Mr. Pointy Awards / 2024

For For Works Published in 2023


Short-Form Award

  • Pugh, Catherine. “Such Pretty Things: Madness in the Whedonverse.” Slaying Is Hell: Essays on Trauma and Memory in the Whedonverse, edited by Alyson R. Buckman, Juliette C. Kitchens, and Katherine A. Troyer, McFarland, 2023. 131-155.

Long-Form Award

  • Buckman, Kitchens, and Troyer, eds., Slaying is Hell: Essays on Trauma and Memory in the Whedonverse.

Paper Award for the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2024)

  • Hobson, Amanda Jo . “And What If It Is about the Pain?: Primal Play and Negotiating Power Exchange in the Buffyverse and Dollhouse”

Short-Form Finalists

  • Kitchens, Juliette C. “Restless Death: Memory and Transmedial Bodies in the Buffyverse.” Slaying Is Hell: Essays on Trauma and Memory in the Whedonverse, edited by Alyson R. Buckman, Juliette C. Kitchens, and Katherine A. Troyer, McFarland, 2023. 62-80.
  • Muntersbjorn, Madeline. “Dismembering (the) Buffybot.” Slaying Is Hell: Essays on Trauma and Memory in the Whedonverse, edited by Alyson R. Buckman, Juliette C. Kitchens, and Katherine A. Troyer, McFarland, 2023. 81-98.
  • Rocha, Mona and James Rocha. “Variety within Bigotry: From Individual to Systemic Monsterism in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Slayage: The International Journal of  Buffy+, vol. 21.1, 2023.

Long-Form Finalists

  • Evelina, Nicole. Fierce Females on Television A Cultural History. Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.