rhetoric of Conversation in Buffy the Vampire Slayer" at the 2009 PCA/ACA National Conference, New Orleans, LA, 8-11 April 2009.

Peters, Mark. "Getting a Wiggins and Being a Bitca: How Two Items of Slayer Slang Survive on the Television Without Pity Message Boards." 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.

___. "A Mystery-y-ish Word Trend: The -y Suffix Has Gone Bananas." The OUPblog Tenth Anniversary Book: Ten Years of Academic Insights for the Thinking World. Ed. Alice Northover. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2015. 27-32.

Peterson, Andrew. "Simon & Samwise: Big Damn Heroes." 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).

Petrova, Erma. "'I'm declaring an emergency': Leadership and the State of Exception in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 10.1 (35), Winter 2013. Also presented at SCW5: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 12-15 July 2012.

___. "'You Cannot Run from Your Darkness.' / 'Who Says I'm Running?': Buffy and the Ownership of Evil." Special Issue on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Angela Ndalianis and Felicity Colman. Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media 2 (2003). Available online.

Phillips, Berni. "Christian Symbolism in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Christian Fandom website. July 2003. Available online.

Phillips, Maxine. "The 'Buffy Paradigm' Revisited: A Superhero and the War on Terror." Dissent Magazine 50.2 (Spring 2003): 81.

___. "Standing With or Standing By." Dissent Magazine 57.4 (Fall 2010): 112.

Pia, Kristina. Ghostly Bodies of Knowledge: Authorship, History Writing and Visual Language in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, National Central University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2010. Available online.

Pié, Ady. "Heaps of Images: Tarot Cards in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 9.1 (13), Spring 2016.

Pierce, Sarah E. From Demon to Daimon: A Mythic and Depth Psychological Analysis of the American Hero Vampire. Ph.D. dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA, 2011. Available online.

Pisano, Jennifer. "'You Created A Monster With Integrity... Scary, Isn't It?': Xena and Buffy as Different Models of Female Military Leadership" Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 7.2 (10), Fall 2014.

Pistone, Melissa. "Just Another Angry Woman: Adaptations of Female Rage through Euripides, Shakespeare, and Whedon." Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+ 21.1 [57], Winter/Spring 2023.

Pittis, Patrick. Staking Our Gender: A Poststructuralist Analysis of Gender Roles and Identity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. BA honors thesis, University of Maine, Orono, ME, 2013. Available online.

Platz, Jenny. "Tamara de Lempicka, Glorificus, and the Modern Woman." Joss in June: Selected Essays. Eds. K. Dale Guffey [née Koontz] 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.

Playdon, Zoe-Jane. "'The Outsiders' Society': Religious Imagery in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 2.1 (5), May 2002.

___. "'What You Are, What's to Come': Feminisms, Citizenship and the Divine." Reading the Vampire Slayer: An Unofficial Critical Companion to Buffy and Angel. Ed. Roz Kaveney. 2nd edition. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2004. 156-194.

Poli, Chiara. Ammazzavampiri: La prima guida Italiana al serial TV Buffy. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2003. In Italian.

Polla, Franco La. "L'apocalisse come weltschmerz: Le radici culturali di Buffy." Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Legittimare la Cacciatrice. Ed. Barbara Maio. Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 2007. 79-96. In Italian.

Pomeroy, Arthur J. "Hymns to the Ancient Words in (the) Buffyverse." 'Then It Was Destroyed by the Volcano': The Ancient World in Film and on Television. London: Duckworth, 2008. 13-28.

Poole, Carol. "'Darn Your Sinister Attraction!': Narcissism in Buffy's Affair with Spike." The Psychology of Joss Whedon: An Unauthorized Exploration of Buffy, Angel, and Firefly. Ed. Joy Davidson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: BenBella, 2007. 21-34.

Poole, W. Scott. "I'm Sorry I... Ended the World': Eschatology, Nihilism, and Hope in The Cabin in the Woods." 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. 213-226.

___. "I'm the Slayer…and you're history!" Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsessions with the Hideous and the Haunting. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2011. 108-110.

PopMatters.com, ed. Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: the TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015.

PopMatters.com with Mary Alice Money, eds. Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: the TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. London: Titan Books, 2012. [2nd] revised and updated edition, 2015.

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

Porter, Heather M. "Brains vs. Brawn: An Examination of the Use of Intelligence and Violence by Villains in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Buffy Conquers the Academy: Conference Papers from the 2009/2010 Popular Culture/American Culture Associations. Eds. Uzoamaka Melissa Anyiwo and Karoline Szatek-Tudor. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. 60-75. Also presented in earlier form at the 2009 PCA/ACA National Conference, New Orleans, LA, 8-11 April 2009.

___. "In Search of the Complete Female Character in Marvel's 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. 22-37.

___. "'They teach you that in Whore Academy?': A Quantitative Examination of Sex and Sex Workers in Joss Whedon's Firefly and Dollhouse." The Sex is Out of This World: Essays on the Carnal Side of Science Fiction. Eds. Sherry Ginn and Michael G. Cornelius. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. 86-101. Also presented as "'They teach you that in Whore Academy?': A Quantitative Examination of Sex and the Sex Workers in the Works of Joss Whedon" at the 2011 PCAS/ACAS Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, 6-8 October 2011.

___. "Watching Buffy: An Angian Examination of Buffy Watchers." Paper presented as "Buffy Lives: An Angian Examination of Buffy Watchers" at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004. Available online.

___ and Erin Giannini. "'It Matters Who You Are': Parenting Styles in S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra." '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: 58-88.

___ and Michael Starr, eds. Re-Entering the Dollhouse: Essays on the Joss Whedon Series. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2022.

___ and Sherry Ginn. "'I possess the means to satisfy my vagaries': What Motivates the Dollhouse Clients?" Joss Whedon's Dollhouse: Confounding Purpose, Confusing Identity. Eds. Sherry Ginn, Alyson R. Buckman, and Heather M. Porter. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 97-110. Also presented as "Seeking Sex in the Dollhouse: Who Buys and Why?" at the 2012 PCAS/ACAS Annual Conference, Nashville, TN, 27-29 September 2012, and as "Sex Workers and Their Clients in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse" at Joss in June: A Conference on the Works of Joss Whedon, Cleveland Community College, Shelby, NC, 29 June 2013.

Porter, Lynnette. "Joss Whedon 101: Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog." 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. 363-367. Originally appeared in earlier form in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 24 March 2011. Partially Available Online.

___. "Nathan Fillion Misbehaves All Across 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. 298-303. Originally appeared in earlier form in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 31 March 2011. Partially Available Online.

___. "The World of Joss Whedon." Tarnished Heroes, Charming Villains and Modern Monsters: Science Fiction in Shades of Gray on 21st Century Television. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 133-150.

Porter, Nicole. In Search of the Slayer: Audience Negotiation of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, Concordia University, Portland, OR, 2004.

Porter, Patrick J. "Buffy vs. Dracula: Intertextuality, Carnival and Cult." Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media 9 (2006). Available Online.

___. Stories from the Buffyverse: Intertextuality, Temporality and the Cult Fandom of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, University of Melbourne, Australia, 2007.

___. "The Uncomfortable Cult: How Novelty and Subverted Expectations Generate a Cult Following in Contemporary Fantastic Television." Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media 1 (2002). Available online.

Pösteki, Nigar. "Vampir Efsanesi, Vampir Filmleri ve Vampir Olgusuna Farklı Bir Bakış: Buffy the Vampire Slayer ve Angel Dizileri." Kilad: Kocaeli Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi Araştırma Dergisi 7 (2006): 121-140. In Turkish.

Postrel, Virginia. "Why Buffy Kicked Ass: The Deep Meaning of TV's Favorite Vampire Slayer." Reason Online: Free Minds and Free Markets. August-September 2003. Available online.

Potts, Donna. "Convents, Claddagh Rings, and Even the Book of Kells: Representing the Irish in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education (SIMILE) 3.2 (2003). Available online.

Potvin, Jacqueline M. "Pernicious Pregnancy and Redemptive Motherhood: Narratives of Reproductive Choice in Joss Whedon's Angel." Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 14.1 (43), Winter 2016. 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.

Powroz, Jennifer. The Hero's Quest of Spike in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: An Analysis of Hybridized Gender and the Jungian Shadow. Masters thesis, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 2008.

Prescott, Tara. "The Future Isn't So Shiny: Blade Runner, Firefly, and the Effects of American Consumerism in Modern China." Firefly Revisited: Essays on Joss Whedon's Classic Series. Eds. Michael Goodrum and Philip Smith. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. 171-190. Also presented at the 2014 Oceanic Popular Culture Association Conference, Chaminade University of Honolulu, Honolulu, HI, 23-24 May 2014, and at SCW6: Much Ado About Whedon: The 6th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, California State University – Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, 19-22 June 2014.

Price, Jessica. "The Role of Masculinity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Sexual Rhetoric in the Works of Joss Whedon: New Essays. Ed. Erin B. Waggoner. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 215-225.

Pritchard, Tracey. "Episode in Review: 5.06 'Family'." All Slay 2 (2004).

___. "Episode in Review: 5.12 'Checkpoint'." All Slay 2 (2004).

Proffit, Blue. "Regressive Sex-and-Gender Tropes in Stoker's Dracula and Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 10.1 (15), Spring 2017.

Pugh, Catherine. "Broken but Home: Institutions, Control and the Non-Place in Dollhouse." At Home in the Whedonverse: Essays on Domestic Place, Space and Life. Ed. Juliette C. Kitchens. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. 48-67.

___. "Lost, Not Gone: The Haunted (Doll)House." Re-Entering the Dollhouse: Essays on the Joss Whedon Series. Eds. Heather M. Porter and Michael Starr. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2022. 240-255.

___. "Made to Suffer: The Redemptive Power of Disability in Angel." '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: 125-154. Also presented in earlier form as "'Why Can't I Stay?': Sickness, Disability and Redemptive Power in Angel" at SCW8: The 8th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL, 21-24 June 2018.

___. "Such Pretty Things: Madness in the Whedonverse." 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. 131-155. Also presented at EuroSlayage [SCW7]: The 7th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK, 7-10 July 2016.

___. “We are not who we are”: (Re)Visiting Reflexive Horror Landscapes in The Cabin in the Woods and The Final Girls." Journeys into Terror: Essays from the Cinematic Intersection of Travel and Horror. Eds. Cynthia Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2023. 179-188.

Purac, Selma Amina. "The Sonic Horror of 'Hush.'" 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]. 34-52.

Purper, Rob. "Defending the Feminist Metanarrative of Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Unpublished paper written for Feminist Perspectives in Communication course, University of Colorado, Denver, CO, 2005. Available online.

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Q, Shathley. "Avengers Age of Ultron, a Triptych's Second Frame." PopMatters.com, 29 April 2015. Available Online.

___. "Cars That Will Kill You, An 'Avengers Age of Ultron' Triptych Finalé." PopMatters.com, 8 May 2015. Available Online.

___. "Chronological Bibliography of Print Comics Written by 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. 359-360.

___. "Deployment Patterns: How Joss Whedon Leverages Transmedia to Force a Rethink of Old Media." 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.

___. "Interview with Jane Espenson." 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. 134-139.

___. "Joss Whedon 101: Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope: Hush Money: Observing Fandom through the Eyes of Joss Whedon and Michael [sic] Spurlock." 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. 352-359.

___. "A Response to Avengers: Age of Ultron, in Triptych." PopMatters.com, 27 April 2015. Available Online.

___. "'That Man's Playing Galaga': Dis/ownership, Democratization and Demographics." 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.

___. "Tom Brokaw's Coat: Joss Whedon, Astonishing X-Men and the Accessibility of History." 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. 313-320.

Quadfasel, Lars. "Frankfurt School, Sunnydale High: Allegorisierung der Kulturindustrie in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Horror als Alltag: Texte zu Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ed. Annika Beckmann, et al. Berlin: Vebrecher, 2010. 55-84. In German. Also presented in earlier form (in English) as "Frankfurt School at Sunnydale High: BtVS and the Critique of Culture Industry" 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.

Quilty, Susan. "Negative Space in the 'House: How Caroline is the Vase." Inside Joss' Dollhouse: from Alpha to Rossum. Ed. Jane Espenson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: Smart Pop [BenBella], 2010. 133-144.

Quinn-Yarbro, Chelsea. "Angel: An Identity Crisis." Five Seasons of Angel: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Vampire. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2004. 79-86.

___. "Lions, Gazelles and Buffy." Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Television Show. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2003. 48-53.

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R., Skippy [John Rutledge]. "The Door Theologian of the Year." The Door Magazine 183 (2002).

Rabian, Brian and Michael Wolff. "How Buffy Learned to Confront Her Fears... and Lived to Tell about It." The Psychology of Joss Whedon: An Unauthorized Exploration of Buffy, Angel, and Firefly. Ed. Joy Davidson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: BenBella, 2007. 79-90.

Raha, Maria. "Angels, Aliens, and Ass-Kicking." Hellions: Pop Culture's Women Rebels. Berkeley: Seal Press, 2008. 214-216.

Ramachandran, Nandini. "The Big Bad Universe: Good and Evil According to 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. 75-82. Originally appeared in earlier form in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 7 April 2011, Partially Available Online.

Rambo, Elizabeth L. "Banter, Battles, Betrayal, and 'Kissy th' face!': Sugarshock!'s Playful Whedonverse." Joss in June: Selected Essays. Eds. K. Dale Guffey [née Koontz] 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 SCW5: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 12-15 July 2012, and at Joss in June: A Conference on the Works of Joss Whedon, Cleveland Community College, Shelby, NC, 29 June 2013.

___ "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: ‘Chosen.'" Television Finales: From Howdy Doody to Girls. Eds. Douglas L. Howard and David Bianculli. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2018. 57–63.

___. "I've Got a Little List, or, 'You Guys Wanna Team Up and Take Over Sunnydale U?'" Buffy and Angel Conquer the Internet: Essays on Online Fandom. Ed. Mary Kirby-Diaz. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 7-17. Also presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

___. "'Lessons' for Season Seven of Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 3.3-4 (11-12), April 2004.

___. "Metaphoric Unity and Ending: Sending and Receiving Firefly's Last 'Message. '" Reading Joss Whedon. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox, Tanya R. Cochran, Cynthea Masson, and David Lavery. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2014. 185-197.

___. "'Queen C' in Boys' Town: Killing the Angel in Angel's House." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 6.3 (23), Spring 2007. Also presented as "'Queen C' Goes to Boys' Town, or, Killing the Angel in Angel's House" at SC2: The Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

___. "Third-Culture Kid Identity Paradigms in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Episode 'Lies My Parents Told Me'." Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 16.1 (47), Winter/Spring 2018. Also presented as "'The mission is what matters -- right?': Third-Culture Identity Paradigms in Buffy 7.17 'Lies My Parents Told Me'" at EuroSlayage [SCW7]: The 7th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK, 7-10 July 2016.

___. "Yeats' Entropic Gyre and Season Six." 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. 167-182. Also presented at Blood, Text and Fears: Reading Around Buffy the Vampire Slayer, University of East Anglia, 19-20 October 2002.

Ramlow, Todd R. "Ceci n'est pas une lesbiane." PopMatters.com, 18 June 2002. Available Online.

___. "'I Killed Tara': Desire and Death on Buffy." PopMatters.com, 4 June 2002. Available Online.

Ramos, Katie L. "Heroes Are Over With: Possibilities for Folk Hybridity in Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog." Folklore Forum 40:1 (2010). Also published as "Heroes Are Over With: Possibilities for Folk Hybridity in Dr. Horrible" in Watercooler Journal April 2014. Available Online here and here .

Rampetzreiter, Heide. Reading Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Mediale Konstruktionen zwischen Feministischer Selbstermächtigung und Patriarchalen Mustern. Masters thesis, Universität Wien [University of Vienna], Vienna, Austria, 2006. In German.

