ISSN 1546-9212

Slayage 11.2/12.1 [38-39], Summer 2014

Special Double Issue, Joss in June: Selected Essays

Guest Edited by K. Dale Koontz and Ensley F. Guffey

K. Dale Koontz (Cleveland Community College)

• Introduction to the Special Issue, Joss in June: Selected Essays

Tanya R. Cochran (Union College)

• “By Beholding, We Become Changed: Narrative Transubstantiation and the Whedonverses”

Dustin Dunaway (Pueblo Community College)

• “Whedon and the Fall of Man: How Joss Whedon Subverts the Myths of Masculinity”

Sara Hays (Middle Tennessee State University)

• “Tight Pants and Pretty Floral Bonnets: Outfitting the Outlaws of the ‘Verse”

Derrick King (University of Florida)

• “The (Bio)political Economy of Bodies, Culture as Commodification, and the Badiouian Event: Reading Political Allegories in The Cabin in the Woods“

Cori Mathis (Middle Tennessee State University)

• “Bringing the Pain: An Examination of Marti Noxon’s Contributions to Buffy the Vampire Slayer“

Masani McGee (University of Rochester)

• “Big Men in Spangly Outfits: Spectacle and Masculinity in Joss Whedon’s The Avengers“

Jenny Platz (University of Rhode Island)

• “Tamara de Lempicka, Glorificus, and the Modern Woman”

Elizabeth L. Rambo (Campbell University)

• “Banter, Battles, Betrayal, and ‘Kissy th’ face!’: Sugarshock!’s Playful Whedonverse”

Curtis A. Weyant (Signum University)

• “Exploring Cabins in the Whedonverse Woods”

Rhonda V. Wilcox (Gordon State College)

• “Joss Whedon’s Translation of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing: Historical Double Consciousness, Reflections, and Frames”

Amy A. Williams (University at Albany-SUNY)

• “’All the Cash, All the Fame, and Social Change!’: Teaching Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog as a Social Message Film”

Slayage 12.2/13.1 [40-41], Winter 2014/Spring 2015

Edited by Rhonda V. Wilcox and David Lavery

Jessica Hautsch (Suffolk County Community College), Masani McGee (University of Rochester), and Samira Nadkarni (University of Aberdeen)

• “Much Ado About Whedon: Report on the 6th Biennial Slayage Conference”

Lewis Call (California Polytechnic State University)

• “‘That Weird, Unbearable Delight’: Representations of Alternative Sexualities in Joss Whedon’s Astonishing X-Men Comics”

Bronwen Calvert (Open University)

• “Inside Out: Motherhood as Demonic Possession in Angel“

Janet Brennan Croft (Rutgers University)

• “Giving Evil a Name: Buffy’s Glory, Angel’s Jasmine, Blood Magic, and Name Magic”

Jessica Hautsch (Suffolk County Community College)

• “‘What the Geisha has gotten into you?’: Colorblindness, Orientalist Stereotypes, and the Problem of Global Feminism in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight”

Greg Knehans (UNC-Greensboro)

• “Buffy, Betrayal, and the Ethic of Truths”

Darren Lester (Independent Scholar)

• “‘Don’t Speak Latin in Front of the Books’: Latin as the Lingua Franca of Magic in Buffy the Vampire Slayer”

Margaret Shane (University of Alberta)

• “River Tam as Schizoanalysand in Joss Whedon’s Firefly Narratives”

Katherine E. Whaley (University of Kentucky)

• “’There’s nothing wrong with my body’: Xander as a Study in Defining Capability of the Disabled Body in Buffy the Vampire Slayer “

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