Mr. Pointy Awards / 2012

For For Works Published in 2011


Short-Form Award

  • Bennett, Eve. “Deconstructing the Dream Factory: Personal Fantasy and Corporate Manipulation in Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse.” Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 9.1 (Spring 2011): n. pag. Web.

Long-Form Award

  • Macnaughtan, Don. The Buffyverse Catalog: A Complete Guide to Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel in Print, Film, Television, Comics, Games and Other Media, 1992–2010. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011. Print.

Special Awards

  • Nikki Stafford for the Great Buffy Rewatch
  • Alysa Hornick for Whedonology: An Academic Whedon Studies Bibliography


Paper Award for the 5th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses (2012)

  • Iatropoulos, Mary Ellen. “Defining Joss Whedon’s Disability Narrative Ethic: The Impairment Arcs of Lindsey McDonald, Bennett Halverson, and Xander Harris.”

Short-Form Finalists

  • Kociemba, David. “Why Xander Matters: The Extraordinary Ordinary in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Supernatural Youth: The Rise of the Teen Hero in Literature and Popular Culture. Ed. Jes Battis. Lanham, MA: Lexington, 2011. 80-101. Print.
  • Middents, Jeffrey. “A Sweet Vamp: Critiquing the Treatment of Race in Buffy and the American Musical Once More (With Feeling).” Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing: Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon. Ed. Kendra Preston Leonard. Lanham, MA: Scarecrow, 2011. 119-32. Print.
  • Vinci, Tony M. “‘Not an apocalypse, the apocalypse’: Existential Proletarisation and the Possibility of Soul in Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse,” Science Fiction Film and Television 4.2 (2011): 225-48. Print.
  • Wilcox, Rhonda V. “‘Let it simmer’: Tone in ‘Pangs.'” Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 9.1 (2011): n. pag. Web.

Long-Form Finalists

  • Kowalski, Dean A., and S. Evan Kreider, eds. The Philosophy of Joss Whedon. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2011. Print.
  • Lavery, David, and Cynthia Burkhead, eds. Joss Whedon: Conversations. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2011. Print.
  • Leonard, Kendra Preston, ed. Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing: Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon. Lanham, MA: Scarecrow, 2011. Print.