Ramsland, Katherine M. "Body Count." The Science of Vampires. New York: Berkley Boulevard, 2002. 154-174.

___. "Everything You Even Wanted to Know About Vampire Sex but Were Afraid to Ask." The Science of Vampires. New York: Berkley Boulevard, 2002. 222-246.

Randell, Karen. "'It Was Like a Movie,' Take 2: Age of Ultron and a 9/11 Aesthetic." Cinema Journal 56.1 (2016): 137–141.

Randell-Moon, Holly Eva Katherine. "Being a Nerd and Negotiating Intelligence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Common Sense: Intelligence as Presented on Popular Television. Ed. Lisa Holderman. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008. 173-186.

___. "Economies of Transmedia Violence in The Avengers Films and the Constraints of Auteurship." '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: 89-119.

___. "'I'm nobody': the Somatechnical Construction of Bodies and Identity in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse." Feminist Media Studies 12.2 (2012): 265-280.

___. 'Occasionally, I'm Called Callous and Strange': Famine Nobilis and the Feminine as Hero in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, Macquarie University, Macquarie Park, Australia, 2004.

___ and Arthur J. Randell. "Spaceships as Soundscapes in Serenity." Joss Whedon's Big Damn Movie: Essays on Serenity. Ed. Frederick Blichert. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018. 216-232.

Rattletrap. "The Slayer's Journey: Buffy Summers and the Hero's Life." The Existential Scoobies website. 2001. Available Online.

Rauch, Stephen. "When 'Until the End of the World' Really Means It: Friendship, Love, and Spiritual Warfare in the Buffyverse and in Garth Ennis' and Steve Dillon's Preacher." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004. Available online.

Rauco, Emanuele. L'accecante luce del giorno: Buffy l'ammazzavampiri, da prodotto per teenager a spiazzante opera pop. Masters thesis, Università Roma Tre, Rome, Italy, 2009. In Italian.

Rawls, Kristin. "Preacher's Daughter [Series]: Willow, Xander, and the Prayer of St. Francis." Bitch Media website. 29 September 2011. Available online.

Raya Bravo, Irene. "Buffy, cazavampiros: Cómo una serie madura junto a la televisión y su audiencia." 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. 34-57. In Spanish.

___. "El genre mixing en la ficción televisiva Norteamericana: El caso de Joss Whedon." Comunicación: revista Internacional de Comunicación Audiovisual, Publicidad y Estudios Culturales 10 (2012): 396-411. In Spanish. Available online.

___. "Serenity: La creación de familias a través de la ruptura de estereotipos de género." 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. 94-115. In Spanish.

___ and Pedro José García. "Introducción al 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. 8-13. In Spanish.

Rayner, Philip, Peter Wall, and Stephen Kruger. "Buffy and Her Fans." Media Studies: The Essential Resources. New York: Routledge, 2004. 146-157.

Rebaza, Claudia. "The Problematic Definition of 'Fan': A Survey of Fannish Involvement in the Buffyverse." Buffy and Angel Conquer the Internet: Essays on Online Fandom. Ed. Mary Kirby-Diaz. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 147-171.

Recht, Marcus. "Buffy - Superheldin im Kleid." Exkurs Kunst + Unterricht: "Jugendkulturelle Bildwelten" Beilage Heft 339-340 (2010): 22-23. In German.

___. "(De)constructing the Gendered Gaze: Geschlechtsspezifische Blickhierarchien in der TV-Serie Buffy." Konsumguerilla: Wilderstand gegen Massenkulture? Eds. Birgit Richard and Alexander Ruhl. Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 2008. 143-156. In German.

___. "Undead Objects of a 'Queer Gaze': A Visual Approach to Buffy’s Vampires using Lacan’s Extended RSI Model." 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.

___. "Visualisierungen von Männlichkeiten in der TV-Serie Buffy." AStA-Zeitung [Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main] December 2010: 26-28. In German.

___. "Der 'sympathische Vampir' im TV." Inter-Cool 3.0. Jugend Bild Medien. Ein Kompendium zur aktuellen Jugendkulturforschung. Eds. Heinz- Hermann Krüger and Birgit Richard. Paderborn, Germany: Fink Verlag, 2010. 359-371. In German.

___. Der sympathische Vampir: Visualisierungen von Männlichkeiten in der TV-Serie Buffy. Frankfurt: Campus-Verlag, 2011. In German. Also appeared in earlier form as Die Figur des 'Sympathischen Vampirs' als Gender-Ikone in der TV-Serie Buffy. Ph.D. dissertation, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, 2009. In German.

Reed, Eric. "The Case for Faith: The Rogue Vampire Slayer's Search for Identity." Watcher Junior: The Journal of Undergraduate Research in Buffy Studies 3.1 (3), September 2007.

Reed, Joseph W. "For a Newer Rite is Here: 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.

Rees, Shelley S. and Tom Connelly. "Alienation and the Dialectics of History in Joss Whedon's 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.

Reese, Jenn. "Something to Sing About." 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. 182-189.

Reichelt, Susan and Mercedes Durham. "Adjective Intensification as a Means of Characterization: Portraying In-Group Membership and Britishness in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Journal of English Linguistics 45.1 (2017): 60–87.

Rein, Katharina. "Archives of Horror: Carriers of Memory in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Undead Memory: Vampires and Human Memory in Popular Culture. Eds. Simon Bacon and Katarzyna Bronk. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang, 2013. 131-156.

___. "Research, Slay, Repeat: Speicherung und Wiederholung in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Zeitschrift fur Fantastikforschung 7.1 (2019): 1–27. In German.

Rennebohm, Kate. "'The Mind Doesn't Matter, It's the Body We Want': Identity and the Body in Dollhouse." Inside Joss' Dollhouse: from Alpha to Rossum. Ed. Jane Espenson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: Smart Pop [BenBella], 2010. 5-19.

Renner, Karen J. "Generational Conflict, Twenty-first Century Horror Films and The Cabin in the Woods." The Millennials on Film and Television: Essays on the Politics of Popular Culture. Eds. Betty Kaklamanidou and Margaret Tally. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014. 110-125.

Resnick, Laura. "The Good, the Bad, and the Ambivalent." Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Television Show. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2003. 54-64.

___. "That Angel Doesn't Live Here Anymore." Five Seasons of Angel: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Vampire. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2004. 15-22.

Reynolds, Kimberly. "Buffy: Icon and Antidote." Frightening Fiction. London: Continuum, 2001. 14-17.

Reynolds, Malcolm Draven. "She May Cry, But Her Tears Will Dry: Dr. Horrible, Toxic Masculinity, and Incel Culture." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Buffy+, 12.1 [17], Fall 2021.

Rich, Lani Diane. "Curse Your Sudden but Inevitable Betrayal: Things My Husband and I Have Argued About While Watching Firefly." Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe. Ed. Jane Espenson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: BenBella, 2007. 107-116.

Richards, Chris. "Dead White People: Another Look at Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Forever Young: Essays on Young Adult Fictions. New York: Peter Lang, 2008. 97-112.

___. "What Are We?: Adolescence, Sex, and Intimacy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Forever Young: Essays on Young Adult Fictions. New York: Peter Lang, 2008. 65-82. Also published in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 18.1 (March 2004): 121-137. Also presented as "What Are We?: Adolescent Transformations in Buffy the Vampire Slayer" at the Annual Meeting of the American Education Research Association, New Orleans, April 2002.

Richardson, J. Michael and J. Douglas Rabb. "Adventures in the Moral Imagination: Memory and Identity in Whedon's Narrative Ethics." Reading Joss Whedon. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox, Tanya R. Cochran, Cynthea Masson, and David Lavery. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2014. 312-324. Also presented in earlier form as "Memory and Identity in Whedon's Narrative Ethics: Reading the Whedonverses Through Dollhouse and Dr. Horrible" at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

___. "Angel and Spike: Soul Mates and Moral Responsibility." In J. Michael Richardson and J. Douglas Rabb. The Existential Joss Whedon: Evil and Human Freedom in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly and Serenity. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007. 106-121.

___. "Angel in Hell: Love and Moral Choice." In J. Michael Richardson and J. Douglas Rabb. The Existential Joss Whedon: Evil and Human Freedom in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly and Serenity. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007. 122-136.

___. "Buffy, Faith and Bad Faith: Choosing to be the Chosen One." In J. Michael Richardson and J. Douglas Rabb. The Existential Joss Whedon: Evil and Human Freedom in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly and Serenity. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007. 26-47. Also published in Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 6.3 (23), Spring 2007.

___. "Darla, Spike, and Xander: Love and Self-Sacrifice." In J. Michael Richardson and J. Douglas Rabb. The Existential Joss Whedon: Evil and Human Freedom in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly and Serenity. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007. 75-89.

___. "Moral Choice in Buffy, Angel, and Firefly: Ethics in the Whedonverse." In J. Michael Richardson and J. Douglas Rabb. The Existential Joss Whedon: Evil and Human Freedom in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly and Serenity. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007. 18-25. Also presented in earlier form as "Moral Choice in Buffy, Angel, and Firefly: Ethics in the Buffyverse" at the Southwest Texas PCA/ACA Conference, February 2005.

___. "Myth, Metaphor, and Morality: Joss Whedon as Moral Philosopher." In J. Michael Richardson and J. Douglas Rabb. The Existential Joss Whedon: Evil and Human Freedom in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly and Serenity. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007. 150-174.

___. "Myth, Metaphor, Morality and Medicine: Finding the Care in Health Care Ethics." Paper presented at Centre for Health Care Ethics, Department of Philosophy & Department of English, Lakehead University, September 19, 2007. Available online.

___. "Myth, Metaphor, Morality and Monsters: The Espenson Factor and Cognitive Science in Joss Whedon's Narrative Love Ethic." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 7.4 (28), Summer 2009. Also presented in earlier form as "Cognitive Science in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly and Serenity: the Espenson Factor" at the 2008 PCA/ACA National Conference, San Francisco, CA, 19-22 March 2008.

___. "Reavers and Redskins: Creating the Frontier Savage." Investigating Firefly and Serenity: Science Fiction on the Frontier. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya R. Cochran. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2008. 127-138.

___. "Riley and the Initiative: Some Limitations of Science and Technology." In J. Michael Richardson and J. Douglas Rabb. The Existential Joss Whedon: Evil and Human Freedom in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly and Serenity. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007. 63-74.

___. "Russian Existentialism and Vampire Slayage: A Shestovian Key to the Power and Popularity of Buffy the Vampire Slayer." In J. Michael Richardson and J. Douglas Rabb. The Existential Joss Whedon: Evil and Human Freedom in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly and Serenity. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007. 7-17. Also presented in earlier form as at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004. Earlier version available online.

___. "Slayer Authenticity: Constructing Reality through Existential Choice." In J. Michael Richardson and J. Douglas Rabb. The Existential Joss Whedon: Evil and Human Freedom in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly and Serenity. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007. 48-62.

___. "Willow and Tara: Love, Witchcraft and Vengeance." The Existential Joss Whedon: Evil and Human Freedom in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly and Serenity. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007. 90-105.

___. Joss Whedon as Shakespearean Moralist: Narrative Ethics of the Bard and the Buffyverse. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014.

___. The Existential Joss Whedon: Evil and Human Freedom in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly and Serenity. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007.

Richardson, Kelly L. "'It's about power': New Bodies, Connection, and Healing in Seasons Six and Seven of 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. 212-226.

Rickels, Laurence A. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." The Vampire Lectures. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. 261-263.

Ricketts, Jeremy R. "Varieties of Conversion: Spiritual Transformation in the Buffyverse." 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. 11-27.

Riess, Jana. "'The Anger Gives You Fire': Can Negative Emotions Be Constructive?" In Jana Riess. What Would Buffy Do?: The Vampire Slayer as Spiritual Guide. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004. 33-40.

___. "Be a Hero, Even When You'd Rather Go to the Mall: The Power of Self-Sacrifice." In Jana Riess. What Would Buffy Do?: The Vampire Slayer as Spiritual Guide. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004. 3-14.

___. "Change Makes Us Human: Embracing the River of Change." In Jana Riess. What Would Buffy Do?: The Vampire Slayer as Spiritual Guide. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004. 15-23.

___. "Death is our Gift: What Death Can Teach Us about Living." In Jana Riess. What Would Buffy Do?: The Vampire Slayer as Spiritual Guide. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004. 24-32.

___. "A Guide to Buffy's Seven Seasons." What Would Buffy Do?: The Vampire Slayer as Spiritual Guide. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004. 131-147.

___. "The Higher Way: Choosing Forgiveness Over Revenge." In Jana Riess. What Would Buffy Do?: The Vampire Slayer as Spiritual Guide. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004. 79-91.

___. "'I'm Buffy the Vampire Slayer... and You Are...?': A Buffy Character Guide." In Jana Riess. What Would Buffy Do?: The Vampire Slayer as Spiritual Guide. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004. 148-159.

___. "Introduction: A Savior in a Micro-Mini." In Jana Riess. What Would Buffy Do?: The Vampire Slayer as Spiritual Guide. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004. xi-xviii.

___. "The Monster Inside: Taming the Darkness within Ourselves." In Jana Riess. What Would Buffy Do?: The Vampire Slayer as Spiritual Guide. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004. 106-118. Also published in Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 3.3-4 (11-12), April 2004.

___. "The 'Monster Sarcasm Rally': Humor as Power." In Jana Riess. What Would Buffy Do?: The Vampire Slayer as Spiritual Guide. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004. 41-50.

___. "Obey Your Teacher, Except When He's Wrong: Spiritual Mentors on the Path to Maturity." In Jana Riess. What Would Buffy Do?: The Vampire Slayer as Spiritual Guide. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004. 65-78.

___. "'Redemption is Hard': Personal Deliverance in the Buffyverse." In Jana Riess. What Would Buffy Do?: The Vampire Slayer as Spiritual Guide. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004. 119-127.

___. "'What Can't We Face If We're Together?': The Power of Friendship." In Jana Riess. What Would Buffy Do?: The Vampire Slayer as Spiritual Guide. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004. 53-64.

___. "What Goes Around Comes Around: Consequences." In Jana Riess. What Would Buffy Do?: The Vampire Slayer as Spiritual Guide. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004. 95-105.

___. What Would Buffy Do?: The Vampire Slayer as Spiritual Guide. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004.

Riley, Brendan. "From Sherlock to Angel: The Twenty-First Century Detective." The Journal of Popular Culture. 42.5 (October 2009): 908-922.

Rilstone, Andrew. "14 June." The Viewer's Tale. Self-published, 2010. 134-138.

Robinson, Jaala. "Joss Giveth." 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. 124-130.

Robbins, Margaret A. "A Hero’s Journey for Diverse Women in Comics: Teaching Critical Visual Literacy Skills through Serenity and Parallel Texts Ms. Marvel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Gotham." Comic Connections Reflecting on Women in Popular Culture. Ed. Sandra Eckard. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.

___ and Jennifer Jackson Whitley. "From Fledgling to Buffy: Critical Literacy, Fantasy, and Engagement in Secondary ELA Classrooms." Fantasy Literature: Challenging Genres. Ed. Mark A. Fabrizi. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2016. 93–107.

Rocha, James. "The Black Reaching Out: An Anarchist Analysis of Firefly." Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 14.2 (44), Summer 2016.

___ and Mona Rocha. "Representing Peoples Through Their Monsters: Native American and Latinx Representations in Fantasy Television." Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+ 19.1-2 [53-54], Summer/Fall 2021: 185-226.

___ and Mona Rocha. "Variety within Bigotry: From Individual to Systemic Monsterism in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+ 21.1 [57], Winter/Spring 2023.

