ISSN 1546-9212
Slayage 24.1-2 [62-63], Summer 2026
Rhonda V. Wilcox, Editor | David Lavery, Founding Editor | Ananya Mukherjea, Co-Editor | Janet Brennan Croft, Associate Editor and Archivist | Deborah Overstreet, Associate Editor and Web Administraror | U. Melissa Anyiwo, Assistant Editor | Malaurie Prévost, Translator for French | Renée-Marie Bouquier, Copy Editor for French |
Welcome to Hawkins: A Special Issue on Stranger Things
Guest Edited by Kristine Larsen and Janet Brennan Croft
Welcome to Hawkins: A Special Issue on Stranger Things
Kristine Larsen and Janet Brennan Croft
“She’s Our Friend, and She’ll Kill You!” Dissecting Eleven’s Role as a Beweaponed Girl in the Narrative of Stranger Things
Sejuti Bala
“We’re Gonna Sing It Again”: Orphic Resonances in Stranger Things
Janet Brennan Croft
Welcome to Hawkins: Easter Eggs and Neurodivergent Viewing Interface in Stranger Things
Tess Ezzy
“The Bridge”: Stranger Things and Progressive Nostalgia
Cristina Fernandez
“Always Open Any Curiosity Door We Find”: The Saganesque Substructure of Stranger Things
Kristine Larsen
Disobedient Women: Holly Wheeler as Fairy Tale Protagonist
Valentina Markasović
Is It Really So Strange? Homophobia, Homoeroticism, and Homopotentiality in Stranger Things‘ Billy Hargrove
Jessie Marta Olstad
Until You Discover Girls: Stranger Things, Stand by Me, and Heteronormativity
Blue Profitt
Tam Lin and the Vanishing of Will Byers
Kris Swank
There is No Place Like Hawkins: The Evolution of Family and Home in Stranger Things
Melissa Vosen Callens
L’Intertextualité télévisuelle après Buffy: L’Intertextualité de casting et l’Intertextualité constitutive
Jeffrey Bussolini, translated by Malaurie Prévost
Book Reviews
Sense8: Transcending Television
Deborah Shaw and Rob Stone, Editors – Reviewed by Janet Brennan Croft
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