ISSN 1546-9212

Slayage 16.1 [47], Winter / Spring 2018

Rhonda V. Wilcox, Editor  |  David Lavery, Founding Editor  |  Kristopher Karl Woofter, Associate Editor  |  Shiloh Carroll, Assistant Editor  |  Cody Walraven, Editorial Assistant

Ten on Twenty: Personal Reflections Upon Twenty Years into Buffy the Vampire Slayer
​Edited by Rhonda V. Wilcox
Contributors: Karrin Vasby Anderson, Jay Bamber, Lewis Call, Yehudit Hannah Cohn, David Kociemba, Rebecca Kumar, Casey McCormick, Doug Rabb and Mike Richardson, Joni (“Johnnie”) Sager, Don Tresca 

Rebecca I. M. Foley (University of Alberta)

• “Shoot ‘Em … Politely”: Presentations of Gender, Violence, and Power in Firefly​

Elizabeth Gilliland (Louisiana State University)

• Double Trouble: Gothic Shadows and Self-Discovery in ​Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Jessica Hautsch (Stony Brook University)

• “One of your little pop culture references”: Argument, Intertextuality, and Literary Affordance in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Fanfiction

Katarina O’Dette

• Heroic Mediocrity: Xander Harris and the Civil Heroism of the Ordinary

Elizabeth L. Rambo (Campbell University)

• Third-Culture Kid Identity Paradigms in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Episode “Lies My Parents Told Me”

K. Brenna Wardell (University of North Alabama)

• “Fully loaded, safety off. This here is a recipe for unpleasantness”: Joss Whedon, John Ford, and the Dark Side of the American Mythos

Darcy Mullen (University at Albany-SUNY), with Tirza L. Leader

• What to do About All The Number Thingies: Data on Violence and Verbal Complexity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (w/ Appendix, “Data Set on Violence and Verbal Complexity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” compiled by Darcy Mullen and Tirza L. Leader [Georgia Gwinnett College])

Slayage 16.2 [48], Summer / Fall 2018

Special Issue: Buffy at 20

Guest Edited by Gerry Canavan and James B. South

Buffy at 20

Introduction: Buffy at Twentysomething
Gerry Canavan (Marquette University) and James South (Marquette University)

Articles

The “Restless” Uncanny: Nomadic Affectivity and Apocalyptic Embodiments in the Anthropocene
 Renée T. Coulombe (Independent Scholar)

“What if I’m still there? What if I never left that clinic?”: Faërian Drama in Buffy’s “Normal Again”
 Janet Brennan Croft (Rutgers University)

Not Gay Enough So You’d Notice: Poaching Fuffy
Jennifer DeRoss (Lane Community College)

“Spike Is Forgiven: The Sympathetic Vampire’s Resonance with Rape Culture”
 Wendy Fall (Marquette University)

“The Hardest Thing in This World Is to Live in It”: Identity and Mental Health in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Alex Fixler (Independent Scholar)

“Once More, with Feeling”: Emotional Self-Discipline in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  Gwynne Kennedy (University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee) and Jennifer Dworschack-Kinter (University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee)

Visions of the Soul: Looking Back on Buffy and Angel
Dean Kowalski (University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee)

Interviews

The Past and Future of Buffy Studies: A Conversation with Rhonda Wilcox
 James South
 
Whedon Studies after Whedon: A Conversation with Sherryl Vint
 Gerry Canavan

Report

Report on SCW8: The Eighth Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses
  Elizabeth Gilliland (Independent Scholar), Darrell J. Jordan (University of Washington), and Robin Robinson​​ (Watkins Film School)

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