___ and Mona Rocha. Joss Whedon, Anarchist?: A Unified Theory of the Films and Television Series. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2019.

Rocha, Mona. "A Layered Message of Resistance: Buffy, Violence, and the Double Bind." Buffy Conquers the Academy: Conference Papers from the 2009/2010 Popular Culture/American Culture Associations. Eds. Uzoamaka Melissa Anyiwo and Karoline Szatek-Tudor. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. 32-47. Also presented in earlier form at the 32nd Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, San Antonio, TX, 20-23 April 2011. and at the 2011 PCAS/ACAS Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, 6-8 October 2011.

Rock, Allison Susan. "Transforming Terrains: Staging the Supernatural in North by Northwest and Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Marvelous Traces in Mundane Spaces: Finding Fantasy in Theater, Film, and Television. BA honors thesis, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 2010. 23-55. Available online.

Rodeheffer, Marielle D. A Study of Cult Television, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the Uses of Gratifications Theory. Masters thesis, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2007.

Rodgers, David. "Tensions between Tradition and Innovation in Kingdom Come and The Avengers." Re:Search 1.1 (2014): 35-49.

Rogers, Brett M. "The Whedonverses and the Sociology of Academe, or A Report on SC2: The Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, May 26-28, 2006." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 6.1 (21), Fall 2006.

___ and Walter Scheidel. "Driving Stakes, Driving Cars: California Car Culture, Sex, and Identity in BtVS." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 4.1-2 (13-14), October 2004. Also presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Rogers, Scott. "Joss Whedon and the Problem of Nothing: River Tam and Existential Identity." Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 14.1 (43), Winter 2016. Also presented as "Joss Whedon and the Problem of Nothing" at the 2015 PCA/ACA National Conference, New Orleans, LA, 1-4 April 2015.

___. "Joss Whedon's Dollhouse and Joss Whedon's Dollhouse." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 22:2 (July 2011). 153-170.

Roine, Hanna-Riikka. "What is it that Fanfiction Opposes? The Shared and Communal Features of Firefly/Serenity Fanfiction." Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research 1.1 (2014): 31-45. Available online.

Rojas, Carlos. "'Tell My Mother I'm Sorry': On Chinese as a Minor Discourse." Chinese Literature Today 7.1 (2018): 143–152.

Romanelli, Kristen. "'It Seems Familiar Somehow': Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Film Score Monthly Online 17:4 (April 2012).

Romesburg, Rod. "Buffy Goes to College: Identity and the Series-Based Seminar Course." Buffy in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching With the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Jodie A. Kreider and Meghan K. Winchell. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 83-93.

___. "Regeneration through Vampirism: Buffy the Vampire Slayer's New Frontier." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 5.3 (19), February 2006.

Ronnenberg, Susan Crosby. "So Many Chick Flick Moments: Dean Winchester's Centrifugal Evolution." Gender and Contemporary Horror in Television. Eds. Steven Gerrard, Samantha Holland, and Robert Shail. Bingley, UK: Emerald, 2019. 131–147.

Ros, Giada da. "When, Where, and How Much is BtVS a Soap Opera?" Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 4.1-2 (13-14), October 2004.

Rose, Anita. "Of Creatures and Creators: Buffy Does Frankenstein." Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and David Lavery. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. 133-142.

Rose, Jared S. "'You Know, I'm Extremely Youthful. And Peppy!': Buffy, Playing Girl, and Popular Culture Representation of Sex-Worker Feminism." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 5.1 (6), July 2011.

Rose, Susanne. "Nothing Normal about the Monsters: Postmodern Monstrosity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer's 'Normal Again'." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 7.1 (9), June 2014.

Rosen, Gail D. "Whedon's Women and the Law: Parallels from Slayers to S.H.I.E.L.D." The Comics of Joss Whedon: Critical Essays. Ed. Valerie Estelle Frankel. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015. 209-218. Also presented as "Whedon's Women and the Law: Buffy, Willow, May and Skye (Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)" at Fantastic Women: Doing it for Themselves in the World of Sci-Fi and Fantasy, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, 7 May 2014, and at the 25th Annual Mid-Atlantic PCA/ACA Conference, Baltimore, MD, 6-8 November 2014.

Rosenfeld, Lawrence B. "Interpersonal Relationships in the Buffyverse: The Connection with Everyday Life." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004. Available online.

___ and Scarlet L. Wynns. "Perceived Values and Social Support in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 3.2 (10), November 2003.

Ross, Sharon M. "Dangerous Demons: Fan Responses to Girls' Power, Girls' Bodies, and Girls' Beauty in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Femspec 5.2 (2004): 82-100.

___. Super(natural) Women: Female Heroes, Their Friends, and Their Fans. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas – Austin, Austin, TX, 2002.

___. "Tough Enough: Female Friendship and Heroism in Xena and Buffy." Action Chicks: New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture. Ed. Sherrie A. Inness. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Rothén, Linn. Joss Whedons kvinnor: En analys av kvinnosynen i tv-serierna Dollhouse och Firefly. BA honors thesis, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden, 2012. In Swedish. Available online.

Rothman, Lily. "'I'd Very Still': Anthropology of a Lapsed Fan." 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. 126-134. Originally appeared in earlier form in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 14 April 2011. Partially Available Online.

Rowan. "Kissing a Fool: Smashing, Wrecking, and Rebuilding Spike's Identity." Tabula Rasa website, 2001. Also at The Existential Scoobies website, 2001. Available online here and here.

___. "Let's Face the Music and Dance: Couples in 'OmwF'." Tabula Rasa website, 2001. Available online.

___. "Power and Control in 'Smashed'." Tabula Rasa website, 2001. Also at The Existential Scoobies website, 2001. Available online here and here.

Rowe, Maddie. "Up Against the Buffers." English Review 15.4 (April 2005): 18-20.

Rowland, Susan. "Puer and Hellmouth: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and American Myth." Perpetual Adolescence: Jungian Analyses of American Media, Literature, and Pop Culture. Eds. Sally Porterfield, Keith Polette, and Tita French Baumlin. Albany, NY: SUNY [State University of New York] Press, 2009. 31-46.

Rowlands, Mark. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: What Are Obligations? And Why Do We Have Them?" Everything I Know I Learned from TV: Philosophy for the Unrepentant Couch Potato. London: Ebury, 2005. 27-62.

Rowley, Christina. "Firefly/Serenity: Gendered Space and Gendered Bodies." British Journal of Politics and International Relations 9.2 (2007): 318-25.

___ and Jutta Weldes. "The Evolution of International Security Studies and the Everyday: Suggestions from the Buffyverse." Security Dialogue 43.6 (2012): 513–530. Also appeared as SPAIS (School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies), University of Bristol, Working Paper No. 11-12, 2012. Available online.

___ and Jutta Weldes. "'I Choose to Feel Threatened': Representations of In/Security in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the 2008 PCA/ACA National Conference, San Francisco, CA, 19-22 March 2008. Also presented at the Popular Culture & (World) Politics Conference, University of Bristol, UK, 11-12 September 2008. Available online.

Rubio Hernández, María del Mar and Francisco Javier López Rodríguez. "Mucho ruido y pocas nueces: Del amor y sus mascaras en el siglo XXI." 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. 222-239. In Spanish.

Ruddell, Caroline. "'I am the Law,''I am the Magics': Speech, Power and the Split Identity of Willow 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. Also presented as "'I am the Law,''I am the Magics': Split Characters, Speech and Power in Buffy the Vampire Slayer" at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and as "'I am the Magics': The Fragile Identity of Willow in BtVS" at Charming & Crafty: Witchcraft & Paganism in Contemporary Media, Colloquium, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, May 2006.

Rust, Linda. "Welcome to the House of Fun: Buffy Fanfiction as a Hall of Mirrors." 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.

Rutkowski, Alice. "Why Chicks Dig Vampires: Sex, Blood, and Buffy." Iris: A Journal about Women 45 (Fall 2002): 12-20.

Ryan, Brandy. "'It's Complicated... Because of Tara': History, Identity Politics, and the Straight White Male Author." 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. 57-74. Also presented as "'It's Complicated... Because of Tara': History, Identity Politics, and the Straight White Male Author of Buffy the Vampire Slayer at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

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St. Louis, Renée. "'Better': Trauma, Romantic Attachment, and the Victor/Sierra Arc in Dollhouse." 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. 99-117.

___. "Unspeakable Darkness: Truth, Power and the Taboo of Race." Joss Whedon's Big Damn Movie: Essays on Serenity. Ed. Frederick Blichert. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018. 184-201.

___ and Miriam Riggs. "'And Yet': The Limits of Buffy Feminism." Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 8.1 (29), Spring 2010. Also presented as "'...and Yet': the Limitations of Buffy's Feminism" at SC3: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008.

___ and Miriam Riggs. "'A Painful, Bleeding Sleep': Sleeping Beauty 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.

Sakal, Gregory J. "No Big Win: Themes of Sacrifice, Salvation, and Redemption." Buffy and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale. Ed. James B. South. Chicago: Open Court, 2003. 239-253.

Salah, Patricia (Trish). "Of Activist Fandoms, Auteur Pedagogy, and Imperial Feminism: From Buffy the Vampire Slayer to 'I am Dua Khalil'." Muslim Women, Transnational Feminism and the Ethics of Pedagogy: Contested Imaginaries in Post-9/11 Cultural Practice. Eds. Lisa K. Taylor and Jasmin Zine. New York: Routledge, 2014. 152-174. Also presened as "From Buffy the Vampire Slayer to 'I am Du'a Khalil': Considering Joss Whedon's Feminist Pedagogy in the Context of Postfeminism and 'The War on Terror'" at SCW5: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 12-15 July 2012.

Samer, Roxanne. "Dollhouse and Echo(e)s of Future Queerness." In Media Res website. 4 October 2013. Available online.

Sandars, Diana and Rhonda V. Wilcox. "Not 'The Same Arrangement': Breaking Utopian Promises in the Buffy Musical." Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Paul Attinello, Steve [Janet K.] Halfyard, and Vanessa Knights. Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2010. 189-208.

Sanders, Hannah. "Buffy and Beyond: Language and Resistance in Contemporary Teenage Witchcraft." Journal for the Academic Study of Magic 3 (2005): 25-60.

Santos, Jennifer Marie. Anxieties of Audience: A Study of Gendered Gothic Reception. Ph.D. dissertation, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 2008.

Sas, Katherine and Curtis Weyant. "'Ever-Defeated Never Altogether Subdued': Fighting the Long Defeat in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Whedon's Angel." 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).

Saulnier, Katie. "From Virtuous Virgins to Vampire Slayers: The Evolution of the Gothic Heroine from the Early Gothic to Modern Horror." Watcher Junior: The Journal of Undergraduate Research in Buffy Studies 4.1 (4), November 2009.

Saulsberry, Rejena. "An Inevitable Tragedy: The Troubled Life of Charles Gunn as an Allegory for General Strain Theory." Joss Whedon and Race: Critical Essays. Eds. Mary Ellen Iatropoulos and Lowery A. Woodall III. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. 150-166.

Savile, Steve. "Angel (1999-2004)." Fantastic TV: 50 Years of Cult Fantasy and Science Fiction. London: Plexus, 2010. 224-232.

___. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)." Fantastic TV: 50 Years of Cult Fantasy and Science Fiction. London: Plexus, 2010. 210-218.

Saxey, Esther. "Staking a Claim: The Series and its Slash Fan-Fiction." Reading the Vampire Slayer: An Unofficial Critical Companion to Buffy and Angel. Ed. Roz Kaveney. 1st edition. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2001. 187-210.

Sayer, Karen. "'It Wasn't Our World Anymore. They Made It Theirs': Reading Space and Place." Reading the Vampire Slayer: An Unofficial Critical Companion to Buffy and Angel. Ed. Roz Kaveney. 1st edition. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2001. 98-119. (See also next entry)

___. "'This Was Our World and They Made It Theirs': Reading Space and Place in Buffy the Vampire Slayer 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. 132-155. (See also previous entry)

Scaglioni, Massimo. TV di culto: La serialità televisiva americana e il suo fandom. Milan: Vita e Pensiero, 2006. In Italian.

Schabram, Jennifer. Die Darstellung von Race und Gender in der TV-Serie Angel. BA honors thesis, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, 2009. In German.

Schäfer, Martin Jörg. "Screening Disability?: Rhetoriken der Behinerung in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Rasterfahndungen. Bielfefeld: Transcript, 2003. 97-115. In German.

Scherf, Manuela. Character Formation in Fan Fiction Based on Popular TV Series. Masters thesis, Universität Wien [University of Vienna], Austria, 2008. Available online.

Schiff, Len. "Joss Whedon: Absolute Admiration for Sondheim." Sondheim Review 11.4 (2005): 34-35.

Schiffren, Mara. "On Spinning Gyres and Escherian Symmetries: Interpreting the Spatial Architecture of Angel." Paper presented as "On Escherian Dualism and the Metaphysics of the Middle Way: Interpreting the Spatial Architecture of Angel the Series" at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004. Excerpted from Tea at the Ford website (2003?). Available online.

Schill, Karin. Femininity & Masculinity: A Reception Study about the Construction of Gender in Four Relationships on the TV Series Buffy & Angel." BA honors thesis, Örebro Universitet, Örebro, Sweden, 2008. Available online.

Schley, Lyndsey. "River Tam: The Oracle of Serenity." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 8.1 (11), Spring 2015.

Schlozman, Steven C. "Vampires and Those Who Slay Them: Using the Television Program Buffy the Vampire Slayer in Adolescent Therapy and Psychodynamic Education." Academic Psychology 24.1 (2000): 49-54. Available online.

Schneider, Kaitlin M. "Slaying Stereotypes or Stuck in Stasis?: A Study of Heteronormativity and Gender Performativity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Anya Christina Emanuella Jenkins." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies, 11.1 (17) Fall 2018.

Schudt, Karl. "Also Sprach Faith: The Problem of the Happy Rogue Vampire Slayer." Buffy and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale. Ed. James B. South. Chicago: Open Court, 2003. 20-34.

Schultz, Lauren Alise. "Concepts of Identity When Nancy Drew Meets Buffy. Buffy Meets the Academy: Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Texts. Ed. Kevin K. Durand. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 187-202. Also presented in earlier form as "Nancy Drew and Buffy Summers: the Development of the Strong Female Role Model in Adolescent Literature" at SC3: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008.

___. "'Hot Chicks with Superpowers': The Contested Feminism of Joss Whedon." Reading Joss Whedon. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox, Tanya R. Cochran, Cynthea Masson, and David Lavery. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2014. 356-370.

___. Not Just a 'Rather Nasty Experience': Loss and Longing in Modern Young Adult Fantasy. Masters thesis, American University, Washington, DC, 2009.

Schumacher, Lauren. "The Many Faces of Buffy: An Analysis of the Disharmonious Visual Representations of Buffy Summers in Primary and Secondary Texts." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 4.2 (5), June 2010. Available online.

Schumacher, Patricia Isabella. "'Have good sex': Empowerment Through Sexuality as Represented by the Character of Inara Serra in Joss Whedon's Firefly." 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. 61-84.

Scott, Samuel J. "Buffy and College: Psychology and UC Sunnydale." Buffy the Vampire Slayer Online website. 20 February 2012. Available online.

___. "Buffy, Authority, and Fascism in Joss Whedon's World." Buffy the Vampire Slayer Online website. 25 September 2011. Available online.

___. "Buffy, Creation, and the Bible." Buffy the Vampire Slayer Online website. 23 September 2011. Available online.

___. "Buffy and Prophecy: Free Will Versus Determinism." Buffy the Vampire Slayer Online website. 21 November 2011. Available online.

___. "Buffy's Birthday: January 19, 1981 and Astrology." Buffy the Vampire Slayer Online website. 19 January 2012. Available online.

___. "Five by Five: Faith, Angel, and the Stages of Grief." Buffy the Vampire Slayer Online website. 20 October 2011. Available online.

___. "How Jewish is Willow Rosenberg?" Buffy the Vampire Slayer Online website. 21 December 2011. Available online.

___. "Sunnydale, Buffy, and High School's First Year." Buffy the Vampire Slayer Online website. 27 January 2012. Available online.

___. "Utilitarianism, John Stuart Mill, and Buffy." Buffy the Vampire Slayer Online website. 6 June 2012. Available online.

___. "Vampire Hunters in Folklore, Fiction & History." Buffy the Vampire Slayer Online website. 8 August 2012. Available online.

___. "What Would Xander Do?" Buffy the Vampire Slayer Online website. 24 March 2012. Available online.

___. "Would Aristotle Say that Buffy is Ethical?" Buffy the Vampire Slayer Online website. 13 October 2011. Available online.

___. "Young Girls, Older Men: Is Buffy a Feminist Show?" Buffy the Vampire Slayer Online website. 9 November 2011. Available online.

Scott, Suzanne. "All Bark and No Bite: Siring the Neutered Vampire on Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Vampires: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil. Ed. Carla T. Kungl. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2003. 125-128. Also presented at Vampires: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil, Budapest, Hungary, 22-24 May 2003. Available online.

___. "Modeling the Marvel Everyfan: Agent Coulson and/as Transmedia Fan Culture." Palabra Clave: Revista de Comunicación 20.4, December 2017: 1042–1072. Available online.

Segura, Allison. Perfect Creatures: A Social and Cultural Interpretation of Vampires in Fiction and Film. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Louisiana – Lafayette, LA, 2008.

Seibel, Svetlana. "'There'll Be Another Song For Me': The Significance of the Orpheus Myth in Angel's 'Orpheus'." '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: 48-76. Also presented at EuroSlayage [SCW7]: The 7th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK, 7-10 July 2016.

Sepinwall, Alan. "She saved the world. A lot... Buffy the Vampire Slayer gives teen angst some fangs." The Revolution Was Televised: The Cops, Crooks, Slingers and Slayers Who Changed TV Drama Forever. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013. 191-217. [Book was previously self-published, 2012.]

Sessarego, Carrie. "Watching the Whore: The Treatment of Jules in Cabin in the Woods.” 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.

Shade, Pat. "Screaming to be Heard: Reminders and Insights on Community and Communication in 'Hush'." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 6.1 (21), Fall 2006. Also presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Shand, Patrick. "IDW Retrospective: A Look Back at IDW's Angel with Brian Lynch and Scott Tipton." 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. 329-334.

___. "Joss Whedon 101: Angel: After the Fall." 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. 324-328. Originally appeared in earlier form in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 4 April 2011. Partially Available Online.

___. "Joss Whedon 101: Fray." 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. 307-309. Originally appeared in earlier form in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 14 March 2011. Partially Available Online.

___. "Much with the Moral Ambiguity: An Examination of the Fallen Heroes and Redeemed Villians in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight and Angel: After the Fall." 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. 361-367.

Shane, Margaret. "River Tam as Schizoanalysand in Joss Whedon's Firefly Narratives." Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 12.2-13.1 (40-41), Winter 2014/Spring 2015.

Shapiro, NancyKay. "Transgressing with Spike and Buffy." 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. 69-73.

Shapiro, Paul D. "Someone to Sink Your Teeth Into: Gendered Biting Patterns on Buffy the Vampire Slayer: A Quantitative Analysis." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 7.2 (26), Spring 2008. Also 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.

Sharkey, Rachel. “'I'm in Neuroplastic Heaven': Putting the Dollhouse in the Context of Modern Neuroscience." Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 14.2 (44), Summer 2016.

Sharp, Molly Louise. Gender, Feminism, and Heroism in Joss Whedon and John Cassaday's Astonishing X-Men Comics. Masters thesis, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 2011. Available online.

Sharpe, Matthew. "Is Buffy (a) Lacanian?: Sunnydale, Or: What Is Enlightenment?" 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.

Shaw, Heather. "A Couch Potato's Guide to Demon Slaying: Turning Strangers into Family, Buffy-Style." 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. 49-56.

Shefield, Rebecka. "Smelly Knowledge: An Informal Audit of the Sunnydale High Library in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." University of Toronto Faculty of Information Quarterly 2.1 (2009). Available online.

Sheperd, Dawn Renée. Marketing Subjectivity: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Construction of the Problematic Female Television Audience. Masters thesis, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 2004. Available online.

Shepherd, Laura J. "Morality, Legality and Gender Violence in Angel." Gender, Violence and Popular Culture: Telling Stories. New York: Routledge, 2012. 13-24. Also published in earlier form in Journal of Gender Studies 18.3 (2009): 245-259.

___. "Policing the boundaries of desire in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Gender, Violence and Popular Culture: Telling Stories. New York: Routledge, 2012. 25-41.

___. "Security and Governance After Modernity in Firefly." Gender, Violence and Popular Culture: Telling Stories. New York: Routledge, 2012. 86-102.

Sheppard, Phillipa. "'Sigh No More Ladies': Shakespeare, Branagh, and Whedon Tackle Issues of Gender and Fidelity in Much Ado About Nothing." Devouring Time : Nostalgia in Contemporary Shakespearean Screen Adaptions. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017. 285-302.

Sherman, Josepha. "Angel or Devil: Playing with Mythology and Folklore in the Angelverse." Five Seasons of Angel: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Vampire. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2004. 167-177.

Sherman, Yael. "Tracing the Carnival Spirit in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Feminist Reworkings of the Grotesque." Thirdspace 3.2 (2004): 89-107. Available online.

Shinn, Sharon. "Outlaws & Desperados." 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. 25-29.

Short, Sue. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Beauty and the 'Big Bad'." Cult Telefantasy Series: A Critical Analysis of The Prisoner, Twin Peaks, The X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Lost, Heroes, Doctor Who, and Star Trek. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011. 84-107.

___. "Fighting Demons: Buffy, Faith, Willow, and the Forces of Good and Evil." Misfit Sisters: Screen Horror as Female Rites of Passage. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 111-131.

Showalter, Dennis. "Buffy Goes to War: Military Themes and Images in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004. Available online.

Shull, Ira and Anne Shull. "The Candide of Sunnydale: Andrew Wells as Satire of Pop Culture and Marketing Trends." 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. 75-82. Also presented as "The Candide of Sunnydale: Andrew as Satire of Pop Culture and Marketing Trends in BtVS" at Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

Shuster, Martin. "What it Means to Mourn." Inside Joss' Dollhouse: from Alpha to Rossum. Ed. Jane Espenson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: Smart Pop [BenBella], 2010. 233-245.

Shuster, Robin. "Reconsidering the Girl-on-Girl: Transgressive Lesbianism on Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 9.1 (13), Spring 2016.

Shuttleworth, Ian. "Bite Me, Professor." Financial Times, September 2003. Available Online from Whedon.info.

___. "'They Always Mistake Me for the Character I Play!': Transformation, Identity and Role-playing in the Buffyverse (and a Defence of Fine Acting)." Reading the Vampire Slayer: An Unofficial Critical Companion to Buffy and Angel. Ed. Roz Kaveney. 2nd edition. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2004. 233-276.

Sibielski, Rosalind. From Girl Power to Empowered Girls?: Reading Gender, Power, and Adolescent Female Identity through Representations of Girl Power in Contemporary Culture. Masters thesis, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI, 2004.

Siegel, Carol. "Female Heterosexual Sadism: The Final Feminist Taboo in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Series." Third Wave Feminism and Television: Jane Puts It in a Box. Ed. Merri Lisa Johnson. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2007. 56-90. Also presented as "Third-Wave Feminist Sadism: Why Buffy's Loss is Anita Blake's Gain" at the 2006 PCA/ACA National Conference, 12-15 April 2006.

Siemann, Catherine. "Darkness Falls on the Endless Summer: Buffy as Gidget for the Fin de Siècle." Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and David Lavery. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. 120-129.

Silver, Alain. The Vampire Film From Nosferatu to True Blood. Fourth Edition. Lanham, MD: Limelight Editions / Rowman & Littlefield, 2011.

Simbürger, Manuel. Queer Reading: Dekonstruktion von Heteronormativität in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ph.D. dissertation, Wien-Universität [University of Vienna],, Austria, 2010. In German.

Simkin, Stevie. "'Who died and made you John Wayne?': Anxious Masculinity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 3.3-4 (11-12), April 2004.

___. "'You hold your gun like a sissy girl': Firearms and Anxious Masculinity in 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.

Simmons, Victoria Gay. Tricksterism in Popular Traditions. Masters thesis, University of California – Los Angeles, CA, 2005.

Simpson, Craig S. "Myth Versus Faux Myth." The Chronicle of Higher Education 47.37 (May 2001): B15-B16. Available Online.

___. "The Now and the Then: Buffy and History." The Existential Scoobies website. 2001. Available online.

___. "Unsympathetic Magic: The Slayer's Role Through History." The Existential Scoobies website. 2001. Available online.

Sinclair, Katrina. High School Is Hell: An Analysis of the Cultural Importance of Television and Its Significance in Adolescent Culture through the Television Series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. BA honors thesis, University of Otago, North Dunedin, New Zealand, 2003.

Sippola, Lorrie K., Jaime Paget, and Carie M. Buchanan. "Praising Cordelia: Social Aggression and Social Dominance among Adolescent Girls." Aggression and Adaptation: The Bright Side to Bad Behavior. Eds. Patricia H. Hawley, Todd D. Little, and Philip C. Rodkin. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 2007. 157-183.

Sjö, Sofia. Spelar kön någon roll när man räddarvärlden?: Kvinnor, kvinnligheter och messiasmyter i SF-film. [See Chapter 6 on Buffy and Dark Angel.] Åbo, Finland: Åbo Akademis förlag, 2007. In Finnish. Available online.

Sjöberg, Jakob. Beauty and the Beasts: The Vampire Slayer. BA honors thesis, Institutionen för studier av samhällsutveckling och kultur, Linköping Universitet, Linköping, Sweden, 2008. In Swedish. Available online.

Skwire, Sarah E. "'Whose Side Are You On, Anyway?': Children, Adults, and the Use of Fairy Tales 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. 195-204.

Slotten, Chelsi. "To Slay or Not to Slay: Gender, Liminality, and Choice in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Gender, Supernatural Beings, and the Liminality of Death Monstrous Males/Fatal Females. Eds. Rebecca Gibson and James M. VanderVeen. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021.

Smirnov, Kristen. "Domestic Abuse and Gender Role Reversal in Season 6: My Letter to Mutant Enemy." Tabula Rasa website, 2002. Available online.

Smith, Ashley Lorrain. "Melodrama and Girlculture: Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Girl Power: Feminism, Girlculture and the Popular Media. Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, 1999. 81-114. Available online.

Smith, Evan. "'You Don't Wanna Miss This Week's Feature Creature': The Top Ten Stand Alone Episodes." All Slay 2 (2004).

Smith, Philip. "'I Look'd Upon Her with a Soldier's Eye': The Normalization of Surveillance Culture in Whedon's Much Ado." Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 14.1 (43), Winter 2016.

Smith-Casanueva, Brent M. "Race, Space and the (De)Construction of Neocolonial 9: Difference in Firefly/Serenity." Joss Whedon and Race: Critical Essays. Eds. Mary Ellen Iatropoulos and Lowery A. Woodall III. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. 169-183.

Sobolev, Dennis. "Politics of Loss: The Historical World, 'the Right Thing to Do,' and a Utopian Community in Firefly." Firefly Revisited: Essays on Joss Whedon's Classic Series. Eds. Michael Goodrum and Philip Smith. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. 85-100.

South, James B. "'All Torment, Trouble, Wonder, and Amazement Inhabits Here': The Vicissitudes of Technology in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Journal of American and Comparative Cultures 24.1/2 (2001): 93-102. Also presented at Marquette University PGSA Conference: Technology in the 21st Century, Milwaukee, WI, 2001.

___. "Kiss Kiss, Stake Stake: Storytelling and the Philosophical Pleasures of Season 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. 198-210.

___. "'My God, it's Like a Greek Tragedy': Willow Rosenberg and Human Irrationality." Buffy and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale. Ed. James B. South. Chicago: Open Court, 2003. 131-145.

___. "On the Philosophical Consistency of Season 7: or, 'It's not about right, not about wrong...'" Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 4.1-2 (13-14), October 2004. Also presented as "On the Philosophical Consistency of Season 7" at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

___. "The Past and Future of Buffy Studies: A Conversation with Rhonda Wilcox." 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.

___, David Lavery, Rhonda V. Wilcox, and Stephanie Zacharek. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer Series 7 Discussion (Rounds 1, 2, and 3)." PopPolitics.com, 2003. Available online.

___, ed. Buffy and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale. Chicago: Open Court, 2003.

Souza, Christopher. "Boyd Langton and the Fantasy of Trust." Inside Joss' Dollhouse: from Alpha to Rossum. Ed. Jane Espenson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: Smart Pop [BenBella], 2010. 205-217.

Spah, Victoria. "Ain't Love Grand: Spike & Courtly Love." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 2.1 (5), May 2002.

___. Buffyverse Dialogue DataBase: BtVS and AtS Dialogue website. 2004. Available online.

___, et al. Tea at the Ford website. 2003(?).

Spaise, Terry L. "Necrophilia and SM: The Deviant Side of Buffy the Vampire Slayer." The Journal of Popular Culture 38 (4) 2005. 744-762.

Sparrow, Kevin. "A Queer Primer to Joss Whedon." In Our Words: Salon for Queers & Co. website. 25 May 2012. Available online.

Spencer, Priscilla. "Brand New Day: The Evolution of the Doctor Horrible Fandom." 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. 74-82.

Sperry, Eileen. "Joss Whedon's Much Ado about Nothing and the Voyeuristic Audience." Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism and Scholarship 35.1, 2017: 15–35.

Spicer, Arwen. "'It's Bloody Brilliant!': The Undermining of Metanarrative Feminism in the Season Seven Arc Narrative of Buffy." 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.

___. "'Love's Bitch But Man Enough to Admit It': Spike's Hybridized Gender." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 2.3 (7), December 2002.

Spließ, Christian. "Librarian versus Technopagan: Buffy the Vampire Slayer und das Rollenbild des Bibliothekars." Library Ideas 13 (2008): 53-58. In German. Available online.

Spooner, Catherine. "Teen Demons." Contemporary Gothic. London: Reaktion, 2006. 87-123.

Sprout, Frances. "'Sweetie, your epidermis is showing': Theorizing Skin in and Through Joss Whedon's 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. 227-242.

Stadler, Jane. "Becoming the Other: Multiculturalism in Joss Whedon's Angel." Flow TV: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture 7.4 (April 2007). Available online.

Stafford, Anika. "Feminist Abuse Survivor Narratives in Angel and Sarah Daniels's Beside Herself." 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. 85-97. Also accepted (but not presented) as "Memory and Madness: Angel Finds a Place in Feminist Abuse Survivor Narratives" for the 31st Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 10-13 February 2010.

Stafford, Nikki. Bite Me!: An Unofficial Guide to the World of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Toronto: ECW Press, 2002.

___. Once Bitten: An Unofficial Guide to the World of Angel. Toronto: ECW Press, 2004.

___, ed. The Great Buffy Rewatch. Nik at Nite website. Available online.

Stahl, Madeline. "The Dead Poet's Society." Watcher Junior: The Journal of Undergraduate Research in Buffy Studies 2.1 (2), July 2006.

Staite, Jewel. "Kaylee Speaks: Jewel Staite on Firefly." Finding Serenity: Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly. Eds. Jane Espenson with Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2005. 217-227.

Stangl, Chris. "Spend the Night Alone: Notes on 'Conversations With Dead People'." The Exploding Kinetoscope website. March 2013. Available online.

___. "Watchers' Council: Rough Draft - The Original of Buffy." The Exploding Kinetoscope website. August 2009. Available online.

___. "Watchers' Council: The Long Way Home." The Exploding Kinetoscope website. July 2007. Available online.

Stanley, Marni. "Buffy's Season Eight, Image and Text: Superhero Self-Fashioning." Reading Joss Whedon. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox, Tanya R. Cochran, Cynthea Masson, and David Lavery. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2014. 250-267.

Starr, Michael. "'I've Watched You Build Yourself From Scratch': The Assemblage of Echo." Joss Whedon's Dollhouse: Confounding Purpose, Confusing Identity. Eds. Sherry Ginn, Alyson R. Buckman, and Heather M. Porter. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 3-20.

___. "'To Speak Against an Opponent Eloquently Makes You an Unusual Personage': Joss Whedon as Deleuzian 'Minor Writer.'" Transmediating the Whedonverse(s): Essays on Texts, Paratexts, and Metatexts. Eds. Juliette C. Kitchens and Julie L. Hawk. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 141-166. Also presented in earlier form as "'I Always Watch What I Say. I Am What I Say': Joss Whedon as Deleuzian 'Minor Writer'" 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 2015 PCA/ACA National Conference, New Orleans, LA, 1-4 April 2015.

___. "Whedon's Great Glass Elevator: Space, Liminality, and Intertext 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.

Stasiak, Lauren. "'When You Kiss Me, I Want To Die': Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Gothic Family Values." Goth: Undead Subculture. Eds. Lauren M. E. Goodlad and Michael Bibby. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. 307-315.

Stefanachi, Francesa Maria. "The Future of Scholarhsip: Interview with Professor Rhonda V. Wilcox." 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.

Stefano, Valentina di. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Un teen drama sotto il segno dell'horror." Ol3Media: e-journal of Cinema, Television and Media Studies 1.2 (September 2008). In Italian.

Stein, Atara. "Conclusion: The Vampire with the Face of an Angel." The Byronic Hero in Film, Fiction, and Television. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2009. 213-218.

___. "Immortals and Vampires and Ghosts, Oh My!: Byronic Heroes in Popular Culture." Romanticism and Contemporary Culture. Eds. Laura Mandell and Michael Eberle-Sinatra. Special Issue of Romantic Circles Praxis Series, February 2002. Available online.

Stein, Jeanne C. "My (Fantasy) Encounter with Joss Whedon (and What I've Learned from the Master)." 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. 37-41.

Stein, Louisa Ellen. 'A Transcending-Genre Kind of Thing': Teen/Fantasy TV and Online Audience Culture. Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, New York, NY, 2006.

Stengel, Wendy A. F. G. "Synergy and Smut: The Brand in Official and Unofficial Buffy the Vampire Slayer Communities of Interest." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 1.4 (4), December 2001.

Stenger, Josh. "The Clothes Make the Fan: Fashion and Online Fandom when Buffy the Vampire Slayer Goes to eBay." Cinema Journal 45.4 (Summer 2006): 26-44.

Stephenson, Sophie. Deconstructing the Gaze and Desensitisation in The Cabin in the Woods. Ph.D. dissertation, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK, 2013. Available online.

___. "The Fans Who Never Lost Faith: Slaying 1970s Subculture Theory." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 6.1 (7), July 2012.

___. "Media Control in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse." Unpublished paper written for undergraduate course, 2012(?). Available online.

Stepniak, Anthony. "Actualizing Abjection: Drusilla, the Whedonverses' Queen of Queerness." 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.

Stevens, Katy. "Battling the Buzz: Contesting Sonic Codes in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Paul Attinello, Steve [Janet K.] Halfyard, and Vanessa Knights. Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2010. 79-89.

___. "Buffy's Spectatorial Dilemma: Time Anomalies in 'Life Serial'." All Slay 1 (2003): 4-6. Also published in earlier form as "Inside the Buffyverse 02: Buffy's Spectatorial Dilemma" on Vibewire.net, 7 April 2003. No longer accessible.

___. "Defending Season Six (Part One)." All Slay 1 (2003): 14-15. Also published as "Inside the Buffyverse: Defending Season 6 (Part 1)" on Vibewire.net, 2003. No longer accessible.

___. "Defending Season Six (Part Two)." All Slay 2 (2004). Also published as "Inside the Buffyverse: Defending Season 6 (Part 2)" on Vibewire.net, 2003.

___. "Episode in Review: 07.13 'The Killer in Me'." All Slay 1 (2003): 13.

___. "Episode in Review: 07.17 'Storyteller'." All Slay 1 (2003): 3.

___. "Investigating Angel." All Slay 2 (2004).

___. "Moans, Thuds and Power Chords: Sounding Sex in Buffy." All Slay 3 (2004).

___. "Musical Narration across Magnolia and 'Sleeper'." All Slay 1 (2003): 16-17.

___. "Spike as Spectacle: Liminality and Visual Pleasure." "Spike as Spectacle: Liminality and Visual Pleasure." All Slay 1 (2003): 7-12. Also presented as "Sex, Spectatorship and the Surface of the Body: Spike as Buffy's 'Dolly'" at the Buffy Down Under Convention, Melbourne, Australia, 2-4 May 2003, and at Staking a Claim: Exploring the Global Reach of Buffy, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, 22 July 2003.

___, ed. All Slay 1-3 (2003-2004).

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

Stevens, Kirsten. "Meet the Cullens: Family, Romance, and Female Agency in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Twilight." Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 8.1 (29), Spring 2010.

Stevenson, Gregory. "Buffy's Story." In Gregory Stevenson. Televised Morality: The Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Lanham, MD: Hamilton, 2003. 43-60.

___. "Buffy's World." In Gregory Stevenson. Televised Morality: The Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Lanham, MD: Hamilton, 2003. 61-80.

___. "Conclusion: Buffy and Moral Discourse." In Gregory Stevenson. Televised Morality: The Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Lanham, MD: Hamilton, 2003. 259-262.

___. "The End as Moral Guidepost." In Gregory Stevenson. Televised Morality: The Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Lanham, MD: Hamilton, 2003. 159-172. Also published in Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 4.3 (15), December 2004.

___. "Guilt and Forgiveness." In Gregory Stevenson. Televised Morality: The Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Lanham, MD: Hamilton, 2003. 215-234.

___. "Human Nature." In Gregory Stevenson. Televised Morality: The Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Lanham, MD: Hamilton, 2003. 81-90.

___. "Identity and the Quest for Self." In Gregory Stevenson. Televised Morality: The Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Lanham, MD: Hamilton, 2003. 91-104.

___. "The Moral Battleground." In Gregory Stevenson. Televised Morality: The Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Lanham, MD: Hamilton, 2003. 9-22.

___. "Morals and Consequences." In Gregory Stevenson. Televised Morality: The Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Lanham, MD: Hamilton, 2003. 173-188.

___. "Sexuality." In Gregory Stevenson. Televised Morality: The Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Lanham, MD: Hamilton, 2003. 189-202.

___. "Storytellers." In Gregory Stevenson. Televised Morality: The Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Lanham, MD: Hamilton, 2003. 23-42.

___. "Systems of Power: Technology, Magic, and Institutional Authority." In Gregory Stevenson. Televised Morality: The Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Lanham, MD: Hamilton, 2003. 125-138.

___. "Taking Buffy Seriously." In Gregory Stevenson. Televised Morality: The Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Lanham, MD: Hamilton, 2003. 1-8.

___. "A Tale of Two Slayers: Identity, Sacrifice, and Salvation." In Gregory Stevenson. Televised Morality: The Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Lanham, MD: Hamilton, 2003. 105-124.

___. "Together or Alone?: The Dynamics of Community and Family." In Gregory Stevenson. Televised Morality: The Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Lanham, MD: Hamilton, 2003. 139-158.

___. "The Vampire, the Witch, and the Warlock: Patterns of Rdemption." In Gregory Stevenson. Televised Morality: The Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Lanham, MD: Hamilton, 2003. 235-258.

___. "Violence and Vengeance." In Gregory Stevenson. Televised Morality: The Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Lanham, MD: Hamilton, 2003. 203-214.

___. Televised Morality: The Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Lanham, MD: Hamilton, 2003.

Stewart, J. Malcolm. "Big in Japan: A Cross Cultural [sic] Look at the Whedonverse." 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.

Stifflemire, Brett S. "Dr. Simon Tam, Healer and Humanist: Medical Models of Health Care in Firefly and 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. 100-113.

Stock, Barbara. "Dollhouse and Intellectual Disability." 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. 72-87.

Stokes, Jennifer. "'Who died and made you John Wayne?' or, Why Riley Finn Could Never be a Scooby." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004. Available online.

Stommel, Jesse James. "I'm Not a Dead Body; I Just Play One on TV: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Performativity of the Corpse." Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 8.1 (29), Spring 2010. Also appeared in Pity Poor Flesh. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Colorado – Boulder, CO, 2010. 69-82.

Stoy, Jennifer. "'And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine': Wesley/Lilah and the Complicated (?) Role of the Female Agent on Angel." Reading Angel: the TV Spin-off With a Soul. Ed. Stacey Abbott. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2005. 163-175.

___. "Blood and Choice: The Theory and Practice of Family in Angel." Reading the Vampire Slayer: An Unofficial Critical Companion to Buffy and Angel. Ed. Roz Kaveney. 2nd edition. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2004. 220-232.

Stratton, Jon. "Buffy Failed: True Blood and the Accommodation of Vampires." Flow TV: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture 11.10 (March 2010). Available online.

___. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: What Being Jewish Has to Do with It." Television & New Media 6.2 (May 2005): 176-199.

Straub, Kristina. "Love at the Hellmouth." Jane Austen and Co.: Remaking the Past in Contemporary Culture. Eds. Suzanne R. Pucci and James Thompson. Albany, NY: SUNY [State University of New York] Press, 2003. 53-71.

Strayer, Kirsten. "Dollhouse's Future History Machines." Inside Joss' Dollhouse: from Alpha to Rossum. Ed. Jane Espenson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: Smart Pop [BenBella], 2010. 175-187.

Strehlau, Nelly. "She's White and They Are History: Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Racialization of the Past and Present." Joss Whedon and Race: Critical Essays. Eds. Mary Ellen Iatropoulos and Lowery A. Woodall III. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. 91-107.

Stroud, Scott R. "A Kantian Analysis of Moral Judgment in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Buffy and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale. Ed. James B. South. Chicago: Open Court, 2003. 185-194.

Stuart, Susan. "When Ontologies Collide: The Essential Confusion of Existence in the Buffyverse." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004. Available online.

Stuller, Jennifer Kate. "All That Matters Is What We Do: Fans, Community-Building, Love, Social Justice, and Other Activist Lessons From the Whedonverse." Paper presented as featured lecture at SCW6: Much Ado About Whedon: The 6th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, California State University – Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, 19-22 June 2014. Available online at author's website.

___. "The Best, Worst, Known, and Not-So-Known, Popular Culture Influences on the Buffyverse (Or, Joss Whedon's Fandom: 101)." Fan Phenomena: Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ed. Jennifer Kate Stuller. Chicago: Intellect, 2013. 10-27. Also presented as "The Ink-Stained Amazon Presents: A Brief History of the Best, Worst, Known, and Not So Known Pop Culture Influences on the Buffyverse, Mostly" at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010. Available online at author's website.

___. "Fan Appreciation no.1: Nikki Stafford of the Great Buffy Rewatch." Fan Phenomena: Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ed. Jennifer Kate Stuller. Chicago: Intellect, 2013. 52-63.

___. "Fan Appreciation no.2: Rhonda Wilcox, the 'Mother' of Buffy Studies." Fan Phenomena: Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ed. Jennifer Kate Stuller. Chicago: Intellect, 2013. 84-89.

___. "Fan Appreciation no.3: Clinton McClung, Founder of the 'Once More With Feeling' touring sing-along." Fan Phenomena: Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ed. Jennifer Kate Stuller. Chicago: Intellect, 2013. 120-133.

___. "Fan Appreciation no.4: Scott Allie, Dark Horse Comics." Fan Phenomena: Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ed. Jennifer Kate Stuller. Chicago: Intellect, 2013. 144-149.

___. "Introduction." Fan Phenomena: Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ed. Jennifer Kate Stuller. Chicago: Intellect, 2013. 4-9.

___. "One Girl in All the World." Ink-Stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors: Superwomen in Modern Mythology. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2010. 73-78.

___, ed. Fan Phenomena: Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Chicago: Intellect, 2013.

Sterba, Wendy. "Selling Sex, Along with Everything Else: Darla as Marketed Woman in Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Selling Sex on Screen: From Weimar Cinema to Zombie Porn. Ed. Karen A Ritzenhoff and Catriona McAvoy. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. 189-202.

___. J.J. Abrams vs. Joss Whedon: Duel for Media Master of the Universe. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.

Sturgis, Amy H. "'Just Get Us a Little Further': Liberty and the Frontier in Firefly and Serenity." The Philosophy of Joss Whedon. Eds. Dean A. Kowalski and S. Evan Kreider. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2011. 24-38.

Suarez, J.M. "From the Small Screen to the Panel: Buffy in Comic Form." 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.

Suisted, Laura. "Breaking Conventions to Build the Buffyverse." Watcher Junior: The Journal of Undergraduate Research in Buffy Studies 1.1 (1), July 2005.

Sulimma, Maria. "The Fanboy Next Door: Whedon and His Appeal to Self-Professed Geeks." In Media Res website. 2 October 2013. Available online.

Sullivan, Kevin M. "Chinese Words in the 'Verse." Finding Serenity: Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly. Eds. Jane Espenson with Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2005. 197-207.

___. "Unofficial Glossary of Firefly Chinese." Finding Serenity: Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly. Eds. Jane Espenson with Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2005. 229-238.

Sutherland, Sharon. "Piercing the Corporate Veil - with a Stake?: Vampire Imagery and the Law." Vampires: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil. Ed. Peter Day. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006. 143-157. Also presented at Vampires: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil, Budapest, Hungary, 22-24 May 2003. Available online.

___ and Sarah Swann. "'The Alliance Isn't Some Evil Empire': Dystopia in Joss Whedon's Firefly/Serenity." Investigating Firefly and Serenity: Science Fiction on the Frontier. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya R. Cochran. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2008. 89-100.

___ and Sarah Swann. "Lilah Morgan: Whedon's Legal Femme Fatale." 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. 54-65.

___ and Sarah Swann. "The Rule of Prophecy: Source of Law in the City of Angel." Reading Angel: the TV Spin-off With a Soul. Ed. Stacey Abbott. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2005. 132-145.

___ and Sarah Swann. "'There Is No Me; I'm Just a Container': Law and the Loss of Personhood in Dollhouse." Reading Joss Whedon. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox, Tanya R. Cochran, Cynthea Masson, and David Lavery. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2014. 221-233.

Swain, Sara. "Losing It: The Construction of Virginity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Sexual Rhetoric in the Works of Joss Whedon: New Essays. Ed. Erin B. Waggoner. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 173-184.

Sweeney, John A. "'I have an Army/We have a Hulk': Thinking Politics in The Avengers." In Media Res website. 9 May 2012. Available online.

Sweeney, Kathleen. "Supernatural Girls: Witches, Warriors, and Anime." Maiden USA: Girl Icons Come of Age. New York: Peter Lang, 2008. 155-174.

Swendson, Shanna. "A Tale of Two Heroes." Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe. Ed. Jane Espenson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: BenBella, 2007. 67-78.

Switaj, Elizabeth Kate. "'The Cliff Notes version? I want a normal life': Slayerhood as Social-Model Disability." 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. 57-71.

___. "Orchestrated Conflict & Real Resistance: The Revolutionary Nature of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Community." Paper presented at Popular Politics and Vampire Stories: the Appropriation of Vampires in the 21st Century, Symposium, Association for Research in Popular Fiction, July 2007. Available online.

Symcox, Caroline. "Teething Troubles and Growing Up." 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. 62-68.

Symonds, Gwyn. "'Bollocks!': Spike Fans and Reception of 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). Also presented at The Buffyverse: A Symposium on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 21 November 2002. Available online.

___. "'A Little More Soul Than is Written': James Marsters' Performance of Spike and the Ambiguity of Evil in Sunnydale." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 4.4 (16), March 2005. Also presented as "'A Little More Soul Than is Written': Acting Spike and the Ambiguity of Evil in Sunnydale" at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

___. "'Solving Problems with Sharp Objects': Female Empowerment, Sex, and Violence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." The Aesthetics of Violence in Contemporary Media. New York: Continuum, 2008. 126-149. Also published in earlier form in Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 3.3-4 (11-12), April 2004.

___. "The Superhero Versus the Troubled Teen: Parenting Connor, and the Fragility of 'Family' in Angel." Super/Heroes: From Hercules to Superman. Eds. Wesley Haslem Angela Ndalianis, and Chris Mackie. Washington, DC: New Academia, 2007. 155-165. Also presented at Holy Men in Tights: a Superheroes Conference, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, June 2005.

___. "You Can Take the Fan Out of the Academic but Should You?: Musings on Methodology." Philament 1 (September 2003). Available online.

Szabo, Tait. "Companions, Dolls, and Whores: Joss Whedon on Sex and Prostitution." The Philosophy of Joss Whedon. Eds. Dean A. Kowalski and S. Evan Kreider. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2011. 103-116.

Szeghi, Tereza M. and and Wesley Dempster. "'Why don't you just go back where you came from?' or 'Slight yams': 'Pangs' of Regret and Unresolved Ambivalence in Joss Whedon's California." Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 15.1 (45), Winter 2017. Also presented in earlier form by Tereza M. Szeghi as "'Pangs' of Vengeance, Regret, and Resignation in Joss Whedon's California" at the 47th Annual Conference of the Western Literature Association, Lubbock, TX, 7-10 November 2012.

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___. "La politique des amours féminins: Willow/Tara et les nouvelles approches des communautés de fans." French translation by Malaurie Prévost. Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+ 21.2 [58], Summer/Fall 2023.

Tallarita, Andrea. "Deconstructing the Avengers: Bad Robot! Language Co-Opted." PopMatters.com, 12 October 2015. Available online.

___. "Deconstructing the Avengers: Good and Bad Language." PopMatters.com, 12 October 2015. Available online.

___. "Deconstructing the Avengers: Language Transcended... Almost." PopMatters.com, 16 October 2015. Available online.

Talty, Julie. Enabling Cult Television: A Modern Expression of an Ancient Phenomenon. BA honors thesis, Griffith University, School of Film, Media and Cultural Studies, Queensland, Australia, 2004.

Tange, Karlijn. "Vampiers en muziek: Een bovennatuurlijke combinatie: Het gebruik van muziek in de vampiertv-series Buffy the Vampire Slayer en True Blood." BA honors thesis, Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2013. In Dutch.

Taramisu, Klytaimnestra, et al. Lydia Chalmers' Thesis on William the Bloody. Tea at the Ford website. 2003(?). Available online at ArchiveOfOurOwn.org.

Tassone, Janelle. "Buffy: The Evolution of a Valley Girl." 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.

Taylor, Aaron. "Avengers Dissemble!: Transmedia Superhero Franchises and Cultic Management." Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance 7.2 (July 2014): 181-194.

Taylor, Robert B. "The Captain May Wear the Tight Pants, but it's the Gals Who Make Serenity Soar." Finding Serenity: Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly. Eds. Jane Espenson with Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2005. 131-137.

Telotte, J. P. "Serenity, cinematisation and the perils of adaptation." Science Fiction Film and Television 1.1 (Spring 2008): 67-80.

Thain, Alanna. "The Half-Lives of Horror: The Differential Embodiments of Dollhouse." 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]. 281-297.

Thiessen, Bryan. "'No More Running': Firefly, the Western, and the Genre of Serenity." Paper presented at SC2: The Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006. Available online.

Thomas, Brian D. "Vampire Population Ecology in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Buffista filk website. 2003. Available online.

Thomas, Deborah. "Reading Buffy." Close-up 01. Ed. John Gibbs and Douglas Pye. London and New York: Wallflower Press, 2006.

Thomas, Kayley. "What Fangirls Want: Making More of and More from Marvel's Men." In Media Res website. 11 May 2012. Available online.

Thomas, Laura. "The Buffy Factor: Educators Can Learn a Lot from Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Education Week 11 June 2003: 25-27.

Thomas, Lynne M. and Deborah Stanish. "An Interview with Jane Espenson." 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. 30-36.

___. "An Interview with Juliet Landau." 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. 107-111.

___. "Introduction." 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. 9-12.

___, eds. Whedonistas!: A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon by the Women Who Love Them. Des Moines, IA: Mad Norwegian Press, 2011.

Thomas, Susan Kay. Slaying throughout the Ages: The Importance of the Warrior Woman to the Female Readership. Masters thesis, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, 2004.

Thompson, Florence. Female Punishment in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. BA honors thesis, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK, 2008.

Thompson, Gregory J. and Sally Emmons-Featherston. "'What Shall Cordelia Say?': Buffy as Morality Play for the Twenty-First Century's Therapeutic Ethos." 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. 158-172.

Thompson, Jim. "'Just a Girl': Feminism, Postmodernism and 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.

Thompson, Kristin. "The Dispersal of Narrative: Adaptations, Sequels, Serials, Spin-offs, and Sagas." Storytelling in Film and Television. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. 74-105.

Thompson, Matthew Ryan. 'Do You Mind, Buffy? I'm Trying to Repress!': The Monk, Dracula, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Unleashing of the New One-Sex World. BA honors thesis, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2002.

Thompson, Micheal. Dialogues of the Hero in Crisis: A Dialogical Analysis of the Buffy/Faith Relationship in Season Three of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, NM, 2005.

Thompson, Rachel. "Staking It to the Man." Herizons 16.1 (Summer 2003): 22-25.

Thornbury, Kathy A. The Conceptualization of Mind: A Corpus Study of a Buffy the Vampire Slayer Blog. Masters thesis, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2007.

Thorne, Russ. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Vampires [Gothic Dreams]: Fantasy Art, Fiction and the Movies. London: Flame Tree, 2013. 26-34.

Tischler Millstein, Denise. "The Failed Quest for 'Anti-Self-Consciousness'." Buffy Meets the Academy: Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Texts. Ed. Kevin K. Durand. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 104-114.

Tjardes, Sue. "'If You're Not Enjoying It, You're Doing Something Wrong': Textual and Viewer Constructions of Faith, the Vampire Slayer." Athena's Daughters: Television's New Women Warriors. Eds. Frances Early and Kathleen Kennedy. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2003. 66-77.

Tomlinson, Martin. "A Question of Faith: Responsibility, Murder and Redemption in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Chrestomathy: Annual Review of Undergraduate Research at the College of Charleston 3 (2004): 205-228. Available online.

Tonkin, Boyd. "Entropy as Demon: Buffy in Southern California." Reading the Vampire Slayer: An Unofficial Critical Companion to Buffy and Angel. Ed. Roz Kaveney. 2nd edition New York: I.B. Tauris, 2004. 83-99.

Tonstad, Linn Marie. "God the Father or Buffy the Vampire Slayer?" Feminism and Religion website. 8 November 2013. Available online.

Topping, Keith. "Changing Channels." The Complete Slayer: An Unofficial and Unauthorized Guide to Every Episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. 4th edition. London: Virgin, 2004. 382-385.

___. "Demonising America." Slayer: An Expanded and Updated Unofficial and Unauthorized Guide to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. 3rd edition. London: Virgin, 2002. 460-464.

___. "The Hellmouth is Officially Closed for Business." The Complete Slayer: An Unofficial and Unauthorized Guide to Every Episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. 4th edition. London: Virgin, 2004. 668-675.

___. "It's a Joss-Thing." The Complete Slayer: An Unofficial and Unauthorized Guide to Every Episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. 4th edition. London: Virgin, 2004. xiv-xvii.

___. "The Outsiders." The Complete Slayer: An Unofficial and Unauthorized Guide to Every Episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. 4th edition. London: Virgin, 2004. 374-381.

___. "Redeeming Qualities." Hollywood Vampire: An Expanded and Updated Unofficial and Unauthorized Guide to Angel. 4th edition. London: Virgin, 2004. 438-443

___. The Complete Slayer: An Unofficial and Unauthorized Guide to Every Episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. 4th edition. London: Virgin, 2004.

___. Hollywood Vampire: An Expanded and Updated Unauthorized and Unofficial Guide to Angel. 4th edition. London: Virgin, 2004.

___. Hollywood Vampire: The Apocalypse - An Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to the Final Season of Angel. London: Virgin, 2005.

___. Slayer: An Expanded and Updated Unofficial and Unauthorized Guide to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. 3rd edition. London: Virgin, 2002.

Torma, Ryan. "Seeking Serenity: Creating Spaces for Theological Dialogue Between Churches and Young Adults Through the Joss Whedon Television Series Firefly and Film Serenity." Paper presented at the Fifth International Conference on Media, Religion, and Culture, Stockholm/Sigtuna/Uppsala, Sweden 6-9 July 2006. Available online.

Tracy, Kathleen. The Girl's Got Bite: The Original Unauthorized Guide to Buffy's World, Completely Revised and Updated. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2003.

Tresca, Don. "Dancing in the Sky: The Value of Love in Runaways." The Comics of Joss Whedon: Critical Essays. Ed. Valerie Estelle Frankel. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015. 133-146.

___. "'Fantasy is Their Business, But It Is Not Their Purpose': The Metaphor of 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. 403-417.

___. "'The girl needs a little monster in her man': Heroes and Villains in the Works of Joss Whedon." Hero or Villain?: Essays on Dark Protagonists of Television. Eds. Abigail G. Scheg and Tamara Girardi. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. 136-148.

___. "Images of Paraphilia in the Whedonverse." Sexual Rhetoric in the Works of Joss Whedon: New Essays. Ed. Erin B. Waggoner. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 146-172.

___. "Lost in the Woods: Adapting 'Hansel and Gretel' for Television." Channeling Wonder: Fairy Tales on Television. Eds. Pauline Greenhill and Jill Terry Rudy. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2014. 64-81.

___. "Skeletons in the Closet: The Contradictory Views of the Queer in the Works of Joss Whedon." Queer TV in the 21st Century: Essays on Broadcasting from Taboo to Acceptance. Ed Kylo-Patrick R. Hart. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2016. 62-76.

___. "The Three Faces of Anne: Identity Formation in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and 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. 191-198. Originally appeared in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 14 March 2011. Partially Available Online.

Tropiano, Stephen. "Buffy's Willow Rosenberg." The Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lesbians on TV. New York: Applause, 2002. 181-184.

Troyer, Katherine A. "'Introduction: Welcome to the Hellmouth: Trauma and Memory in the Whedonverse." 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. 1-20.

Trump, Anne L. Identity, Affect and Agency: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Contemporary Audience. Masters thesis, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 2001.

Tudor, Madeleine. "'Get a pic, Do a Vlog': Vlogging Aesthetics within Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 9.2 (14), Fall 2016.

Tupper, Peter. "Joss Whedon's Dollhouse: 21st Century Neo-Gothic." Inside Joss' Dollhouse: from Alpha to Rossum. Ed. Jane Espenson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: Smart Pop [BenBella], 2010. 47-61. Also published in earlier form on SexGenderBody.com website. Earlier version available online.

Turnbull, Sue. "Moments of Inspiration: Performing 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. 367-373.

___. "'Not Just Another Buffy Paper': Towards an Aesthetics of Television." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 4.1-2 (13-14), October 2004. Also presented as keynote address at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

___. "Teaching Buffy: The Curriculum and the Text in Media Studies." Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 17.1 (2003): 19-31.

___. "'Who am I? Who are you?': On the Narrative Imperative of Not Knowing Who You Are in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Metro Magazine 137 (2003). Also presented at The Buffyverse: A Symposium on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 21 November 2002.

___ and Vyvyan Stranieri. Bite Me: Narrative Structures + Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Melbourne: Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), 2003.

Turner, Amanda. "'Because It's Wrong': Limitations of Female Empowerment in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Watcher Junior: The Journal of Undergraduate Research in Buffy Studies 4.1 (4), November 2009. Available online.

Tyner-Mullings, Alia R. "'School Hard' and Traditional Education in the Buffyverse." Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+ 19.1-2 [53-54], Summer/Fall 2021: 38-63.

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Upstone, Sara. "'LA's Got It All': Hybridity and Otherness in Angel's Postmodern City." Reading Angel: the TV Spin-off With a Soul. Ed. Stacey Abbott. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2005. 101-113.

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Valente, Catherynne M. "Let's Go to Work." 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. 178-181.

Van Dyke, Trudi. "'At Midnight Drain the Stream of Life': Vampires and the New Woman." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004. Available online.

Van Gameren, Sophia. "'That Boy Is Our Last Hope': Andrew, Star Wars, and the Figure of the Jedi in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004. Available online.

Vasallo Alcedo, Pedro. "In Your Eyes: La conexión fantástica como escapatoria de la incomunicación." 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. 260-277. In Spanish.

Vaughn, Evelyn. "The Bonnie Brown Flag." Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe. Ed. Jane Espenson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: BenBella, 2007. 187-201.

Ventura, Michael. "Warrior Women." Psychology Today. Nov/Dec 1998. 31 (6). Available online.

Verstelle, Rowan. From Dracula to Buffy: A Study on the Original Vampire and His Descendants. BA honors thesis, Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2013.

Vetere, Lisa M. "The Rage of Willow: Malefic Witchcraft Fantasy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Buffy Conquers the Academy: Conference Papers from the 2009/2010 Popular Culture/American Culture Associations. Eds. Uzoamaka Melissa Anyiwo and Karoline Szatek-Tudor. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. 76-88. Also presented in earlier form as "The Rage of Willow: Witchcraft Fantasy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer" at the 2009 PCA/ACA National Conference, New Orleans, LA, 8-11 April 2009, and accepted (but not presented) as "The Rage of Willow: a Kleinian Perspective on Witchcraft Performances" for SC3: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008.

Vinci, Tony M. "'Not an apocalypse, the apocalypse': Existential Proletarisation and the Possibility of Soul in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse." Science Fiction Film & Television 4.2 (2011): 225-248.

Vint, Sherryl. "The Culture Wars from Genesis to Buffy." Science-Fiction Studies 33 (3), Nov 2006. 533-6.

___. "'Killing Us Softly?': A Feminist Search for the 'Real' Buffy." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 2.1 (5), May 2002.

Vlahos, Maria. "Love Hurts, or, Why Buffy Couldn't Find Love." PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 4 April 2011. Available Online.

Vogel Philip J. and Kenton L. Sena. "Peril and Possibility: Wilderness as a Space of Becoming in Tolkien's The Children of Húrin and Whedon's Firefly and Serenity." 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).

Vogler, Agnes. Hvað er (b)annað? Skrímsli og 'annar' sem uppeldistæki í Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ph.D. Dissertation, Háskóla Íslands [University of Iceland], Reykjavík, Iceland, 2003. In Icelandic.

Voshel, Erick R. "The Strange and Incredible Saga of Willow and Tara on Buffy the Vampire Slayer." 23 Aug 2006. Article in 4 parts, available online from Whedon.info.

Vowell, Sarah. "The Nerd Voice" The Partly Cloudy Patriot. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. 87-117.

Vujin, Bojana. "'A vampire with a soul? How lame is that?': Auto-Referentiality in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." B.A.S.: British and American Studies 18 (2012): 25-33.

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___. "Preface." Sexual Rhetoric in the Works of Joss Whedon: New Essays. Ed. Erin B. Waggoner. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 1-5.

___. "The Symbolic Gun in Willow's Love Life." Sexual Rhetoric in the Works of Joss Whedon: New Essays. Ed. Erin B. Waggoner. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 7-17. Also presented as "Happiness is a Warm Gun: The Symbolic Gun in Willow's Love Life" at the 30th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 25-28 February 2009.

___, ed. Sexual Rhetoric in the Works of Joss Whedon: New Essays. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010.

Wagner, Hank. "The Family Hour." Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Vol. 3. Ed. Paul Ruditis. New York: Simon, 2004. 249-254.

Wagner, Katherine A. "Haven't We Been Here Before?: The Cabin in the Woods, the Horror Genre, and Placelessness." '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.

Wakefield, Sarah R. "Vamps and Camp: Sci-Fi Television Mocks the Monstrous Texan." Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 14.1 (43), Winter 2016.

Wälivaara, Josefine. "Welcome to Buffydale: Mutual Construction of Bodies and Space in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 14.2 (44), Summer 2016.

Walker, Cynthia W. and Amy H. Sturgis. "Joss Whedon and the Evolved Nerd." Common Sense: Intelligence as Presented on Popular Television. Ed. Lisa Holderman. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008. 210-212.

Wall, Brian, and Michael Zryd. "Vampire Dialectics: Knowledge, Institutions and Labour." Reading the Vampire Slayer: An Unofficial Critical Companion to Buffy and Angel. Ed. Roz Kaveney. 1st edition. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2001. 53-77.

Wallis, Keziah. "Buffy and the Postmodern Vampire." Not a Film Student website. 2 March 2012. Available online.

Walls, Kevin. "The Narrative Function of Sound in Buffy's 'Hush'." Watercooler Journal April 2014. A "video essay" available online here. and here.

Walsh, Jennifer. "The Why and the Wherefore": Xander, Shakespeare, and the Artificial Fool." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 9.2 (14), Fall 2016.

Walsh, Karen. "History Has Its Eyes on the Greatest Hellmouth in the World: Transmedia, Hint Fiction, and Mashup Memes." Transmediating the Whedonverse(s): Essays on Texts, Paratexts, and Metatexts. Eds. Juliette C. Kitchens and Julie L. Hawk. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 41-64.

___. "Militarization of the Domestic Space: Positioning Buffy as a Post-Feminist Heroine through the Lens of Choice Feminism." At Home in the Whedonverse: Essays on Domestic Place, Space and Life. Ed. Juliette C. Kitchens. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. 142-164.

Wandless, William. "Undead Letters: Searches and Researches in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 1.1 (1), January 2001.

Ward, Ashleigh. 'Redemption Is Hard': Television Narrative Structure and the Story of Redemption in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. BA honors thesis, University of Adelaide, Australia, 2005. Available online.

Wardell, K. Brenna. "Actors Assemble!: The Intertextual Pleasures of the Joss Whedon Ensemble." Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 14.2 (44), Summer 2016. Also presented at the Joss in June 2015 Conference, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, 26-27 June 2015.

___. "'All the Better to Know You': Investigating the Hybrid Monster and Allegories of Self/Other in 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]. 243-260.

___. "Fooling with Fashion: Costume as Comic Catalyst in Joss Whedon's 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: 120-150. Also presented at SCW8: The 8th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL, 21-24 June 2018.

___. "'Fully loaded, safety off. This here is a recipe for unpleasantness': Joss Whedon, John Ford, and the Dark Side of the American Mythos." Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 16.1 (47), Winter/Spring 2018. Also presented at EuroSlayage [SCW7]: The 7th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK, 7-10 July 2016.

___. "Paint It Red (and Black and Blue): How Joss Whedon and Jack N. Green Created the Bruised, Beautiful Look of Serenity." Joss Whedon's Big Damn Movie: Essays on Serenity. Ed. Frederick Blichert. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018. 202-215.

___ and Deborah Wilson Overstreet, eds. Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies, 11.1 (17) Fall 2018.

___ and Deborah Wilson Overstreet, eds. Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Buffy+, 12.1 [17], Fall 2021 - current.

Warner, Matthew. "Addictive Plotting as Taught by Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Horror Isn't a 4-Letter Word: Essays on Writing & Appreciating the Genre. Hyattsville, MD: Guide Dog Books, 2008. 33-38.

Wasserer, Annabell. Buffy - Im Bann der Dämonen: Lieben, Leben und Sterben in Sunnydale: Eine wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung mit der Thematik der Serie. Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag, 2009. Also appeared in earlier form as Buffy Im Bann der Dämonen. Masters thesis, Universität Wien [University of Vienna], Austria, 2008. In German. Earlier version available online.

Watt, Mike. "Urge to Kill Rising: A Farewell to Buffy." The Incomplete Works of Mike Watt: A Massive Tome of Ego, Balls and Vanity, Volume 1. Self-published, 2009. 155-165. Also published on FilmThreat.com website, 2 July 2003. Earlier version available online.

Watt-Evans, Lawrence. "Matchmaking on the Hellmouth." Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Television Show. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2003. 188-194.

___. "The Heirs of Sawney Beane." Finding Serenity: Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly. Eds. Jane Espenson with Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2005. 17-28.

Wear, Jordyn. "Conversation, Reflection, and Shared Alienation: Forming Relationships with the Spaceship Serenity in Joss Whedon's Firefly." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 8.1 (11), Spring 2015.

Weaver, Roslyn. "Apocalypse Now and Again: The Apocalyptic Paradigm and the Meaning of Life and (Un)Death in 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. 67-82.

___. "'I want to be healthy again': Mental Health and Normality 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. 88-99.

Weber, Kathryn. "Exploding Sexual Binaries in Buffy and Angel." Sexual Rhetoric in the Works of Joss Whedon: New Essays. Ed. Erin B. Waggoner. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 248-261.

Wee, Velerie. "Teen Television and the WB Television Network." Teen Television: Essays on Programming and Fandom. Eds. Sharon Marie Ross and Louisa Ellen Stein. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 43-60.

Wegner, Phillip E. "We're Family: Monstrous Kinships, Fidelity, and the Event in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Octavia Butler's Parable Novels." Life Between Two Deaths, 1989-2001: U.S. Culture in the Long Nineties. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. 195-217.

Weinman, Jaime J. "Why Spike Ruined Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Salon.com, May 2003. Available online.

Weis, Suzie. "Here Endeth the Lesson: The Relationship of Buffy and Spike." Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media 11 (2007). Available Online.

Wells, Kimberly Ann. "The 'Girl Power Bit': Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Witches Change the World." Screaming, Flying, and Laughing: Magical Feminism's Witches in Contemporary Film, Television, and Novels. Ph.D. dissertation, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 2007. 166-228. Available online here and here. Also presented at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association 36th Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 11-14 February 2014.

West, Candace E. "Heroic Humanism and Humanistic Heroism in Joss Whedon's Shows." 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. 264-269. Originally appeared in earlier form as "Heroic Humanism and Humanistic Heroism in Shows of Joss Whedon" in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 22 March 2011. Partially Available Online.

West, David. "'Concentrate on the Kicking Movie': Buffy and East Asian Cinema." Reading the Vampire Slayer: An Unofficial Critical Companion to Buffy and Angel. Ed. Roz Kaveney. 1st edition. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2001. 166-186.

West, Michelle Sagara. "For the Love of Riley." Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Television Show. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2003. 65-71.

___. "More Than a Marriage of Convenience." Finding Serenity: Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly. Eds. Jane Espenson with Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2005. 97-104.

___. "Why We Love Lindsey." Five Seasons of Angel: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Vampire. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2004. 93-101.

Westerfield, Scott. "A Slayer Comes to Town." Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Television Show. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2003. 30-40.

Westwood, Martin. "'Die young and stay pretty': The Vampire Myth as Ageism in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Generations Review: The Newsletter of the British Society of Gerontology 19.4 (October 2009). Available Online.

Weyant, Curtis A. "Exploring Cabins in the Whedonverse Woods." Joss in June: Selected Essays. Eds. K. Dale Guffey [née Koontz]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.

___. "'I've never met anyone I didn't disappoint": In Your Eyes' Flaws and Fortes." 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. 471-480.

Whedon, Joss and Paul Ruditis. "'Restless': A Path to Premonitions." Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Vol. 3. Ed. Paul Ruditis. New York: Simon, 2004. 293-350.

Whaley, Kadee [Katherine] E. "'There's nothing wrong with my body': Xander as a Study in Defining Capability of the Disabled Body in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 12.2-13.1 (40-41), Winter 2014/Spring 2015.

Wharton, Ken. "The Alliance's War on Science." Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe. Ed. Jane Espenson with Leah Wilson. Dallas: BenBella, 2007. 141-150.

White, Rosemary [Rosie]. "Buffy Incorporated: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Authenticity and the American Teen." The American Studies Journal 47 (Summer 2001): 23-29.

___. "Feminist Icon? Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Postfeminist Television." Millennial Visions: Feminisms into the 21st Century. Eds. Carolyn Brina, Carolyn Britton, and Allison Assiter. Cardiff, Wales, UK: Cardiff Academic Press, 2001. 145-160. Also presented at Millennial Visions: Women in the 21st Century, Conference of the Women's Studies Network Association, Bristol, UK, July 2000.

___. "Television, Violence and Demons: Discussing Media Effects with the Vampire Slayer." Buffy in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching With the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Jodie A. Kreider and Meghan K. Winchell. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 136-145.

Whitney, Sarah Elizabeth. Concrete Angels: Reading the Tough Woman in Contemporary Television. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 2007.

Whitman, Douglas Glen. "The Political Economy of Non-Coercive Vampire Lifestyles." Zombies, Vampires, and Philosophy: New Life for the Undead. Eds. Richard Greene and K. Silem Mohammad. Chicago: Open Court, 2010. 169-182.

Whitson, Roger. "Joss Whedon's The Avengers." In Media Res website. 8 May 2012. Available online.

Wilcox, Rhonda V. "The Aesthetics of Cult Television." The Cult TV Book. Ed. Stacey Abbott. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2010. 31-39.

___. "'Breaking the Ninth Wall' with Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog: Internet Creation." Critical Studies in Television's "TV Reflections" section. January 2009. Available online.

___. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: An Introduction." Reading Joss Whedon. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox, Tanya R. Cochran, Cynthea Masson, and David Lavery. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2014. 17-21.

___. "'Can I spend the night / alone?': Segments and Connections in 'Conversations with Dead People'." Reading Joss Whedon. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox, Tanya R. Cochran, Cynthea Masson, and David Lavery. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2014. 70-83. Also presented as featured lecture at SC3: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008.

___. "The Changing Names of Slayage ('I Think I Can Name Myself')." 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.

___. "'The dark does have its bright side': Monroe and the Liminal Hero-Sidekick Tradition of Spock, Spike, and Ilya Kuryakin." In Rhonda V. Wilcox. Grimm's Trailer Full of Secrets: Character and Gender in the Television Series. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2022. 19-39.

___. "The Darkness of 'Passion': Visuals and Voiceovers, Sound and Shadow." 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. 102-112. Originally appeared in earlier form in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 10 March 2011, Partially Available Online.

___. "David Lavery, 1949-2016." Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 14.2 (44), Summer 2016.

___. "Death: They're Going to Find a Body: Quality Television and the Supernatural in 'The Body'." In Rhonda V. Wilcox. Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. London: I.B. Tauris, 2005. 174-190. Also presented in earlier form (by Mary Alice Money) as "'Sooner or Later, They're Going to Find a Body': Death, Dust and Spirit in Buffy's 'The Body'" at Quality American TV: An International Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 1-3 April 2004.

___. "Echoes of Complicity: Reflexivity and Identity in Joss Whedon's 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.

___. "'Every Man Ever Got a Statue': Whedon's Age of Ultron and Public Statuary in the Light of Firefly." Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 15.1 (45), Winter 2017. Also presented as "'Every Man Ever Got a Statue': Public Statuary in Whedon's Age of Ultron" at EuroSlayage [SCW7]: The 7th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK, 7-10 July 2016.

___. "Every Night I Save You: Buffy, Spike, Sex, and Redemption." In Rhonda V. Wilcox. Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. London: I.B. Tauris, 2005. 79-89. Also published in earlier form in Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 2.1 (5), May 2002; and presented at the Popular Culture Association Conference, Toronto, Canada, March 2002.

___. "Fear: The Princess Screamed Once: Power, Silence, and Fear in 'Hush'." In Rhonda V. Wilcox. Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. London: I.B. Tauris, 2005. 146-161. Also presented in earlier form as "The Princess Screamed Once: Power, Silence, and Fear in 'Hush'" at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

___. "Foreword: Music in the Key of Whedon." Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing: Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon. Ed. Kendra Preston Leonard. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2011. v-x.

___. "'I Do Not Hold to That': Joss Whedon and Original Sin." Investigating Firefly and Serenity: Science Fiction on the Frontier. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya R. Cochran. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2008. 155-166. Also presented as featured lecture at SC2: The Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006.

___. "'I Think I Can Name Myself': Naming and Identity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." In Rhonda V. Wilcox. Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. London: I.B. Tauris, 2005. 46-65. Also presented in earlier form as "'I Think I'll Name Me Joan': Onomastics and Identity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer" at Spectacle, Rhythm and Eschatology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, July 2003.

___. "In 'the Demon Section of the Card Catalog': Buffy Studies and Television Studies." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 6.1 (21), Fall 2006. Joint publication with Critical Studies in Television 1.1 (Spring 2006): 37-48.

___. "Introduction: Much Ado about Whedon." Reading Joss Whedon. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox, Tanya R. Cochran, Cynthea Masson, and David Lavery. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2014. 1-14.

___. "Introduction: This Our Magic World." In Rhonda V. Wilcox. Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. London: I.B. Tauris, 2005. 1-13.

___. "Joss Whedon's Translation of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing: Historical Double Consciousness, Reflections, and Frames." Joss in June: Selected Essays. Eds. K. Dale Guffey [née Koontz] 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 "Much Ado about Whedon" as keynote address at Joss in June: A Conference on the Works of Joss Whedon, Cleveland Community College, Shelby, NC, 29 June 2013.

___. "Laughter: For Those of Us in Our Audience Who Are Me: Xander, Laughter, and 'The Zeppo'." In Rhonda V. Wilcox. Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. London: I.B. Tauris, 2005. 129-145. Also presented in earlier form at the Word in Praxis Series presented by the Eyedrum arts nonprofit organization, Atlanta, GA, December 2004.

___. "'Let it simmer': Tonal Shifts in 'Pangs'." Joss Whedon and Race: Critical Essays. Eds. Mary Ellen Iatropoulos and Lowery A. Woodall III. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. 108-124. Also published in earlier form as "'Let it Simmer': Tone in 'Pangs'" in Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 9.1 (33), Spring 2011. Also presented in earlier form at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

___. "Love and Loss: It's Not Over: Time, Love, and Loss in 'Surprise'/'Innocence'." In Rhonda V. Wilcox. Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. London: I.B. Tauris, 2005. 111-128. Also presented in earlier form as "Time, Love, and Loss in Buffy the Vampire Slayer's 'Surprise'/'Innocence'" at the 2004 PCAS/ACAS Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, 23-25 September 2004.

___. "Mirrors, Windows, and Feminist Threshold Imagery in Grimm (Through Buffy-Tinted Glass)." Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+ 21.1 [57], Winter/Spring 2023.

___. "Pain as Bright as Steel: Mythic Striving and Light as Pain." In Rhonda V. Wilcox. Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. London: I.B. Tauris, 2005. 30-45. Also presented in earlier form as "Pain as Bright as Steel: The Monomyth and Light as Pain in BtVS" at Blood, Text and Fears: Reading Around Buffy the Vampire Slayer, University of East Anglia, 19-20 October 2002.

___. "Poetry: T.S. Eliot Comes to Television: Buffy's 'Restless'." In Rhonda V. Wilcox. Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. London: I.B. Tauris, 2005. 162-173. Also published in earlier form in Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 2.3 (7), December 2002, and presented at the 2002 PCAS/ACAS Annual Conference, Charlotte, NC, 3-5 October 2002.

___. "Set on This Earth Like a Bubble: Word as Flesh in the Dark Seasons." 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. 95-113. Also presented at Monstrous Bodies in Science, Fiction, and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, March 2005.

___. "Show Me Your World: Exiting the Text and the Globalization of Buffy." In Rhonda V. Wilcox. Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. London: I.B. Tauris, 2005. 90-107. Also presented at Staking a Claim: Exploring the Global Reach of Buffy, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, 22 July 2003.

___. "'Smoking that hat': The Shape of Power for Fred/Illyria in Angel and Juliette/Eve in Grimm." In Rhonda V. Wilcox. Grimm's Trailer Full of Secrets: Character and Gender in the Television Series. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2022. 137-151.

___. "Song: Singing and Dancing and Burning and Dying: Once More, with Textual Feeling." In Rhonda V. Wilcox. Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. London: I.B. Tauris, 2005. 191-205.

___. "'There Will Never Be a 'Very Special' Buffy': Symbol and Language." In Rhonda V. Wilcox. Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. London: I.B. Tauris, 2005. 17-29. Also published in earlier form as "'There Will Never Be a 'Very Special' Buffy': Buffy and the Monsters of Teen Life" in Journal of Popular Film & Television 27.2 (Summer 1999): 16-23; and in Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 1.2 (2), March 2001.

___. "Unreal TV." Thinking Outside the Box: A Contemporary Television Genre Reader. Eds. Gary R. Edgerton and Brian G. Rose. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2005. 201-225.

___. "Whedon and Company: Worlds Await." PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 14 April 2011. Available Online.

___. "Whedon, Browncoats, and the Big Damn Narrative: The Unified Meta-Myth of Firefly and Serenity." Science Fiction Double Feature: The Science Fiction Film as Cult Text. Eds. J. P. Telotte and Gerald Duchovnay. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2015. 98-114.

___. "When Harry Met Buffy: Buffy Summers, Harry Potter, and Heroism." In Rhonda V. Wilcox. Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. London: I.B. Tauris, 2005. 66-78.

___. "'Who Died and Made Her the Boss?': Patterns of Mortality 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. 3-17.

___. Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. London: I.B. Tauris, 2005.

___ and David Lavery. "Afterword: The Depths of Angel and the Birth of Angel Studies." Reading Angel: the TV Spin-off With a Soul. Ed. Stacey Abbott. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2005. 221-229.

___ and David Lavery. "Introduction." Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and David Lavery. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. xvii-xxix.

___ and David Lavery. "Slayage at Ten: The Danger of Birthdays." Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 8.4 (32), Winter 2011.

___ and David Lavery. "Welcome to the Hellmouth." Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Legittimare la Cacciatrice. Ed. Barbara Maio. Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 2007. 27-26.

___ and David Lavery, eds. Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.

___ and David Lavery, eds. Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies. 1.1 (1)-7.4 (28), January 2001 - Summer 2009.

___ and David Lavery, eds. Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association. 8.1 (29)-12.2-13.1 (40-41), Spring 2010 - Winter 2014/Spring 2015.

___ and Tanya R. Cochran. "Introduction: 'Good Myth': Joss Whedon's Further Worlds." Investigating Firefly and Serenity: Science Fiction on the Frontier. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya R. Cochran. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2008. 1-16.

___ and Tanya R. Cochran, eds. Investigating Firefly and Serenity: Science Fiction on the Frontier. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2008.

___ and Tanya R. Cochran, eds. Special Issue on Firefly and Serenity. Special Issue of Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 7.1 (25), Winter 2008.

___, Tanya R. Cochran, Cynthea Masson, and David Lavery, eds. Reading Joss Whedon. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2014.

___, et al. "Ten on Twenty: Personal Reflections Upon Twenty Years into Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 16.1 (47), Winter/Spring 2018.

___, et al. "Twenty Years into Buffy." Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 15.1 (45), Winter 2017.

___, et al., eds. Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 13.2 (42) - 18.2 (52), Summer 2015 - Summer/Fall 2020.

___, et al., eds. Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+. 19.1-2 (53-54), Summer/Fall 2021 – current.

Wilder, S. A. "Vicious Bitches?: Joss Whedon, 'Billy' and the Cultural Retext." Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+ 19.1-2 [53-54], Summer/Fall 2021: 114-142.

Wiley, Christopher. "Theorizing Television Music as Serial Art: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Narratology of the Thematic Score." Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing: Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon. Ed. Kendra Preston Leonard. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2011. 29-73. Also presented in earlier forms as "'I Believe the Subtext Here is Rapidly Becoming Text': Music, Gender and Fantasy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer" at Blood, Text and Fears: Reading Around Buffy the Vampire Slayer, University of East Anglia, 19-20 October 2002, and as "Reading Television (Under)score: The Music of Buffy the Vampire Slayer" at Keele University, 18 March 2005, and City University London, 4 May 2005.

Williams, Amy A. "'All the Cash, All the Fame, and Social Change!': Teaching Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog as a Social Message Film." Joss in June: Selected Essays. Eds. K. Dale Guffey [née Koontz]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.

Williams, J. P. "Choosing Your Own Mother: Mother-Daughter Conflicts 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. 61-72.

Williams, Rebecca Sian. "Foreword." Transmediating the Whedonverse(s): Essays on Texts, Paratexts, and Metatexts. Eds. Juliette C. Kitchens and Julie L. Hawk. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. v-x.

___. '"'It's About Power!': Executive Fans, Spoiler Whores and Capital in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer On-Line Fan Community." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 3.3-4 (11-12), April 2004.

___. 'A radical interpretation of the text': deCerteau, (Sub)textual Poaching and Queer Readings in Interpretive Communities. Masters thesis, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK, 2004.

___. Spoiler Whores and Shipper Wars: Hierarchy and Power in the On-Line Buffy the Vampire Slayer Fan Community. BA honors thesis, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK, 2003.

Williams, Todd. "The Threat to the Subject in 'Once More, with Feeling'." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004. Available online.

Williamson, Milly. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." The Essential Cult Television Reader. Ed. David Lavery. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2010. 60-67.

___. "Fan Fiction: Buffy as Slash." The Lure Of The Vampire: Gender, Fiction And Fandom From Bram Stoker to Buffy. New York: Wallflower Press, 2005. 168-174.

___. "How Spike Became a Vampire Star." The Lure Of The Vampire: Gender, Fiction And Fandom From Bram Stoker to Buffy. New York: Wallflower Press, 2005. 72-75.

___. "The Predicament of the Vampire and the Slayer: Gothic Melodrama in Modern America." The Lure Of The Vampire: Gender, Fiction And Fandom From Bram Stoker to Buffy. New York: Wallflower Press, 2005. 76-96.

___. "Spike, Sex and Subtext: Intertextual Portrayals of the Sympathetic Vampire on Cult Television." 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. 289-311.

___. "Vampire Transformations: from Gothic Demon to Domestication?" Vampires: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil. Ed. Carla T. Kungl. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2003. 101-107. Also presented at Vampires: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil, Budapest, Hungary, 22-24 May 2003. Available online.

Willis, Victoria. "Deliver Us from Evil: Demons, Feminism and Rhetorical Spaces 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. 122-141.

___. "Joining the Evil League of Evil: The Rhetoric of Posthuman Negotiation in Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog." Reading Joss Whedon. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox, Tanya R. Cochran, Cynthea Masson, and David Lavery. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2014. 237-249. Also presented as "Joining the Evil League of Evil: A Posthuman Take on the Rhetoric of Villainy" at SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 3-6 June 2010.

Wills, John. "Firefly and the Space Western: Frontier Fiction on Fast Forward." Firefly Revisited: Essays on Joss Whedon's Classic Series. Eds. Michael Goodrum and Philip Smith. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. 1-18.

Willumsen, Ditte Marie Øbo. Romance Bites: Romance and Sexuality in Contemporary Vampire Television Series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and True Blood. Masters thesis, Københavns Universitet [University of Copenhagen], Copenhagen, Denmark, 2012.

Wilson, Carl. "'Though this be madness, yet there is method in't': Speculating on Adaptations of Shakespeare." 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.

Wilson, Diane E. "Buffy vs. Bakhtin: Carnival and Dialogism in the Buffyverse." Paper presented at SC2: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, 25-28 May 2006. Available online.

Wilson, Dominique Beth. "Willow and Which Craft?: The Portrayal of Witchcraft in Joss Whedon's Buffy: The Vampire Slayer." The Buddha of Suburbia: Proceedings of the Eighth Australian and International Religion, Literature and the Arts Conference 2004. Eds. Carole M. Cusack, Frances Di Lauro, and Christopher Hartney. Sydney: RLA Press, 2005. 146-158. Also presented at the Eighth Australian and International Religion, Literature and the Arts Conference, Sydney, Australia, 1-3 October 2004. Available online.

Wilson, Melanie. "Buffy's Dream in Surprise." Buffy Meets the Academy: Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Texts. Ed. Kevin K. Durand. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 125-130.

___. "She Believes in Me: Angel, Spike, and Redemption." Buffy Meets the Academy: Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Texts. Ed. Kevin K. Durand. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 137-149. Also presented as "'She believes in me': the Method and Mechanics of Redemption in the Buffyverse" at SC3: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008.

___. "Why the Cheese Man Is an Integral Part of Restless." Buffy Meets the Academy: Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Texts. Ed. Kevin K. Durand. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 161-168.

Wilson, Steve. "'Laugh, Spawn of Hell, Laugh'." Reading the Vampire Slayer: An Unofficial Critical Companion to Buffy and Angel. Ed. Roz Kaveney. 1st edition. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2001. 78-97.

Wilson, Steven Lloyd. "Spiritual Atheism: Buffy, Angel, House and Doctor Who." Pajiba.com website, 31 August 2012. Available online.

Wilson, Tamara. "Keeping Buffy in the Classroom." Buffy Meets the Academy: Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Texts. Ed. Kevin K. Durand. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 211-218. Also presented as "Keeping Buffy in the Classroom: Well, At Least It isn't High School" at SC3: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR, 5-8 June 2008.

Wilts, Alissa. "Evil, Skanky, and Kinda Gay: Lesbian Images and Issues." 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. 41-56.

___. "Lesbian-Type Lovers: Heterosexual Writer Bias and the Evil/Dead Lesbian Cliché in the Representation of the Willow/Tara Relationship." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004. Available online.

Winchell, Meghan K. "Whedon Takes 'the Scary' Out of Feminism." Buffy in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching With the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Jodie A. Kreider and Meghan K. Winchell. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 73-82.

Winckler, Martin. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Buffy contre les vampires). Séries télévisées: De Zorro à Friends, 60 ans de téléfictions Américaines. Paris: Librio, 2005. 78. In French.

Winslade, Jason Lawton. "'Have You Tried Not Being a Slayer?': Performing Buffy Fandom in 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. 22-34.

___. "'Oh...My...Goddess': Witchcraft, Magick, and Thealogy in 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. 51-66.

___. "Teen Witches, Wiccans, and 'Wanna-Blessed-Be's': Pop-Culture Magic in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 1.1 (1), January 2001.

Wirth, Sarah. "Horror and Fairy Tale Elements in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Episode 'Hush'." Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 15.1 (45), Winter 2017.

Wisker, Gina. "Postfeminist Gothic." Twenty-First-Century Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion. Eds. Maisha Wester and Xavier Aldana Reyes. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. 47–59.

___. "Vampires and School Girls: High School Highjinks on the Hellmouth in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 1.2 (2), March 2001.

Woofter, Kristopher Karl. "Little Red Riding... Buffy?: 'Buffy vs. Dracula' in Explorations of Intertextuality in Introduction to College English." Buffy in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching With the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Jodie A. Kreider and Meghan K. Winchell. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 169-185.

___. "Watchers in the Woods: Meta-Horror, Genre Hybridity, and Reality TV Critique in The Cabin in the Woods." Reading Joss Whedon. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox, Tanya R. Cochran, Cynthea Masson, and David Lavery. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2014. 268-279. Also presented as "Watchers in the Woods: Ludic Reflexivity as Horror Criticism in Cabin in the Woods" at SCW5: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 12-15 July 2012.

___. ".Weird Whedon: Cosmic Dread and Sublime Alterity in the Whedonverse." 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]. 219-242.

___ and Jasie Stokes. "Once More into the Woods: An Introduction and Provocation." '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.

___ and Jasie Stokes, eds. 'We Are Not Who We Are': Critical Reflections on The Cabin in the Woods(2012). Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 10.2-11.1 (36-37), Fall 2013/Winter 2014.

___ and Lorna Jowett. "Introduction: Whedon Studies and the Ghost of Horror." 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]. 1-13.

___ and Lorna Jowett, eds. Joss Whedon Vs. the Horror Tradition: The Production of Genre in Buffy and Beyond. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2018 [c 2019].

Worrell, Frank. "Negotiations after Hegemony: Buffy and Gender." Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 14.2 (44), Summer 2016. Also presented as "Buffy and Gender: Negotiations after Hegemony" at the 2011 PCAS/ACAS Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, 6-8 October 2011.

Wright, John C. "Just Shove Him in the Engine, or the Role of Chivalry 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. 155-167.

Wright, Leigh Adams. "Asian Objects in Space." Finding Serenity: Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly. Eds. Jane Espenson with Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2005. 29-35.

Wright, Steve. "Slaying Sex on the Hellmouth." All Slay 3 (2004).

Wright, Susan Ashley. The Discourse of Fan Fiction. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 2009.

Wurl, Jody. "Shelve Under Television, Young Adult." 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. 135-141.

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Yatron, Cassandra A. A Second Chance for Women: Sex and Gender in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. BA honors thesis, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 2012.

Yeffeth, Glenn. "The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Firefly." Finding Serenity: Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly. Eds. Jane Espenson with Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2005. 37-46.

___, ed. Five Seasons of Angel: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Vampire. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2004.

___, ed. Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Television Show. Dallas: BenBella, 2003.

Yerima, Adam Kem. From Demigods to Slayers: Contemporary Mythology and Gender Economies in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, California State University – San Bernardino, CA, 2009.

Ylipulli, Johanna. Taistelua ja tasapainoilua: mediakulttuurin uudet naiskuvat Toiminnalliset ja väkivaltaiset naisrepresentaatiot sukupuoliperformansseina ja sukup; uolisen tyylin ilmentäjinä 2000-luvun alussa. MA thesis, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, 2005. In Finnish. Available online.

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Zacharek, Stephanie. "Buffy's Will-to-power." Salon.com, Nov 2001. Available online.

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Zagarrio, Vito. "Prefazione." Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Legittimare la Cacciatrice. Ed. Barbara Maio. Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 2007. 17-26. In Italian.

Zeitz, Christian David. "Postmodern Bites: Angel as an Embodiment of Postmodern Masculinity in Angel." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies 9.1 (13), Spring 2016.

Zettel, Sarah. "When Did the Scoobies Become Insiders?" Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Television Show. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2003. 109-115.

Zhang, Angela. "Buffy and Dollhouse: Visions of Female Empowerment and Disempowerment." 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. 393-398. Originally appeared in earlier form in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 6 April 2011. Partially Available Online.

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Zynda, Lyle. "We're All Just Floating in Space." Finding Serenity: Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly. Eds. Jane Espenson with Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2005. 85-95.

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